Your training can continue after today! If you have questions next week or even a month from now, just send an quick e-mail to Rick: rickreece@mac.com

If you would like to schedule customized web design and/or technology integration training you can also drop Rick an e-mail at: rickreece@mac.com

Participants will be able to download most of the materials used as well as the handouts in .pdf format. With these handouts and practice files, they will be able to extend their workshop experiences by repeating the activities on their own computers at their own pace.


Web Page Design:
Doing It with Style (Sheets)
In this workshop participants will learn to improve the look and feel of their web page while streamlining their design process and improving site upkeep with the use of Cascading Style Sheets. Adobe Dreamweaver will be used, but the concepts will apply to any web editor. Participants should have some experience with web design and will leave with access to step-by-step handouts and sample files to use in their own classrooms.

TOPICS
Layout in Style (no Tables allowed) – Use CSS to lay out your page more quickly with added flexibility and without the challenges of tables..

Positioning Objects on the Page – Use CSS to place images at any x,y position on the page and layer objects.

Text: Do It with Style – Extend formatting power while maintaining a consistent look.

Spice It Up! – Add elements to your page that will set it apart from the rest.

Same Content Different Media – Display the same content in different media. using seperate layout pages.

MEET THE PRESENTER
Lifelong educator Rick Reece has been involved in using technology in the classroom for more than twenty-five years. He recently retired from his position as an Instructional Technology Specialist for Broward’s Department of Instructional Technology, but stays busy with a variety of web-related and staff development duties.
He stays busy with a variety of web-related and staff development duties

In fact, he is now busier than ever, doings training for Apple, consulting to Broward Schools (doing web work), and delivering a variety of instructional technology-related and project-based learning workshops.

Although Rick retired from Broward Schools, he spent most of his career in Miami-Dade Schools holding various District-level positions. He developed and coordinated Dade's Apple Web Design Academies, designed and managed both Districts' Education Portals, was Dade's District Webmaster, and a District technology trainer in both Districts. Before the district level, Rick spent 17 years in schools. He coached Cross Country and Track and taught senior high Language Arts for 9 years before receiving his Computer Science Education MS in 1983. After that he taught computer related courses at both the high school and university levels.

Rick has received recognition for his efforts, having been named both an Adobe Education Leader and an Apple Distinguished Educator. He has conducted workshops at the last 20 Florida Educational Technology Conferences (FETC), at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), at the Inovative Learning Conference (ILC), and at the ISTE Tel-Ed Conference.