Webucator

Combination of the words web and educator meaning a person who advocates to increase awareness, knowledge, or the capacity of website development education in education institutions in regard to both design and development.
The Problem
Website development is a young field at around 20 to 25 years old. For many years tables were used for layout, the font tag was used for styling text, and other problems; Cascading Style Sheets entered the scene and revolutionized how websites were built. Along with that, accessibility concerns, site architecture, wireframing, and separation of behavior the way we build websites has changed drastically. With the advent of the writings of Jeffrey Zeldman, and later many other web enthusiasts, slowly the work force has been adopting these "Web Standards". Unfortunately education has not followed suit. Students who wish to study not only website development but also learn about these web standards have little to no options. Many secondary schools who do teach website development teach tables for layout, the font tag, and no or minimal CSS; higher education offers minimal full blown majors that offer website development at the breadth it really should be.
What is a Webucator?
To alleviate this problem we need to build awareness, enter the webucator. Webucators can include students, educators, professional web developers.
Actions Webucators Can Take
You can help advocate for web education improvement in some of the following ways:
* Teach a course at a University, community college, high school, or middle school
* Give a guest lecture
* Write articles advocating for better web education
* Talk with people you know about the need for better web education
* Write tutorials to help teachers and students of web design and development
* Network with administrators and people higher up in the education institution who can influence top-down change

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