Content and Formatting
Missed the early bus today, so I only arrived at the school five minutes before class, with no time for breakfast. Hmmmz...So anyway, today's entire session was pretty much a continuation of what I was doing last week with the website team. The rest of the class left for PowerPoint, and I sat down with the eight kids under me to review what we had done so far. They actually tried to work on it in their spare time during the week, but unfortunately Tanya and David managed to mess up their nested tables. They were pretty upset about it, and I had to reassure them that I could easily get them back to where they were by looking at the code.
I demonstrated once more how to insert images onto the page, then left the rest of the kids to their work while I looked at Tanya and David's pages. The two of them were watching me work with blank espressions. I guess the main thing I wish I could include in the course is hand coding; it's so convenient, most times even essential, to be able to read and edit raw code. Too bad it would take way too long, but I still feel a webdev course isn't a proper webdev course without some basic hand coding thrown in.
The rest of the session was mostly uneventful, consisting mainly of entering copy and images. Casey's template was doing weird things for a while, till I figured he had somehow accidentally attached one of my stylesheets from another project to his webpage (he was working on my laptop).
The kids are always pretty patient while I troubleshoot their problems; they just sit there and watch, and wait for me to explain later. Maybe they actually paid attention during the demonstration when I told them that it often takes a short while to figure out the root to a problem. ;)
By the end of the lesson, we had gotten maybe half the pages done. We're slowly picking up speed, but we've still got to be moving faster if I want to complete this by the time their term ends in another four weeks (I have three more sessions with them till their break).
posted by Scott @ 5:19 pm
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