On 11 June 2011 11:30, Paul Sutton <zl...@zleap.net> wrote: > Perhaps we need more people in schools to help out who can actually do > web design and help out without charging hundreds of pounds for the job. > nProblem is most people out of college may not have these skills, I have > seen web design courses advertised at my local college, they use > Dreamweaver, great so i use that at college go in to schools and they > can't afford it. Goes back to teaching skills rather than packages and > to the test. >
No, that is not the point at all... schools would not take on somebody to be their secretary who had no concept of what a word processor was, or could not use a spreadsheet... they are meant to be educational establishments... are you REALLY saying that the quality of staff at our schools could not grasp writing something like this :- <h1>here is a heading</h1> <p>The first paragraph</p> <p>The second paragraph</p> I am SORRY but if this is the state of our education system then I despair... Sometimes if you are the one person in the school who knows xyz then you > get the ict co-ordinator job, so this comes part of the package, so > you just struggle with what ever software is available in the time (or > lack of time) allocated in between planning, marking, teaching and all > the other jobs. > I could train somebody in writing basic HTML in hours... Seems to me that schools need help and perhaps we techie people need to > be more willing to work / volunteer / offer our time / expertise to > schools. > Possibly.... but it seems rather pathetic that we're trusting the future of our kids to people who don't appear to even be able to grasp something as basic as HTML. Sean
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