Thomas Wallace

Lectures and Resources

IT Minor: Sage

Fall 2026 | ITEC 31006

Introduction CSS

Assignment

Read: CSS Specificity & Class vs. ID

Complete the exercises at Flexbox Froggy. Link a screenshot of the completion page for exercise 24 on your Github homepage. You’ll need to take a screenshot, upload to your codespace and then add a link to file on your homepage.

Collaborative Coding Wrap Up

In today’s session, I’d like you to reconvene with your coding partner from Tuesday and finish up and publish your work. It should be accessible via the github url you submitted last week. Remember each of you should submit your own work.  Once you have completed the exercise, take  some time to reflect on the process? Did you work well with your partner? If so what strategies did you use to collaborate? Did you pick a good work flow? What would you do differently if you had to start over? Write a short reflective blog post on the experience. We’ll discuss we we return to the classroom. Have a good weekend.

Collaborative Coding Exercise

  • Create and Validate a prototype HTML document that includes examples of all HTML elements covered thus far. For a list of requirements view this page.
  • Use today’s session to work on and complete this assignment. You are welcome to partner with a classmate to work on this but each of you must submit code that you have written. No Copy/Paste!
  • Create a link to this assignment from your course homepage. Name it “Prototype HTML5 Assignment”
  • When complete publish it to your Github account with the Commit Note “Prototype HTML5 Assignment Submission”.
  • Due 11/5/2026

Web Related Terminology

Today we will build a collaborative list of frequently used terms and Definitions from across the web. As you edit the collaborative list please be sure to adhere to example information structure provided. It might be helpful for you to work on your definitions and then migrate them into the document once complete

Web Apps and Useful Services from around the Internet

Assignment

Review an interesting web-based service you have discopvered in a blog post explaining it’s functionality, the pro’s and con’s of using the particular service, and discuss the service’s potential for impacting the way you work. Post is due next Thursday. Please be prepared to discuss in class.

WordPress Wrap Up

  • WordPress Q & A

Today’s Activity will be to finish up putting the finishing touches to your WordPress Site. I’d like you to partner up with a classmate to review your work thus far and work to troubleshoot any additional issues. A few reminders for the weekend.

  • Make sure I have your blog URL. Send to my email (tswallace@ualr.edu)
  • Customize your blog
    • Apply a new theme
    • Customize the sidebar or another template part/region
      • Using Custom Template parts – Display an rss feed from a site that you frequent.
    • Try using a shortcode in a post or a page.
  • Completed About Page
  • Created a Custom Menu that points to your writing assignments.

Introduction to WordPress

Assignment

Make sure you have done the following by next Thursday. We’ll be moving on to new topics so you should have all blog-related issues and assignments squared away.

  • Make sure I have your blog URL (Email to me Directly)
  • Customize your blog
    • Apply a new theme
    • Customize the sidebar
    • Build site Navigation with links to different post categories
  • Completed About Page

Welcome to IT Sage!

  • Review Syllabus & Expectations
  • Faculty Introductions
  • Student Introductions
  • Introduction to Classroom Technology

We will be using a broad array of tools to support this course this semester. If you would like to familiarize yourself with these feel free to do so. I will explain and do walkthroughs with the tools when we begin to use them.  You are welcome to go ahead and create your accounts (they are all free) but make sure to keep track of your credentials.

  • Codepen.io – Codecasting Service for Lectures and Reference
  • GitHub (Student Pack) – Code Versioning Repository for submitting assignments
  • Pixlr – Cloud Based Image Editing Tools
  • Icebreaker Activity