Term 3- Making a Website- Criteria A &B

Criteria A:

Statement of Inquiry: Designers must consider the multiple cultural perspectives in communicating effectively by way of language to suit the need of the end users

Task: To create a Multi-language website

Target Audience: - Grade 7 Students

Global Context: Personal and Cultural Expression

Key Concept: Development

Related Concepts: Form and Perspective


ATL Skills:

Critical Thinking

Communication

Information Literacy

Introduction: I am a student of French, and have been learning it for 4 years. The topics we have covered in class lessons are colors, numbers, adjectives, compositions, phrases, descriptions, vocabulary, imperfect tense, past tense, present tense, members of the family and much more.

Answer these questions

What are the different types of web authoring software?

-Dream Weaver, Weebly, Wix, Word press, etc…

How are they beneficial to you as a student?

-They all make coding like HTML, C++ and java script easier to work with. They show the actual design product rather than relying on HTML coding skills only

Advantages of using at least two different types of software:

Wix presents everything easily in terms of design, much easier than HTML, we can embed external websites easily compared to Dream Weaver

Sample-I am going to be making a website using the website building tool WIX to explore my technology skills to the next level. This website would help grade sevens to improve their French vocabulary and their pronunciations and insight into the language. 

Criteria B:

Reflection for criteria B

In detail explain how you went about it the way you sketched?

While sketching the pages for my website, I didn’t focus on the design aspect much yet, because as I have used Wix before, I have learned that the design ideas keep changing. I focused on how I wanted to lay out each page. My basic idea included a home and about page in which I would welcome the user to me, the language and the country. Then the following pages would be inclusive of the main topic and 3 sub-pages. The subpages would be the writing of the topic, then the pronunciation and then a game which would be made by me externally or are by me using a Wix app. I avoided putting in too much color or detail in the aesthetics because I would like to explore my options completely for various topics before I decide one definite idea. The lack of color is done on purpose and not because of time management.

Where would the user/target audience find your website?

I would like my target audience to be able to access my website through the URL on all search engines, personally I think this would work better as an app because the students can use this on a daily basis without wi-fi because sometimes there is the bad connection, etc. 

How did you utilize your time in class doing the sketch?

I used two lessons to work on my sketch, in a part of the first lesson I used my time to write a basic plan of the activities I would need to use, this is when I came up with the 3 sub-pages. Then I used the rest of the time to work on the drawing, then I proceeded to take pictures and annotate them using Paint. 

How good are the annotations/explanations?

I think my annotations are more practical and informative rather than aesthetically inclined I decided to make them like this to provide the viewer information on the features that I intend to use because the aesthetics can always be acted upon later. I think I was able to portray my ideas though my explanations so the person seeing the plans would know that the website is meant to be very practical (an example of where I showed this would be separate pages for everything so there is less scrolling. Also, my main design focus was how everything was supposed to be clear- the writing must always be readable).

What are the outstanding technological and content features that  you will be using in your design of the web page (like links, embedding video clips, sound clips, puzzles etc.)

Why do you think the features mentioned would be useful to beginners of the language?

In my website, I made sure to put in videos that I made myself, and quizzes, reading and audio comprehensions, Kahoots, and quizlets. These will be helpful for the beginners because people learn in different ways, some visually some by sound and others by writing; so, there is something for everyone. The videos would improve the pronunciation which is a major part of French and any language. The quizzes and games are involving and as the first page in my website will day "Tell me I’ll forget, teach me I’ll remember but involve me and I will learn" and this quote is something that I used as a base for my whole website. I wanted to make sure that the website would not have too many links so I made sure that I will use embedding instead of links.

Have you had a chance to ask any beginner of a new language if your sketch is good enough to proceed? If yes/no how and why do they think it is a useful sketch?

I did have a chance to ask someone older than me but a beginner and they said that my website would be very practical if everything worked as planned. They said that the content that I wanted to include will be important in business and otherwise environments and so they find it useful.

Criteria B- Design specification

Criteria B-Why I choose Wix?

For my project, this term I decided to use Wix because, after viewing and reflection on the other options available to me, this one seemed most creative and time efficient. I looked at DreamWeaver and tried to use it as well, using tutorials, but I decided not to use it because it will require lots of assistance and time which logistically and practically I don't have. I also tried to use Weebly but after trying to create more pages for my large content I realized that I can't use it because I can not insert more than 4 pages in. Because of my large amount of content I could not use it. So I decided to use Wix, this would allow me to finish on time, include as much content as required and add much more creative aspects to the website.