{"id":507,"date":"2010-11-22T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/2010\/11\/22\/pda-web-design-2\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:10:00","slug":"pda-web-design-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/pda-web-design-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PDA Web Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met with Loraine Johnston of James Watt College&nbsp;this morning to discuss the progress with the new PDA in Web Design. Loraine is the&nbsp;Lead Developer for this project. <\/p>\n<p>The new PDA is&nbsp;based on the official curriculum for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciwcertified.com\/certifications\/web_design_series\/design.php\">CIW Web Design Specialist<\/a> (formally CIW Site Designer) qualification.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The proposed award will consist of three mandatory single credit units at SCQF Level 7.&nbsp; These are currently in the process of being finalised and will also be added to the optional section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/32470.html\">HNC\/D Interactive Media<\/a> awards.<\/p>\n<p>We plan to hold&nbsp;the validation event towards the end of January 2011.&nbsp; The proposed award&nbsp; (i.e.&nbsp;PDA in Web Design at SCQF Level 7) would be available to centres by the 1st March 2011 at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>We have been working closely with CIW over the past few years and have maintained strong links in this area.&nbsp; This new award will sit alongside the existing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/33536.html\">PDA in Web Technologies: Fundamentals at SCQF Level 7<\/a> which is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciwcertified.com\/Certifications\/Web_Foundations_Series\/index.php\">CIW Web Foundations<\/a> qualifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met with Loraine Johnston of James Watt College&nbsp;this morning to discuss the progress with the new PDA in Web Design. Loraine is the&nbsp;Lead Developer for this project. The new PDA is&nbsp;based on the official curriculum for the CIW Web Design Specialist (formally CIW Site Designer) qualification.&nbsp; The proposed award will consist of three mandatory single credit units at SCQF Level 7.&nbsp; These are currently in the process of being finalised and will also be added to the optional section&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}