April+14

There are three factors that discouraging students from working toward their projects:

1. intimidating by projects done by teams in Taiwan and Philippines. IDDS pages are simple in design and the content needs more substance. 2. Lack of desire to work with teams. Team leaders are not effective in getting teammates to work on projects. Teammates are not willing or capable to provide more substance in their projects. 3. It's hard for the instructors to provide assistant when each team is working on different projects.

bring a web designer to show real-life web project to make them exciting share time of what's neat, what are the new tools out there at the beginning of the class built-in assessment at trainsitional points specific planning for each session

copy-paste content from the web

divide grade levels in the same project (elementary, middle, high school)

comments assistant not serving its purpose, students trashing each other project