Talent isn’t everything

One of our web design students from last year found the article Talent isn’t everything as she browsed her del.icio.us links last week… It’s a great article as it’s written by a junior designer who’s been working for 3 years now reflecting on the false assumption that only people with the design gift can make it . . . → Read More: Talent isn’t everything

Do we need teachers of web design

The number of incredible learning resources being generated by professional web designers never ceases to amaze me. Over the past few years, the wealth of professional web development blogs and resources has literally redefined my role as a “teacher”. Whether it’s knowing what questions you might be asked in a web development job interview (or a . . . → Read More: Do we need teachers of web design

Visualising our learning

While preparing for the start of next semester (and at the same time trying to help my daughter learn basic life skills) I keep thinking how useful it would be to be able to visualise our individual learning in a way that:

highlights the relationships between different learning areas in our lives (perhaps using distance as a . . . → Read More: Visualising our learning

Should learners be learning intro to Javascript?

Should learners be learning Javascript?

From Christian Montoya:

It is my opinion that we should not introduce Javascript to these students at all. There isn’t enough time to teach them how to use Javascript correctly, and there are more useful things we can teach them related to CSS and PHP. I think Javascript should be avoided altogether.

We do . . . → Read More: Should learners be learning intro to Javascript?

Demonstrating Webdesign

In our on-going effort to improve our Web Design learning experience we’ve been trying to listen very carefully to the feedback from our learners and update our program in response.

Back in June this year we started restructuring the learning pathway through the course into smaller yet holistic levels with individual deadlines/milestones. This was in response to . . . → Read More: Demonstrating Webdesign