My Final Multimedia Project

I ended up using googlepages to make my website rather than freewebs. I have to admit that the issue of ad banners was my only consideration. I just hate them. I feel that both programs are user-friendly and have good options. I chose to write about revision and editing on my website, because it is an area that I have done a lot of work with, and that I felt I could make the most comprehensive and useful contribution in. They say to write what you know, and this topic is something I have really learned about. I wanted to supply a resource that others might find useful, rather than a website that was for me personally. In retrospect, I wish I had dressed my site up a bit more. The topic of how to teach revision and editing is not terribly exciting, but some of the activities and strategies were actually exciting for me as a student teacher. I feel like I can help students with their writing with confidence now, and that's pretty exciting for English geeks like me (us). So I could definitely have given my website more of an exciting vibe. I think I will probably go back and tweek it a bit somewhere down the road

On my second go through googlepages, I felt really confident about the program. Making a website is far from the mysterious and technical process it once was for me. I do have alot to learn, but I feel like this class has given me a new perspective on access to the web. You can do just about everything you want to do on the web, as long as you look in the right places and have the motivation. Just the simple process of getting out there and making a website or two, making a blog, making and contributing to a wiki has really demystified the whole process. It makes it even harder to figure out the old school of teachers that are so afraid of the web. I feel like a couple of simple assignments for each of these teachers to do over the summer or something, would completely wipe away their apprehension toward cyberspace. Why don't administrators try that? I guess its because the administrators themselves usually don't feel it will be useful either.