Paul Boag on Web Standards
I’m consolidating my resources today looking towards the material I’ll need to present to students this time next week. I have to create activities and make some interactive exercises on the doing-is-learning principle rather than the Steven-is-talking one. Paul Boag’s podcast and accompanying presentation slides making The Business Case for Web Standards actually shone out and I’ll be playing it at the beginning – actually after explaining how the Web works and the client-server relationship, Common Gateway Interface and Apache etc – both to inspire people to be interested in web standards and also to lay down the groundwork from which I hope to build high quality graduates.
I have to raise the only problem in Paul’s video – Tim Berner’s Lee didn’t invent the Internet and if anyone isn’t sure what really happens its that the World Wide Web runs on the Internet along with a bunch of other technologies. But that’s splitting hairs and to many people the terms are quite often used interchangeably to mean either.
The power of Paul’s podcast, and I can’t see when it was made or posted as I expect it isn’t new at all, is that he’s kept it non-technical with simple slides. That directly suits people who you would consider new to these ideas and are of greater use to my audience.
Also on Paul’s site – the great internet crash of 2007.
