This is the first part of a 3 weeks tutorial teaching students about creating their own online gallery using a simple content management system. At this stage my students have already had an introduction to www.wordpress.com creating their own personal blog (all my students including Level 1 music media and Level 2 multimedia). Nevertheless, this tutorial sample is a good base for students to start taking control of their website, producing their own portfolio, making decisions,choice on different plugins/themes to use to change the appearance of the website. A sample student material will be available to download at a later date.
Lesson Objectives;
- Demonstrating confidence in building pages and posts using dashboard (WordPress)
- Researching and Planning for their own online portfolio
Duration: 1.30 hour
Starter Session: Discuss props and work produced with other teacher the evaluate the individual students’ needs
Main Session Part 1: Students plan their website (teacher presentation on CMS planning)
students use a predefined template to help understanding planning.
1.1. Identify the purpose of the website and intended audience.
Website Plan |
|
General Information | |
Desired website name |
|
Why are you building this site? |
|
What is your message/Slogan? |
|
What type of website is it? (Educative, informative, sale, advertising or other). |
|
Who is your primary target audience?
You need to be precise: about age, income, market segmentation and their technology knowledge; are they likely to be tech-savvy, or tech-limited? |
|
What would you like the site to achieve within 1 year? (how many visitors, income, users) |
|
1.2. Select and use a website design template to create a single web page.
Template Name
|
Template Location (where did you find the template?) |
|
1.3. Identify what content and layout will be needed in the web page (see Website Plan)
Planning and Managing Your Content
List below the pages that you would like to feature in your site and the types of graphics you would incorporate. |
|||||
Page Title | Content Description | List Graphics to Include | |||
|
|
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
What features do you want in your site? | Videos | audio | Images | Download functionality (users) | |
Newsletter | Blog | Catalogue | User submission of documents | ||
Search capability | Images Gallery | Animations | Forms/Surveys | ||
News/RSS feeds | E-commerce functionality | Message Boards | Other | ||
Main Session Part 2: Simple WP demo and video support
Main Session Part 4: Project based – Work/Experiment with your blog
Homework: You must have your content ready to work on the site by next week