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.