AJ started the class with each student playing something from Youtube... simultaneously~!
He stated, "It was interesting to see what all of you guys were playing all at once," or something of that sort =)
Next, they had a moment of silence...
Soon after this, AJ began answering various questions about the past few days.
Most of these questions regarded Blogger... how to organize their blogs... how to upload images to their blogs, and just... where is the picture of me?!
After he answered all of the questions, AJ started making cake.
In a web site, the recipe is the website, the codes are what you follow, and the finished cake product? That's your actual website!
AJ then proceeded to "dip [his] little pinky" into HTML codes with the students.
Somewhere along the line, Josh stated that, you need more [of something], but AJ cuts in, "Just one." Nevertheless, Josh stuck to his statement just to hear, "Just. One." From AJ once again!
"You just need one.... You'll see in a bit" Said AJ as he moved through his lesson plan.
As AJ went through his PowerPoint, he asked the students to point out attributes, tags, properties, and values.
The students moved onto doing "the easiest but most helpful" worksheet! ... As the instructors went around the room to see how they were doing the worksheet, the students seemed... to think they were doing it wrong! Most likely because it really was an easy worksheet! =)
Even as they were doing it perfectly right, there was something in their mind (you could see it on their face) that told them that they weren't... As instructors walked around, the student would stop and look up for a confirmation. They were indeed confirmed.
They (Chou and AJ, who AJ stated that, "combined, we have been teaching web design for over 15 years!") even had the students stare at the tags for ... about 10 seconds. Just to get it stuck in their heads.
As AJ was going through the PowerPoint, he said, "Raise your hand if you think this is totally boring," and Sterling's hand went up.. without hesitation. After a "heh," AJ told Sterling to stand up for the next slide.
After AJ finished explaining HTML, he moved onto CSS.
As AJ explained, "Control Vs. Reach," he moved one person side to side, this was lots of control, less reach. Then he moved the whole first row, this was internal: less control, more reach. Finally, he moved the whole class side to side (external: way less control, far more reach!).
AJ's finishing sentence as he moved on was, "You guys are all web pages and this whole room is the site."
When it was time to work with links, AJ changed his first link, "Batman 1" to black. As he did this, he said, "Batman is black," which lead to a bunch of laughter bursting in the room. Vicky goes, "that's what I was thinking too!" As Kursat said, "What? I don't get it...."
Like Kursat, AJ had stated that he didn't get it either... or rather, he didn't think it was as funny as the students thought it was!
[The whole scene in general was just funny i.e. everyone's laughter and expressions as the scene unfolded.]
AJ then went through his Thailand website and when a picture of him pop up, the students stated..."You had that much hair?!" Which was pretty funny because everyone else who knew AJ would've probably said, "Where did your hair go?!"
Anyways, as he got to the "Puppet's Page" it was missing! AJ told them that they were going to make it for him!
There were many responses from the audience... "Noo.." came right out of Vicky's mouth as soon as AJ reminded them they were going to make a webpage!!
The day ended smoothly with all of the students working on either the Thailand website, or making their own site.
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