Week 7 Assignment
Next week we will spend the whole class working on building an HTML page for your new domain. As preparation for the class it will help you a lot if you are new or inexperienced with HTML to spend time working through a tutoral before class. This will make our class time together much more valuable.
1. Two different tutorials are offered – choose the one that you relate to best, but not both of them. HTML Dog and w3schools are the sites and in each do the beginning HTML (except for tables and frames) and the Beginning CSS tutorials.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp
There are also “text” oriented tutorials in W3 schools if you prefer, but this method of seeing and being able to change the code is very experiential and useful to helping you learn what is going on.
2. Get started with your personal blog that you uploaded to your domain site. This blog is for you to define and hopefully use over time. Decide what you want its focus to be, and plan how you will work with it, and if possible create a schedule for when you will work on your blog. The “How to be Heard” article (handout) by Stephen Downes is excellent for helping you think through this process.
If you are not yet installed or not sure about working with Wordpress, write up your plans and add to your class weblog as a response. Also, if you want to learn more about your Wordpress blog, James Farmer of Edublogs has created 4 video tutorials to help you along. The tutorials are located at:
