I delivered a talk concerning the People of the Book, also known as Ahl-l-Kitab, a special designation that God gives to the Jews and Christians in the Qur’an, at William Penn Charter School. The class, taught by Thomas Rickards, is one of the yearly events I look eagerly forward to. The charter school, run in the Quaker tradition, is an open-minded educational institution that continues to impress me with the wide variety of educational material they cover for young students. I look forward to coming back again soon. See here for more notes on the talk.

I will be returning to my teaching duties this fall at Moore College to teach the Web Publishing course again in the Computers For Digital Media curriculum [for more info on how to sign up, see Moore's web site]. I had a wonderful time teacing this course last fall and look forward to a new crop of students.

The class mainly focuses on getting a hands-on feel of web design, with a concentration of CSS, XHTML as well as design theory and project management and completion. The hope of this course is to build on the previous experience that the students have had [fundamentals in HTML, CSS, etc.] and prepare them to work either as an in-house web master or even to venture out to do freelance work on their own.

For more info, feel free to review the course notes from last year.

It has been my pleasure to have taught the Web Publishing course at Moore College this term. All of my students really showed a keen interest in a subject that has a lot of subjectivity to it! Web design is not easy to learn as it is not a standardized entity. I myself continue to learn and grow in my efforts to keep pace with the way the web grows in its own amorphous way.

Teaching is a really rewarding occupation and I felt very blessed and rewarded by this semester’s effort. I can only hope that whatever errors I may have made will be taken in stride with my desire to impart knowledge to a tricky field. All of the work that I looked at this term from all of the students was really inspiring and I hope that all of them will continue to grow and create. They truly set a high bar in terms of teaching pleasure. I am already looking forward to next term’s course. For those who are curious, you can visit the course notes here. Until then, best of luck and congradutatios to a job well done.