Collection

This week I have begun to collect pictures, quotes, documents, and examples for the website. Most will be used in sections to give specifics on how the iOS program is implemented here at NRHS. This is much more difficult that I thought that it would be. There have been several times that I have sat down to work on the site and found that I needed to go get more information or that I needed to do more planning before I actually made edits and additions to the page.

I am planning on bringing a camera to school tomorrow to take high quality images of students (no faces) working or of the device itself being used so that their will be some true classroom examples. There is also video that was taken by another technology facilitator with a professional camera that I plan to obtain the files for (once he gets back from New Orleans) and use. They showcase 5 different classrooms of varying subject matter and technology utilization.

Sorry if my blogs have been erratic, I had 7 teachers get trained on OS X Lion and I had to get their carts prepped to go out to them, and I also had to attend a 2 day meeting in Chapel Hill, and after technology talk all day with no breaks he thought of getting on a writing a blog never entered my head.

Now that most of that busy stuff is out of the way I hope to be putting more work into the website.

The Idea

I am very excited about my project. My goal is to build the webpage that shows the successes of my current school with a 1:1 project, and also provides resources to teachers who may now just be receiving new technology. My initial challenge is that I have not really done any kind of webpage designing since I did HTML in high school! The program our school system uses, Expression Engine, seems pretty good, but I want to make sure I make the site as attractive and functional as possible. I have been given access by the webmaster to edit pages and start building the site. I have also started to compile information and to find resources that can be used on the site. I hope that soon I can begin loading some of the information on to the page, and eventually the videos and pictures.