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

My vision for learners in the 21st Century

I had a great time getting together with a bunch of people yesterday to talk about how Peter Shanks’ Training Packages Unwrapped website can (and is) changing the way that we learn and help others learn here in Australia – simply by making our training packages easily accessible.

While chatting about possibilities, we talked about our own . . . → Read More: My vision for learners in the 21st Century

Web-a-thon

Wow… Geek Olympics for Web designers! Russ has announced a Web-a-thon for July 2007 – you and your team can build a site in 24hrs for . . . → Read More: Web-a-thon

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?