Sunday, February 15, 2009

The Website, Growing Like a Sloth on a Hot Day

So in my class we payed around more with setting up our websites. Most of the concern was over setting up links to our emails and blogs as well as inserting a picture. I know, revolutionary, extremely complicated materials. However, there was the discovery that if your materials were not saved properly the website cannot locate and apply files. This wasn't an issue for me because, as my first entry stated, I'm organized.



As well as the website fun we began working on our wikis. Each one of us have been added to a wiki that regards our content area. In these wikis we will be posting resource sites that will help facilitate online learning for our students. The most complicated aspect of a large classroom of students all trying to edit a wiki site, however, is that only one person can edit at a time. This was perfectly alright for John and I, being the only two Language arts people in the class, but we have multiple Special Education students who were all trying to do the same thing at the same time. Also, there was a lot of confusion as far as formatting was concerned.

All in all it was a slightly trying night.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Hello, My Name is Margaret Morris, and this is a Website



So tonight in my IT 486 class after posting my amazing example of my newly acquired organization skillz we worked on my class website. This was my first time using Dreamweaver since I was in middle school and I can't say that it's like riding a bicycle. We worked on creating a table, a heading, and links as well as working on the color scheme. Lastly we uploaded our work onto out UTK website. The link, if you want to keep up with it (I promise that it wont look like the photo in this entry forever) is here. That's all for now!

I'm Organized!




Here's the proof! This is a picture of my file organization on my jump drive for my IT 486 class. The way I took this picture was to open up my 486 folder, hit (shift)+(apple symbol)+3. When the cross-hairs came up I created a square over my folder organization. Once I un-clicked from that it saved the picture to my desktop. Then I went into Photoshop Elements and opened the picture from my desktop and resized the image. Then I saved the file to my 486 folder on my jump drive. This sort of organization is important because it enables me to find exactly what I'm looking for quickly and efficiently. By doing this I will be better prepared for my IT 486 class whenever I go to lecture.