Web Directions North workshop for educators

A workshop about the education of web professionals. I’ve mentioned this event before, and I’ll probably mention it again. I just registered to attend today. The rooms at the venue are reasonable but going fast, so get moving. What am I talking about?

I’m talking about Web Directions North, to be held in Denver in early February. The education team at the Web Standards Project (WaSP) is putting on a full-day workshop at Web Directions North called Educating the next generation of web professionals. The workshop will be lead by Chris Mills, Stephanie Troeth, Aarron Walter, and feature web experts including Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone and Christian Heilmann.

If you are involved in developing or delivering education for web designers and developers, whether in the secondary, post secondary, vocational or the commercial sector, this day is for you.

The day is divided into the following four sessions

  • Session 1: HTML semantic markup and web content technologies
  • Session 2: Cascading style sheets and web presentation
  • Session 3: JavaScript and Ajax
  • Session 4: Accessibility and usability

Did I mention this point?

If you are involved in developing or delivering education for web designers and developers, whether in the secondary, post secondary, vocational or the commercial sector, this day is for you.

Oh, yeah, I mentioned that.

Here’s the thing: a bunch of members of WaSP are working on a full-blown curriculum for educating web professionals. The curriculum will be revealed to the public in March at SXSWi. Here’s your chance to get a bit of a preview into what’s going on, talk to the people involved, and maybe get involved yourself. If you are teaching anyone web design or development and suspect that your skills and methods are a bit out of date, this will be inspirational. Get inspired.

Web Directions North, of course, includes more than this one workshop, all of it worthwhile. If you are teaching web design and development courses, this event and SXSWi should both be written in stone in your travel budget.

See you there.

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