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Gamifying a Coding Class, while Still Teaching Real-World Code with Web Design
I come from a family of teachers, including my father, and he taught me the value of entertainment in teaching. One of the classes he taught was welding, and to engage students, he would set up a...
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Teaching Code through Visual Web Design Courses
Now that coding is widely recognised as a core skillset that students should learn, schools around the world are looking for code curriculums. Too many code courses! There are plenty of code courses...
View Article7 Web Design Teaching Tips for TEACHERS
In the video below, I go over my top 7 web design teaching tips for teachers. Here are the bullet points: 1. Use the spiral teaching method 2. Self paced learning is best 3. Encourage students to use...
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Career Oriented Code Curriculum for Middle School and Up.
Schools are starting to realize that a code curriculum should be real-world focused. That means students come away with both conceptual, and practical coding skills. Unfortunately, many...
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Web Design Curriculum for 2018
Schools around the world are now teaching code in the classroom. But for many years before, web design was taught in forward thinking schools, using web design software like Dreamweaver and Frontpage....
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Setting up a coding environment for the classroom.
One of the hardest aspects of getting a coding classroom up and running, is just getting the software installed on the workstation. After considering a many options, we decided to go with the web...
View ArticleWeb Design vs Wix vs WordPress vs Shopify?
Does Wix, WordPress or Shopify mean the end of web design as a job? Website builders like Wix and Squarespace have been around for a long time, but web designers and web professionals are still high...
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Teach Code Without Experience with StudioWeb
StudioWeb is designed to allow teachers with no prior coding experience, to be able to teach a classroom with confidence. I can set up a free trial, so you can review StudioWeb. Just let me know. We...
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Coder Certification Options in 2020
Companies like Apple and Google have recognized that whether an employee has a degree, had no impact in terms of the quality of the employee. As such, people are starting to look to alternative...
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The Elements of Effective Online Education
A question that is coming up more and more often, is how can you make an online course effective? Though my online teaching experience is with code (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java) and...
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