CEDu 533 Class #4

This past week in class we had time to play around with multiple web-page building sites. These sites offer many different templates for web-sites to be used in every different type of instance. Working with these, it has solidified how inadequate our school's "school center" web software is. This past week I tried to upload the JAVA applet for the graphing calculator, because it would be such a great took for students to have at home, just-in-case they left their calculator at school. I got a couple of the documents uploaded into the document manager, but when I tried to upload the .jav, it said the site would not support this type of applets. HOW ANNOYING! I'm just trying to make my web-site better for my students to use and the program won't let me.

Having the web-site it has given me one more line of defense from excuses. My students can no longer state, I didn't know what the homework assignment it was... it's posted in two different places. I update their grades on a daily basis, listing the homework on SMS, PowerSchool, which all students have an access code for. I have also, surprisingly, been very diligent about updating my class web-page daily. I have been updating it daily for two of my three class, mainly because I am on the SMART Board for those classes and it is so easy to upload the notes from class. I would like to change my web-site but right now, my students know where to go, and how to go through the process of hunting for it, since it's hosted by the school, the URL isn't that friendly, so should I wait to switch it at the end of the year?!?! Not sure if there's a perfect answer to the questions, but I can also link items for now to help out my students. We'll see how it goes.