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Dreamweaver animated tutorials

All pupils will make a complete website, right from the very beginning. They will construct a website for an imaginary company that sells photographs online. We provide all the photos they need for this project but there are opportunities for your pupils to use their own photographs and edit and resize them if they so wish. We have designed the tasks in a structured way to ensure that students first repeat the things they have learnt and then build on them, without being overwhelmed. This is not a set of unconnected 'how-to' lessons but a block of work thought through by an experienced Head of ICT. Our main consideration has been to ensure that all pupils successfully build the website so we have tried very hard to avoid those things in Dreamweaver which are less than reliable, behave strangely or are too complex for KS3 and KS4 pupils! We also encourage pupils to help themselves when they have a problem in Dreamweaver. Click here to see the site that your students will make.

Here are some short sample clips from this set of tutorials (they'll take a few seconds to download):

This is a clip from the tutorial on making the navigation bar.

This short clip comes from the stylesheets tutorial.

Here's a snapshot of the Menu showing some of the lessons:

Animated tutorials have many advantages:

• Allows teachers to teach themselves new skills, ready for the classroom.
• Each lesson builds on the previous one.
• Pupils work at their own pace.
• Pupils can play, pause and replay each animation.
• Ideal for pupils with poor concentration.
• Perfect for pupils with low reading skills.
• Really inspires your high flyers.
• Highly engaging and motivating.
• Ideal for non-ICT specialists and cover teachers to teach!
• Addresses the new KS3 requirements.