high school and middle school Coding internet games, apps and sites

This media-rich course provides your learners with an engaging project-based learning experience creating rich web experiences. Games, Apps, and Sites are more than just web content but are the basis for companies, products, and high demand careers. This course will help fuel your students’ career engagement. It will give them hands-on experiences creating, coding, and producing interactive content, including Web Games, 360/VR Sites, Voice Controlled Apps, Business Websites, Interactive Marketing, and using the prime web technologies of today.

This course supports exploration in careers related to the design, development, support, and management of hardware, software, multimedia, and systems integration services. Students will acquire knowledge and skills, enabling them to succeed in our technology-driven society and this exciting career pathway. Learners apply reading, writing, computing, communication, and critical thinking throughout this project-based learning experience.

Web coders and developers are concerned with how to create interactive experiences over the web. Understanding how content and design can drive interactivity and engagement is crucial for today’s competitive web landscape. Gaining the fundamentals of how to create experiences using the most common languages of the internet (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) is a crucial first step to a high-demand career. Students and teachers do not need any previous coding, game design or web development experience for this course.

Along the way, your students will learn critical thinking skills, apply STEM, develop confidence, and build a college and career-ready portfolio that will help them take their next steps to their future. This course is available as a one or two semester offering, depending on how you choose to deploy it.

For Texas schools, we have a special version of this course that meets the TEKS 130.308 Web Technologies standards. If you are a Texas school, let us know you want to see a demo of the TEKS version.

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What Teachers Can Expect Their Learners to Achieve
- Explain how technology and market trends can affect careers and industries
- How to present an app, site for game design concept to a client, investor, or the media
- Demonstrate how design experiences multiple platforms
- Produce sites, games and apps for a specific target audience
- Create a portfolio of websites, web apps and web games that can be used to fuel the learner’s next career or education steps.
- A solid understanding of the basics of web coding content and style with HTML5, CSS3 and how JavaScript provides behavior
- Ability to demonstrate and apply the engineering design process to websites, web apps and web game development
- Demonstrate leadership and an understanding of project management
- Explain the concept of intellectual property and demonstrate the ethical and legal use of technology, online resources, copyrights, and open source resources
- Explain how web experiences are improving digital marketing and web-based businesses
- Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- And Much More…
Course Specifications
- Platforms – PC, Mac, Chromebook Ready – Mobile Friendly
- Length – Year , Semester
- Career Cluster – Information Technology
- 3rd Party International Industry-Recognized Certifications – Yes/Free
- Level – Middle School, High School, Adult/Post-Secondary
- Course Delivery – Blended Learning, Online Virtual Learning
- Student Competitions – Available
- CEUs – Available for Teacher Training
- Prerequisites for Facilitator – None
- Prerequisites for Students – None
- 3rd Party Tools – Web-Based Tools Suite Provided Free