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May 6, 2002
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                      REFLECTIVE JOURNAL #5     

            Well, this was my busiest week.  In total, I visited Cristo Rey 4 times, along with the May 4th Workshop.  I did the usual 3:30 to 5:00 BDPA Computer club work last Monday, Thursday, and Friday.  I also went today.  This week, a lot less students attended the club.  It's probably because school is almost over and the lazy high-school gene is taking over.  In fact, nobody showed up on Thursday.  We waited for a while, but to no avail.  The instructor, Albert McDonald did show me an example website he helped to built for one of his high schools.  We spent a good fifteen minutes perusing the structure and looking at HTML source code.  Friday went much better.  Plenty of students showed up and they learned more about adding graphics to their website.  It’s a real shame that more students aren't showing to take advantage of the club.  I know if my high school has such things, I would've gone.  Albert, and his helper Demetrius were even thinking of introducing how Java helps make websites more complete.

            But, even after all that, I had a workshop to attend.  Going in there, I had no idea it was intended for teachers.  At first, I didn't know how I could help.  But, that quickly changed.  The speaker basically introduced websites to the teachers.  She used a website called Filamentality to show what a teacher could accomplish without even knowing HTML.  This is a really clever idea.  In my opinion, technology is difficult for teachers for a reason.  Picture being a science teacher for 20 some years and never needing computers.  Then, all of a sudden, you need to make a website to further involve your students and freshen up the curriculum.  Why should a teacher need to learn HTML?  With this Filamentality website, all they do is just use Word processing skills to create a lively website that makes science/math/history more fun.  A really good example is one of the teachers present at the workshop.  He was showing his students how to dissect a frog, and technology made it better.  After this workshop, he's on his way to creating a site for his students that has links, explanations, and instructions on how to visit an online virtual frog dissector: its really fascinating stuff.

            I definitely believe this workshop is essential.  On top of Filamentality, there was also a quick intro into Netscape Composer.  Again, this allows teachers to add things to their site without knowing HTML.  It's a shame technical difficulties slowed the 'class' down.  Netscape 6.2 was not very user friendly that day.  At least half the teachers got errors just by trying to open it.  But, in the end, I think most teachers left with some kind of introduction to web page design.  I'm happy I could help in any way.  This is a very important tool that can only help teachers and students to better use their class time.

     It was one long, yet satisfying week.  It's a shame it was the last workshop.