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last week

brandonl — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:28:48 +0000

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.

reflextion of last week

brandonl — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:36:44 +0000

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.

Week of 7/12 to 7/16

brandonl — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:46:05 +0000

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.

reflextion on week

brandonl — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:44:09 +0000

So this week, we started phase 2 of are project websites. We started off on Monday by learning how to use Microsoft paint to create cool signs that we can then put them into are blog side bars. This is a really cool feature that is fun and easy for everyone to use. By Wednesday we started working on widget concepts and how to take widgets from site on the Internet to sites like edublogs and facebook.

By Thursday we were working on finding widgets that we thought were useful to are own blogs and how to post them on are project blog. we were also told to put up NO GAMES ON EITHER SITE!!!We also practiced putting random widgets(no Game ones) on are private blogs in anticipation of moving them to are project blogs for meaning purposes.

So today was really a catch up day and additional work day if needed. Today most of us started playing catch up to are reflections and submitting are progress logs onto are sites. I also started to fine tune which widgets i want to submit to my advisor. This weekend i plan on getting at least 2 of the five widgets to my advisor.

Websites and more!!!!

brandonl — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:04:15 +0000

Right now we are starting to begin focusing on are teacher websites. These websites are set to focuse on certain areas. They include tutorials, instructional videos, and more to come.

In the beginning of the week we worked on embeding text in widgets. By using voki’s to create an online welcome source to our websites. Which are cool little gismos. These voki’s can draw in viewers to your websites.

Excel Tutorial

brandonl — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:42:17 +0000

So over the past two weeks my group and I have worked on a Tutorial, helping people create graphs on Microsoft Excel. I personally found this extremely useful, since i myself didn’t know that you could do this with Excel. I plan on using this tutorial in the future, as a new way to make detailed graphs for school.

Last Week

brandonl — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:19:43 +0000

Last week, we were split into groups and told to start work on are collabrative wiki’s. So are group is creating one on Microsoft Excel. That will be able to teach even the most average student how to use microsoft excel.

This week

brandonl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:51:26 +0000

so this week we were working on our blogs and making sure they were up to date and had everything u need to have a successful website that people would want to read everyday.

This week(Last Week)

brandonl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:21:11 +0000

Last week we learned all about RSS feeds. We focused on how to find an RSS feed, by looking at the bottom of websites or the top of a website. We also posted RSS feeds on to are Google reader accounts.

welcome

brandonl — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:42:43 +0000

So this week we started work on are websites and how to create new things. So this week i learned that that are two ways to type on a blog, there is visual writing and code writing. To create a blog where we can talk. I also learned what wordpress was for and how anyone can use it to help everyone.