Thanks you Mr. Stengle and make sure to always make good choices.

We also started working with our advisors in creating our edublogs for their praticular needs. I am working with the basketball coach in making a wedsite that players can check and use to find out pratice times, look up roster information and other useful information to benefit the team. 

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

I agree that in most cases blocking or monitoring childrens online use takes away from most educational or social usues it has. I agree with the point that says its easier to talk to someone on the computer rather than face to face in some cases. It is easier depending on if you know the person well or not.

 I agree with the fact that the internet is a dangerous place for kids but if educated properly and if you know the risks there should be no excuse.  I take the nessary steps to make myself safe on the internet.  On websites that could give away my personal information i only list things nessary such as my name.

In most cases i will not even put my email adress and i never put my phone numbers or house adress. I believe that educators and parents should built a relationship with kids that allows each party to be honest about what is going on and to educate the kids about internet safety and the  risks they can take.