Wow, Pat.
I am sorry about your father-in-law. About your class, you and your kids have accomplished quite a bit in a short time. I have no doubt that you will find this cyber approach to be very successful. We'll have to talk about audience and students responsibility sometime. I do agree that when there is something to put on the web site right away, the need to learn to use FrontPage is greater and more meaningful. And I think we both see these student sites as functional, and not as much an exercise in aesthetics. Let me know how the peer edit goes. I'm not sure which activity from Ted's site you're using. I took some things from there but modified quite a bit to create my own.
Let me know when I can go look at those sites also.
Now about my collegues reaction. I was stunned by how cold they were when I first showed them my site and tried to explain the approach. Either they didn't get it at all, and I know this is still the case for one person in my department, or they were threatened or intimidated or JEALOUS?????!!! It took quite awhile for them to sort of see what I was doing. Overall, there are very few teachers in our school who are even interested in a web approach. Lots have web pages, but they don't use them as a tool for teaching. Also, we are having trouble with maintaining a smooth transition for our students with their web pages due to a change in our tech administrator.
But, all in good time I guess. Sometimes I feel that I'm the only advocate for students web pages and that's frustrating.
Have a relaxing weekend.
dawn