dave's not here

shaping young (and not so young) minds

I’m just about through teaching for the term, and it’s been a bit of an adventure. I’ll tell you two things. One, teaching two different courses at two different campuses on two consecutive days is a bit draining. Two, I hate FrontPage.

My course is Introduction to Web design and Development, and I’ve been teaching it under various names and numbers for over six (!) years now. I emphasize user-centered design, coding pages by hand, understanding information design and basic communication principles. But this term, they needed a substitute for another class, Creating Web Pages using FrontPage, which is being taught at the downtown campus, and always one for new experiences I thought I’d give it a go.

I tell you, I don’t remember the last time I felt such a huge degree of cognitive dissonance. But the Institute offers a series of courses geared towards “office professionals” who need to learn how to use the suite of Microsoft products, and people keep signing up (I have a full complement of 20 students) so the show, as they say, must go on.

But man, what a piece of shit.

holy shamolly, an update

I figure if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then don’t waste people’s time. I have interesting things to say I’m just really frickin lazy. Or rather, I spend so much time in front of a computer earning a living, I’m not particularly inclined to spending my leisure time in front of one as well. End result: this blog doesn’t get updated often.

Having said all that, I figured I should post something here since I finally got around to adding some new sites to the concepts page.