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>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:25:37 -0600 (CST)
>From: Lisa Stewart <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5475.5 HTML Editors (!)
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Just my two cents on this issue...

Since I quit my job at the language lab two years ago, I have been
teaching an undergraduate computer class.  We have tried several different
approaches to teaching web page creation (straight code, Netscape
composer, Adobe PageMill, FrontPage, etc..).  My approach now is to teach
straight code for three class sessions, and then do two sessions
demonstrating an editor.

Out of the couple of hundred students that I have had over the last eight
semesters, I have only had one who chose to complete his final project
using the editor.  All of the other students who have tried to use an
editor have eventually given up and gone back to "rolling their own"
because of the numerous difficulties they have had getting their pages to
look "just so."

This, above all, convinces me that coding is still the way to go.... at
least to get a basic understanding of what you're doing.  I
guess I've always been an old-fashioned girl (no, seriously...)

--Lisa
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Lisa Stewart                                           2522 Lazybrook Ln.
Learning Technologies Lab                              Lawrence, KS 66047
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