We have finally finished the edublogs website for our advisors. I worked with Mr. Baldwin and I made him an English blog for his freshmen English classes. Check it out I have learned so much from this project and taking this class this year. Coming into the class I was pessimistic about what would be going on and how much the work load would affect my other academic classes. It was an extreme work load but it has really helped come up with a new understanding of technology and the work load that comes with it. I never knew what a hot spot was or an rss feed or even a widget this class has taught me all of this. I could never embed a video onto a site that I had and I never even had a site until this class came along!
Making this new paragraph is something that I have learned in this class. Making everything in one large entry makes it harder on readers and pushes them away from reading such a long entry. Spacing after ever 4 or 5 sentences shortens it up and makes it better to read.
I have completed many things working in this class all year, I am probably most proud of my advisors site and the work I did to complete that. Adding all the content and all the code it took to make everything fit perfectly made that task hard but in the end enjoyable. Adding the voki, homework calendar and the literary quote of the day were hard tasks, resizing them to fit in side bars and on the pages properly. I also like the text only portion of the site.
I am also proud of our group tutorials that we completed. I worked with jack and mary two people I hardly knew anything about and at the end of the project we were closer because we worked so hard together. We had many laughs during the project because of all the words I stumbled across while trying to record the tutorial. In the end we got it done and it came out great.
I never knew about the program we used called encoder and how you could record tutorials with that. It was probably the most interesting thing that I learned because I had seen many tutorials but never really understood how they were made. I am now glad that I know this skill for projects in the future.
Once class is over it will be a sad day. Even though the work load was large I still came to class everyday with the mind set that would learn something and everyday I left here knowing something new. I have never taking a class so grueling and demanding but it has made me a better student and I actually come to class and enter a zone where I just don’t wont to stop working and once the bell rings its almost a bittersweet feeling of not wanting to stop.
You can view my personal site at www.tomf.edublogs.org and the work I have done, I am looking forward to using what I have learned in the future.
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