Wednesday, October 17, 2007

IT 111 Podcast #4 for Fall 2007

This is a picture of my great nephew Tommy and me taken in London. I'll be returning to Seattle on Wednesday, Oct. 17 so we'll be in the same time zone soon.

This week's podcast has some background information on web color and graphics and some tips for Assignment 4.

Listen to the Week 4 Podcast. (6:24 minutes)
Or, read the transcript if you prefer. (PDF)

Monday, October 08, 2007

IT 111 Podcast #3 for Fall 2007

I cannot tell a lie, I'm in London, England now and soon I'll be traveling to Sweden. If you want to keep track of my whereabouts, check out my travel blog at http://www.offexploring.com/jkent20/home. I've been adding photos, videos, and blog entries about the sights I am seeing. I guess you could say this is one of the perks of teaching online.

The screen snapshot shows my travel blog - a free tool that I'm learning how to use. One thing is sure, I'll remember my trip much better with the help of this blog.

I am struggling with the wireless connection here in London so I haven't finished grading Assignment 1 yet. But I will keep working on it.

I've been sharing a YouTube movie with students that gives a great explanation about RSS. I highly recommend that you watch it. It's short but very well done.

Listen to the Week 3 podcast . (5:02 minutes)
Or read the podcast transcript. PDF

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

It 111Podcast #2 for Fall 2007

In this podcast, I review the assignments that are due in the next couple weeks and encourage you to check out a couple resources linked from the Class Links section of the course web site. The image to the left is a screen snapshot of the W3Schools XHTML Reference, one of the most helpful resources for XHTML coding. It not only lists and explains all the elements or tags but it also gives you a chance to practice using the element in the "Try-It-Yourself Demos."

The other resource explains the validation error messages in plain English. This should really help you as you work on getting your web pages to validate. The link for this page works okay from the Class Links page but for some reason, I couldn't get it to work here. Very strange. Thanks, Lisa, for the heads up about this.

I'd also like to remind you to look for chapter updates on the textbook website. Any errors that have been found after the book was printed will be listed for you. It could save you a lot of time when working on your assignments.

Listen to the Week 2 Podcast (4:40 minutes)
Or, read the transcript if you prefer.

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