hi keith,<br>
<br>
Thanks for sharing your plan. <br>
<br>
Task 10 - Website<br>
<br>
I'm a big fan of *not* using FrontPage because it is not standards
compliant, for example, the pages may not appear correctly in popular
alternative browsers such as Firefox.<br>
<br>
That's a pragmatic issue but the whole issue of web standards is an important issue in its own right IMHO. <br>
<br>
One approach (the FrontPage approach) is to produce a webpage as quickly and easily as possible. <br>
<br>
The other approach is to follow the modern, forward looking path of
clean separation of structure (HTML), style (CSS) and behaviour
(javascript) which will make webpages look better in a variety of
browsers, last into the future (as browsers improve CSS2, CSS3),
incorporate features such as disability access which ought to be of
importance to teachers, etc.<br><br>
I'm also a big fan of teaching raw HTML markup directly but that's a
separate issue. Dreamweaver, for example, is standards compliant and so
is a perfectly acceptable alternative to Frontpage. <br>
<br>
-- <br>
Bill Kerr<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Richardson</b> <<a href="mailto:keithcr@fastmail.fm">keithcr@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have been impressed by the various approaches to ITC discussed<br>recently on these lists, and so decided to create an experimental<br>learning setting for my Year10IT class for Semester 2. I have played<br>with various forms of scenario-based integrative units before, as I
<br>guess we all have, but decided to go all out with this one, utilizing<br>full-immersion lasting a full semester.<br>My kids seem to work best in situations where they are involved in the<br>content, where there are clearly defined expectations, yet where there
<br>is also 'room-to-move'. I have built each of these elements into the<br>course.<br>I would like to eventually move towards a Moodle style of course<br>delivery, but at this point in time the learning curve (for me) is
<br>toweringly steep, so have decided to be more conventional and during the<br>semester in my own time try adapting it across to Moodle. We will see...<br>Please feel free to modify and adapt in any which way (all I ask is that
<br>credit be given for original authorship). It should be easy to change<br>the cultural setting to suit your kids, and to adjust the various<br>software and tasks to suit what you prefer to do.<br>My whole thesis is that ICT and associated software programs should be
<br>there to serve other purposes. There will be times when it is essential<br>to pause from the theme and teach just software but just sufficient to<br>put them onto the right track with correct procedures and the discipline
<br>of organized logic particularly in the field of file management.<br>As an aside I recommend taking a look at the Florida Gulf Coast<br>University tutorials for Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access, as well as<br>Wikipaedia for definitions and extended explanations.
<br>Attached please find a copy of the course.<br>I would be very interested in and appreciative of critical feedback<br>please.<br>Regards, Keith Richardson<br>Keith Richardson<br>Leibler Yavneh College<br>Elsternwick Ph (03)9528 4911
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