<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Look at the hardware side of things also. Schools at least in my district tend to have machines that are old, with smaller amounts of RAM, small hard drives, and slow processors. Flash needs all of these to be high during the development process especially for animation. Just a thought Pat Quentin Hartman wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid1088024109.27545.6.camel@localhost"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 13:30, Huck wrote: <snip> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I need help in explaining that adhering to a standard and teaching the concepts behind the standard is more important than having flashy moving objects and animations on a website. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><snip> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">How would you go about nipping this in the bud given the decision isn't yours? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Try to explain _why_ this is bad. Since it's in a school, try to relate it concepts they do understand. This idea isn't totally fleshed out, but I would compare it to math. "Teaching how to use flash without teaching the underlying concepts of web design like HTML and CSS etc. is like teaching an advanced math class with calulators without teaching how to add subtract, multiply, etc on paper or in your head." Something like that. The big thing here is making sure that they know why teaching advanced tools without having a grounded understanding of the foundations for them is bad: -Hurts problem solving skills -Prevents in depth learning -Frustrations from the above discourage furhter learning -The students take away few usable applicable skills (ie - I know very few people who work solely with flash for a living. They all must also know other web design skills...) etc... Good Luck! </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>