After a (well-fed) New Year’s celebration, I was very pleased to return to school to an excellent report from the Guest Teacher. My students made a very favourable impression and I’m quite proud of them! Kudos, folks!
Today we attempted to clear up some of the misunderstandings about creating and posting webpages. Students are still trying to understand the correct form for webpages, the necessity of separating the description of the content (with HTML) from the description of the format (with CSS), and the relationship between their mirror and production directories. (I think it might be clearer if I start referring to them as the development and production directories.)
Students made good progress with Filezilla, although they don’t all grok the role that the webserver plays in serving up webpages. That’s reasonable, though, because we haven’t yet had time to discuss the client-server paradigm.
I’m delighted to see how much my students have learnt in such a short time! They’re working hard and I know that they will be successful!
I think that my students are midway between discovering that there’s more to a website than meets the untutored eye, and having mastery of the basic skills of website design and construction. It’s an honour to be their guide as they work towards mastery!
ps: I will be absent from periods A and B tomorrow, because I’ll be attending a funeral. I hope to be back at school during the lunch period, so students are welcome to seek me out for extra help if they’d like. Otherwise, I’ll “see” them online via our class wiki.
I like this application a lot. Easy to learn, easy to teach.
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