May 29th More Dreamweaver

   We delved deeper into Dreamweaver today and man did having some instruction help with navigating the features! After reviewing a powerpoint on Dreamweaver 101 I was able to create a home page feature mu-ah and five additional pages to compliment my web page. The homepage has five page links, many clip art images, a picture of me and a short welcome/introduction to my web page.

The links are math, science, reading, writing, and parent resources. Each page has a home page link and many online resources for that subject. Math has a free scientific calculator link with games and tutoring, science has links to terminology dictionaries and more games, and writing has links to APA and MLA cites and plagiarism checker. They all have many features and a unifying color scheme.

All in all, I love the idea of make a web page, and like Dreamweaver. I am not sure as to the usability or accessibility of my site and for that reason I feel a different web page design application might be more appropriate. I would love if my web page was functional and easy for me to alter, change, and grow into. I think a program like Weebly would of have been right on the money!

Thanks~
Jessica

May 22nd Website Design and Dreamweaver

This class I was absent for I still worked on this application none the less. I downloaded a trial version of Dreamweaver and set to work watching tutorial videos and investigating how to maneuver through such a complex environment. So far I am learning many things about writing codes and managing the layout with text and images that follow my design scheme. It is pretty interesting and I look forward to what the project will look like however I am apprehensive as to the usability outside of the classroom and the public drive. I am concerned that the files wont transfer well and it will be a big mess and I'll be forced to start over again from scratch. That would be a serious inconvenience but I guess we will see.

Wish me luck,
Mrs. Bresson ;)

May 15th class: iPods and iPads

 The task for the day was to create a lesson plan around iPod/iPad and the SmartBoard. My group and I got to play around the SmartBoard and discovered many drawing and 'paint' like application and decide to incorporate it into our lesson plan. We also downloaded an app on the iPod that allowed us to draw with a similar application as the SmartBoard. Between the two technologies we had the beginning of a lesson plan and decided to create one on three main types of clouds: cumulus, stratus, and cirrus. Essentially, the kids did a lot of drawing and finger writing to demonstrate their understanding and we the teaching was done on the SmartBoard.