Thats a nasty re-telling of the Oisin tale there :<
as to the apathy of your students, I think thats why they can't see the wonders of the web, so they'll miss out on cool things like dict servers and genuinely useful websites.
Funnily just the other day I had the exact opposite experience, I had coded a fairly basic picture database, and on demonstrating it to the finance department I was greeted with an awe formerly reserved (in stories) by primitive peoples for the great white wizard across the sea.
What I'm mangling saying is although the medium has changed, the magic is there for those who care to see it, sounds like your class just aren't interested in anything much at all :
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Date: 2004-01-16 08:44 pm (UTC)as to the apathy of your students, I think thats why they can't see the wonders of the web, so they'll miss out on cool things like dict servers and genuinely useful websites.
Funnily just the other day I had the exact opposite experience, I had coded a fairly basic picture database, and on demonstrating it to the finance department I was greeted with an awe formerly reserved (in stories) by primitive peoples for the great white wizard across the sea.
What I'm mangling saying is although the medium has changed, the magic is there for those who care to see it, sounds like your class just aren't interested in anything much at all :