I read. I read a lot. I read things daily, hourly, minutely. But much of what I read is to grab one piece of information and move one, and many of the things I read for learning, I find uninteresting or boring. Sometimes I think this is my fault. Like most students, undergrad and grad, reading things for class, even a class I might be teaching, I often find to be drudgery.
This brings up the question of whether or not I should be asking my students to read these things. I struggle with that question quite frequently, but I have to keep reminding myself that things I find interesting may not interest my students. Likewise, things I find boring might just hit a chord with them, or at least a couple of them.
I have been reading tonight, again, about web design. Learning about how you should create "Style Guides" to go with sites you design to make sure the site remains consistent during updates and modifications in the future. While that is very sound advice, I know that unless this is a large corporation where strict guides must be adhered to, most people take ownership of sites they 'take over" and want to do things their own way. I also learned that "editors" are a wise decision when it comes to content (no news there) and that home pages are your first impression of a site. As I said, "blah, blah, blah . . ."
But one article did give me an idea for class tomorrow. It discusses paper prototyping, and I think this might be a great way to get my students to think about what they would like their sites to look like before they actually jump in and start choosing a design. So tomorrow will involve scissors, construction paper, magazines, and glue sticks. Sounds like fun to me, and I look forwarded to tomorrow's class.
This brings up the question of whether or not I should be asking my students to read these things. I struggle with that question quite frequently, but I have to keep reminding myself that things I find interesting may not interest my students. Likewise, things I find boring might just hit a chord with them, or at least a couple of them.
I have been reading tonight, again, about web design. Learning about how you should create "Style Guides" to go with sites you design to make sure the site remains consistent during updates and modifications in the future. While that is very sound advice, I know that unless this is a large corporation where strict guides must be adhered to, most people take ownership of sites they 'take over" and want to do things their own way. I also learned that "editors" are a wise decision when it comes to content (no news there) and that home pages are your first impression of a site. As I said, "blah, blah, blah . . ."
But one article did give me an idea for class tomorrow. It discusses paper prototyping, and I think this might be a great way to get my students to think about what they would like their sites to look like before they actually jump in and start choosing a design. So tomorrow will involve scissors, construction paper, magazines, and glue sticks. Sounds like fun to me, and I look forwarded to tomorrow's class.
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