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Teacher Lead Activity Why do we use templates? What is template? Website Design Teacher Lead Activity Why do we use templates? What is template? Talk to the students and refer to other lessons such as DT. Why do we use templates? Think about it, when the students were learning about HTML they would have had to write out a lot of code. Using templates saves us all of this time. This is why we’re going to learn about templates this lesson. Once we’ve set up our template we can continue.

Objective: - We’re learning to develop a template for building websites 3

Objective: - We’re learning to develop a template for building websites Before you can build your template, you need to make sure that you’ve set up your files. When you move computer (for whatever reason) you need to tell the software where to find your files. Refer back to previous videos or use the help file which has been attached to the website. 4

Objective: - We’re learning to develop a template for building websites Have you ever had to use a table in a Word Document? Why do we use them? Have a discussion with the students, tell them that we’re going to use tables to structure our template. We’ll need to agree a specific format for them. Explain how rows and columns work. 5

Objective: - We’re learning to develop a template for building websites DEMO: - Your teacher will now show you how to develop a website template using Dreamweaver. 6

Objective: - We’re learning to develop a template for building websites Task 1: - Set up your template using the video to help remind you. Task 2: - Use the videos to help you include other content. These include email links, alternative text and CSS styles. Task 3: - You may wish to include rollover images or other tables on your pages. Continue to build your web page 7

Levels 1-2 Success Criteria: - Store files with appropriate file and folder names Receive feedback from peers and make changes Explain what you would do if you were worried about something online. Give examples of how you can use the computer safely and responsibly. 8

Levels 3-4 Success Criteria: - Make sure that the changes made to your web page will be helpful to your audience. Present your information in a number of different ways I.E – Tables, Images and video. Show how you have repurposed text for a particular target audience. To you understand how different people learn. 9

Success Criteria: - Levels 5-6 Think of ethical issues which might surround the use of computers. Include an extra web page on this (Independent research required) Come up with criteria which will allow you to evaluate the quality of your web page. Produce a page to explain copyright, make sure that you reference any web pages you use. 10

Keywords: - Tables / Template / Site Definition Plenary Our next lesson you will continue your project using the success criteria and web site videos. Teacher Lead Activity Keywords: - Tables / Template / Site Definition Vectors Bitmaps Screen resolution