I’ve begun using Smultron and I thought it auto closed tags, but I can’t seem to get it to do this. I have to manually hit apple-t to close tags.

Thanks

Lee

I have the same dillema. What did you decide? Are you using a Mac, Windows or Web based program?

I am older than most of my teachers and professors and well beyond their education in my specialty, but there are always unique features and insights to every subject I take and, most importantly, I can never get enough of the “educational process.” I simply love learning.

Now, I must strongly disagree with most of your original post and most of the others. Though thoughtful and insightful you (and me) are dinosaurs. We are. I have a 14 year old grand-daughter who is on another planet, quite literally sometimes. The children in her generation do learn differently. You think you can understand but, you simply are not “wired” to do this. There has been a paradigm (I don’t like that word) change that I have just begun to notice. It is almost as if cave men were brought into this century. You may not like this, I don’t, and that really, is of no importance.

It is difficult to describe these changes. I have no empirical evidence of this, but I know it just as surely as I know I am typing this, in nice English, instead of texting in macros and broke English. My generation especially, as well as My 40 year old son, simply can not and will not be able to, understand what is happening. I think Toffler’s third wave is here and is overpowering us all without our knowledge.

I am not asking you to believe me, just go to some teenager who trusts you but is not related. Try and have an intellectual conversation, and you will find you are on different wave lengths, completely different frequencies. I have been studying this phenomena for some time and the pedagogy is alien to me. I am not aware of as many inputs as these young folks. They do learn differently, the stimulations are different. You simply can not suggest there are similarities between the mechanical usage of the way a young person interfaces with a computer and an adult of 30. None of us speak that language, the digital age has finally outdistanced most who are 25 or so and older.

Please have an open mind. Study, empirically, what I am suggesting. You will be surprised, I promise.

My recommendation is to use the one that is easier for you to work with. They have different approaches to content management so one might make more sense to you than the other. That might not be much hellp, but it’s the most honest advice I can give.

I need to build a new website for our school district. I am looking at Drupal and Joomla. Do you have any recommendations of one over the other?

Thanks,
Brian