Block One And Two Team Projects

My experience with Block one (iWeb) was interesting. I really enjoyed creating web pages and taking the photos to add to the pages. What was really interesting about the whole process was working with Theresa and Willis. They made the entire process fun and even more interesting than it, at first, appeared to be.

I can see this project becoming a popular item within the classroom. Obviously the students would likely be way ahead of me regarding the process, but it could be a lot of fun learning some of the advanced items from some of them and sharing tips and techniques with those who aren't as advanced. I think that students would greatly benefit from creating and maintaining their own web pages and I could easily see them becoming an important tool as a way of giving students an overview of an entire course prior to taking it. I think it would also be a great way for parents to tune into what their teens are doing in class and what they are learning.

My Block Two experience was another rather interesting one. Both Darlene and Kristin were great to work with and I really enjoyed their ideals and how when Darlene got the hang of something she became a fiend!

I'm not sure how I would incorporate this type of newsletter program into a classroom situation. Maybe if I were in charge of a school newspaper or magazine it would come in handy there. The students would have jobs assigned to them so that each step of the process could be learned in progression or piece by piece. I would love to do something like this, whether that would mean a simpler program, at least in the beginning, would have to be seen.

I know that my prior experience with Word Perfect was a big help with this program, although there were times I didn't know where to look for specific items in order to do what I wanted to do. I would really like to see more schools feature their own newspaper or magazine. It's an item that I think many students would eagerly submit to or volunteer to help create it. Unfortunately, I don't see this done very often in the school districts I have been doing my field work hours in. Currently, Otselic Valley is not doing a creative writing (bound) booklet anymore, mainly due to the fact that the teacher who ran it has moved onto another position and funding is minimal for this type of item.