• Demonstrate knowledge about the role of the computer in information design.
• Understand the synthesis of design and technology in the publishing of information electronically in a Web environment.
• Incorporate visual, information, and programming design into the creation of a Web site.
• Demonstrate the ability to design the Web site, pages, and graphics using good layout, clean design, and smart choice of color.
• Understand the technology required to implement a well-designed system of text and graphics that allows the user to navigate with ease.
• Chart content and workflow to determine site organization and plan site structure.
• Control the multimedia enhancements of interactivity, audio, moving images (animation or video) and content on demand.
• Demonstrate the ability to create and work with editable text and artwork to be used on the
• World Wide Web.
• Develop an understanding of copyright and its importance in protecting original creative work.
• Analyze information design for its effectiveness.
• Constructs Meaning From Informational Text
  o Locate, organize, and interpret written information for a variety of purposes, including classroom research, collaborative decision making, and performing a school or real-world task.
  o Use a variety of strategies to analyze words and text, draw conclusions, use context and word structure clues, and recognize organizational patterns.
  o Determine the main Idea or essential message in a text and identifies relevant details and facts and patterns of organization.
  

Through the lens of approaches to learning & homo faber, students will:

• read and follow online directions which will result in a completed survey and online shopping form for their personal international business in Notepad.
• make interactive buttons in Fireworks to include on their home page.
• include an event handler that will allow participants to choose the color of the background of the form by clicking on a color in Notepad.
• insert a date field that will automatically load the day's date and will then places the cursor in the next field in the SVY form in Notepad.
• include a calculated field that will total the scores of a rating scale of your website in Notepad.
• include a JavaScript that will validate user input if the correct number is not entered with a prompt box in Notepad.
• create a shopping order form from a free JavaScript source and then formatting the JavaScript to fit their international business products in Notepad.
• create a Power Point presentation that will published to the web advertising their products. Two flash movies must be included in the slide show.