Friday, May 03, 2002
Today I taught my class on beginner's level HTML at the Faculty of Information Science at the Univeristy of Toronto. It is the last such class I intend to teach on the subject, as I am planning to teach a new course come the Fall.
It's funny, this is the ninth time I've taught this particular class, and am so used to it that I know its flow very well. I'm very comfortable teaching that class, and it was odd to think that I was leaving it behind. It's the reluctance one feels about throwing out an old, tatty but comfortable pair of shoes.
It was a sizable class this time: 12 pupils (I've taught as few as 6 at a time). It was an interesting mix of people: the usual few librarians, a few people suddenly promoted to "Webmaster" for an Internal or External site who need a crash course in the subject, and a couple who just wanted to learn for interest's sake. What was interesting (and may be a trend) were the two people there who were responsible for "Web content" (i.e. the raw content necessary for an organization's Web site) who wanted to learn enough HTML to be dangerous.
From my perspective it was a very typical class, the only major difference being that very few questions were asked - less than usual.
During the course of the day I mentioned my forthcoming course on CSS and DHTML starting in the Fall. Several people were interested, but were turned off by the idea of it being a multi-week course. It makes me wonder if perhaps I should think about teaching a CSS "intensive" (i.e. one-day workshop) as well as or instead of the 6-week course already planned. Will have to run the idea past the course coordinator and see what she thinks.
If you're at all interested in what I taught for the course, you can find the class handout here.
As comfortable as I was teaching the course, I'd be a liar if I didn't admit I was getting bored with it. Time to move on to something new.
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