I will definately use somethings from class after school. I really enjoyed making the page so I might make my own one day and use things such as widgets and the voki on it.

The one project I enjoyed the most was the group tutorials. I liked it because i put a lot of hard work into it and I think it came out well. The reason I was so impressed with my work on this was because I didnt have the best group and I had to put in a lot of effort on my own. Also I learned how to use new things such as encoder and also publisher which we did the tutorial on.

All in all I enjoyed this class even though I did bad and wasn’t all too interested in the subjects that we learned. I don’t really think web design and computer skills are somthing I’m good at so I really couldn’t stay focused or interested but once I learned how to do certain things I enjoyed them.

Seeing as this week is going to be the final week the only thing i have to be working on is transfering all of the information onto the page. I also need to find or create a video that will show Mrs. Sheppard how to work the page and google calendar. 

Since its the final week I’m kind of sad that I wont be able to make everything perfect for her but maybe next year i can come back and visit and help her update!

During those few days we worked on our teacher blogs and also learned how to add a few things to our personal blogs. We made a chart on our portfolio page to show all of our progression in links. Also we went and used this website called odiogo to make all our our posts into audio. This way instead of reading everything you could just click and listen to the posts.

Even though there wasnt much done this week time wise, I feel as though the changes we made were very important to the usability of our blogs.

One thing I have been worried about is how to get all the content on the page with it still looking alright. It is a major issue but I’m not too worried about it because I really think I can find a solution soon.

By next week I am planning on getting all my information on the pages, and also putting my pictures on. I know I’m behind on this so it is at the top of my list of things to do.

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!

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.

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

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.