Posted by: tumocurriculum on: September 25, 2009
Websites speak “code” like people speak “languages” Think about the different languages that you hear around you – people on the street, or on the TV. You may hear some people speaking Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian, Russian, English, French, Farsi, Arabic, Georgian, Greek, and maybe many others. Are you able to understand all of these [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: July 21, 2009
STEP 1: Mixing colors for PAINT & LIGHT RED, BLUE & YELLOW are the classic primary colors. If you combine these colors with paint, they will make up every other color on the color spectrum. RED, BLUE & GREEN are the primary colors of light. If you combine these colors in light rays, they will [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: July 15, 2009
In this lesson, we are going to explore color theory and make your own color theme. STEP 1: All the Colors of the World All colors of the world are found in the color wheel. There are THREE colors that can be used to make up any color in the world – red, blue & [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 5, 2009
Step 1: What is a Search Engine? What has made the World Wide Web such a great success is that pages saved on different computers all over the world may be interlinked with so-called hyper-text links (which are normally underlined). As we will see, these links do not only help you move from one web [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 4, 2009
Lesson on Creative Commons. Licensing on web. etc. Explore the following resources: Veer: Wonderful selection of stock photography iStock Photo Morgue File: Free! Stock Xchange Stock Vault iStock Pro Open Photo Getty Images Index Stock Imagery Absolute Vision Icon Buffet: Top notch icons for blogs, CMS, and more FamFamFam: A high qaulity, massive library of [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 4, 2009
Exploration activity. Have students use “Cooliris” plugin on Firefox. scroll through the news section. Click on the news images of your interest and read a few articles Close Cooliris and browse to Flickr Do a Flickr search for “colorful”. Hover over one of the images and click on the “cooliris” image in the bottom left [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 3, 2009
Lesson on project process: Project management, IA, Design, Development, Launch Simplify this process – keep it high level and describe how there are different ways to make it work. In teams, alone, with different tools, documents, etc.
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 3, 2009
Lesson on connecting to an FTP account (customize this description – break down to simple terms, make it specific for our selected hosting account and our selected FTP program) Once you’ve got your domain and hosting sorted, you can start putting content online. Your web host will provide you with some pieces of information that [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 3, 2009
Lesson on Twitter – this is a tool that can be used from many different angles. Personally, you can post information from the web, from your mobile device, from your computer – and make it public. Socially, keep up with your friends and see their latest thoughts, activities, posts, links, etc. Publically, you can search [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 3, 2009
Lesson on screen readers & accessibility. How do blind users browse the web? Download and use a Firefox screen reader plugin Adjust browser plug-in settings plug in headphones and listen to the screen reader. Do a Google search (link to other activity) and use the Google accessibility tools to browse view an image without the [...]
