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To Hell With Bad Browsers
Schedule
- 10 to 10:20: Weblog/Journal question (see below)
- 10:20 to 12: XHTML Tutorial
- 12 to 1: Lunch
- 1 to 2:30: XHTML Exercise
- 2:30 - 3: Frisbee Time!
- 3 to 4: Work on website project
- 4 to 4:30: Free time
Today, at the start of week 3, we begin exploring what really is 'advanced' about the Advanced Internet Classroom. The first couple of weeks served as a warmup and a refresher in a few things about HTML and web design that you may have forgotten since last summer. From here on in, we're touching on the newest, bleeding-edge technologies in web coding and design -- and we hope you'll employ some of what you learn, at least about XHTML, in your own web coding practice.
Relevant links:
As for the title of today's entry (above), this time you can't blame that one on TA Kass. It's Head TA Quad's fault. ;-) And he'll explain what he means by getting up on a soap box and pontificating about it a little, sometime in this morning's session. It does have to do with XHTML, as you will soon find out; i.e., it's relevant. *chuckle*
Incidentally, just a heads-up a week early: we won't have class next Tuesday, July 10th, as the lab was booked for another Berkeley class long before ours was. So, we'll be making up this class after the program officially ends, on Tuesday July 31st. I'll understand if you can't make it to that makeup day, as your family may have already made other vacation plans, based on ATDP's actual session ending date of Friday, July 27th. But if you can come, it'll be party day at AIC! ^_^
Weblog/Journal question
Part 1:
Speculate creatively: the year is 2011, a decade hence, and broadband and wireless technologies are commonplace. What do you see as a common application of those new technologies in your life?
Part 2:
At what stage of development is your personal website project at? What have you done with it so far, and what are you planning to do next for it? What elements or content are you going to add? Do you feel you're on pace towards finishing your website (or most of it), by the end of the six weeks at AIC? (Bear in mind that you may continue working on your website even after the program officially ends.)
Homework:
My Berkeley colleague Catherine Yoes will be giving a talk on Thursday, and as part of the preparation, here's what she has asked you to do:
I saw that Lloyd asked everyone to identify the audience for their web site projects. I'd like y'all to go a step further and invent an imaginary person who can be a representative member of your audience. Find a picture of what you think this person looks like. Give him/her a name. Be ready to describe your person's likes and dislikes, goals, and level of web savvy (i.e., doesn't know how the back button works vs. knows how to put a new skin on a browser). Note: this should be a realistic person, but not a real one--that is, the person should not be someone who really exists; but you can draw on real people you know. Use your imagination.
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(more pictures from Thursday)
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