I have been noticeably absent from my blog recently, but for good reason. I was honored when Jeff Brown, a teacher at Damascus High School, asked if I wanted to speak to the students in his advanced web class. I have always been interested in speaking about web development, so this seemed like a great first opportunity.
So basically, Mr. Brown has people in the industry come in and speak to his students every Friday. After looking at the list of other speakers, I sure was nervous. I mean; I go to conferences to see some of these guys speak.
Mr. Brown has a great program going, and I was glad to be a part of it. He is one of the few teachers that actually teach about web standards and is a member of the WaSP Education Task Force. He also gave a presentation at RefreshDC about web education the night before my presentation, that I unfortunately missed.
My Presentation
I decided to focus my presentation on my path through web development, some tips to become successful as a front-end developer, and then how to maintain that success.
I was pretty nervous, and I felt like I raced at times, but I think it turned out well. Mr. Brown has posted the audio from the presentation on his site.
I would love to hear any feedback on the presentation, so let me know what you all think.
4 Comments
Mouad
04.01.2009Hey Trevor. I just finished reading the slideshow. Though it is obviously intended to be sort of a lecture (you explain things to audience not just display it), I really benifitted from it. But where is that school ? Damascus is the capital of Syria in the middle east. Is that school there? if not (most likely), then why did they call it that name ? :S
You should fix the images and the external links for the examples, which point to your localhost :)
Good Job indeed. Your story is exciting too :)
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Soy
04.01.2009Your slideshow isn’t working for me.
Trevor
04.01.2009@Mouad-
No, I gave the presentation at Damascus High School, in Damascus, MD, USA.
@Soy-
Hmm, I’m not sure what to tell you, it seems to work fine for me. You can also view it on SlideShare.
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Carlos Ramirez
08.04.2010I had Mr. Brown as my teacher for web Development. He IS the MAN