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About your Instructor: Denvy Saxowsky

    I was born and educated in North Dakota and spent most of my life in Alaska raising a family where I worked with computers during their advent in the 60's and later made wooden toys in bush Alaska. While I left my heart in Alaska, I did spend three years at my Alma Mater, Jamestown College as director of student activities before coming to Oregon in '95.

    In Oregon I and my wife built our dream home in the foothills of the coastal range. In '99 I earned my MS Ed-IT at WOU while teaching mathematics at Chemeketa Community College and working as window/door salesman and house designer in Dallas. In 2000 I started teaching information technology in the College of Education with a periodic course of mathematics at Chemeketa or here at Western.

     My three children are scattered from the North Slope of Alaska where Darron works as a surveyor, to North Dakota where Rebecca and her husband have two daughters and down south to Atlanta, where Marc, who works as a network analyst for the company the handles your airline reservations, and Tina, his wife, who does biochemical research at Emory University, have a baby son.

    As a pastime, my wife and I have lead four work groups to MIssissippi in 2005-08. Prior to that we had lead work groups to Ukraine, Mexico, Alaska and locally since '96. We have traveled to parts of Europe from time to time and in '81 drove through 43 states with our young family. It is our plan that we will be teaching English in Nanchang, China during the Fall 2008 term. Join us as we journalize the adventure.

About this course: CSE625 Creating Internet Websites

    Websites have become a natural part of our lives from childhood to senior citizens, for pleasure and for business, in business, government, industry and education. While designing websites may be secondary in education, the use of the Internet is interwoven throughout the educational system suggesting that understanding websites, their design and their impact on education is critical.

   This course will have several focuses. One as the title suggests is actually designing webpages for learning the details and mechanics of HTML. Secondly, the course will focus on what design is most effective in an educational setting. Thirdly, there will be opportunities to critically assess the value of using interactive media with the educational setting. And lastly we will maximize our advancement in the understanding of designing websites.

   As we learn and acquire new knowledge, it is convenient to be receive clear and detailed instructions what we should do step by step. However as lifelong learner and in an environment where changes occur almost daily, it is equally important to learn to discover new and upcoming techniques. Therefore we will use some step-by-step instructions as a basis for some work, and then using that basis advance into techniques where we will have to determine our own step-by-step processes. FInding a tool and discovering its function and how it can serve us most effectively is our goal.

   We will start by exploring, trying new techniques and processes to discover the qualities of the different processes hoping we will find the perfect code. We will treasure the goals that meet our objectives, cache the ones that are interest and in the end as the final put all the little gems together to create a piece of art.