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Second Day of Teaching

Today, I finished up the Beginning Dreamweaver class by taking our properly structured, yet boring, website and styling it with CSS. I showed the class how to use Dreamweaver's "Div Tag" functionality and the styles editor dialogue. The class took their menus, which were in list form, and turned them into a standard horizontal menu under a banner without little dots next to each item.

This is our styled website:

Day 2

Posted: Friday, January 21 2011

Teaching Beginning Dreamweaver

I have successfully taught a beginning Dreamweaver class to students at Washington State University. As a part of my position in the Avery Microcomputer Labs (AML), the Mac computer lab at Pullman's campus, I am able to sign up to instruct English 300, a course designed around media production software.


The AML offers students access to:

  • Autodesk Maya
  • Adobe
    • Dreamweaver
    • Photoshop
    • InDesign
    • Flash
    • Illustrator
    • Fireworks
    • Acrobat
  • iLife
    • iDVD
    • iMovie
    • iPhoto
    • iTunes
    • iWeb
    • GarageBand
  • FinalCut Pro
  • Audacity
  • Microsoft Office
    • Word
    • PowerPoint
    • Excel


Today I went over the Dreamweaver interface and started the class off with building a website without CSS. I wanted them to understand that Dreamweaver was a tool for creating websites without needing to know code but that having some understanding of the standards. We discussed hierarchies and folder structure then lists of all 3 types, headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, and titles. I am having them build a portfolio style website; which is why most of the students are taking the course. On Friday, we will take that basic, non-styled website and give it style.


This is my example that I created with the class to teach them:

Day 1

Posted: Wednesday, January 19 2011