Websites

In Week 2, we talked about websites in Managing E-Learning.
We discussed how websites are different to blogs and wikis because only the person creating it determines the content and no one can add to, swap or change things around.
I had a go at making a website through weebly ( www.weebly.com) and found that it was easier than what I had expected. The site had speech bubbles telling me what to do next or what other options I had which made the process a lot easier. Finding the right information to go onto my website was quite easy, especially having a fair bit of experience using the internet.

Here's the link to the website I created:
http://www.web4web.weebly.com/


If I had my students in the future using this site, I believe that it would benefit their learning. Technology is a great way for students to keep motivated, have connections to the real world and to have some form of control in their learning (Valdez, McNabb, Foertsch, Anderson, Hawkes, Raack, 2000). I will be teaching students Visual Art and Physical Education and in both of these areas, a possible assessment task that they could do is produce a website, (for Art) about different mediums in art, historical artworks, display pieces that they are currently working on, etc and (HPE) they could address the topic in their theory component and instead of writing an essay, they could produce a website about the different functions of the body, for example. They can use this opportunity to show the world what they know and teach it to them.


References:
Valdez, G., McNabb, M., Foertsch, M., Anderson, M., Hawkes & M., Raack, L. (2000). Computer based technology and learning:Evolving uses and expectations.Retrieved 28/7/2010 from
http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED456816.pdf