Week Two/Three

I keep meaning to reflect on my ITLP progress, but I keep putting it off. Yikes.

I've been inspired by my ITLP work in learning Google Sites and my mind has gone a little crazy.

I just spent five and a half hours putting together a website for my English 12 class. It is amazing how comfortable I'm getting with all the Google aps. Clicking around makes sense to me know and I can easily navigate through all the management tools.

This site incorporates what I learned about Groups, Docs, Calendar, and Sites. I embedded images and video, created links to Google docs, and created a group for my class to use as a discussion board. I can't wait to put my site to use! How long has it been since I was excited about a Monday?

We've been talking a lot about modifying and accommodating for our students on IEPs. This is my answer to that discussion. Each of my students will be on his or her own IEP. Each student will choose his or her novel from the list provided and create his or her own unit of study. This site allows me to keep up with their work and allows them to see the progress they make. Good stuff.

I've also been playing around with Aviary, which is a web-based design suite. It's been a bit of a struggle to figure out how it all works (I was unable to upload my first photo), but I'm confident that I'll advance soon.

Learning to Build a Newspaper

Week One

This process is very excited but also a bit tedious. Whenever I'm introduced to a new form of media, I want to instantly know how to understand and utilize it. I know, I know. I am of Generation Instant Gratification.

I made it about half-way through the YouTube tutorial in my ITLP and followed along while the presenter moved step-by-step. It really helped to be able to pause the video and switch to my page to practice what was just introduced.

I played a bit with creating pages within pages and adding photos to the site. It was interesting (I had to learn to resize pictures), but I still need to see how I can format this site to be user friendly and pleasing to the eye.

This week I am going to finish up the YouTube video and try to get to a place where I can begin teaching my students how to use the site.