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About
the awards
The 2002 Annual Schools
Web Design Awards encourage teachers and students to actively engage
with the Internet, to become familiar with web design tools and to immerse
themselves in the new order of communications. Entering
the awards is an excellent way of involving your school in these technologies.
Theme
The theme for this year's
awards is hot topics. Students, working
in teams, are to design a web site, based on a topic they have studied,
that can be used as an educational resource for other students.
Why
enter the competition?
The competition is a
fantastic way of creating an educational resource for students. From
an educational standpoint, the process of publishing on the Internet is
a pathway to information and technological literacy. Specifically, it provides
students with the opportunity to:
- use information
and communication technologies to locate, access, evaluate, manipulate,
create, store and retrieve information
- develop an awareness
of a range of computer-based technologies
- express ideas and
communicate with others, using computer-based technologies
- discriminate in
the choice and use of computer-based technologies for a given purpose
- develop the confidence
to explore, adapt and shape the technological understandings and skills
in response to challenges now and in the future.
What
is involved?
Each team is to create
an educational web site based on a topic they have studied. Teams
need to:
- identify their
audience
- identify the topic
- gather information
- analyse and organise
this information
- develop design
concepts for the web site
- construct a draft
web site
- test and evaluate
the web site then make suitable changes
- get approval from
the Principal to upload the completed web site
- publish the web
site to the competition area
- ensure the web
site fulfills Department of Education publishing guidelines.
An 'About the project'
page must be included, with information on:
- the intended audience
- roles
and responsibilities of team members and the community member is
to be detailed.
- how
the site was developed and published e.g. software used, evaluation
procedures, training of teams etc.
- copyright
compliance.
Not
sure where to start?
Why not look at last
year's winning
entries or try the tips and hints
page. In this section are some helpful suggestions on the use
of graphics, how to use templates,
which fonts to use, developing simple
navigation structures, restricting
page size and testing the web site
in the various browsers. Teams
entering the competition should also be aware of the competition conditions
of entry, uploading requirements and judging
criteria. Register
now and start to develop that hot topic! |
