In this lesson, we were introduced to the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). (Good news, our teacher had posted the answers for last week's tough worksheet on www.webnewmedia.com!) CSS defines how html elements are displayed. And as same as html, when we save the file, we save the name with ".css" at the end. Like "mypage.css". One of its big advantages is that it can change the appearance and the layout of multiple pages all at once. Which means that we do not need to change the appearance and layout of the multiple pages one by one.
CSS can also change the colour and fonts of words, layout and colour of a webpage...... Which means that the webpage will not be dull and boring black and white but it will be full of colours and excitement with CSS. CSS, like html, requires and has confusing code structures and we have to memorize them to use them. This is the part I hated most as I am poor at memorizing and the code structures of CSS are more complex and confusing than the code structures of html. Our teacher told us to learn more of CSS in a lesson forum in www.webnewmedia.com. From the lesson forum, I learnt some code structures or tags that change the background colour, word colour and how to embed external media.
In conclusion, CSS is harder than I thought.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Third IS lesson: The HTML
In this lesson, our teacher taught us how to build WebPages using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). First, we must open the notepad, and then type in some basic code structures. The html tag indicates that the content is html. The head tag contains page information, like the title tag (which indicates the title of the webpage.)The body tag contains the main contents and the structure of the webpage. When we save it, we must save the name with ".html" or ".html" at the end. Like "mypage.html" or "mypage.htm". In most of the cases, when we type in a code structure, it must begin with and we need to close it like . There are a lot more html code structures and our teacher taught us the basics like how to make words bigger, bold, how to put a photograph, how to put a link...... They are very confusing and I spent a long time trying to memorize them all.
Then, our teacher told us to watch a video which is called "Learn Html in 10 minutes". At first, I thought that html was a confusing and difficult thing to do. But after watching this video, I found out that html was not as difficult and confusing as I thought it would be as I had never tried and knew html before. Only the memorizing of the code structures is confusing and hard! Our teacher than told us to pair up with a person and do a simple html webpage and a super hard worksheet. The html webpage was easy to do. But the worksheet was very hard and tough. I spent almost one hour just doing ten questions!
In conclusion, html really is not as hard and confusing as I had thought.
Then, our teacher told us to watch a video which is called "Learn Html in 10 minutes". At first, I thought that html was a confusing and difficult thing to do. But after watching this video, I found out that html was not as difficult and confusing as I thought it would be as I had never tried and knew html before. Only the memorizing of the code structures is confusing and hard! Our teacher than told us to pair up with a person and do a simple html webpage and a super hard worksheet. The html webpage was easy to do. But the worksheet was very hard and tough. I spent almost one hour just doing ten questions!
In conclusion, html really is not as hard and confusing as I had thought.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Second IS Lesson : The differences between a blog and a website
Today, our teacher taught us how to make an account at http://webnewmedia.ning.com/. First, he taught us that in order to make an account at this website, we must set our age as thirteen as the age limit is thirteen, not twelve. Then, he taught us to go to the lesson blogs to check what have we learned every lesson. After this, he told us to submit our blog URL to him. But when he asked who didn't make a blog to stand up, half of the the class stood up! I was pretty shocked as this homework was assigned to hand in today! But lukily, our teacher is not too angry. He asked the people who have not made a blog to hand in the URL to him before 2 pm.
Then, he split our whole class of 33 pupils into 3 groups of 11. He told each group to watch a different video. After watching,he asked each of us to post a response on http://webnewmedia.ning.com/ of about one hundred words about the video. We also need to look at other people's response (at least two)and write feedbacks of each more than 50 words.(We do not need to hand in on that day. The deadline is Thursday. YEAH!!!)My video is about whether a blog is better or a website is better. In my response, I have to include the advantages and disadvantages of a blog and a website. I think that a blog is better than a website as it is easier to make and takes very short time. Most importantly, we do not need to spend money!
Then, he split our whole class of 33 pupils into 3 groups of 11. He told each group to watch a different video. After watching,he asked each of us to post a response on http://webnewmedia.ning.com/ of about one hundred words about the video. We also need to look at other people's response (at least two)and write feedbacks of each more than 50 words.(We do not need to hand in on that day. The deadline is Thursday. YEAH!!!)My video is about whether a blog is better or a website is better. In my response, I have to include the advantages and disadvantages of a blog and a website. I think that a blog is better than a website as it is easier to make and takes very short time. Most importantly, we do not need to spend money!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
First IS Lesson : The Internet and World Wide Web
Today is the first IT lesson. We learned about the history of the internet,the world wide web, what is web publishing, what is E-commerse and what is netiquette.
History of the internet:
Internet is the short form of inter-network At first the internet is just a network that allows scientists at different locations to share some ideas. The internet became functional in September 1969. In 1969, there were only 4 host notes. In 1984, there were 1000 host notes. And today, there are more than 200 million host notes!!!( WOW!!! It has advanced so much!!! And this is also very interesting, I never heard before.)
The World Wide Web:
It is a world wide collection of electronic documents. Each electronic document is calld a webpage. It is just like a giant bulletin board where everyone can write, post or read anything on it. ( Wow, that is amazing!)
What is web publishing:
It is the development and maintenance of web pages. Like carefully planning the website, design the website, deploy the website.ect
What is E-commerse:
It is the short form for electronic commerse. And it is about business transactions that occurs over the internet.
What is netiquette:
It is a code of acceptable and good behaviors that internet users should obey while using the internet. And I also learned a important rule: Treat others as you would want them to treat you.
History of the internet:
Internet is the short form of inter-network At first the internet is just a network that allows scientists at different locations to share some ideas. The internet became functional in September 1969. In 1969, there were only 4 host notes. In 1984, there were 1000 host notes. And today, there are more than 200 million host notes!!!( WOW!!! It has advanced so much!!! And this is also very interesting, I never heard before.)
The World Wide Web:
It is a world wide collection of electronic documents. Each electronic document is calld a webpage. It is just like a giant bulletin board where everyone can write, post or read anything on it. ( Wow, that is amazing!)
What is web publishing:
It is the development and maintenance of web pages. Like carefully planning the website, design the website, deploy the website.ect
What is E-commerse:
It is the short form for electronic commerse. And it is about business transactions that occurs over the internet.
What is netiquette:
It is a code of acceptable and good behaviors that internet users should obey while using the internet. And I also learned a important rule: Treat others as you would want them to treat you.
Description of myself
Description of myself:
•I am not a singaporean, I am a chinese.
•I am the only child in my family.
•My mother was born in qufu, where confucious was born.
•I love vegetables and don't like meat as much.
•I also cannot eat spicy food.
•I hate exams because I need to study and revise alot.
•I also hate doing homework.
•I like sports.
•I hate English but I like the other subjects.
•I like playing computer games.
•I also like to watch television especially about history and science.
•I want to be a lawyer or scientist when I grow up.
•I am not a singaporean, I am a chinese.
•I am the only child in my family.
•My mother was born in qufu, where confucious was born.
•I love vegetables and don't like meat as much.
•I also cannot eat spicy food.
•I hate exams because I need to study and revise alot.
•I also hate doing homework.
•I like sports.
•I hate English but I like the other subjects.
•I like playing computer games.
•I also like to watch television especially about history and science.
•I want to be a lawyer or scientist when I grow up.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Prior IT experience
IT is a very nice programme where we learn more about the computer. I have learnt alot from IT lessons like how to make a power point, graphs, videos...... It is not hard to learn and it is not "boring" at all. The lessons are easy to understand and easy to remember. It has been a pleasant experience learning IT or computer skills and I would like to learn more in future!
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