Capstone Project Bibliography

Description

The final unit of this course (Unit 8) will be to do a capstone project. A capstone project is a piece of work that demonstrates your overall knowledge and skill from the course. Since this project includes a research phase, it is important to start now.

The complete overview for the capstone project is available in the Word doc linked here, but you do not need to study this document thoroughly right now. For this activity, you will be completing Phase 1, and this web page will walk you through the steps you need to take. Remember, you are NOT doing the whole project now. You are only completing "Phase 1: Topic Research" NOT the whole project.

Choose Your Topic

Before you get started, you will need to get your topic approved. Your teacher will have specific instructions on how they want you to submit your topic for approval. This project is an informational site, so you will need a topic broad enough to span multiple web pages. For full points on the project, you will need at least five pages on your final site organized by sensible sub-topics. Good topics might include:

Set Up Your Project Folder and Bibliography Page

While you are waiting for your topic to be approved, begin organizing files for your project.

  1. Create a folder for the project. The name "captsone-project" would be a good choice for this folder.
  2. Make a sub-folder, inside the "capstone-project" folder, for storing images. The name "images" might be good for this folder.
  3. Open your HTML template file, and save a new copy of it called "bibliography.html" in the "capstone-project" folder.
  4. Change the H1 tag to read "Bibliography" and be sure to update the TITLE and META tags as well.
  5. Save and test your changes.

Research

Once your topic is approved, you should gather research on your topic. This will help you determine appropriate sub-topics for each page of your site and give proper credit to avoid plagiarism or copyright infringement.

If you look ahead to the captsone project overview, you can see the grading rubric for the final project (remember, you are not doing the whole project right now, just Phase 1--this document is linked here to help you plan ahead, NOT to do the whole project right now). You’ll notice in the rubric below that one of the features you’ll be graded on is your respect for intellectual property rights. The easiest way to guarantee full credit in that feature is to track your information and images as soon as you find them, so if you find more information for your capstone project after you are finished with this assignment, you should add them to this bibliography page as soon as you find them so that you don't forget.

Grading

Your bibliography will be reviewed twice: once as a unit activity and again in the final project rubric. Your teacher will tell you how they will grade this unit activity. Follow their instructions for how to submit this bibliography page for grading with this unit. The capstone project overview document is linked above if you wish to look ahead to how the final project will be graded at the end of this course.