Website project

This project was fun, but stressful.  After I thought I was nearly finished, I found out that the content on my page should be for a fictitious class and include real lessons and examples.  There was so many websites to look at to see what to include and decide if it was "website worthy", in other words, would I want my students, their parents, or other teachers to take their time to view the site. While it took a lot of time to make my way through the sites out there, I did run across several sites that I bookmarked on my portaportal (which has become my new BFF).  Although I was glad it was due quickly at first, I think I would have liked to have had the semester, so that we could add things we learned and wanted to be sure to include.  I feel like there are so many things I still want to add, so when the class is finished I plan to continue to add to it so that when I do have my own class and have to design a page of my own I will have everything I need.  The only thing that frustrated me about the project was the inability to move pictures, text, and gadgets around the page.  Since this was my first webiste, I am hoping that it was just  Google Sites that was the reason.

Overall, I really enjoyed working on this, but I am one of those people that could do this type of thing for days on end!  This excites me for the future of the classroom, because technology is crucial to our kids education if we want them to be successful in the 21st century, and the number of websites out there dedicated to teaching and learning shows that the trend is moving quickly in that direction.