Hello,
The website design assignment taught me a lot of new skills. It allowed me to learn what makes a website visually pleasing and also how to create an informational platform in general. I really did not like the Weebly website designer because it was extremely hard to navigate. Overall, the website was a pain and the website design part was not my favorite. I ended up using WiX which was amazing compared to Weebly because WiX was very easy to navigate around the website and create my website as well. In the future it will be helpful to have the skills to create a website for any situation. Eric's Website
Diigo has been a very interesting application, I learned about it in this class and it seems to be a very helpful tool when looking for specific parts of text. Being able to save or "highlight" specific parts of an article and save it for later is very handy. I will continue to use Diigo in the future for other classes because it will be beneficial for my major as I read multiple types of texts all the time. In a team setting being able to share a certain sentence or paragraph with a group instead of the whole article saves time and gets the point across a lot easier.
Professional development and technology go hand in hand with one another. Teachers are supposed to keep up with the different trends in educational technology and it changes a lot. Technology is advancing very fast and its sometimes hard to keep up. Developing yourself as a teacher and being able to use technology to its full potential to teach students is a very hard tasks, especially with the topic of Digital Divide now as well where each student has access to different types of technology. I like to keep up with different new technologies or just advancements of previous ones to make sure I am up to date with what is going on around me. Twitter is a very good source for things like that as well. Twitter
Hi, Eric!
ReplyDeleteI just viewed your website, and I must say— it is very aesthetically pleasing. I like that you stuck to a particular color scheme.
C: The Home page is colorful without being too overwhelming. The font colors on each section in the site make for a nice contrast (with the background colors).
R: In terms of repetition, the images, patterns and overall designs are consistent.
A: As for the alignment, your images and information are aligned nicely. It creates a sense of cohesion that makes each text appear more organized.
P: Finally, I think you have a solid understanding of proximity. You spaced things out accordingly and grouped pieces of information together appropriately. You communicated your message effectively, clearly, and in organized fashion.
Excellent job!
Hello Mr. Eric. Your website is aesthetically pleasing and very easy to navigate. The hyperlinks lead to the right pages and I am very impressed!
ReplyDeleteHi, Eric! I really liked reading through your blog. I agree with you that Weebly was hard to navigate. I struggled a lot with it when trying to create my website.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that Twitter is a great resource for teachers to use. I wasn't a huge Twitter user before this class, so it has been super interesting to see all of the resources available to teachers on the site.
Eric,
ReplyDeleteMyself like you and everyone else, I had a hard time understanding Weebly. After playing around for a long time I began to understand how it works and I get it now, but I feel that it could be more intuitive. Twitter is a really good source of information that I would not have thought would be the place to observe technological trends in education but it makes perfect sense.
Hi Eric! You are one of the first people that I have seen use Wix for their website, and it was REALLY GOOD! I love how interactive it is and how you made it your own.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that Twitter is a great resource for professional development. It seems to be the trend setter for most teachers as well.
Hi again Eric. I love that you used Wix. Like Bri had mentioned, it was a very interactive site and I also think the contrast and development for your website was accessible and necessary for the parents/guardians of your students. Your website design was also super appealing and I would love to have you as a teacher.
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