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Blueberries are a great summer fruit because they have a lot of nutritious properties and they turn your teeth blue! Seriously, blueberries are great on pancakes (syrup), in pancakes, ice cream & cake...

How to grow blueberries...

My favorite blueberry...

Day 1 Mon

Get to Know You: Fav Website

Internet Safety

What will we do?

blog, website, social networks
Web Design
- World's Worst Website
- Bad & Good web design
HTML Tutorial

Day 2 Tues

Get to Know You: Fav Color

Review Internet Safety: Common Sense is Key

What will we do?

complete HTML Tutorials & Color
CSS Tutorial

Notes

Day 8 Last Day

Complete & present website

What next?

Web development has so many dimensions: websites, social networks, gaming, and things that haven't been created yet! It can also be a gateway to computer programming ... they're the same thing, just online vs. installed software. Basically, sky's the limit, if you can dream it you can achieve it, etc.

Advanced Web Design code
- CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, ASP and more at W3Schools
Graphic Design
- Adobe or GIMP software, Pixlr online
Game Development
- Primer to Make Flash Games
- Xploder - make your own game
- Bootstrap - make games using math
Social Networking
- create your own social network

Day 7 Wed

Complete last projects

Day 6 Tues

Site Boosts ... Read Notes for full details

audio, video, animation, avatars, web poll, widgets, word clouds, visitor statistics, feeds from social network/blogs/websites

Create your own blog? invite contributors?

Create your own safe social network?

Start your own podcast station?

Day 5 Mon

Content Ideas?

Day 3 Wed

Review HTML

Complete Color

Number Systems
- decimal 0-9 - 10 digits (counting)
- binary 0-1 - 2 digits (computer talk)
- hexadecimal 0-9 & a-f - 16 digits (color)
Color Systems
- light RGB
- pigment RYB
- print CMYK

Day 4 Thur

Start your website

Choose a free website platorm

Ms. Margaret has used: Jux, Wix, KidBlog, Weebly, Google Sites
Other options: webs, ucoz, yola, bravenet, zoho, zymic, web start, Tumblr, 00webhost

Considerations

Design
Multimedia additions
Content
Purpose of website, similar sites
Custom images
- PIxlr.com
- Creative Commons (copyleft)