Lesson 3 Questions

1)How do I anticipate organizing the content of my web page?

-This is a hard question. I teach science so it is pretty easy for me to think in terms of heiarchies and taxonomy. Hell I teach these exact topics. However, I am seeing that using this for my own site is not as easy as I had once thought. besides their are a lot of things that I have to consider. Reading the Yale articles have only given me more things to consider.
-Now I will start by utilizing the some sort of basic wireframe. For instance I will divide my content into "categories" I think this will give me a way to track my blogs so that my students can navigate to the appropriate blogs. also having some sort of calendar app on my web page is also very important. let be back up
1) sort all my content into some kind of a calendar of events. this is already being done by own distirct. i might be able to link to the district site so as not to bog down my site with info that has been created and stored else where.
2) divide my content into topics or big ideas. thankfully think is somewhat already done for me by the kentucky department of education in their combined curriculum document.
3) classroom stuff. bell ringers to announcements. because everyone knows that nothing follows a timeline. and i will constantly be ahead of schedule or behind.
I have to utilize things like "categories" and "pages" for my site. these will only allow me to be more organized and the more i am the more my kids will be to navigate my site. I will more than likely spend a few hours drawing my web page on the dry erase board before i commit to anything.

2) Paradigms

-I think that I would lean more towards the navigation side of things. However, the service sites that come with my current text book can be very useful. I am very leary of the web 2.0 sites. the ability of getting viruses has really turned me away from some of them. Yet, the answer may be to purchase something. I would most certaining do this if i thought it would enhance my classroom. So i just read an article about web 2.0 and how it has many "hats". If you think that web 2.0 is bloggin and wikis then that is fine but it could also be other things as well. So to that i think that I like the bloggin component but i think having my students interact with the site other than using it as a resource opens the doors to future problems.
-what i am trying to say in order to answer this question is that I want a resource that my parents, students, and colleagues can visit for information about my class and what is going on. I want them to email if they have quesitons but i don't want them to be able to comment on my site because i don't the comments to be public to other users who may be on the site at the same time. I just think that makes it too easy for parents to avoid teachers and for people to complain about why did you or did you not allow a comment. just email or call me if you have quesitons.

3) web page structure
-wow!!!
their are so many steps to a web site. i really had no idea. i have played a little with wordpress and like the ease of use. the blogger sites uses different terms that i am not as familiar with. I am Kind of liking the web and spokes. I really don't know. I have found that the workpress is easier to use than the 000webhost software. but i think it is only because i am not hip to the verbage yet. I think as the class progresses i will feel more comfortable with the web host. Really there are so many things to think of and i am the only person on the web site building committee.

4 &5) Site design
-more than likely i will be using microsoft paint to design something. if this does not go well i will just take good old pencil and paper and draw what i think it should look like. the yale articles give a lot of information to think about in building a web site. i feel pretty good about using inspiration software. i think that all this comes down to how comfortable you feel. this web site has to easy to use but very effective. somethimes it is hard to mash the 2 together.

here is a link to my web page
http://www.rmccann.webege.com/
i think this is the basic thing for right now. i am not sure. their is so much to consider and i am not really comfortable with the 000webhost terms. I will only get better.

this has taken me 3 plus hours and i still am not sure if i like any of it. I have also been playing with a kentcukyclassroom.org site that i created with Dr. Hyndman.