Mr X's EME2040 Blog

This was the first website I’ve designed from scratch. So, I feel as though everything I know about web design I learned from this. I quite enjoyed the experience of designing a personal website, once I got used to weebly’s interface I found I was able to express myself creatively somewhat. I personally didn’t like having to put in a bio as I wound up making it up almost entirely. I think in the future I will be more immediately confident should I need to design another website as I now have some experience in it. https://profharryenglish.weebly.com/syllabus.html I found Diigo challenging to use. Its interface wasn’t accessible in my opinion and the layout is far too cluttered and wordy. I had to follow the tutorial very closely in order to be able to do the assignment on Diigo. I think it could be a useful platform in a classroom or team setting. It allows people to share new articles and to comment on them, which could be handy for a team to use if they are working remotely. As a s...

The school website I looked at was for Duncan Fletcher High School in Jacksonville Beach, FL. The teacher directory page was very minimal. It included an alphabetical list of all the teachers who work there, along with their department and email address. There were no links to class pages that I could see or access. I looked up some other schools in the area to see if their websites had any class pages I could see. They did not. https://dcps.duvalschools.org/domain/3919 I could see myself using technology to benefit both myself and the student. I would require students to submit their work electronically, making it easier for me to organize and grade. While students will use programs such as PB Works in order to gain practical tech-based skills. I could see myself using Grammarly when grading assignments, I use it now when writing and it helps me catch mistakes when I miss them. I found using the wiki to be quite straightforward. The software felt very intuitive and self-explanat...

I was not a fan of diigo. I found it frustrating to navigate, the homepages layout looks to similar to my old email’s design and that through me off quite a bit. I felt like I needed an instruction manual to simply use the websites functions. I’ve quite enjoyed blogging for what is my first attempt. So far, I’ve found it to be an engaging writing exercise that has let me flex my writerly muscles and given me some much-needed practice. It’s made me consider starting a blog of my own on one of my interests so that I could continue to have an outlet to write on. However, after looking at some of my classmates blogs I think I need to put in some work in the design of my blog. I think google docs has been an incredibly helpful web 2.0 tool in my academic career. It is the go-too app to use in group projects as everyone can write and edit each other’s work in real time. Particularly in this viral infection filled time, a tool that allows students to work on the same document at the same ti...