November 13th

Different levels of interactivity


- Websites


-Wikis : Free for all, where anyone can change anything and everything.


- Looking at the fact that the internet is not just a semination of information.


In terms of a web page - in google, if you have a google account, you have access to google docs - you can invite people to just people to see what you are doing, can do presentations online now - can do google powerpoint. Can put that on your webpage, or can design it to be like a wiki.


- As of right now you can't add sounds to your text.


- When you evaluate a webpage, you also want to evaluate yours as well. See Pg. 111 in Technology for Inclusion.


-Video and audio design - don't have audio but don't have that. DON'T use animated blinks or animated texts. You have to be careful of what colors you are putting together.


You want it to be easy to navigate, be carefull of


-Limited words (want it simple similar to power point presentations).


-Each page has to be limited to two to three screens.


-Meta Navigation websites - Meta links = are on each page at the same spot.


-Bloom's Taxonomy Revised


**** When creating a web page for your website:


To create a link, add the pages in your footer - write titles for each page using the (shift key and the forward slash key to create )


- Next, high light the key word, click on link, when asked to create a new page, click on the page title. It should be linked up.


-When linking to another website - site outside of your page - same thing except click on website


** A webpage is pretty much a site for information out.


** Blogs are for minimal two way communication


** Wikis are a free for all.


** You might want to put up tracks linking to sites. Especially linking to social studies websites.


** Social Studies SCORE sight - http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/


*** If you're going to link your track - it is huge!


Website called http://www.tinyurl.com/ - all you have to do is high light the url for the website and paste it into the tiny url website.


****** FOR NEXT WEEK: Need to have your website url - need to email it to Sharon. Going to have to email the url to Sharon's email address.


Next week's class - Is going to be a virtual class next week. What will have on the white board are questions about virtual reality on Sharon's (tapped in website). There will be some questions on there and links to some websites - answer the questions in the blog.


**** Will be doing a guest log in. Will end up in the reception room. Click on the online button, click on SharonE. Then click on the open door to get into Sharon's office.


- Questions will up on the white board - you can copy and paste onto your blog to answer the questions. Questions will be posted between 6 and 8 on the 20th.


**** When you finish your website - See notes from today written in the notebook to double check the pre-reqs. for everything.


Deadline for the whole website thing is: ALL DUE NEXT WEEK!!!

Reflection:
Tonight is the first night that you are going to be putting all of these things together as a unit. How are you going to use all of this? When you are finally starting to put all of this together.

After putting my website together, I now have a grasp on how I am going to be putting things together as a unit. The website that I designed will be used as a link between what occurs within the classroom ( links to outside resources and keeping parents posted on what students are learning) and my parents. Communication is extremely important between parents and the classroom. By having a webpage, I am hoping to promote more parent involvement with their child to be able to help them with their homework and reports. A good majority of the parents that I have this year are wonderful at supporting their children at home. However, I would like to promote technology in a postive manner by having parents and students work together.
I am also hoping to use this webpage as a more technologically advanced way of communicating with my parents as well as promoting the internet for students as an advanced form of research that can be done in a cool way. Maybe even have homwork online in the near future?!