Eighth Day an' Counting! [September 16, 2010]

September 16, 2010. First of all, I want to let all of you out there that I'm still keepin' track of my dates! :D  We're well into the second week of school... okay, well, the end of the second week of school, and I'm totally swamped with homework! I have english questions to answer, science lab reports to write and of course, computer sciences homework to do. Of course, I guess it's what I should've expected, going into pre-IB. 
  In class today, Mr. Arkin showed us most of the common shortcuts using a keyboard, and stressed that the mouse wasn't efficient. I think the message got through to me. I'm going to try to stop using the mouse. Anyways, we learned about the modifier keys, which was new to me. I had never bothered to learn their official names. They were just 'shift' and 'control' and common names like that. We also learned about the application menu and how to use the shortcuts in there. Afterwards, Mr. Arkin let us work on our webpages some more.
  I wanted to work on my autobiography instead, so that's what I did. By the end of today's class, I had finished the origins section of my super-powers information page. For homework, we were supposed to read the typography page, which I did. It was actually pretty useful too, giving tips and advice on what to and not to do on your webpage. We also had to write our daily blog.
  Today, I plan to start on my super-power page's html. I had thought a lot about the design of the page and had decided that it's CSS was to be different than my homepage's, simply because it's contents are so different.
  Overall, I think today was a very informative day, teaching more about using the computers in general than the actual construction of webpages, but hey! I'm not complaining. :D

-Cindy