The first unsightly page earned me an "Ugh" from Reb, and I couldn't help feeling a little discouraged
and so I sought help at my favourite site:
Where I went to find help outside the course
and this is what I posted:
Posted by BeSeeLisa on 10/26/03
I am taking myself though an online (well, obviously) course in basic HTML and webpage building. I have a good grasp of the basics....but....I cannot seem to create pages that are usable. I have tried in AppleWorks and in Word (shudder) and IF I use the Word App, and save the document "as a webpage" it works-- but it will not allow me to add html tags. AppleWorks the same, but even more useless because it will not save a file with an HTML extension.
Any suggestions on how or where I can create my own HTML docs? I tried TextEdit, but again, wouldn't let me save as HTML. Oh-- and IF I wrote a doc in Word and put in my own tags, it displays on the webpage as STRINGS of absolute gibberish.
I WAS able to use Fetch to upload my page, but I must learn so much more. Suggestions appreciated....
Lisa
And the advice I received:
What version of AW? You may have to do a reinstall as any AW since v4 has HTML as a file type. HTML IS ascii text... browsers need the dot three (four) letter extension to recognize it as an html file. I'm surprised that any html course wouldn't make that very clear right from the beginning.
Save your document as text and end name with .htm or .html and you should be in business.
Good luck
Neal
As is often the case, learning something new is not straight forward. My path had a few twists, but I was learning.
Up to this point, I would have to say the two main learning theories going on were Cognition (and certainly I felt like I were ascending levels as well as any Piaget example); the other, in a limited sense, was Constructivism. Not so much in the instructional model, but in my learning style. I had to find ways outside the course to get some collaborative help. Self regulation (Driscoll, p 373) was the only way I was going to get through the course, and was the only one responsible for it, which of course was my ownership in my own learning. And without mindful reflection, I never would have solved some of the problems I encountered. The style of communication on the WebMonkey page was suitably casual and inviting, and I found the tone enjoyably "flip". I did like some of the techno-jargon that was tossed around also:
"To become HTMLoquent, start by familiarizing yourself with the concept of HTML, then use the Teaching Tool to learn and practice the basic HTML tags."
WebMonkey had given me a good start.... But I needed more