Course Description Reflection
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Introduction to Web Development
If you've never created a website from scratch, Intro to Web Development is for you. The course will help you learn basic web page design and authoring skills, along with browser/server interaction, directory management, and other technical skills. You will also learn to evaluate your website's impact on communication, understanding, and accessibility.
While I had some web publishing experience, this class pushed me to strengthen a weakness I had as a web author: writing code. I learned how to create a web page from scratch by writing the necessary coding language for publication. There was a variety of learners in my course; some of us had a great level of expertise wiritng code, and the forum discussions and chat rooms of the course allowed us to share and help one another. I was able to learn much more through the mini projects by asking questions to classmates who had more experience with code, and they were able to provide answers that quickened my understanding. Midway through the course, we shifted into using a web editor and analyzed desireable aspects of web designs by learning what features are most appealing to online viewers. This particular topic helped me understand how I might need to change current, active websites that I maintain. I developed a better understanding for active and passive space on the web page, and how the layout can be used optimally. Writing a design assignment that required organizing and planning a web site supported my final project, a developed web site. This course gave me the base that I was lacking to appreciate how web authoring has developed, where it's going, and how I can explain it best to my students as we publish in the classroom.
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