brandon’s blog

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.    

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.  

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.