NOTE: Phill has an ear infection in his right

ear. It doesn’t hurt THAT bad, but I probably

won’t hear so well from that side, so don’t be

offended if I say “what?” a lot.

What?

What?

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1) Putting Module 2 to bed

2) Module 1: Let’s talk about ways

to put the project online

3) Method 1: Weebly

4) Method 2: A new Tumblr

5) Method 3: Start coding an actual

page (we’ll look at how to do this

in Dreamweaver)

6) Tumblr comments

7) Homework

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The module 2 grades have been

posted, and I’ve emailed out grade

sheets.

All in all, everyone did a great job.

The only concern I had is that at

times there wasn’t as much

introspection by some into how the

code on your pages worked. That’s

okay, though. We’ll be hitting that as

we move forward.

Any questions before we close the

door on Mod 2?

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This afternoon during my office

hours I will be posting the most

complete answers to each of the

questions I asked last class to my

Tumblr for you to take a look at

before next class.

To start class on Thursday, we’ll

discuss the responses and address

any questions you have.

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If you’ve looked close at the Module 1

assignment, you have no doubt

noticed that your final “deliverable” for

the module is a web page.

At this point, you get to choose your

“level of difficulty” and begin to think

for the first time about how you can

style and structure a page.

I am going to show you three ways

you could put your Module 1 online.

There are others, but these should

offer you a number of opportunities.

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Hopefully you at least vaguely

remember Weebly. We looked at it

on our first day.

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Here are the pros of Weebly:

1) It’s pretty simple (as I will show

you)

2) It’s easy enough to customize

3) You press publish and it is up

The Cons:

1) It’s not all that dynamic (visually).

The default templates are very

rudimentary

2) It doesn’t teach you all that much

about

3) Ethos issues: people will know it’s

a Weebly page

Let’s take a look at how it works!

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Then, of course, there’s Tumblr. I

hope you know the format here,

because you’ve been using it in

class.

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Here are the pros of Tumblr:

1) You know how to use it

2) It’s easy enough to customize, and the

themes (if you choose carefully) look

better than Weebly

3) It, too, is easy to publish

The Cons:

1) You will have to play around with how

to organize (I’ll show you some things)

2) People will know you’ve chosen a blog

as a CMS

3) You’d have to choose to do custom

work to do much coding here.

Let’s take a look at how it works!

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Dreamweaver is the industry

standard in web design. It can be a

little bit scary, but it’s never too soon

to take a shot at using it.

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Here are the pros of Dreamweaver:

1) It’s a start to using a genuine coding

tool

2) Limitless potential for customization

The Cons:

1) It might be a terrible headache starting

out

2) You will need to find hosting (such as

your AFS space)

3) There’s no way I can teach you

enough of how to use it for this module

Let’s take a look at how it works!

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For Module 1, I will not be actively

grading you on how your pages

look. I will comment, of course, but

what I want you to do is focus on

presenting your information and

getting your feet wet with coding.

You should, as a team, pick the

option that seems best suited for

you.

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I’d like you, as a team, to spend the rest

of class talking about which of these

options is going to work best for you and

sort-of committing to one.

Before you leave, email me letting me

know what the two of you plan to use (just

so I can get a sense of what sort of

support you might need). You can then

work for the rest of class.

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I have graded the first 3 weeks of

Tumblrs. I will grade week 4 tonight.

The posts that are there, which I

graded, are good unless I told you

to “step your game up.”

Some of you aren’t doing all your

posts, though, and if that was the

case for the first 3 weeks, you have

now lost points for that. Remember–

3 posts a week.

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We will talk about your final project next

class and catch up on reading

discussions.

Your only homework is to post your Twitter

response to this question:

“What one thing do you feel you need to

learn about the coding options from today

so that you can do well on Module 1?”

See you Thursday!