brandon’s blog

Last week we focused on usabililty and being able to add polls and multiple surveys. This feature can help teachers get an idea about how there students are going in school as long as what they want to learn about in the classroom. By using polls and surveys to ask various questions and to get there opinions across,to the students body. These polls can be used for the simpliest ideas, like what chapter should they do next to what type of project would they like to do, on the unit they are currently learning about.

Last week, we started focusing on are website usability and overall design. we did this by adding widgets that aloud people with needs to only read the website as text based only sites. Instead of sites that have millions of pictures and design features. We also started to work on redesigning are home pages. To feature a special are on the side where all of a pages will be with the amount of blogs pertaining to that focus of that page.  

So this week we started working on finding and adding widgets to are project sites. We were able to find these widgets off sites like google and widgebox. On these sites there are endless amounts of widgets and programs to build your own widgets for use on social sites like facebook and myspace or for sites like edublogs. The widget builder application let us build widgets like exercise routine programs or schedule programs to help students get back on track for assignments they are missing.