Programming,Web Design and Web 2.0 Presentations

Monday, December 17, 2007

From Frustration to Learning



As we begin 2008, it is a good time to look back and find those ahah moments. Yes, there were many moments of frustration. Yes, there were times when you couldn’t create an interesting opening paragraph. Yes, the HTML coding didn’t always create the tables that you wanted. But I would like for you to remember how you solved those problems and went from frustration to satisfaction. In your blogs please describe those times of frustration and how you learned to solve those problems. Use specific examples to describe those ahah moments.

Web Tutorial

Look for the HTML tutorials on the right side of the class blog. Click on the right arrow(play) to hear and see the screencast. Listen to at least one screencast and write a blog post about it.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Making a Difference



Laura, a ten-year-old, has started a website called Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference.Please read her posts. I would like to discuss with you what we can do as individuals or as a class to make a difference.The internet continues to be an amazing place. If we do participate we will follow the rules of safe blogging.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Guide For HTML



While creating a Guide For HTML many students noticed that writing tags created a problem. Students only wanted those tags displayed but not executed. Ben did some research and I think this will help. So write all the tags with the special characters and they will not execute the command.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

What the World Eats


Click on View to see a full view.

World Hunger


There are a number of internet sites that talk about a world problem. One such problem is world hunger.If you play the word game, rice will be dispensed to hungry people by the United Nations. Another site is the Hungersite.com At this site you can contribute to reducing the problems of breast cancer, abuse toward animals and global warming. The internet, television and movies show us the consequences of the problem of world hunger.

Friday, November 9, 2007

RSS Feeds

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) arranges for blogs and articles of your choice to be sent to your reader. This YouTube video explains the value of RSS.