Basic Computer Glossary is what we've been working on all period. We were given a list of words that are related to what we're learning right now, and we worked in groups to brainstorm definitions of those words. After, we were given the real definitions and have to make them into another web page. For homework, I worked on both the Basic Computer Glossary and my personal glossary. I finished the basic one and validated it, and I'm almost done the personal one. They're both live on the web on Touque.ca.

Time to wrap things up! We had to finish off our glossary today and get as much done as possible. I spent the period finding more definitions from various sources, and adding a CSS to it as well. We also found a website called "SourceForge" and there's a lot of open-source softwares. I downloaded the Notepad++ and it works very well. For homework I'm going to try and finish the glossary and upload it through FTP.

Today in class we continued to work on the class glossary. I went on several sites and found the definitions for about 1/4 of the words. I also recorded the references of where I got them so I can make a proper bibliography. For homework today I am going to continue finding definitions of words and make a CSS that would go with the web page.

Sorry I didn't post Friday's lesson, but I'm going to make up for that. On Friday, we basically finished and peer marked our work, and everyone handed it in before 10:00pm. There were some people who had problems, but overall it was a success. Today, we talked about the different types of HTML lists: ordered, unordered and definitions. We also learned how to put the definitions the right way (first definition term, then definition definitions). Towards the end of class, Mr. Arkin told us about the Dropbox and showed a video of what it's used for. For homework, I installed the Dropbox, and made a skeleton of my glossary page with a link from my index.html.

Our goal today was to complete our autobiography assignment because it's due tomorrow at 10:00pm. I'm done the assignment so I spent the period going over it and made sure everything in the marking scheme was in my website. For homework I continued with that and I'm hoping to get a good mark! I've asked Monika to mark my work tonight and post it on my web.

Wednesday!

This is our class plan today:
1. Linking
2. Marking
3. Working
4. Reading
5. hw: Finishing
I've done #1,3,4 & 5 so far. and I'm ready to have someone mark my assignment. For homework, I finished my website and polished it up. In Filezilla, I created sub-directories and linked all the webs and images together. I also validated them just to make sure they're all good. Tomorrow, I'm going to ask a friend to mark my page and then it'll be ready to go!

We continued on our superpower autobiography today and is expecting to wrap it up by either Wednesday or Thursday. I've finished most of the main steps and now I'm just adding things to my website. It's already live on the web and all of the pages are validated. For homework today I am going to keep working on making my website better and more appealing to viewers. I think it's a really fun assignment and I've learned a lot from it.

We continued our website assignment today, and paired up to have our partner check our work and make suggestions. I'm basically finished the website so now I'm looking for ways to make it look better. For homework I polished my website and made the images blend in to the background. I also looked at a few of other people's web to see if there's anything I can learn from them.

In class today we learned about the modifiers keys to make life easier since you don't have to switch back and forth from your keyboard to your mouse. The rest of the period was used to continue to work on our superpower autobiography. I finally got my superpower website validated today, because before it always said "this file could not be opened". For homework, I went on touque.ca to check if my index.html was live on the web or not. At first there was something wrong, but I went on Filezilla and refreshed everything, and now my website is LIVE ON THE WEB. I also put in pictures for my superpowers website and validated it so there's no errors!

Wednesday! It's the middle of the week :/
We worked on making our HTML files validate today. I had a few errors from the validator but I was able to solve them and it passed the validation. At home, I worked on my index.html further to make it look better, and validated it again. After checking them, I printed the css and html documents to bring them to class the next day.

Sept 14/10 6th class

I worked on my website page in class today. Since I finished my autobiography yesterday, I was able to put that on my website. However, a problem occurred while I was validating my page. After everything was put together, I tried to validate my page, but it said that the page could not be validated. I took out some parts of the website, and it still didn't work. But then I found out that it was the autobiography that caused it not to work. I have NO idea why that is, so I'm trying it at home again to fix the problem.

Sept 13/10 5th Class

In class today we worked on making the websites live. I downloaded FileZilla and logged in. I had to log out though because only 5 people can log on using 1 host. For the rest of the period, I was making my index.html, which is going to be my home page for my autobiography. In the page I put my Wikispaces ID and the link to my blog. I wasn't able to put the website live in class because the system would not log me on, so I did it at home for homework. Also for homework, I completed my superpower autobiography, and made a webpage out of it. It's not done yet but I'm going to put it on a USB and bring it to class tomorrow to continue it.

Sept 10/10 The 4th day

I've had a VERY productive day in class today. In the beginning I reviewed the things I did yesterday and tried out different things for my page. Then I started looking for ways to put the colours in the background and text. I got help from a few classmates for the background colours. While I was reading the website design information, I found something really cool and that was to change the background colour with a click/button. I followed the instructions on the website but it didn't work for me, so I googled it and found out how to do it. I also learned how to add an image to the page, so now my website has a lot of bananas on it. Then I used the HTML and CSS validator to check my work. The CSS was very successful, but I had some errors and warnings on the HTML validator. The descriptions weren't that easy to understand, but I managed to fix a few errors. I still have 1 error and 7 warnings left though. For homework today I am going to try and fix the errors and warnings, and contine my autobiography.

Sept 9/10 3rd day of CS

In today's class, our guest teacher was able to help all the students log in successfully into our computers. We had the whole period to work on our Super-power Autobiography assignment and it went pretty well. I spent a long time trying to make websites and it took me a while to add the colours as background. It was really fun and cool to see that the things we wrote could be posted on the web. For homework, I kept on working on the assignment and started my autobiography for my SUPERPOWER.

Sept 8/10 2nd day of computer science

In class today we learned about the differences and uses of webpage content and format. We put lots of words in the glossary and took notes about CSS, HTML, and FTP. After I got home, I played around with making websites using "notepad" and was successful. Also, I read the outline for the 'Super-power Autobiography' assignment and went over the marking scheme. I think today was pretty good for a first class, though I feel like I didn't understand 50% of the lesson! I'm sure it'll get better and it's really learning about these things.