The culmination of my work in the areas of education and technology will be a website that includes all of the projects and assignments completed during my study. The skeletal organization of this website was discussed with a colleague who is the technology manager of a K through eighth grade school in East Palo Alto. This person also teaches a computer class for middle school students at that same school.
The first two comments my colleague made related to general items that are characteristic of all websites created using Google: the search box and site map. My colleague likes to see these things. He also commented that while it is nice to have links to all of the different projects, he is rarely interested in blogs. Regarding my inclusion of graphic organizers, he mentioned that these used to be called visual aids.
Regarding my plan to devote one web page to each of my EDSE 241 assignments, he mentioned that if all the information doesn't fit on one page, it would be nice to have a page that is an index page. He went on to say that people sometimes actually have a page that is just a page of links (a link page) that links to other things created and that points to things other people have made.
As to my idea to make work sheets and activities part of my website, he said, "I think it is really nice to share work sheets and activities. It's great to have a place for that."
His parting remarks were:
"A great deal of the time websites don't get maintained. Things are put into websites and then they are there forever and often the information is no longer correct because of the passage of time. This is more of a personal warning to you."
My colleague has offered food for thought and useful advice which I intend to use.
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Don't think of your webpages as containers for assignments. Your assignments are to be supports for ideas, theme-based of course, for your concepts, for your audience.
Sharon
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