Kristine talked to us about common mistakes people made on the midterm. For the most part, most mistakes had to do with sticking too many tags into the code.
One student used www.voki.com to create a class website. It consisted of a snowman moving his mouth and the teacher's voice. This would be a cool tool to use at school. The dictation can also be translated to other languages.
One student put a youtube video called "One Semester of Spanish" on her website. Having been a Spanish teacher, I found this very amusing. I'll have to show it to other Spanish teachers.
We spent some time in class working on our Stritch GoogleDocs portfolios, which are due near the end of the program coursework.
Kristine presented information about web 2.0, which differs from web 1.0 in several ways. It seems to me that kids and teenagers are very familiar with web 2.0 and we should keep this in mind as educators.
When creating class and school websites we need to make sure they are accessible to a wide range of platforms and browsers. There's nothing more frustrating than not being able to access a web page or information on the web.
Some of the Web 2.0 tools that were introduced during class in week 5 were really neat. The comic creator website, www.makebeliefscomix.com, looked like fun. I run a comic book club in one of my schools and I think this could really be useful.
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