Year 8 Technology class are currently completing a combined technology project. This project uses both timber and textiles to create an attractive country style laundry hamper.
The timber frame is complete and this term (term 3) the students are with Mrs Melton learning how to sew the cloth bag that goes with the frame.
For the first half of this term (3) Year 7 Technology class has been studying Food. Applying the principles of good design to food preparation and presentation.
Students have prepared and cooked a variety of dishes including double choc muffins, apple crumble, noodles, sausage rools and many more. Students have also been set the task of preparing a design folio for the subject with study areas including;
Students have spent much of their Technology classes this term in the school’s Food Preparation room with our food guru Jan. The “hands-on” (often quite literally… in the mixing bowl) has been a lot of fun, and the bonus is students get to eat the food they cook. 
There are not many things in life more rewarding than creating something with your hands. In term 1 of 2007 the Technology (Mandatory) Year 7 & 8 classes are doing timber and metal technologies. Year 7 are making a toy out of wood and Year 8 are creating a decorative hose rack out of metal.
Part of the process includes the design considerations of form and function, or “how does it look and does it work?” Students will also be challenged with the environmental issues that go hand-in-hand with Industrial Technology and of course safe working practices.
CSS (cascading style sheets) is a relatively new feature of Web construction. It gives both Web developers and users more control over how pages are displayed.
With CSS designers create “style sheets” that define how different elements, such as headers, links, backgrounds and fonts, of a Web page are displayed.
The term “cascading” derives from the fact that multiple style sheets can be applied to the same Web page. CSS was developed by W3C.
Let’s have a look at CSS in action. Go to this page called Squidfingers.
Tables are often used to organise information on a Web page. Tables on a Web page are the same as tables in a word processor or spreadsheet. They consist of rows and columns.
The HTML markup for tables consist of 3 basic tags, they are;
Here’s an example of a Web page table..
| R-1 C-1 | R-1 C-2 | R-1 C-3 |
| R-2 C-1 | R-2 C-2 | R-2 C-3 |
Here is what the markup looks like…
Tables can have “0″ or no border defined, this means the outline of the table will not be visable. Create a table in the practice Web page you have made, try inserting images within the cells and see how this can help organise you Web page.
This lesson we will learn some basic HTML.
HTML stands for “HyperText Markup Language” and is the language of the Web. To create a Web page you at least need to know some basic HTML and understand how it works.
HTML code consists of “tags”, a start tag and an end tag. The following example creates bold text on a Web page.
Let’s create a simple Web page using the HTML editor “Notepad”. Click Start >> Programs >> Accessories >> Notepad.
The click on the link “Create a simple Web page” to the right.
Your Design task this term is to create a Web site. The number of sites on the Web is somewhere between 100 million and 1 billion 
.. no one knows for sure. Either way that’s a lot of information. Many web pages are brilliantly designed, easy to get information from and good to look at. But probably as many are just plain BAD… AWFUL…
Following is a list of sites for you to review. I want you to choose 2 sites to analyse, one that you consider to be “GOOD” design and another you consider to be “BAD” design. Record your review on the “Web site review” handout.