Posted on June 17th 2005
Now that my web-site is up and running, I am able to sit back, relax and try to enjoy it. It is difficult now to see it through the eyes of someone who has not designed it, written the content, and spent two weeks fiddling with it.
I am happy with what I have produced - if I could have seen the final product a few weeks ago when I started work on it, I would have been pleasantly surprised. It has been easier than I thought in some respects, especially with the use of an authoring tool. It has also been far more time consuming than I imagined. There is a lot of experimenting to be done in order to reach a satisfactory final product.
I hope that I will be able to expand on this site, to make it a dynamic site that I update regularly. I am currently recruiting motivated students to start blogs of their own which I hope to coordinate in order to provide a community of second language learners writing regularly in English
Posted on June 14th 2005
The website is coming along nicely (although a little late). I have just discovered the importance of Beta testing. the site appeared fine on my Mac using Internet Explorer or Safari, but when I tried it using opera it did not appear as it should. I then sent the link to my sister (a PC user) and she had the same problem when using Internet Explorer or Opera). I am now going to have to make serious alterations to the site in order that PC users will be able to view it as i see it.
Posted on June 1st 2005
I have decided to use sitestudio for the Mac as an authoring tool for my website. It has a clear format and offers a number of useful features to ease me into the world of web writing. I am able to choose different types of page - e.g. HTML, WYSIWYG, image galleries etc. depending on what I want to display. I am also able to publish via my existing .mac account so I will not have to pay for additional web-space or suffer intrusive banner ads.
Posted on May 8th 2005
I had heard of wikipedia, and read a number of articles about how it was created, but I was not aware that anyone could start a Wiki about anything they liked.
Wikis seem like a perfect environment for some type of collaborative project, especially one where language is the medium, but not the focus. Students would be able to add comments, pictures, and links about a topic they are investigating, and teachers would be able to give feedback either on the site or off-site if they prefer to give students a complete feeling of ownership.
Posted on May 4th 2005
I can see the attraction of CMC tools in encouraging students to use and practise their language skills, but am a little concerned about how they can safely find people to communicate with. I think the best way would be some sort of organized exchange between schools/universities etc. so that teachers can be sure that students are not open to the senseless and offensive comments that seem to dominate most online talk-boards and chat rooms.
Posted on April 13th 2005
I've been looking a little more closely at the links provided on the study desk and have found the ITESL on every useful ( http://iteslj.org/links/TESL/Internet/Web_Authoring/ )
I didn't realize that there was a lot of stuff out there in HTML that I could so easily manipulate and adapt for my own use.
Posted on April 12th 2005
I am very daunted by HTML, I am yet to find a site that has provided me with a foolproof way to easily learn the codes. At the moment I cannot imagine authoring a website using HTML. I am now on the look out for some type of authoring software that will allow me to easily create and manage a site using my Mac.
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