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Civil Right Project Summary
Civil Right Project Part Two
Deadline and Delivery – Deliver a compressed folder of your completed website, uploaded to the D2L drop box on March 3, 2016 at end of class. Send a screen shot of your home page, index.html. This is not included in your website folder.
DEADLINE AND DELIVERABLES
Thursday, March 3, 2016, end of class
- Attach a screenshot of the home page, index.html, of your website in D2L. Do not include in the Website folder. (Screen shop: Shift, option, 4 on the Mac.)
- Attach compressed folder of the website folder. There should only be the content for the website and nothing else in the website folder.
Compress folder – Your folder can’t be located in jump or flash drive when compressing folder. Move folder to the desktop, DataHD or your portable hard drive. Right click, select compress and an archived folder will be ready for upload.
Get help with this in class. If your website is late because you can’t compress the folder, your assignment will be considered late. Make sure you understand how to compress your website folder. See this link on how to compress a file.
Students will choose from a provided list of groups that have fought for civil rights in the United States. Students will then research that group, in particular the leaders of their movement for equality.
Website you will be making – See it now!
Website version two, full page slider – See it now!
Ask for help if you want to create version two of the Civil Rights Website.
Student Gallery – See websites created by students from previous semesters. There designs will be slightly different, but you can see the content and use of photos.
Applications – Using Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Cloud, students will built their own website using best practices. This project will use Bootstrap from one of the Dreamweaver themes that is ready to use. Student will prepare photos to use on their website in friendly formats using Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud.
Deadline and Delivery – Deliver a compressed folder of your completed website, uploaded to the D2L drop box on March 3, 2016 at end of class. Send a screen shot of your home page, index.html. This is not included in your website folder.
Make sure you understand how to create compressed folder for delivery.
See directs listed below. You project will be late if you have not delivered project by the deadline.
Compress website folder for dropbox
1. Find your website folder, make sure it is closed, located on desktop or DataHD or portable hard drive.
It can’t be located on a jump drive or flash drive.
2. Make sure all the required content is located in the folder for your website: images, css, js, fonts and pages.
3. Compress folder: Right click and press compress. An archived folder should have been created.
4. Right click to compress on Mac.
5. Ready for upload to drop box!
CIVIL RIGHTS
PROJECT
PART ONE
Research and Content – What you are doing – Selecting a civil rights topic; research content for photos, videos, online information, and writing original content.
Getting started
This part of the Civil Right Project you will be researching and creating content for your project.
This means you will select a topic, research and find photos, videos and other content. You will writing in your own words, not plagiarizing.
Civil Rights Project Example
If you select Indigenous people or Native Americans, find one leader or person you want to feature on your website. Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Tribe argued in 1879 in a U.S. District Court in Omaha that a Native American is a person, and entitled rights and protections under the law.
Get Help
Get help with your project site as needed in class or email jlwalsh1@stcloudstate.edu.
Procedure
Step 1: Generate content
Content refers to the stuff on your page—text, images, videos, audio and more. You must find and edit several appropriate images, and write original text as well.
Topic – Your first step is to select your subject and then do some research. For the main topoic of this project, you choose one of the following groups listed below which have worked for equality and human rights in United States. If you want to research a group not listed or is outside of the United States, please get approval from the instructor first.
STEP 2 – SELECT TOPIC
Civil Rights Topic – Select One
African American – People with ancestry from Africa
European American – People with ancestry from Europe
Asian American – Americans with ancestry from Asia
Latino – People with cultural ties to Latin America
Indigenous – Native Americans
Women
GLBT
Disabled
Get organized – Select one groups listed above to focus your project on. Read many sources and save links for reference.
Create Word Document to save you information and links or an Excel file to keep your research organized.
Make sure you have at three or more creditable sources, not just from Wikipedia.
Step 3 – writing
- About Page
- General Description
- Biography
About Page
At least 100 words, can be more than 100 words
Write a brief description about your project, including yourself, what the project is for and technology used, such as Dreamweaver Creative Cloud with Bootstrap, Photoshop, other software and hardware. It will be helpful to write your About Page before starting your general description and biography to help give yourself a focus on your topic. Write in your own words, not plagiarism. (This information will go on your about page when you create your website.)
General Description
At least 200 words, no more than 300 words
Write a short history or description in your own words, making a summary of what you learned from your research. Write in your own words, not plagiarism.
Save all your web links and other resources so you can give credit to your sources, and add hyperlinks back to the original source. Description of the group or theme should be in general terms, an overall view or summary, with historical information that would be important to know. (This information will go on your home or index page when you create your website in the summary or overview section.)
Biography
At least 150 words, no more than 250 words
Select one person or leader you would like to feature. Write a short biography about the person. Try to select someone that had a positive influence on civil rights. Don’t copy word by word, but make a summary of what you learned from your research, no plagiarism.
(This information will go on your index page in a section about the featured person when you create your website.)
Example
Many European immigrants in the United States helped others make their way, building homes, finding or creating jobs in their new world. Here in Minnesota there is historical figure named Bishop John Ireland, 1838-1918. He helped many poor immigrants find work farming in Minnesota. He is also known to oppose racial inequality and was a civil rights supporter. Today you will find the John Ireland Boulevard in St. Paul, located near the Minnesota State Capitol.
General Description for index page, home – If you select European Americans as a topic, you could write about the historical facts of people coming to the United States, passing through locations like Ellis Island in New York, along with struggles pioneers had related to civil rights. (At least 200 words, no more than 300 words)
Biography for index page, home– Read as much information as you can find, then write about John Ireland, as an example, helping struggling immigrants in Minnesota related to civil rights. You should provide web links on your website for visitors to learn more about the person you are featuring and your general topic.
(At least 150 words, no more than 250 words)
Look for creditable resources, like the Minnesota Historical Society.
About Page – See student websites for examples for the about page.
Step 4 – Images
All images must be cited along with the appropriate license.
Banner Images must be 1600 pixels by 500 pixels.
Watch video tutorials list below. (Skip video about creating logo.)
Search for photos that are related to your topic, including images of the person you are featuring in the biography. Look for 5 to 10 images. Some historical figures might only have one or two photos, but the more images you have, means a better selection for displaying on your website.
Three images will be used for the banner images, but not all you select will work.
Look for horizontal images for the banner images. The other photos will be used for the general description, biography and about page. You can use a photo of yourself on the about page.
Look to see if the photo is in Public Domain, meaning no longer covered by copyright laws or other licenses, or if you will need to get permission from the owner to use the photograph on your website. This is your responsibility!
Sources for photos and information
Photo Attribution
The Library of Congress
SmithsonianMag.com
Biography.com
The Internet Archive
Creative Commons Search
Flickr Commons
Wikimedia Commons
Project Gutenberg
Google Image Search
Minnesota Historical Society
Citing Media – from WordPress, but still helpful
What’s the source of your photo?
Always note the source of a photograph, give credit to the photographer and source on your web page. Search for name of photographer. If you can’t find the name of the photographer, cite the website you found the photo, along with a link to the page.
Tutorials for Banner Images
Watch videos 1, 2 and 4 in playlist
Banner Images must be 1600 pixels by 500 pixels.
Watch video tutorials list below. (Skip video about creating logo.)
Here is a step by step tutorial on how to size banner image for webpage.
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