Tonight was session number eight of my eight-week “Web Development with HTML” class. I hope my students feel like they got their $75 worth. Obviously, I had no expectations that they would be web developers extraordinaires after just 12 hours of instruction. However, if they walked away from this class with some idea about web standards, separating structured content from presentation, accessibility issues, or even how Firefox is a much better browser than IE; I can declare this to have been a successful venture.
Because blogging has become such a large part of my life (even though it may have at times added certain complications to my life), I felt that devoting a third of my last class to a demonstration of Movable Type was a worthwhile exercise. The point I tried to make was that they need not have mastered everything that I taught in order to publish on the web. One can blog without any knowledge of HTML; however, even with just a basic understanding of HTML and CSS, one can create a visually engaging blog site.
The adult school invited me back to teach the same class next February, and I accepted. I figured that since I already spent so much unpaid time doing prep work for the fall session, I might as well reuse those materials in the spring.
So now that I have this small victory behind me, it is time for me to take a day for myself, temporarily forget about the huge queue of projects looming over my head, get out of the apartment, and do something wild and crazy….
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