Project #10
Over the semseter we have learned alot of different aspects of technology that I didn't know about.  Being able to learn how to create a web-site was something that I always wanted to do, I just didn't think that it would be as difficult as it was.  Learning to work through the kinks and not get upset was a challange for me.  Most of the time when something goes wrong with my computer I end up yelling at it and pounding the keys a little harder.  Because of this class I am able to look to my computer and figure out what might be going wrong.  Learning how to use Nvu was fun, I liked being able to create something of my own and have it be viewed on the internet.  Trying to figure out the WS_FTP was a challenge.  Trying to figure out what you needed to transfer over, and how to fix a problem if the page wasn't showing up was a pain.  Once I got used to the concepts at hand I became more confident and feel that I would be able to teach my students some things with the computer.  

There was one moment that I was very proud of myself.  It was when I finished the title page to my web-site and was able to publish it.  I was so excited that I called my parents and told them about the web-site and had them go look at it.  I was excited to have them be able to see what I was doing in school.  Getting their imput it very important to me, and knowing that they could let me know in one aspect of my schooling made me happy.  Granted this was a good experience I had many difficult experiences.  Trying to get the computer to go along with what you wanted to do was a challenge.  There were times when I would have my homepage loaded up on one computer and it would work really well, then there was the other times when it would be off completely.  I don't like the fact that I never know what my title page to my web-site is going to look like.  

I felt that with this class working in small groups was difficult.  You had to be able to transfer one page to the other persons computer and half the time I was lucky if I was able to get it to work.  I also feel that because we were working on computers there was one person that did most of the work.  I was lucky to have my partner.  With what she didn't know i knew and what I didn't know she knew.  We were able to work as a team.  Working in a group was a nice change to having to work alone.  But I think that the projects that were worked on as a team should have been split up.  One person do a project for their page and the other person links their page to their partners.  This would have been easier then trying to get each seperate page to transfer to the other computer. This caused a lot of hassle and frustration.  

For my classroom as a teacher I would like to be able to have computers for every student.  Most kids are scared of the computer when they come to school for the first time.  I think that if you start them off early more students will understand more about the computers.  I grew up getting a computer in the 4th grade.  I may pretend to know what I'm doing but half the time I'm just clicking buttons and probably getting myself into more trouble.  I want the students to be able to navigate a computer and the internet, as well as learn to use some to the programs that we have learned in class this year.  Each year I would like to have a class web-site.  This way parents would be able to check and see what the kids are doing each week.  I would help along side of the students but this would be their project.  I think that having them learn how to work these programs will give them a heads up against the other stuents.