Tom’s Super Blog!

The project is over, done, complete totally finished nothing else to do…….or so i thought. Coming into clas si was extatic knowing that the project was finally over. Mr.. Stengle had other ideas. yeah all the embedding and all the content was done with but what wasnt was the letter that we had to write to our advisors.

We were told to write a six paragraph letter on different topics to give our teacher a little synopsis on what the website will be dealing with. We explained the dashboard on edublogs and everything that they needed to know about how to work it.  We explained things such as hot spots and usability of the site and different widgets that we added to the blog tomake it better.

Finally we added about what part of the site we were most proud of and I said I was most proud of the content on the History of the Globe page and The History of Shakespeare page. If you are interested in the site I am talking about come check it out

Edublogs.com has open many new windows and this past week of our community projects has been a great one. I started by adding a video onto the site and making a page dedicated to videos. I first struggled with the videos not being able to find a site that gave the embedding code for my site.

I finally found one using mefeedia.com where the video had a simple embed video on the top right corner. I found a video on shakespeare and his life, it also took me a while to find this video because many of the videos were not in english and were irevelant to what I was looking for. 

After embedding the video I tried many times to re-size the video but every time I tried to do this the video would no longer played so I had to stay content with the size.  After creating the page I was happy because there was finally a video on the site and I know watching a video is a lot better than reading.

This is the final week of our project. We have been designing an edublogs site for weeks now and we have just finished up design and usability week! We are now learning how to use polls and surveys using www.polldaddy.com. In the last week work has been hectic and everyone is going 100 miles an hour trying to get everything they need to get onto their site.

Putting certian things in hot spots, final reflections and our 5 pages of content have been a challenge for us this week. I believe that I have handled this very weel and I am up to date with everything. I am looking foward to working more with Mr. Baldwin teaching him how to use the site!

The year is winding down and that means the deadline for this project is too. With less than 9 days lefdt to complete the assignment each day in calss matters more and more. We have just finished usability week and we are now moving onto adding polls and surveys to our advisors site.

This project has been very useful eaching me alot about how to communicate with someone and working together to get a common goal complete. I actually really liked the assignment regardless to all the work and extra work that come along with it

We have finally started our collaborative community projects within the school.  I began working with the basketball team but it went no where fast.  I couldn’t contact the coach and had a hard time coming up with ideas to put on the site so I found a new teacher hoping to join the edublogs network and that person was Mr. Baldwin.

I am currently making him an edublogs for his freshmen English class that will deal with the works of Shakespeare and other famous poets.  I will be adding widgets,  pod-casts, videos and everything in between to enhance his site.  The students will be signing up for an edublogs account so they can too be active in posting information on the site. 

I really do enjoy working with Mr. Baldwin for this assignment. I feel we understand what each other  needs to do and this project has been made  easier and something i look forward to doing.