HTML Learning Package - Homepage © Nigel Martin 2000

You've found my HTML tutorial site, which is my final year computing project.

Contents

Report - Read the Report

Background - A Basic introduction to HTML.

Beginners Guide - A step-by-step guide to creating basic web pages.

HTML Tags - How to use the basic HTML tags to construct a page.

Tables - How to create Tables in HTML.

Forms - How to use Forms in an HTML page.

Frames - How to split an HTML page into more than one window.

Cascading Style Sheets - Using certain styles in your pages.

CGI Scripts - Introduction to using programs or script files executed on the web server in response to a user request.

GIF Animations - Adding simple animation to your pages.

Javascript - How to add java script code to enhance your pages.

Javascript Scientific Calculator- How to create a standard scientific calculator in Javascript.

Javascript Maths Example - A JavaScript solution to the Conjugate Match problem.

Basic JAVA - An introduction to creating Java Applets for inclusion in HTML pages.

Try HTML - Allows you to type in your own HTML code and see how it looks.

Quizzes - Test Yourself with these interactive quizzes.

Index - Complete Index of tags and all lessons on this site.

Message Book - please leave your comments or suggestions here.

Links - A list of sites I have found useful for information will constructing these pages

Problem/Purpose

To teach the basics of HTML to anyone with access to the WWW. The software will teach the basics of HTML and advanced methods to users 24 hours of the day allowing anyone with even no knowledge of HTML to be able to create web pages after using the software.

Objectives

1) To provide HTML tutorial software for the end-user (whoever that may be, with it being on the web it could be anyone).

2) The software must show advantages over standard textbook presentation and lectures (see above).

3) To test out the software on real students to see if they gain from using the software and find the method of teaching useful and appropriate and effective.

Advantages over a book and lectures

There are both technical and pedagogical advantages to having an Internet platform for an HTML course. We see the following technical advantages of teaching on the web as opposed to traditional teaching through a book and lectures:

· Global accessibility
· 24-hour availability (at least while the server is up)
· It's low cost, as there's no need to teach lectures or produce many copies of notes.
· Highly scalable
· Allows asynchronous delivery
· It allows for the content material to be modified as appropriate and updated easily and quickly.
· Browsers are graphical and user-friendly now so the environment is ideal.
· Materials developed elsewhere are easily incorporated.
· Can be accessed by many individuals at the same time, i.e. a whole class as opposed to a book, which is limited to one person.
· The ability to add interactive tests, multiple-choice quizzes and then automatically sends the e-mail scores to lectures or students.
· It allows for HTML to created on the fly so users' can test their code as they are learning.
· Suitable for accessing resources of various media.
· Interlinking providing access to resources held in other subject areas and institutions.
· A third of the UK population has the Internet in their homes and it is estimated that a further third have unlimited access to the web. Of course those in higher education and increasing those in further education have access to the web.

And the pedagogical advantages of teaching with web-based materials are as follows:

· It allows pupils to follow the course at their own pace.
· Allows a student to engage in remedial opportunities (relaxes course prerequisites).
· Promotes interactive exercises.
· Encourages electronic publishing.
· Offers practice in rapid retrieval/synthesis of information.
· Allows effort to be focused on quality of materials and activities.

There are of course some real and potential disadvantages to the use of this technology:

· Some students don't like to read large volumes of text off computer screens.
· Technical interruptions
· Time delays in bringing up images.
· Heavy on-line traffic can overload popular and other web sites so that they respond very slowly.
· Possible plagiarism of site materials by other websites and people is far easier.
· Two-thirds of the UK and a large percentage of the world as a whole have no access to the Internet at home or work.

Progress (as of June 1, 2001)

All finished!! If you spot any errors e-mail me at the address below.