Beginning HTML pedagogically

Jill presents a lovely example of creative students using a creative medium and being inspired by their lecturer. If only our students were (a) creative and (b) could be inspired -- large groups, students disengaged from the beginning and other excuses (!) tend to doom us to failure in this regard (weeding out the wastrels needs doing quicker!) This year's beginning HTML class has over 150 students enrolled and last week's lab sessions had less than 25% attendance :-(