Ms.Cooper - David Lin
Teacher: Ms.Cooper
Subject: Grade 11 University and College English, Grade 12 University English
Technology used:Google Calendar, Weebly websites and Google Drive, Jing
Description of Project:
Ms.Cooper had a very plain and simple website and wanted to take her site to the next level. She wanted to improve her website by making it more student friendly by making it easier to access course content from home and make the website better overall. To improve her website, I was to evaluate and come up with numerous suggestions that could help make the website better from a student’s perspective. Ms.Cooper said she wanted students to be actually want to use the website as a resource to help them and to do that, we had to make the website more appealing and kid-friendly.
Ms.Cooper also wanted to add a Google Calendar students may use to see when upcoming assignments are due. This calendar could be edited through her google account which would let her update due dates. She also wanted the calendar to allow access to online versions of the assignments which can be connected through Google Drive and attached to important calendar dates.
Although she did not tell me specifically what to add to the website, I took the project into my own hands and decided to edit/add anything I thought would make the website look better and be more functional.
Here are two of the files that were sent to Ms.Cooper as I evaluated her website and began to figure out what I could add or change.
evaluationofmrs.cooperswebsite.docx | |
File Size: | 9 kb |
File Type: | docx |
improvementstothewebsite.docx | |
File Size: | 5 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Here is a tour of the website with the additions and updated sections through the screen capturing program called Jing
http://screencast.com/t/Ec3omBh1M
http://screencast.com/t/Ec3omBh1M
Application for other Subjects:
Google Drive is an amazing resource that allows free users to store up to 15 GB of data to for free cloud storage. Google Drive comes with built in Microsoft Office like programs such as Docs, Slides, Spreadsheets and Forms.
Google Calendar:
A free and convenient way to keep track of your events all in one website. For school purposes, Google Calendar can be embedded to a teacher’s website so that students can see and meet their project deadlines.
Weebly.com:
Weebly is one of the simplest ways to create a good looking website. With a unique drag and drop option to in the website builder Weebly allows the anybody with basic computer skills to create a website. Weebly offers hundreds of options and templates to help you make sure that your website is unique. In a school environment, Weebly allows for teachers to give their students a great resource that will help them learn at home or anywhere on the go.
Google Drive is an amazing resource that allows free users to store up to 15 GB of data to for free cloud storage. Google Drive comes with built in Microsoft Office like programs such as Docs, Slides, Spreadsheets and Forms.
Google Calendar:
A free and convenient way to keep track of your events all in one website. For school purposes, Google Calendar can be embedded to a teacher’s website so that students can see and meet their project deadlines.
Weebly.com:
Weebly is one of the simplest ways to create a good looking website. With a unique drag and drop option to in the website builder Weebly allows the anybody with basic computer skills to create a website. Weebly offers hundreds of options and templates to help you make sure that your website is unique. In a school environment, Weebly allows for teachers to give their students a great resource that will help them learn at home or anywhere on the go.