2. WEBSITES
• A website or web site is the same thing as a web page.
o True or False
o Terms are often used interchangeably
Website is actually a collection of webpages
• In W200, one of the big projects is creating a teacher
website.
• As a teacher, why do you need a website?
Let’s see why…
3. Students, teachers, administrators and parents are increasingly
recognizing the value of social learning in both their personal and
professional lives. (Source: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/SocialLearning_2012.html)
6. IS MAKING A TEACHER WEBSITE WORTH THE TIME?
• School (and class) information is shared more
effectively and efficiently with parents.
• Helps to extend the learning beyond the school…
• Increases parental engagement in the learning
process and student achievement
• COMMUNICATION
• ACCESSIBILITY
• PARTICIPATION
8. VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF A TEACHER WEBSITE
DESIGN: Make your own brand as a professional teacher.
• Consistency of design elements
• Fonts, colors, decoration themes,
etc.
• Contrast to distinguish between
foreground and background
elements.
• Proximity & Alignment of relevant
materials
• Adding space, indentation…
• Spacing
• Some space helps viewers to
read and focus on the content.
9. Compare…(& Think about the goals of
teacher website: to communicate, share... )
Consistency Proximity & Alignment
http://www.007museum.com/ http://www.007museum.com/
http://newyorkscienceteacher.com/sci/ http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
pages/teacher-sites.php
Spacing
Contrast http://ilovetypography.com/
http://www.raft.org/ http://www.arngren.net/
http://teachers.net/
*Explore other teacher websites at Most importantly…
http://delicious.com/anneleftwich/t
eacher_website
NO BROKEN LINKS!!!
10. How To Vote via Texting
TIPS 1. Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20)
2. We have no access to your phone number
3. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do
11. How To Vote via PollEv.com
Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do
12. How To Vote via Twitter
TIPS 1. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do
2. Since @poll is the first word, your followers will not receive this tweet
13. Embedded polls only work in PowerPoint for Windows
This object is the poll's placeholder
To view the poll live, enter slideshow
mode by pressing F5
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/MjA4NDIyMDIzOA?preview=true
Notas del editor
Students, teachers, administrators and parents are increasingly recognizing the value of social learning in both their personal and professional lives.Students, in particular, have heightened aspirations for more effectively leveraging social learning tools to enhance their engagement in the learning process, access more interesting and relevant educational content, tap into additional opportunities for collaboration with peers, advisors and mentors and overall, increase their academic productivity.Despite this strong value proposition, school site administrators and parents continue to have lingering concerns about social networking, Internet access and the role of social learning tools.
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This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.Sample Oral Instructions:Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use your phones or laptops to do some audience voting just like on American Idol.So please take out your mobilephones or laptops, but remember to leave them on silent. You can participate by submitting an answer atPollEv.com on your laptop or a mobile phone.The service we are using is serious about privacy. I cannot see who you are or who voted.
This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.Sample Oral Instructions:Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use Twitter to do some audience voting.So please take out your cell phones or laptops, but remember to leave them on silent. The way you will be able to participate is by tweeting a response to @poll. Your followers won’t be bothered by this message.
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