Artifact Assignment

Explore your roots

For this assignment, you'll write one web page about an artifact (a fabric, book, trophy, photograph, etc.) that helps answer at least one of these questions:

Where do you come from?
What's important to your family?
What's your culture?

If you don't know how to answer these questions, talk to your family.

For an example, see this web page I made for myself.

You may bring the artifact to school and we will take a digital photo of it. Or, you may bring in a photo or find a photo of a similar object on the web. If you can't figure out what to use as an artifact, talk to me.

For this assignment I want to see you express yourself. Fancy web graphics aren't required. Focus on explaining what the artifact means to you.

I will publish your artifact page to the Internet if

The page has only public domain images and text
The page has no personal data such as the student's last name
The student doesn't ask that the page not be published.

This assignment has two parts, a design document and your final web page:

Assignment: Artifact Web Page Design Document

Fill in this blank design document. Copy it to my outbox when you are done.

Assignment: Artifact Web Page

I will use this rubric to grade the assignment.

RUBRIC	5 points	7 points	10 points
Artifact	The artifact does not appear to be important to the student's culture or roots	The artifact may relate to the student's culture or roots but the reader isn't sure how.	The artifact clearly relates to the student's culture or roots.
Writing Quality	Writing is low quality or hard to understand.	Writing is clear and understandable but there are some obvious errors.	Writing is of high quality and easy to understand.
Writing Quantity	Just a few sentences.	At least one good paragraph.	Several good paragraphs.
Web Conventions	No page title or missing alt text. Uncredited photos.	At most two missing titles, alt text, or photo credits.	The page has a title and all graphics have alt text and photo credits.
Grammar and spelling	Many grammar and/or spelling errors.	Some grammar and/or spelling errors.	At most two grammar or spelling errors.
Web Design	Page layout and color is not appealing or well thought out.	Page looks OK.	Page is attractive and well thought out.

Photo Credits:

Cambodian Royal Palace by Atif Gulzar. Downloaded 1/15/06 from stock.xchng at http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=177252

Photos are included in accordance with the multimedia fair use guidelines, and materials are restricted from further use.