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TITLE 19EDUCATION
PART 2TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
CHAPTER 130TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
SUBCHAPTER KINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
RULE §130.316Web Design (One Credit)

    (Q) draw conclusions from data gathered from electronic and telecommunication resources.

  (5) Digital citizenship. The student understands human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practices legal and ethical behavior. The student is expected to:

    (A) engage in online activities that follow appropriate behavioral, communication, and privacy guidelines, including ethics, personal security, verbiage determined by the intended audience, and ethical use of files and file sharing;

    (B) understand the negative impact of inappropriate technology use, including online bullying and harassment;

    (C) implement online security guidelines, including identity protection, limited personal information sharing, and password protection of a secure website;

    (D) engage in safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology;

    (E) understand and respond to local, state, national, and global issues to ensure appropriate cross-browser and cross-platform usability;

    (F) interpret, use, and develop a safe online shared computing environment;

    (G) identify legal, ethical, appropriate, and safe website marketing practices;

    (H) identify legal, ethical, appropriate, and safe multimedia usage, including video, audio, graphics, animation, and emerging trends;

    (I) analyze the impact of the World Wide Web on society through research, interviews, and personal observation; and

    (J) participate in relevant and meaningful activities in the larger community and society to create electronic projects.

  (6) Technology operations and concepts. The student demonstrates a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. The student is expected to:

    (A) demonstrate knowledge of hardware, including scanners, cameras, printers, video cameras, and external hard drives;

    (B) identify the parts of a computer and explain its functions;

    (C) summarize the need for and functionality and use of servers;

    (D) identify the advantages and disadvantages of running a personal web server versus using a web server provider;

    (E) differentiate and appropriately use various input, processing, output, and primary/secondary storage devices;

    (F) create and implement universally accessible documents;

    (G) analyze bandwidth issues as related to audience, server, connectivity, and cost;

    (H) establish a folder/directory hierarchy for storage of a web page and its related or linked files;

    (I) create file and folder naming conventions to follow established guidelines, including spacing, special characters, and capitalization;

    (J) identify basic design principles when creating a website, including white space, color theory, background color, shape, line, proximity, unity, balance (ratio of text to white space), alignment, typography, font size, type, style, image file size, repetition, contrast, consistency, and aesthetics;

    (K) demonstrate knowledge of the six core domains (gov, net, com, mil, org, edu) and be familiar with new domain implementation;

    (L) implement escape codes, HyperText Markup Language (HTML), cascading style sheets (CSS), and JavaScript through hard coding, web editors, and web authoring programs;

    (M) identify and use FTP client software;

    (N) implement java applet insertion;

    (O) identify and differentiate various network topologies, including physical and logical;

    (P) create, evaluate, and use web-based animation;

    (Q) create, evaluate, and use video, including editing, compression, exporting, appropriateness, and delivery;

    (R) demonstrate the ability to conduct secure communications from a web server to a client; and

    (S) use hypertext linking appropriately when creating web pages.


Source Note: The provisions of this §130.316 adopted to be effective August 1, 2020, 45 TexReg 4190

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