The web design project was a great assignment to gain real skills and experience working with a new kind of platform for educational technology. We used the resource, Weebly, to design and publish our own websites. The great thing about this assignment and most of the EME assignments is how versatile they are. We are allowed to have a lot of creative liberty with our topics, focus and execution of the project. Because of this, we each can design websites that fit our personalities and cater to the area of education we are pursuing whether that be, elementary, middle, high, college, special education, etc. I do wish that I could have dove deeper into the resources and tools that can be added into the site, I just did not have the time or knowledge to do it for this project. However, in the future when I become a real teacher, I would love to dedicate some time into really perfecting a website so that it can be used as an effective and helpful tool to parents, students, and fellow educators. I really like the idea of having a teacher site that offers both student and parent information and resources to assist in the process of school. Education is a community and it takes a whole support team to educate and these websites are a great way to get information around.
Here is the link to my project which is a fictional class website for a 3rd grade class! https://lexiemitchelledu.weebly.com/
Diigo was one of those resources that I had never heard of before taking this course. However, I found it extremely interesting method of communicating and educating. The resource works like a bookmarking tool where you can shares articles, blogs, news, etc with your groups and add highlights to key points of the information. I think this is a great source for researching, educating and training. As educators it is key to continue to further your education and training in order to be the best resource for your students. Diggo makes it easy for fellow teachers to work together in accomplishing this goal.
Education and access to technology are one of the biggest areas where we are failing within the system of education. Too much pressure is put on teachers to implement and teach technology yet little training, resources nor money is allocated to support this demand on teachers. Many classrooms are severely lacking in their updates of technology due to the school not being able to provide it. And if a school can provide the newest technology, teachers are forced to spend their time and effort in learning a new system on their own. There is so much evolution of technology at such a quick pace that it is easy for teachers to lose track and fall behind.The website, Educator's Technology, is a site dedicated to providing reviews of web tools and resources for teachers. This site is a good tool for teachers to learn about new resources and also easily see what tools other teaches have found success in.
Hi Lexie! Your website is very well put together. The images and colors you added were perfect and exciting. I feel that you did meet the CRAAP criteria because your website consisted of contrast and repetition.
ReplyDeleteHey Lexie! I loved the simplicity of your website. The way you kept it organized and all links easily accessed, allowed me to follow along very easily. It definitely allows the children to quickly access their websites for the class. I feel the colors you chose also was interactive for the kids to draw their attention! I also loved that you included birthdays Mines April 5th just so you know!
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