Work :: Avenues Lesson Planner
- Completed
- July 2004
Need
Hampton-Brown, an educational publisher, wanted to create an on line lesson planner as a complement to its Avenues textbook series.
Solution
I collaborated with Six Red Marbles to build a Web application that allows teachers to organize and categorize lesson plans and arrange activities in a sophisticated calendar. Activities mimic what is found in the textbooks and provide for multiple levels and groups of students. Teachers also have the option of creating their own activities and lesson plans. The time spent daily on activities is provided for teachers as a cumulative summary. To aid in lesson planning, the application tracks which state standards a teacher has covered with a given group of students. In addition, teachers within the same district are able to share lesson plans.
This Web application was recognized with a 2004 MITX award in the Education category, from among finalists that included Ebay and WGBH - Boston.
- Contributions:
- ASP, VBScript, XHTML, CSS, and Javascript development.
- CVS source-control administration.
- CSS Layout
- Content and style are maintained separately by keeping all layout and style information in a series of Cascading Style Sheets. For some pages, multiple style sheets are specified as a means of providing a printable version of the web page.
- Meaningful Markup
- The lesson planner’s web pages arrange data in a way that is meaningful to markup-aware applications. This is achieved by the use of semantically significant markup elements. For example, the activities that belong to a given day on the week are arranged into an HTML ordered lists instead of into several adjacent, unrelated paragraphs.
- Standards Compliance
- The markup and style sheets used as source code for the lesson planner are compliant with W3C standards.
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- Copyright
- © 2001-2010
- Scott Martin.
- All Rights Reserved.
- Valid
- XHTML and
- CSS.