Google Sites

This is the first time that I have ever created a website, so this experience has definitely been a

learning one! I got the hang of it pretty quickly and I enjoyed the way that we walked through the steps of creating our site. I have always wondered how to create a site for myself that I could use in my future career and I am so happy that I know have one of my own.

I have learned so much thus far on Google sites. I now know how to create my own web page and how to make sub pages on my site. I learned how to insert images and change the font and color of my site. I also learned that this site will be very helpful for my students and their parents. I learned how to insert my tech projects that we have done and I think it is so cool that you can see what I have been working on by just checking my page! I inserted my elementary resources and learned how to insert my inquiry based project onto my site.

I plan to use this is my future classroom and teaching endeavors for sure! I love that I can post everything that parents and students need to know on one site. I want to be able to communicate with the parents of my students and I think that allowing them access to see my website would be a great way to achieve this communication. I can post things such as a supply list for my class and resources that parents can access from home. I also want to be able to share my site with my fellow educators so that they can see what my class is doing and so that I can share those resources with them.

Digital Imaging

I came into this activity knowing a little bit about digital imaging. I have a Facebook and an Instagram, and I even used Photobucket a while back. So you'd think I'd be a pro, right? Well...no, even though I had used all of these various ways to share my digital images, I never really realized how much actually went into it. I never realized how much detail has to go in to how many pixels an image has and I never knew that what the measurements of an image meant.


Throughout this week I learned how important it is to re size a picture. You obviously do not want the images you share online to look stretched or blurry. You also don't want the images that you decide to use in class projects to look distorted. Learning how to go in and download an image from a website and then go on to re size it so that it can work for you in the way that you need it to was awesome! I enjoyed working with digital images and getting some hands on experience through our Google presentation along with our class scavenger hunt that we uploaded to Picasa Web. Both of those activities were extremely helpful!


I definitely plan to use digital imaging in my classroom. I love presentations and visual aids, so digital imaging in the thing for me! I want my students to get to see great images that are clear and that fit nicely into any presentation that I may be giving them. I want to pass the knowledge I have gained over this week down to my students, so that when they are making their own Google presentation they will understand that importance of resizing an image and the importance of the number of pixels and the resolution. I look forward to using digital images in my future classroom. I would love to have my students participate in a scavenger hunt as we did. I thought that was so fun!


Below is a link to my website. Under the tab "Tech Projects" you can see the two digital imaging projects that I have completed thus far. I hope that you enjoy them! :)
https://sites.google.com/site/msfellmansclassroom/

Resource Wiki

I had no prior knowledge of resource wikis, however since we have already made several wikis this

semester I felt a lot more comfortable while adding my resources to this page. Using my prior wiki knowledge helped me to succeed in this project.

This assignment changed my view of how to use wikis in the classroom. At first I was a little weary about how I could benefit from wikis, but after this project I am more clear. This was such a great eye opening tool that allows me to share sites that I found helpful with my peers whether that be my co-workers, or the parents of my students.

I will definitely use resource wikis in my future classroom. I think as a teacher I will benefit from it, and that as a class my students will benefit from the resources I post. I will be able to triple to number of resources I have by sharing information with my peers which will be wonderful! I think resource wikis will come in handy a lot over my teaching career!