Comments on: Web Design Education http://iamfrankstallone.com/blog/web-design-education-new-jersey/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:51:07 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://iamfrankstallone.com/blog/web-design-education-new-jersey/comment-page-1/#comment-18 admin Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:51:07 +0000 http://iamfrankstallone.com/?p=191#comment-18 Derek first I want to say thank you for visiting my site, I am flattered humbled and pleased all at the same time. Your speech at FOWD was the most moving, mostly because of your story, which is where I connect; I was diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 16 and have since gone through remission. I was able to briefly review the <a href="http://interact.webstandards.org/" rel="nofollow">Interact Curriculum</a> by WaSP and love what I see. I have a few friends who are about to or do teach at colleges and I will be passing this on to them. Thanks again and I will help spread the word! =D Derek first I want to say thank you for visiting my site, I am flattered humbled and pleased all at the same time. Your speech at FOWD was the most moving, mostly because of your story, which is where I connect; I was diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 16 and have since gone through remission. I was able to briefly review the Interact Curriculum by WaSP and love what I see. I have a few friends who are about to or do teach at colleges and I will be passing this on to them. Thanks again and I will help spread the word! =D

]]> By: Derek Featherstone http://iamfrankstallone.com/blog/web-design-education-new-jersey/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Derek Featherstone Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:38:29 +0000 http://iamfrankstallone.com/?p=191#comment-17 Hi Frank, You might be very interested in one of our initiatives at WaSP -- <a href="http://interact.webstandards.org/" rel="nofollow">the Interact Curriculum</a>. Take a look around. See if you like what you see and if so, help spread the word :) Hi Frank,

You might be very interested in one of our initiatives at WaSP — the Interact Curriculum. Take a look around. See if you like what you see and if so, help spread the word :)

]]> By: admin http://iamfrankstallone.com/blog/web-design-education-new-jersey/comment-page-1/#comment-16 admin Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:13:07 +0000 http://iamfrankstallone.com/?p=191#comment-16 It is an interesting situation. On one hand the internet is changing almost daily because it is just simply such a new medium and on the hand you have college curriculum that is outdated. There are people out there making a difference. When I went to college the web design teacher pretty much let me do whatever I wanted to for the class; I never said I had more knowledge than him instead I asked him if I could build a site with semantic markup and explain it to the class. So I did, I got up on the white board and drew out div's, wrote out the basic CSS (I think I was using floats for positioning exclusively back then) and it went very well. The students that were a little more advanced than 'building a site with tables' greatly appreciated it as did the older crowd who knew there was something they were missing. I admire anybody with a passion for what they do, and I agree with your quote completely. I have gone really far in this field because I simply love it, I read about it all the time and follow/interact with people whom I believe do it 'right' on twitter and other social mediums. Thanks for your comments I appreciate it! =) It is an interesting situation. On one hand the internet is changing almost daily because it is just simply such a new medium and on the hand you have college curriculum that is outdated. There are people out there making a difference.

When I went to college the web design teacher pretty much let me do whatever I wanted to for the class; I never said I had more knowledge than him instead I asked him if I could build a site with semantic markup and explain it to the class. So I did, I got up on the white board and drew out div’s, wrote out the basic CSS (I think I was using floats for positioning exclusively back then) and it went very well. The students that were a little more advanced than ‘building a site with tables’ greatly appreciated it as did the older crowd who knew there was something they were missing.

I admire anybody with a passion for what they do, and I agree with your quote completely. I have gone really far in this field because I simply love it, I read about it all the time and follow/interact with people whom I believe do it ‘right’ on twitter and other social mediums. Thanks for your comments I appreciate it! =)

]]> By: Kevin Holesh http://iamfrankstallone.com/blog/web-design-education-new-jersey/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Kevin Holesh Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:17:33 +0000 http://iamfrankstallone.com/?p=191#comment-15 I am currently a student and I didn't study web design in college for that exact reason, even though I knew it was what I wanted to do. I have a few friends in the web design program and their homework is pitifully outdated, like you said. I've tried to get them to change their ways or even start to teach themselves, but it has little effect because I'm "only a student" and not a tenured professor. It's an unfortunate situation, but it will work out for the ones who actually do have a passion for web design: the ones who are teaching themselves and making their own curriculum. They're the ones who will be able to get a job at an innovative and meaningful company, not one stuck in a time machine on the 1990s setting. I live by this quote: "Don't let school get in the way of your education." I am currently a student and I didn’t study web design in college for that exact reason, even though I knew it was what I wanted to do. I have a few friends in the web design program and their homework is pitifully outdated, like you said. I’ve tried to get them to change their ways or even start to teach themselves, but it has little effect because I’m “only a student” and not a tenured professor.

It’s an unfortunate situation, but it will work out for the ones who actually do have a passion for web design: the ones who are teaching themselves and making their own curriculum. They’re the ones who will be able to get a job at an innovative and meaningful company, not one stuck in a time machine on the 1990s setting.

I live by this quote:
“Don’t let school get in the way of your education.”

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