Monday, June 9, 2008

CEDU 533 week 4

The mid term has come and gone and I'm amazed how much I bring it up in conversation with friends and family when they ask how grad school is doing. To be honest it's just that I haven't taken a mid term since my undergrad days about a decade ago. Something about it still juiced me up and tweaked me out when I started it last Wednesday. I relaxed and actually had fun with it after my initial apprehension. At the same time I was thinking of my students and how I , as a teacher, have gradually done more and more performance assessments as opposed to a traditional "paper and pencil" test. I appreciate those performance assessments in a whole new way now.

I'm looking forward to learning more about CSS and applying it to my web pages. It just doesn't seem like that much more work relative the benefit you get in return. I guess the "idle curiosity" question I have is who invents this stuff in the first place. How does someone conjure this code up and have it do what they want it to do? I believe this has been addressed in parts of class but it's an interesting one.

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