Thursday, March 13, 2003

Its Thursday night and I'm just sitting down to do some reading for this class. I have to admit that I'm starting to resent the ever-present blogger assignment in this class. Even though each session is quite short, I'm bothered by the fact that it is never over! I have never kept a diary (except for one three week trip to London when I was in college) and I'm not the diary sort of folk. I just wish this assignment would end!

I guess part of my frustration is also weariness. I had a big project due in my other class, and spent a lot of late nights this week working on it. I'm looking forward to spring break!

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Well, its Tuesday evening, and I'm sitting in my office wondering if anyone is going to take advantage of my office hours tonight. When I assign a tough project, the students tend to line up outside my office the night it is due, but this week's assignment is moderately easy. The students have to take a PDF file I gave them, and put form elements on the page to make it interactive. These form elements include check boxes, radio buttons, and text areas. For part of the assignment the student has to make a text area appear and disappear based on which radio button is selected. In this example the form asks which is the best way to contact you-fax, email, or voice- and depending on which option you select a different text box will appear for you to enter the appropriate data.

Thats about it for tonight. Lots of reading to do, so I'll see you next week.