Assignment #5: Technology Project

Here is a link to my project.

This particular assignment most definitely has been a learning experience. For someone who has never really been caught up too much in technology, now has the beginning stages of a classroom website as well as a wiki for the class. Wow!! I am so glad that I was able to accomplish this assignment. I am pleased with how everything turned out; however I want to be able to continue to add more to my webpage. I do want to have a webpage in the future for my students and parents. I could expand on the one I already have, or create a brand new one. Either way I do think it is a very important way of communication with both the students and parents. For this particular reason I wanted to create a webpage. Now I know that it is not impossible for someone with my technology skills to have a webpage. I currently have several different links for students (both fun and educational), parents, and teachers. I want to go back and be able to write little comments about the different links. I would also love to be able to add worksheets, newsletters to the parents, pictures of my students, vocabulary words and much more; however some of this may have to wait until I really do have my own classroom.

Using Page Creator was not too difficult, but it did require a lot of time. I really enjoyed how it is not impossible to create a website with the help of Page Creator. I also started up a wiki space called “Our Spot.” The idea of the wiki is for the class to be able to use as an ongoing class project throughout the school year. After each unit for certain subject areas, the students will work together to select what information they want to post on our wiki. Hopefully it will be a way for the students to review together after a unit prior to a test. Also, the students will be able to go back once they year is over to see all that they had learned. There is a link on the webpage for the students as well as the parents to see “Our Spot.” Parents enjoy seeing what their children are doing at school. This is an easy way for parents to go and see what the class is learning. Right now the class wiki is rather empty, but I do hope that I can at least try out this idea one year to see how it works with a class.

On my webpage I have included several different pages: Home, Homework, Students, Parents, Teachers, and Class Rules. On the Homework Page I included: Language Arts, Bible, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. Each of these links can take someone to another page with different links pertaining to that subject. On the Student, Parent, and Teacher page there are different links to for each. I also included both on the Student and Parent Page a link to the class wiki: Ourspot.

The Wiki right now only has three different pages: Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. As mentioned before, the idea is for the students to include the information they want from each unit regarding the subject area.

Here is a link to my project.