I have been quite busy, and with the start of semester 2 and finally a spare, I have finally had time to spend doing more updates on my webpage project. Currently, I have been working on adding on a Social Studies section to my mainly English dominated webpage. I have created pieces, but have not activated them quite yet (I need to get the bugs out beofreI let parents and kids view them).
I have started to develop a secondary focus, as I am working on moving my webpage off of first class to a seperate domain. I recently found out that I will be moving to a city next year, and want to have my website usable for the new location. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a free website building domain as easy to use as first class, which I finally feel very proficient in. I forgot how frustrating the intial learning curve is.
The second semester students are really enjoyiong the current page and are frequenting the homework blog. I am working on setting up a second Blog for my honors English class, who love to feed off of each other. We have some fabulous creative writers in there, so I was thinking of having them do blog entries to share their creative writing, or even have a running blog story where everyone can contribute. I am keeping my eyes peeled for PRo-D related to this to see how others have used it.
My next step is to start adding in Audio to the webpages, but I would like to see about getting a new page established first, so that I don't do a whole load of work to have to leave it in June a mere 5 months away. If anyone uses webpage builders otuside of first class and have any recommendations for a user friendly free web builder please let me know. I will blog agai after Spring Break!
Kristi
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Blog entry 2- update of project
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It's great to see that the students are using and enjoying your website - it makes if feel worthwhile.
Having students write to an "authentic" audience creates a huge energy and can be very entertaining and a great learning experience. I have used Google Docs for this as well as some other locally installed online tools (ie. Moodle). You could also use the blogging function of FirstClass within a Conference structure. I "helped" a teacher from ATMS who is using this with her 3 English classes.
Let me know if you want to chat about this sometime. There are also some free web editors but getting free webspace isn't all that easy - you do get space with a Telus or Shaw internet account.
I look forward to hearing how things go with your new students and subjects. Sounds great!
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