This section was the one that scared the crap out of me. I saw web design and HTML and thought I can’t do this very well. This was the first part of the E-Toolkit that I opened. It was also the first part I ran from screaming and panicking. That was my first taste of the E-Toolkit and I have to say it was overwhelming. As the course went on I would go back to this section and try again, only to be totally frustrated by my lack of knowledge and experience with the technology. I think I may be a chartered member of the “Websites that Suck” club. This was very labour intensive and by no means enjoyable. As the course went on there were some parts of this section that did help with my Moodle site. I have to be honest, of all the things I did in this course, this section was my least enjoyable and most humbling. I never considered myself to be a technology genius but I also never thought I should be in the “slow class”.
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I’m perhaps 5 step ahead of you. I understand how CSS works; can’t write a CSS file. I can do the basics of web design, resizing images. But that’s after 15 years as a learning technology “expert”.
My strength is finding pedagogical affordances in tools and technologies. Which isn’t the same as being expert with each and every tool/technology.
I am a sophisticated end user. And that’s all I care to be. So take it a bit easier on yourself–and have some “go to” folks to help out in the bits that are diffcult for you.