Web Design Lesson

[Carina Gonzalez]

Here's a new question for everybody to chew on:

I want to teach basic web design to my 5th graders including typography, graphics, basic coding, layout, and "going live."

But I'm trying to avoid a situation with separate logins. I have 700 students. Even if I make it group-work that will quickly become untenable. I'm looking for a WYSIWYG wiki or free site that doesn't require logins for the public to edit it, once it's set up. Kind of the way wikipedia works.

So I can just set it up, assign certain pages to individuals, and they can edit away.

Anyone know anything like that?

[Lynne McDowell]

Our district is moving to Google apps.  The tools are fairly easy to use - esp. for 5th grade.  If it's a wikipedia type site you are creating you might want to consider having each student design their page in Google docs and then share it to a central website.  You can choose how public you want it to be - keeping it private until you are ready to "go live" and then opening it up for public to edit.   Google will send the creator and email so they know when editing has occurred.  I'm still learning the ins and outs of Google but I'm having a lot of fun doing it!   Good luck!