Nairobits E-learning > Course 'Web Stars' > Publishing > lesson 5
  African Culture website - design
Introduction
10 mins		 The aim of this lesson is for students to design their site visually .
Activities

Opening: (60 mins)

  • Introduction: Visual design
  • Warming up: Talk

    • Work: (120 mins)

    • Work on stage 4 – design
    • Discuss, plan, then do
    Closing (60 mins)
  • Trainer: closing talk, homework and evaluation
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    Warming up
    Talk

    Talk: African Design

    What is African Design?
    Divide into groups and each group should write the answer to the following questions:
    1. What do you think of when you think of African design
    2. What do you associate with African design, such as colours, styles, animals....
    3. Which elements relate to your website in development

    Present and Discuss

    		  
    Homework discussions Discussion of the previous homework and its relevance to this lesson  
    Students exercise 1

    African Culture website - design
    By the end of this lesson you should be have a photoshop design fro the frontpage for your site and a content page.
    It may take longer than one day.
    First the team should discuss the general look and feel they have in mind for the site. The team member who has been assigned the role of designer is then the one to work on this. The other team members can continue gathering and producing content or start building the empty html pages. This will differ per group depending on their plans and progress.
    The flowchart will be neede now to advise you which buttons are needed.

    		 
    Tip

    Use the handout – 6 stages of a web project continually during this website development and production

    		  
    Closing talk & test
    • Prepare students for the next lesson
    • Give evaluation forms and homework. (if any)
    • Ask what they have learnt that they didn’t know before?
    		  
    Hand-out

    There is one handout for this lesson
    1. 6 stages of a web project

    		  
    Websites Tips for designers
    www.dsiegel.com/tips/index.html    		  
    Evaluation Printed lesson evaluation forms for the students to fill at home.  
    Learning goals

    Knowledge* Students knows
    that culture is the sum of all social practices and not just what is found in museums or past things
    The 6 main stages of website development
    The design stage of a web project

    Skills* students can
    talk about their culture, define aspects of their culture, brainstorm on themes, work in a group, present their opinions,
    visually design their website

    Attitude*students feel:
    that culture is important to understand
    The importance of the design stage of a web process

    		  
    Materials - One computer per student connected to the internet
    - Hand out
    - Evaluation forms
    - Enough time