Then there’s me, eyeing the buffet, already Tetris-ing my plate in my mind before I get to the front of the line.

Tripod was my host of choice... until I got a friend who let me have a subdomain on his site!

Nope. 5th grade Reading/Language Arts.

After some of the books we read, students can choose from a bunch of different projects from regular book reports or dioramas to making video games, websites, and movies.

I mean, I'm more experienced with tech than some other teachers. I've made some websites with HTML/CSS/PHP/SQL, coded a few things with C++ and JavaScript, dabbled in Unity, and have a Twitch, so I can help my students a lot and am comfortable offering those projects as options.

Never thought I'd run into one of my own students here!

The one nice thing about every site basically looking like that was everyone who had used a graphical word processor could think, "I could make that!"

Now, I offer my fifth graders the chance to make a website for a project and they all feel like it's inferior.

Here's what I could find. (1600x1428)

>whether or not they have social contact

Part of what makes humans human is their mental capacity. I'd argue that a person without sustained social contact would be rather inhuman.