Teaching a student H.T.M.L.
If I were to teach a student with what I’ve learned in the first two days to another student, my kind of instructions would be heading on with the straightforward type of learning. Before I actually start teaching, My first step would implementing a PowerPoint. That way, I can simplify the learning experience and head on HTML one step at a time. In my 2 week experience of learning HTML, understanding code by just explaining with words can be confusing. Showing live demos can really help students comprehend of what that block of code outputs.
For starters, I want to student to know what the acronym H.T.M.L stands for and why it’s used. To explain the student what H.T.M.L. is one sentence, this would be my explaining.
H.T.M.L. stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is basically the backbone of every website out there.
In programming, every language needs a text editor. Like in my coding class, I will use jsbin, a web development website that has an online text editor to teach a student. Next, when begin coding, I need to explain the student the first code he/she needs to write before they can code in HTML. That is, the
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
I would tell the student that the importance of opening and closing tags. And also clarifying that the document type has to be HTML in order for the computer know what language your dealing with. Next lesson I would teach is the HTML skeleton. The HTML skeleton is basically like the human skeleton. It needs a head and body tag. But before you post those tags, you need to clarify a html tag (<html>…</html>) after classify DOCTYPE and add a closing tag when your done with html coding.
After I explain the HTML skeleton, It’s time to explore the HTML playground. I would teach this student the wonders of elements. Showing how <p>, <h1>, <img>, and every necessary tags out currently in HTML 5 that makes a website. With that in mind, this student will know the basics of HTML and web development with the lessons I’ve learn in the past 2 weeks.
