WEB SITE

I completed the Web Site assignment, finally. I had trouble with Windows Explorer and creating the website. I could not edit the website pages I created. I kept trying and was getting very frustrated, nothing would save and the site kept freezing up. I finally went to Safari web browser to see if that helped. It did! I was finally able to edit the pages and save the edits! Boy, was I happy. I think this would be a great resource if all the students had access to computers at home so they could access the information from the class all the time and anywhere they could use a computer. Over all between the user friendly site at google and the tutorial I found this to be fairly easy once I swapped web browsers, that is. =) Here is the URL for my website: http://sites.google.com/site/sixthgradescienceprcms/

TURNITIN

I completed the turnitin assignment. I was impressed with how user friendly the site was, but I guess I should not be if educators are going to ask students to use the site it should be easy to use. I feel there is a great deal of gender bias in the technology world but I never thought about it the way the articles stated the problem. I never had any game systems growing up, computer, or anything high-tech, so I really feel behind the curve but not because I'm a female but because I am from an older generation. Back to the assignment-- I felt comfortable using the site, and had no problems to speak of completing the assignment.

Below is the URL if anyone would like to view the before and after product of the assignment and the tunitin report:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Afv_KAsrnhiuZGRjcGtuOHdfM3g5aGI0NWM4&hl=en

Web Tools

I finished the Web Tool assignment with a little of frustration. The rubistar site was not a problem, neither was the trackstar. However the bigbus testmaker was about aggravating. I followed the directions Dr. Wang gave us and the directions at the site and I could not get the quiz to save by those directions. I had to copy and paste to word to save my quiz. I thought the problem was the tool bar on my computer, however I tried to use a computer at work and still could not get it to work following the directions. I liked the rubistar and the testmaker (even if I could not get it to work) and can see where these two sites could be useful. The trackstar--not so sure about. I would have to work with it a little more to make a decision on it. Overall I feel pretty good about learning to navigate the different sites we had to use. Hope the rest the of assignments go as well! =) Here is my track # if anyone would like to view it:
393529
Interesting Science Sites


Here is my rubric:

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=1802783



I could not get my quiz to save correctly, therfore I do not have an example of my quiz to post. That still frustrates me. Oh well, maybe next time. :-)
Although I could not get the quiz to save correctly with the bigbustestmaker I used google docs to save a copy and post a URL.

Here is the URL:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Afv_KAsrnhiuZGRjcGtuOHdfMmo1Y3ZubWd2&hl=en