HTML

HTML 101: Unpacking the mysteries of webpage language for the uninitiated. //Kate Fuller.//
Tom and Russell went to an introduction to HTML. Tom has done a little of this before, but for me (Russell) it was a totally new experience. Why did I go? Because I have kids who want to tinker with this stuff and I want to let them. Too often we have shied away from this sort of thing because we don't know anything about it or we have deemed it irrelevant in a computing framework that has become so heavily application centred. Anyway, I ramble!

The session was well run, supported with good notes which I will happily reproduce for you. The introduction was pretty rudimentary as promised, but certainly challenging enough for me. We learned a little of the conventions of html, then tinkered with setting up a web page with text, text effects, images, videos, lines, breaks, and more. Tom was fantastic! His Apple was just a-hummin'!

As a last comment, I am definitely going to let some kids loose on this, even though I know so little. I'm sure they'll teach me, and I'm equally sure I'll be able to teach them too. We'll do it together. I found plenty of helpful material on the web, and our tutor for the session, Kate Fuller, has also offered on-going support.

If any of you are game to tease HTML out with a class, perhaps we could collaborate on developing this. Cheers Russell