Beauty’s where you find it
23 Apr
It only took 6 months or so, but I have finally taken the time to get my old teaching site (http://my-classes.org) back online. When I was teaching I knew that a lot of people were visiting the site, specifically for the assignments that I had posted online. Believe me, teachers are always trying to find good lesson plans. After the 5th email this week regarding when the site would be back I finally broke down and found the time.
Thanks to my employer, Blue Atlas Interactive, for providing the hosting, not only for this blog, but now also for my-classes.org. Thanks to Dave for taking the time during work to get me the root shell password and my ftp information.
2 Responses for "My Classes Back Online"
Hi Jason,
I’m a new web design teacher at a local charter high school and although I know about web design and development, teaching it to a classroom full of students is quite challenging. I fell upon your class blog doing a search on high school web design classes. It has been a lot of help as I begin to prepare for next year. I noticed you used a book in your course. Did you ever publish this book? If not do you recommend any? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Hi, Sonia.
Yes, doing Web Design is quite different than teaching Web Design. I am glad that you have found my teaching website useful. I can’t say that I like(d) all the Web Design assignments I have online, but, as you know I’m sure, it isn’t always possible to create the perfect assignment.
Anyway, I did have a book on hand while I was teaching, however we didn’t use it very often. I believe it was a Lawrenceville Press book. I also had big plans of writing my own book (with one of my College Professors), which I/we actually got 8 or 9 chapters into before I/we lost interest. 3 months ago we were contacted by a publisher, and we shared a few chapters, however we haven’t heard anything back. I may or may not post a chapter on this blog in the near future.
If you have further questions, etc, don’t hesitate to ask. I’ll try to help in whatever way I can. You might be interested in subscribing to the WASP Education Task Force mailing list. They are doing some great things in regards to curriculum organization. I follow the mailing list but don’t actively take part.
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