The major assignment this course was the collaborative web site. I found the experience to not only be good for me as an online collaborative activity through the use of ooVoo but in graphic design as I had the opportunity to see through other people’s eyes as we developed our logo and web layout. Exposure to the different perspectives allowed me to have more ideas. I have always tried to implement what I am learning in class into my classroom. I am taking knowledge from this class and combining it with what I picked up at the TCEA conference to infuse my lesson plans. This new six weeks we are studying the solar system and I am having my students create a website. The home page is all about them (thank you, Holly Dornak), but the first page of the website will be all about the solar system. I will have them add a page for each new unit we cover, plus a review page for each unit we have already covered as a resource to study for the STAAR exam (thank you, Lamar). The parents and students are all very excited about this project and I am having even the most reluctant students doing their work. I hope this is a sign of things to come with students “working on the work” and creatively learning in the process. The graphic design class has been a wonderful lesson for me and my students and I can’t wait to see their end products.
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