I'm guessing you might have thought about this already, but have you looked to see if any of the tutorials in the Authoring section of Webmonkey would help? You'll have to look through it carefully, though. Some of it is pretty old.

Note the HTML Teaching Tool.

Charlie
cyberdash

I have a web site that I've been using for years to teach my students basic html. It's now at http://people.emich.edu/skrause/howtohtml It's pretty basic, but that's what it's for, teaching the basics of html. I also wrote an article that got published in the little journal *Readerly/Writerly Texts* called "Teachers Learning (Not Teaching) HTML with Students: An Experimental Lesson Plan for Introducing Web Authoring into Writing Classes." It's a tough journal to get a hold of, but I could probably email you a copy of the article if you're really interested.

--Steve

Thanks. I should clarify: I'm looking for what humanities-ish types have to say about how they approach code-teaching, not for actual coding tutorials. My sense is that if one reads the extant literature about teaching hypertext, one might almost think that no one ever mentions or teaches any code at all. But obviously it's more likely that people don't find it convenient and/or compelling to write about, unless I've just missed a motherload of articles out there somewhere.

The major discussion I have seen about it was on TechRhet. You'd have to join and search the archives through interversity.org.

Charlie
cyberdash

I imagine you may already familiar with it, but Alan Rea & Doug White talk about it in a Computers & Composition article. It's a few years old, and a lot of their discussion is really basic (rehearsals of what the web is, Vannevar Bush, etc.), but they do touch briefly on issues of teaching code -- primarily to urge people to use visual editors instead.

The article is "The changing nature of writing: prose or code in the classroom," Computers and Composition, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 421-436; Alan Rea and Doug White. It's available through the ScienceDirect database, if your library has it.

And I think your suspicions are dead-on correct. My peers who teach Web pages teach Dreamweaver. I don't, and prefer to teach code instead, for several reasons -- you can teach code in smaller and more progressive chunks rather than committing whole days to the complexities of DW; I think code gives student authors more control and in making linking not so easy demands forethought about linking strategies; and -- most importantly to me, with my interests in class and the economics of computers & composition -- code's (sort of) free, and visual editors ain't.

Hope the article might be of marginal utility, at least.
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Mike Edwards
www.vitia.org