WEBBER DAY FOUR

The Web Unit Day 4 saw an unprecedented level of confusion... And thus LEARNING! No, in actuality students did make their grievances known. They were tired of feeling like they didn't know what they were doing, and we tried to argue that's how they're supposed to feel. (To a degree...)

Let's look at what happened:

First, Kevin led the class in a recreation of a professor's site:



The basics of setting up a site in Dreamweaver, using its interface for all sorts of regular HTML tasks: making links, lists, linking style sheets, and so on.

The students then broke the usual haze of Education section by fireing up Dreamweaver and following the steps Kevin went through. They also had access to a step by step set of instructions on a Google doc, that had one crucial error: the steps didn't have numbers! They were in paragraphs!

Tony and Kevin went around reading aloud the instructions whenever students had trouble, or clarified what they meant.

After the Education Section, students entered the full fledged Exploration section, doing the same thing. Kevin would demo in front of the class how to do something (say, add a CSS rule to a div's id), and then students would have at it themselves, using the hard to read directions. A cadre of talented students, Oscar, Besma, Natalia included, managed to come near finished!

Oscar's site:



Finally, students got back to work on their parody site. Not a crazy amount of progress is being made, but definitely some. Shrek had a funny edit of Illa, and a number of students were taking their photos with cameriod.com!