[Year 12 IPM] CSS Critique Invited - to Laurie from Keith

[Laurie Savage]

Nice!

LS 

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 11:08:11AM +1100 or thereabouts, Bill Kerr wrote:
> http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/style/menu.htm
> 
> Lesson sequence for introduction to HTML and CSS
> 
> I haven't changed anything even though the worksheet,
> htmlSongPoem6.docprobably needs an update
> 
> Feedback on teaching this is that you have to work very hard in the first
> few lessons but that both students and teachers see the exercise as a
> worthwhile and enjoyable challenge.
> 
> We run it in year 9, which is our compulsory IT semester. IT / computing is
> integrated with other subjects in year 8.
> 
> I teach in South Australia, year 8 is the first year of secondary school
> --
> Bill Kerr
> http://billkerr.blogspot.com/
> http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm
> 
> Please send me critical feedback
> 
> On 12/28/05, Janette Bennie <janettebennie at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > I'd love to see the worksheets & exemplar
> >
> > Thanks, Janette
> >
> >
> > >From: Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> >I like the back to basics raw XHTML and CSS approach using notepad
> > >
> > >I wrote some lessons using notepad to develop web pages for year 9s at my
> > >school. We have 3 or 4 different teachers each year teaching from notes
> > and
> > >it surprised me that they have for the last 2 or 3 years all declared
> > >themselves to be very happy doing it with notepad. I had thought that
> > they
> > >would have applied pressure for a visual editor.
> > >
> > >The lesson sequence is:
> > >1) find the lyrics of a song or poem you like and some matching pics
> > >2) follow the worksheets to develop 4 different web page versions of this
> > >same song
> > >a) just HTML
> > >b) simple style for headings, background colour, links
> > >c) heading in a box
> > >d) watermark background image
> > >e) simple menu
> > >
> > >I can put the worksheets and exemplar on my website if anyone is
> > interested
> > >just yell out

-- 
Laurie Savage
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Physics/IT Teacher, Pascoe Vale Girls College
Pascoe Vale, Victoria. +613 9306 2544
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