Week of February 24

1. Journal contains bulleted list of “To Do” items for the week including an order of priority (i.e. which items will be completed first, second, etc.)

• I need to rework my website to make it more functional and informative.
• I have created a new banner and theme. I need to get that worked into my site.
• I also need to continue to keep my blog up-to-date.
• I need to make some videos (screen casts) to add to my instructional portion of the website.
  

2. Journal contains students’ thoughts, concerns, or struggles as he/she works to complete the work indicated. Journal also indicates a plan to resolve conflict or possible solutions to problems. If class readings are assigned for the week.

My biggest concern is having time to manage the projects. I do get some time at home to work, but get distracted with the realities of being a parent. I try to stay at school some days to get things done. My wife has been great about taking my son to run errands and to go to the park. So, I feel that I am getting some good quiet time to work. I also have to continue to work. Some times I get so involved with the thought process, that it takes a while to actually get some work done. I am always trying to accomplish things that are bigger than I have time or expertise on. On my website, I am simply creating content that is representative of the best I can do with the time I have.

3.Students will discuss the assigned class readings and indicate how the articles have impacted their web development.

to my knowledge, we didn't have any readings for the week. However, I have been reading many tutorials on how to do things. Whenever I try to do something new I find a tutorial to help figure it out.

Photoshop Project

This is a copy of my Photoshop project. I used a gradient, Rubber stamp, Marquee, Text, layering, Blur.

This was funny. I laughed as I did it.













Here is an image that I am working on.

Week of March 17

First off, Kansas is a number 1 seed in the NCAA tourney. That makes me happy.

1. Journal contains bulleted list of “To Do” items for the week including an order of priority (i.e. which items will be completed first, second, etc.)

• I need to get a template for my two websites
• I need to begin building the framework of my sites.
• I need to look over my peer's websites and critique them before I leave town on Easter break
• I want to start looking at ways to improve my webpage design by using a design guide.
• I need to read ahead all of the articles for the coming weeks.

2. Journal contains students’ thoughts, concerns, or struggles as he/she works to complete the work indicated. Journal also indicates a plan to resolve conflict or possible solutions to problems. If class readings are assigned for the week.

I feel much better after attending the class with Dr. T. I feel more at ease about what is expected for the class. I need to continue to produce my webpages, even when I feel uninspired. I also need to stay away from making things so fancy that they lose their functionality. The biggest key is to take careful time reading the articles for class each week. I felt that I didn't cover the articles for this week thoroughly enough and took awhile to get on board with the discussion. I certainly want to stay involved with the discussion. I think I have plenty to learn from my colleagues.

3.Students will discuss the assigned class readings and indicate how the articles have impacted their web development.

I really was impacted by creating a design guide. I usually don't set parameters for myself when designing, which means that things go way overboard in creativeness. So much so that it bogs things down and make my work messy. Also, considering my audience is a big deal. I am interested in how to generate traffic through a website. The Webdesign Principles site was helpful in that it gave several "how to's" as well as "how not to's". Great discussion on blackboard the other night.

My latest workshop slides

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Additional Post

I read the related articles in the syllabus this week. I realized that I already have or do several of the things that are listed. for instance, I have a Gmail account at shudson71@gmail.com. I also use a wiki for classroom projects. I have one at http://hudson224.pbwiki.com/ and http://mrhudsonsworld.wikispaces.com/ . I also have several blogs: http://ics.k12.il.us/blog/dc , http://ics.k12.il.us/blog/shudson , and http://webforinstruction.blogspot.com/. I also have a blog for home, but do not wish to give the URL. I have several examples of how I have used webconferencing in the classroom at http://ics.k12.il.us/blog/shudson/category/web-conferences/. I feel like I am on top of a bunch of the technologies that I need to be successful in a career of Instructional technology.



Because technology keeps evolving, I need to continue to read more articles.

I added instant messaging to my SIUE blog!!

Post for February 25 and March 3

1. Journal contains bulleted list of “To Do” items for the week including an order of priority (i.e. which items will be completed first, second, etc.)

Get my blogging journal up-to-date
Read all of the articles for March 3 and 10
I need to work on my two websites for the course
Continue the discussion on the discussion board


2. Journal contains students’ thoughts, concerns, or struggles as he/she works to complete the work indicated. Journal also indicates a plan to resolve conflict or possible solutions to problems. If class readings are assigned for the week.

At this point, I am trying to keep my blog up-to-date. I have been working on my website, making adjustments that will give it more functionality. I am sorry that I missed the chat discussion with my classmates. I have used a chat of sorts for my classroom. I have done several webconferences (using my webcam) with people from around the world. I have communicated with contacts in Ghana, China, Malaysia, Palestine, and Utah (not particularly international). I will add a chat feature to my website for fun, if I can pull it off. I seem to struggle with motivation for the class. I am not real clear of the expectations for the class. I guess we do weekly assignments, then our overall projects are the two websites (one instructional and one informational). I need to do the reading for this week, but should get some time today to accomplish it.


3.Students will discuss the assigned class readings and indicate how the articles have impacted their web development.

This last articles I read involved various forms of communication with your viewers (chat, message boards, Listservs). I commented on the discussion board that I have used all forms of the communication listed and researched. I personally like the discussion board aspect to keep an ongoing discussion of a topic. Several years ago I was interested in the chats and chat rooms. But as I become more mature and have more responsibility, I can not tie up a huge chunk of time chatting.