Day Four

Website Design

This morning, we learned how to create a course site on the wordpress.com. The web page is quite different from a document page. For example, the web page is linked to the Internet and everyone who are surfing the Internet can see the web page. However, a document page only delivered among a small area.

A website is a collection of web pages. Before we starting to make a website, we need to design and consider what kind of web page we should collect into our website.Thus we should draw a storyboard ahead of time to make sure every is getting ready. And our website separate into four parts called Home Page, Course Materials, Assignments, and Resourses. Cici and I took charge in the Home Page. In this web page, we wrote a brief introduction about our course:Recognize Countries of the World. After learning this course,children can learn to recognize the continents and the main countries of the world. Also, they will be able to match the countries and those countries’ national flags. Moreover, teachers will introduce some traditional culture of these countries. Then we introuduce the situation about our teachers and make a parents feedback board to let them give us some suggestions. At the bottom of the home page, we post our class schedule to let everyone know the class time.

When I edited the home page, i should find every teacher’s blog and summary their introduction, this was a challeng to me because it wasted me a lot of time. And the speed of the Internet is very slow, many teachers’ blogs are impossible to open. Luckily, Psiphon solved my problems at last.

In my point of view, website can facilitate and inspire students learning and creativity. Because all the teachers’ course materials and resourses are on the website so that the students can scan those materials whenever they like. And their parents can see those materials,too. Thus they can help their children to learn this course and give them a hand. Moreover, website will design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. Its technology enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress. Thus, website is quite related to the ISTE standards.

Let’s see our website