An Internet Tour of your School was mainly about taking pictures of your school and make a virtual tour, which I think it's very interesting. I have never done a virtual tour of my school using pictures that I have taken. It would be a very good project to think about in the future.
A Collaborative Internet Project reminded me of what we talked about yesterday in class about having the students teach their parents or grandparents to use a computer and use different types of multimedia. In this article Middle School students entered a project called "Trading Spaces." The project consisted on having elderly partners from a Village near by their school. While the students were riding the bus to the nursery home they brought up a conversation about how the first session would be just to get to know their partner. They conducted interviews and informal talks. The students of this school won a trophy and six new Dell PCs.
Building a School Website was very easy to follow. This article gives you step by step directions on how to build a website. It even teaches you the importance of file structure. I guess I should have read this article at the beginning of this class.
The other article about Making a School Website has almost the same content. Step by step directions but I think these directions were a more confusing for me. I am a very structured person. I need to focus on one thing at the time. While I was reading this page I had several links to read and then go back to the main page to follow what I was reading first. I just think it was a bit confusing for me but it did have very good ideas and directions like the first step is asking yourself different questions like: Who is your audience?, How often will you be updating your website? and other important questions that one should ask before building a website.
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Although we have a virtual tour already on a school website, I don't think it was created by students. Like you, I think it would be a good student project. It is an authentic purpose for a technology project that I think the students would buy into. Plus, they would design it from the perspective of the students who are are large part of our audience.
Having your own website is wonderful. I really enjoyed this class when I took it last year. I had never thought of building my own site before. After the class, I realized how much work it is to keep up with the site. I wanted it to be meaningful to my students. It is a pretty large time commitment, but its manageable if you plan your time well and have a system for how often and when you make updates.
I am thrilled to have and manage my own website. I really cannot wait to get it started. I also want to see if I can update my school's website because it is really outdated. I can't wait to learn Dreamweaver and Flash next.
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