I do have to say my daughter is 2 and loves to play with the keyboard and pretend to read one of my CF books on my desks. I think I'll start her next year ;) - Perhaps she'll be one of the youngest yet ! he he
All kidding and OT aside - I think it's amazing and very positive the response received. Now if only all the juggling and red tape and most school districts was easier to navigate through.. I am sure dreamed up future programs such as this would be easier to integrate. jay miller Kay Smoljak wrote: >Wow... thanks to everyone for all the responses! > >Here's what I think I'm going to do. I'll create a couple of basic >tutorials, and test 'em on my brother. Then I'll put them online on my >site, so if anyone else wants to mould the mini-nerds in their lives, >there's somewhere to start. I've taken all your ideas on board. > >Jochem, I see your point. But these kids are already doing some >computing in school, and I think they are better off learning something >they can build on in the future than how to use Word (it was Microsoft >Works when I was in high school, but same deal). In my brother's case, >creating his personal site - that was last weekend's project - also >involved checking his spelling, grammar, and thinking out his message so >it was clear and made sense. I'm emphasising quality control at every >step. He's using DWMX (as he's using my computer), so we're looking at >the html source a little too. He's interested in creating web sites, so >I want to encourage him to try new, more challenging projects. > >Interesting anecdote: when he first took his school project html site >and started editing it "for real", each page had a different horrific >tiling background. My Dad and I tried not to say anything, not wanting >to dampen his enthusiasm. But a week later he had removed all the >hideous backgrounds and put a consistent colour scheme on each page. >Kids really do learn by osmosis. I bought him a book called "html with >css and xhtml" for Christmas - we'll get rid of those tables yet :) > >Macromedia have a very small presence in Australia. If anything, I think >their educational focus should be getting CF into universities first, >which is starting to happen. But for kids with an interest, who want to >be ahead of their peers, I think CF is a great stepping stone. > >Kay. > >---------------- >http://kay.smoljak.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
