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This week in class we worked on google calendars. I really enjoyed learning how to do this beacuse i like to organize things i need to do and it had a spot for me to put everything down in. I made a calendar for myslef and then created one that Mrs Sheppard can use to write down homework for her different classes for our teacher projects.

Also I started to make anw image to add to the sidebar of our blogs. Another addition i havent mentioned was the voki. We made voki’s in class that will speak the text that we type in. I tried to make one that resembled me for my own blog. I also stared to create one for my teacher blog but the window got closed out before I could get the code.

Other than that we have just been continuing work on our teachers blogs. Check out my progress entries to see how its going!

This week I think i got a lot done on my advisers blog. Though not all the work that Idid has been  to the blog yet i feel pretty accomplished. I finally decided on all the pages that i want to be shown atnd I browsed a lot of widgets looking for Spanish appropriate things to add to the page. Also i sat down with mrs Sheppard and got a lot of content that she would like to put on the page. We talked mostly about the about me page and what kind of things she would like to put on there. We sat and talked for two class periods and I think i have all the information i need and have started working on a few paragraphs that will put all that information together.

One thing I would like to know is why the website shows up different on other computers. i changed the background several times so it would match everything perfectly but when i went to use the laptop in Mr. Piselli’s room everything looked different.

The things i plan on working on next week are creating new things to put on the page. I would like to work more on the calendar and finish writing things to put on the about pages.

My long term goals have changed a little bit since last week. I had said that by the end of the project i wanted to have the website in spanish but i spoke with Mrs. Sheppard and I dont think that that is going to happen. We decided it would be too hard for all of her students too understand and if we only did a little in spanish and the rest in english it wouldn’t look very good. It was kind of dissapointing because i thought it would look really cool but I’m not going to get too down on it, I’ll just think of soemthing better to do.

This week in class we have been continuing work on our teacher’s blogs. We learned a few things that we can do that will help improve the quality of our projects.

We started the week off by finding something creative to add to our blogs. We made banners on paint to add something to our sidebars. After we created the image we uploaded it to to our blogs and got switched to the code section. once we got the code we added it to a text widget. I chose to put it on the side bar under the meta widget.

Also in class we read articles on widgets. i was actually pretty interested because it incorrperated sites that i use like myspace and facebook.I also helped Alyssa figure out how to add shading to the headline to her blog

While working on our teacher blogs this week I actually accomplished a lot. When I first started the blog I had the theme set as Jakarta. I found that this theme made things way to difficult to get everything I wanted done on the site. So even though it is a pretty basic layout I decided to change to the mandigo theme (which is the theme of our personal blogs). Mandigo helps provide different sidebars and places to put more content to that the page doesn’t look unbalanced or akward.

I also added more pages so that I can add more content that Senora Sheppard gives me as we go on throughout the project. I thought of a few approriate subjects on my own such as homework,schedule, and extras for widgets. I then added a page that relates directly to senoras classrom. This page was daily announcements. she likes to keep her students informed with important things happening locally or around the world. I thought it might help her to have an online place to post these things and maybe even find a widget i could put on the page that would show daily headlines.

I am planning on finding some spanish appropriate widgets that i can add to put some fun things into the website. Also I am going to add a lot of the written information that Mrs. Sheppard would like in the about me.  I’ve decided to add too about sections to the page one about the teacher and one for the class.

 My biggest long term goal for this project is to get everything translated into spanish so it can be appropraite for the class. Also I would like to get plenty of information to help students such as scanned information dittos and links to helpful websites. The last important thing i would like to do would be to sit down with the tutorials were making to show Mrs. Sheppard what she needs to do to maintain the site and how to do that.

I really have no questions at the moment and feel very comfortable with how it is progressing and I hope you are pleased with how its going also.