Q3 Web Presence

Introduction

You are now going to create your own web presence. A web presence does affect your digital footprint. Choose from the options provided: Weebly, Google Sites, or another site that your teacher would like you to use. Please note that students under the age of 13 are only allowed to have their own web page when created through special student accounts and with signed parental/guardian permission. You can also create a web page that you do not publish/share to the Internet for others to see just for the experience and practice.

I Can Statements

• create a professional web presence
• use a design process to decide what to put on my website

Key Vocabulary

Design process: The design process is a systematic problem-solving strategy that designers follow to come up with a solution to a problem

Web presence: Once you have posted on the web, you now have a web presence. This cannot be deleted as there will always be a digital trace that can be found by various searching techniques..

Play the Vocabulary Game below to practice the Key Vocabulary. 

Steps

Part One

Start by using a design process developed by NASA shown below before you put anything online.

Part Two

1. Check with your teacher to see if there is a preferred tool (e.g., Weebly, Google Sites, or alternate) for creating a web presence.

2. Part of creating your portfolio is to develop a web presence that has a professional purpose: demonstrating your tech-savvy skills and knowledge to others. Portraying yourself accurately and appropriately is important.  Choose a website tool to create your web presence.

3. When you have chosen a website tool, go to the site and create an account (use the tutorials below as needed) 

HOT TIP: Avoid sharing your last name; your user name should never include your first and last name. A better choice is your first name followed by your last initial.

4. Use your final design completed in Step One and use it for the web page. Do not publish it until your teacher and/or guardian has checked it over with you.

Completing this Quest

You are well on your way to having a web presence. Make sure your web presence website is saved in your social bookmarking account and share your account information with your teacher. Your teacher may have special instructions for submitting your web presence; confirm receipt of your website with your teacher before returning for your badge.

 Check off this Quest on the 21t4s roadmap 

  I have completed this assignment. I am ready for Quest 4, Getting Social.