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Entries from August 2006

Free Electronic Resources

August 31st, 2006 · 2 Comments

I’m interested in using this powermedia plus Website that Barb Wiley indicates we have available to us. I tried to log in today and could not. I’ll post more when Barb replies and lets me know what’s going on.

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Tags: General · Web Page Design

Protected: More back to work…

August 30th, 2006 · Enter your password to view comments

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Tags: Emma Willard

Back to work

August 30th, 2006 · No Comments

This morning is the opening year faculty/staff meeting for the new school year. Lots of new faces, and many people are in new positions. We hav heard about lots of disruptions caused this summer (and expected to continue) by the construction.
Admissions report:
There are 91 new students this year, including 57 freshman. Scholarship money has reached [...]

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Tags: General

Working with XML

August 29th, 2006 · No Comments

So I’ve read up on XML and XPATH and created my first XSL style sheet to format the data in the XML document. My first effort is to try to duplicate what is in my assignments web pages, and it works. Cool. I think this will go really well in the Web Page Design course.
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Tags: General · Web Page Design

XML

August 28th, 2006 · No Comments

I have started putting together resources for teaching XML in the Web Page Design course.  My Delicious Page has a list of resources I’ve used today to explore and begin to use it.  So far I’ve read up on XML, created a simple XML document, and seen how to use CSS to display an XML [...]

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Tags: Web Page Design