Dreamweaver is a software program for designing websites.
Research indicates incorporating web design projects helps students gain Confidence presenting science topics online, apply coding skills for communication goals, and understand UX design considerations.
- Developing digital communication skills:
Building science-focused websites and apps teaches students how to present concepts effectively online.
- Fostering creativity and critical thinking:
The website design process promotes thoughtful evaluation of content presentation and user experience.
- Increasing engagement and motivation:
Tapping into interests in technology and coding to create an end-product.
- Ask students to create a website that showcases their scientific projects, such as photos of natural phenomena, videos of experiments, or documents of research papers, and to use Dreamweaver to organize, edit, and publish their website.
- Ask students to create a web page that explains a scientific topic, such as the structure and function of DNA, the properties of sound waves, or the principles of thermodynamics, and to use Dreamweaver’s features to customize their web page and make it user-friendly.
- Assign students to publish weekly blog articles explaining concepts covered in class.
- Take advantage of template pages and layouts
- Customize CSS to efficiently style site content
- Use Git integration to store and track code changes
- Test across desktop and mobile platforms
- Activate Adobe Cloud hosting to deploy site online
