Today was Day 2 of teaching the Web Technologies class at Bunker Hill Community College. I’ve been co-teaching how to make web sites to 11 BPS educators. We’ve been having a LOT of fun and keeping cool! So far, the students have gone through digital photography, made collages in Adobe Photoshop, built personal web pages in HTML, and evaluated web sites. My favorite activity was the Robot Chef activity in which I pretend to be a Robot and the class has to “program” me to make a peanut butter and fluff sandwich. It can get really messy, but luckily, the class kept the fluff off my fingers! I also enjoyed the planning activity in which students dissected a web site using post-its and wipey boards. That worked well! Tomorrow we will learn Dreamweaver and start working on projects.

We finish up on Thursday, then I will help teach educators how to teach web design next week!

This course was provided by BATEC and TechBoston.

I spent the week in Philadelphia at the NECC (National Educational Computing Conference). It was my first time there and I loved it! NECC gathers teachers from all over the country to share and show best practices and products for technologies in education. I went to demos of Adobe and Macromedia video products, investigated eportfolios and dekstop monitoring, found out what podcasting is, and ate a LOT of great food! I went with 3 colleagues and 4 students. The students did and incredible job presenting for the Microsoft Small Schools Project session - they made us so proud! The kids emphasized that the staff is what makes TBA such an awesome school. Awww!