Miss Fisher's Someday-Classroom Website

Making a classroom website was a really fun project! I am not a teacher yet, so it was a blast to pretend. The only issue with creating the website was sticking with a specific idea of a someday-classroom and being consistent and coherent with the age and target audience. I am a special educator, but it was difficult to make it obvious that this was my audience. I did have the thought that mostly parents would be reading my website, and mainly voiced my thoughts to them. All of my resources were geared toward students with disabilities, but were not age specific. My assumed and dream classroom is a young elementary special education classroom, but I am not sure this was obvious throughout my website. I enjoyed learning to use Google Sites, and enjoyed learning how to upload links and pictures, and embed videos. The project overall was very insightful! I especially appreciated that we worked on the project the whole semester. I was able to edit, revise and add to the website as I became more familiar with technology resources and more confident in my tech-abilities. I learned a lot!

Let Me Tell You a Story...Digitally.

 

I will be honest. I was very intimidated of using iMovie. I have had horrible experiences using movie builders on my PC, and have watched roommates and friends struggle with iMovie and the layers and layers of effects/sounds/pictures/etc. to create a movie. After trying it out, it wasn't that bad! I was a bit irritated with the extra work of having to create a storyboard, but it ended up making the process of creating the movie so much easier. I had already decided on my topic, the picture and information each slide would hold, as well as the effects of each transition and font. Using a storyboard enabled me to keep the transitions and effects simple and cohesive throughout the video. (I am sure I would have wanted to try a new effect for each slide, or would forget which effect I had been using!) My biggest struggle was trying not to plagiarize by stealing photos off of Google Images without giving credit..but that was definitely a lesson learned! Other than the issue of being a thief, the digital storytelling processing using iMovie was actually pretty simple! I do not have a Mac sadly, but hope to have one in the future and surely will use the program in my someday-classroom!