ICT Week 3

This week in ICT there was a lot of focus on creating our websites on weebly. While I have only just started my website, I am already coming up with ideas to implement this into my classrooms. A personal website for education can expand into many creative ideas. Using this website I can put anything I want on to it, or at least as far as my imagination will take me. I can upload videos, post blogs, put up pictures and this just scratches the service. For the start of my website, I really want to let the viewers know about me. I want to put many pictures on so they can get an idea of what kind of person I am. I will include an about me page, an inspiration page, along with pages for my students and their parents as time goes on. I will also include lesson plans, some of my ideas for teaching, unit plans etc. This will show the parents especially what their child is in for when they have myself for a teacher. They will be able to provide feedback and other comments if they so wish. Symbaloo could be a useful piece of software that I eventually want to incorporate into my website. That way I can link several different websites into one. It is a very useful tool. Of course there will be other features added to my website, but that will come sometime later down the road. I am looking forward to completing my website because its a good way for my students and their parents to get to know me and see any other information they may find interesting. The second aspect we focused in for technology that i found interesting was the animo to site. While making my picture slideshow titled "randomness", it was fun placing the music you would want into it, along with pictures that may tell a story. I decided to do a random video just for fun. I could definitely use this website in the class and get my students to create their own videos to show their parents. So far i have learned a lot from this class and I am looking forward to next week once again!