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HTML I is a one-semester
elective that helps students learn the basic skills required to
design sites for the World Wide Web. It is a hands-on,
learn-by-doing experience.
The course is set up as follows: Students are asked to complete a
series of class projects. These
projects begin very simply, but as students' skills develop, they
get a chance to demonstrate their growing competence by producing
more and more sophisticated sites. Students who approach the
course with diligence and develop the necessary skills will do
well on these more complex projects. For more on what it takes to
succeed in this class, see THIS
PAGE.
The majority of the grade comes from these projects. Students who
do their projects in a timely manner and incorporate the
suggestions of the instructor receive full credit. Deductions are
made for lateness, however, and students should be aware that
lateness can have a cumulative effect. If they are unable to
complete all assignments because of falling behind, they receive
lower grades for the late work and zeroes for the work not
done.
Tests, scheduled every three or four weeks, encourage students to
keep up. The test questions are drawn from the content of the
projects, so students who stay up to date and try to do their
best in class will do well on tests.
This style of education, called "project-based learning,"
requires a certain amount of self-discipline and self-control
from students. Thus, students who are unwilling to show these
qualities typically fail the class. Please do not attempt to
blame the instructor for this situation. If a student cannot
resist the temptation to waste time with Internet games and
email, there is no one to blame but the student.
Students should become thoroughly familiar with the class policies. Many of the classroom rules
are simply common parts of being a member of a school community,
but others are tied to the Wake County Acceptable Use Policy.
Violating those rules can have severe consequences, and claims of
ignorance will not receive much sympathy.
With that out of the way, we can proceed on a lighter note. The
course is designed for many types of students and everyone can
succeed in class. Some students may want to get a general
background in HTML as an aid to their studies. Others may want to
help out around the school by qualifying to work with the Web
Development Team, the group who designs and updates the school
Web site. The HTML I students with the best skills and work
habits can usually move on in that direction if they want
to.
Beyond those possibilities, this course has other advantages.
Many of the projects assigned by other teachers at SRHS can be
submitted as Web sites, either on floppies or CD-ROMs. Also, the
product requirement of that all-important
Graduation Project can take the form of a Web
site. Similar opportunities arise at college, so many of our
college-bound students decide to learn the basics early.
For some students, this class offers a chance to get started in a
full- or part-time career. The market fluctuates, of course, but
a designer with top-notch skills usually can find work. A
surprising variety of other jobs require competence with HTML, so
this class is a résumé builder and one of the more
useful skills we teach!
Wait a minute! What caused those little accent thingies to appear
over the e in résumé? All this and more will
become clear as the course continues!
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