Yea, I Knew I Forgot Something...

And it was this week's blog!!!

Sorry about that.

Well, in this week's class, we read about e-portfolios. For me, that hit very close to home, as I am currently in the process of creating those for the kids that I have in English. Our district complained to our school about the way in which portfolios were done. This is my first year in Language Arts, and I wanted to make sure that I had all the bases covered for the portfolio.

The purpose was this: I wanted to be able to show the various projects that the kids were doing, instead of cramming the portfolio folder with rubrics. I'm currently 70% done---the big work is to take place over break, where I have to upload and attach a lot of the projects to the students' pages. However, this will save me a considerable amount of work down the road, especially in the sense that I won't have to tear up my room looking for lost work or projects. It's right here, and it can be accessed by future schools for reference.

The negative---I can only do 5 sites a week! Argh! Oh well, can't win them all...

CSS (or CCS) or, um, err, wait, I'm not done with HTML yet!!!

So we're now on Week 2 of class, and this week, we learned how to add tables into a webpage. It took a while to get my mind wrapped around this one. Remember how I said that last week's class was a bit meticulous and complicated at first? I guess that I should not say that again. I just curse myself for that...

Anyway, I did gain a bit from class. For example, I've learned a roundabout way to design tables in different forms and methods---that's something that I think I can find ways to use in class. I still have to think about how to put them into a webpage---I'm still wrapped in creating tables for Math and Science purposes---I'm not sure how I would use it within my own page, for example.

Well, we're also learning other ways to make a webpage catchy and powerful. This is again, something that has obvious merit. I'd like to use some of this with my own website-I'll have to see how Google Sites handles the HTML on that...

Well, that's all that I have to say now. I'm sure that as I try to toy around with some of this during the week, I'll have more ideas for you. As always, any advice, I'm more than happy to hear it...