We all woke up to see fresh snow on the ground, and even though we were sleepy we came to ITA with a spring in our steps (even if it isn't quite yet spring outside).
The first thing we did was to look at how to link CSS sheets and how to build them in Dreamweaver. Eliza did the demo while Felipe described what she was doing. It gets a bit complicated to use CSS, but the results are pretty cool because it affects the entire site all at once so that you don't have to type in the styles for every single page. We can't wait to start really building our own pages!
Felipe then did a walk through of in-line coding and how to change it to CSS coding. It seems complicated, but maybe after building a CSS sheet today, students will be able to do it next time.
After a well-deserved and much-needed break, the fantabulous students began following the steps in the worksheet to make their own version of a website about Professors Against Bad Romance Novels (bad romance novels are just, well, bad!). Students were engaged in the process, but found it difficult from the get-go. The first problem is that the network is accursedly slow, so downloading the necessary folders from the network drive wasted time. Perhaps in the future we might do something similar to what STS does and make several jump drives from which the students can copy files? The second difficult part was that Windows 7 doesn't want to interface properly with Dreamweaver CS3, so each little step of defining the site was difficult for students. Once they got that done though, they started making quick progress through the steps. Although this activity was very challenging, the students stuck with it, but it was hard enough that they didn't have time to do all of it in the 50 minutes before break.
After our second break, Felipe instructed students to save a screen shot of their work on the webpage and upload it to blogger, then join their BTW teams to keep working in their projects. It was a good idea to upload their screen shots before working with their teams because they probably won't be at the same computer later, but they will be able to access their blogger site from anywhere and continue to work on their blogs. Way to go!
Then students broke up in to their groups to work on their projects. The were working with a lot of focus and making progress. Illa was working on cropping a photo of Remi to put on their site, Stephanie was writing the copy for hers and Jacob's site, and Aneda was also working on writing for her group's spoof of Rush Hour. I totally can't wait to see what they come up with!
For the last few minutes, everybody blogged and the day was wondrously successful!
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