This is a real sample from the full 12-week TeachToTech Bootcamp. See exactly what Day 1 through Day 5 looks like — including a live lesson excerpt and the project you'll ship.
Your First Week in Tech — orientation, foundations, and your first shipped project.
Day 1: The EdTech Landscape & Your Place In It
ReadingsReadings + guided reflection exercise
Day 2: HTML Foundations — Build Your First Web Page
Hands-onHands-on coding intro — write real HTML today
Day 3: CSS Basics — Making It Look Good
StylingStyling exercise — colour, typography, layout
Day 4: Your Pedagogical Superpower
WorkshopWorkshop connecting teaching skills to tech roles
Day 5: Week 1 Portfolio Project
ProjectBuild a simple personal homepage — your first shipped project
Build Your First Web Page — Hands-on coding intro
Every web page you've ever visited — your school's parent portal, Google Classroom, Khan Academy — is built from the same three ingredients: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Today you're going to write HTML for the very first time. Not read about it. Not watch a video of someone else writing it. You're going to write it yourself, open it in a browser, and see it render.
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. Think of it as the skeleton of a web page — it defines what exists on the page (a heading, a paragraph, an image, a link) without saying anything about how it looks. That's CSS's job, which you'll tackle in Day 3. For today, we're focused on structure: creating a file, writing a few tags, and understanding why every element has an opening tag like <h1> and a closing tag like </h1>.
Here's something teachers grasp immediately that trips up non-educators: HTML is about meaning, not appearance. A <h1> tag doesn't just make text big — it tells the browser (and screen readers, and Google) that this text is the most important heading on the page. You already know how to sequence content for a learner. HTML is how you translate that instinct into a language a computer understands. By the end of today's exercise, you'll have a real .html file on your machine that opens in any browser — your first artifact as a developer.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>My First Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, I'm a Teacher Turned Developer</h1>
<p>I spent 8 years in the classroom. Now I'm learning to build
the tools that power modern education.</p>
<h2>What I Teach</h2>
<ul>
<li>5th grade mathematics</li>
<li>Data literacy for young learners</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>Portfolio Project · Day 5
Using the HTML and CSS you've learned this week, you'll build a complete personal homepage that introduces you as a teacher-turned-developer. This isn't a toy exercise — it's the first artifact in your professional portfolio.
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