Purpose: To understand what is a nicely designed website.
(The students will soon begin building websites. The goal is to introduce them to nicely designed web sites.)

Introduce Good & Bad Website Activity
1.  Individual (20 min)
Students are going to surf the internet and find at least 2 sites that they feel are designed well or poorly. I am going to create a web page in Google Docs and push it to you via Hepara. On this page, provide the following information:

• State the name of the website or the name of the company that owns the site.
• What is the supposed purpose of the site? 
• Insert a link to the website.
• Articulate why you feel this site's design is either good or bad.

2.  Group: Post it Note “Theme” Presentation
1. Find Recurring Themes

• Get together with your group members. Share the web pages you selected with your fellow group members. Everyone needs to listen closely to their fellow group member's good and bad design explanations and see if they can see any recurring themes.
• On a large Post It Note, write the themes that are seen recurring throughout all the sites being presented.

3. Distribute CIA: Have students see what the Pros feel are importantly design guidelines to follow.