Friday March 4, 2011 In the Classroom Tutorials Videos
I recently had the opportunity to teach two groups of High School Computer Science 1 students a one week unit on the web. In a hope to give them a flavor of a little bit of everything we covered a different topic or language each day. Below you will find the video tutorials I created to cover the lab part of the classes.
Overall it was a fun experience and really got me thinking about how to make mini web units for young students that introduced them to the major web languages and concepts. I would love to try to teach it again, and if any teachers have an opportunity to do such a mini unit, please let me know... I'd love to collaborate!
After doing this mini unit I really feel like anyone can learn the basics of web design. Often times we limit the introduction to web design to just learning HTML and CSS, but I think that we should expand it to include JavaScript and jQuery as well as a little PHP.
I'd encourage you to check out the five day series we did in the Web Design class on learning JavaScript and jQuery in a Week (this will take you to the first day then just click through to see the rest).
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