Expression Web Project For Schools

[Alfred Thompson [MSFT]]

When I was a student a lot of projects we used to do were poster projects.
From what I see in my wife's classroom poster projects are still very
common. They are a fun way for students to organize and present the results
of their research efforts. They are more hands on and they allow students to
use their creativity.

But you know this is a web 2.0 world. The posters of the 21st century are
web pages. They are interactive, multi-page and even multi-media. Of course
not everyone is up to creating these poster 2.0 projects without a little
help. And of course without the right tools.

Expression Web (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7642687) is a new software
product for developing web pages. It's designed to make things easier to do.
To several of us it seems as though combining a web development tool and the
idea of a poster project was a natural development. So an Expression Web
tutorial and a curriculum unit was created and field tested with 10 U.S.
schools: 7 high schools (14-18 year old students) and 3 middle schools
(11-14 year old students.) The tutorial was created by Pat Phillips (a
nationally recognized computer science educator,) as a stand-alone
curriculum designed for non-technical beginners. This project can be used
in pretty much any subject/course that has room for another project with a
teacher who wants to add a web project or perhaps to get students interested
in learning more about computer science.

The idea is that a web page (actually several connected pages) are created
to display and support the information from a small research project. This
curriculum unit is available for free at the Faculty Connection web site
(http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7185840). For more information, or if you
need help getting the Expression Web software send email to
ew...@microsoft.com

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Alfred Thompson
Home Page: http://www.acthompson.net
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[Juany Gaviño Contreras]

Hi:
I´m teacher. Thank´s for information, it´s interesting.Greetings