What exactly does this mean? Right now, it means that a few MDCS staff members have undertaken the design, implementation, and maintenance of our website. All content is generated by the MDCS community. Staff and students took all of the pictures, teachers wrote the copy for their homepages, staff members wrote their own bios for the Meet Our Staff page, students have written copy for some of the pages and of course, they generated all of the student work. Updates are sent to our web development team and they use CSS, HTML, and Dreamweaver to code the pages and upload them to the web server.
We chose to use raw CSS and HTML to create our own templates rather than use web developing software because the pages can be built using MS Notepad and a browser which means that pages can be created and edited from any computer on our campus.
We have just finished our first cylcle of our Internet Publishing elective. Students are developing their own websites, some of which are uploaded to mountaindiscovery.org. As they gain experience and confidence, they will help staff create pages for the site. This is an incredible opportunity not only because students must use both hemispheres of the brain to effectively design and code a web page but also because of the increased responsibility and sense of accomplishment we anticipate student web masters will experience.
We are pleased to announce that the student websites are being posted as they finish them, and that students are beginning to edit the Mountain Discovery website.
Meet Our Student Web Designers
George Cruise
Junior Website Designer
Seventh grader George Cruise has been at Mountain Discovery since kindergarten and is very interested in computers and computer programming. He likes Internet Publishing because it is interesting to be able to create websites from code and also hopes to be able to use this skill later in life. He thinks that it is a great learning opportunity and one of his favorite things is that he knows a lot of different codes from memory. George also plays the violin and has been playing since he was six. George lives with his famly in Whittier. His little sister also goes to MDCS and is in the fourth grade.
George's Space Site
Biography written and coded by George Cruise
Tyler Davis
Junior Website Designer
This is Tyler’s first year at MDCS and he is in the seventh grade. He really enjoys the Internet Publishing class because he likes computer programming and wants to learn how to design, create, and maintain a website. Tyler’s personal interests are building, skiing, playing the fiddle, soccer, and Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Tyler lives with his family, two dogs, and two cats on Stone Pile Gap road.
Tyler's Aviation Site
Biography written and coded by Tyler Davis
Emelyn Ray
Junior Website Designer
This is Emelyn’s first year at M.D.C.S. She is in the sixth grade. Emelyn chose Internet Publishing because it sounded fun and she wanted to know how to create a website. Now Emelyn knows how to make a website and is ready to make one on her own. Emelyn is very adventurous and in her spare time likes to swim, hike, go backpacking, camp, tend to the chickens, play videogames, and read. Emelyn lives with her dad, mom, sister, brother, and her truckload of pets!
Instructor's Note:
Emelyn's site is a very ambitious work in progress which is not quite complete due to the scope of the project and Emelyn's methodical nature. We chose to publish the site in it's current state so Emelyn could have something to show for her hard work. I am very impressed with Emelyn's effort thus far and look forward to working with her next year. --Carter Petty
Emelyn's Brain, Body, &Medicine Site
Biography written Emelyn Ray and coded by Carter Petty
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