{"id":1177,"date":"2007-12-08T13:07:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T13:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/special-ed-and\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T13:07:23","slug":"special-ed-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/special-ed-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Special ED and Web Mastering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special Ed usually isn’t an issue for CS.  In fact, I have a special ed child in Computer Science that the Special ED department chair offered to take out, and he’s doing fine.<\/p>\n

However, Web Mastering and Special Ed is something else.<\/p>\n

I have a child in Web Mastering that refuses to read web pages.  I don’t know if she can’t read and won’t.  I honestly don’t care.  If a child is enrolled in Web Mastering they better be able to read before they get there because a) I don’t have to time read every single web page to a child, and b) what’s the point of being in a Web Mastering class if you can’t read.  Get the child to a reading specialist and fix it, especially since we are talking 10-12.<\/p>\n

There are certain things I require a web mastering student to do before they can pass.  They are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Send an email that is at least equal to my mother’s writing ability (not a very high standard, by the way).\n
  2. Shop on the internet.  I would really like them to be able to comparison shop, but just finding something they can buy will do it this year.\n
  3. Set up a power point with at least one slide telling me why they want to buy the object.\n
  4. Set up a simple web page using HTML tags\n
  5. Reduce the size of a digital photograph so it can be used on the web, crop that photograph, and combine images in one photograph with another.\n
  6. Produce a simple web page using Dreamweaver.\n
  7. Produce a simple navigation using Fireworks.\n
  8. Produce a simple animation using Flash.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Vastly easier than what a regular student is required to do.<\/p>\n

    I really don’t think I am expecting too much.  They should at least try everything.  The fun part, is that most of the time, I find something in the above the child not only can do, but enjoys doing and does well.  Usually it’s shopping but oh well.<\/p>\n

    Right now, I’m going around and around with a Special Ed Coordinator who can’t wrap her head around the above requirements.  And hasn’t spent one moment in my room helping the child.  She wants ME to send the student with work to another room.  Sorry, that is not happening.  Software isn’t there, coordinator hasn’t gotten a clue, and we’re all better off in my room, as occasionally I can get the child to actually do something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Special Ed usually isn’t an issue for CS.  In fact, I have a special ed child in Computer Science that the Special ED department chair offered to take out, and he’s doing fine. However, Web Mastering and Special Ed is something else. I have a child in Web Mastering that refuses to read web pages.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}