website authoring project -13yo

This is where you will find ideas as well as the rubric for the upcoming website authoring project.

website topics:

• A website dedicated to the proper separation and recycling of a given material (e.g. plastic, paper, glass, metal, electronics, multi-layer packaging, bio-degradable waste, batteries, light bulbs, kitchen waste ...) - up to two students per material, each creating their own version of the website, using shared content.

• How to stay safe from phishing, scammers, and other types of digital fraud

• Cryptocurrencies

• Artificial Intelligence and its applications

• How to stay safe from fake news and conspiracy-disseminating web portals

• Interesting facts about your home town

• Documenting the history of the now defunct Kvetoslavov-Šamorín railroad line

• Any other topic approved by the teacher

Project stipulations:

• The website can be created either manually - using HTML and CSS or using a website-authoring platform, such as Google Sites (for information on how to use Google Sites, look here).

• In case the website is created from scratch using HTML and CSS, it is submitted to the teacher without having to actually publish it online. You can, however, publish it on repl.it, for instance.

• In case the website is created using Google Sites or another web-hosting platform, the teacher should receive a fully functional link to the student's website by email.

• 10 extra credit points are awarded to those that choose to create their website using HTML and CSS.

• All material on the website must be either your own or you need to get permission to use other people's material and properly cite the source, even if it is in the public domain.

• Plagiarism or breaches of copyright laws will NOT be tolerated - such projects will not be accepted by the teacher for evaluation. Please, see the Avoiding Plagiarism section below for more information and examples.

• In order to receive an A for the Web Page Design and Development unit, you must receive at least 47 points out of 50 in addition to having successfully completed all HTML and CSS units (Units 1 - 8 as well as Bitmap vs. Vector graphics tasks). You also need to achieve Level 5 across all categories in the QSI Generic Rubric (see below).

• For a listing of free vector graphics editors, see the Bitmap vs. Vector Graphics Page.

• Deadline: Monday, January 31, 2022.

Website project rubric:

QSI Generic rubricS:

Avoiding plagiarism

• ​Word-for-word lifting of text: In the past, I detected several cases where sentences were copied word-for-word from the internet. This is absolutely unacceptable and may result in a referral to the director of instruction. If you wish to quote someone verbatim (word-for-word), you must enclose their words in quotation marks and cite the source right after or before the quotation. Your website should have direct quotes used only sparingly - only when it's absolutely necessary to do so.

• Paraphrasing and summarizing text: Avoiding plagiarism also includes situations where you read a web page (or multiple pages) and then summarize it in your own words. In such cases it is not enough to mention the source at the bottom of the page, nor is it enough to mention the page in your "Resources" section as a link. You must make it clear to the reader in the text itself that it is not your own ideas/information but you got it from somewhere. This also improves the credibility of your website.

• Example of giving credit where its due correctly:
  As Mr. Kubes' website states, the topic for our website project needs to be related to recycling or something different that is, however, approved by the teacher.
  Even though you didn't copy anything from my site word-for-word, you used the information from it and hence you are citing it by providing an inline citation link to exactly the page where you got it from (an inline link is a clickable text in the the sentence which takes you to the source of the information; in the example above it's the words Kubes' website that are linked to the source of that claim).
  Useful verbs for such referencing include:

  1. • As XYZ states/puts it/informs/tells/describes it/acknowledges/says, advises ...

     • According to XYZ, ...

     • Based on XYZ, ...

     • XYZ informs/states/claims/acknowledges/advises that ...
       

Using imagery and other digital artifacts

You have to be very careful about what you post on your website. Remember, that it is going to be accessible to the entire world. You have to make sure you are not breaching any copyright laws and/or trademarks and you may not post any personal information that could potentially identify you - such as your full name, the name, your phone number, or your home address.

Remember that all the imagery you wish to use needs to a Creative Commons license. When searching for images on Google, make sure you turn on the correct filter:

In the MS Bing image search, please, make sure you narrow the search results down to "All Creative Commons":