Alyssa’s Blog

This week I feel that I have accomplished quite a lot.  First off, I decided that I need to organized my page a little better so I added categories, which act as my mini pages.  The first category is cool facts, which is a new idea I had come up with.  I decided that I wanted to have posts on my advisor’s page so each day in class I find a fact about todays present day in history and find out some facts about that day in the past.  The second category is fun stuff; this page is where my widgets are located.  On this page you will find all different types of facts about history.

Some things you should check out on my page are my new voki that I added.  This voki welcomes readers to my advisor’s page.  Another thing that you should check out is my usability center; it’s actually pretty cool.  This center has two links, one links you to a text only page and another links you to an audio page where you can play the posts and listen to them.

Since next week is the last week, I plan on putting my finishing touches up on my page.  I will continue to write posts about cool things in history about each day.  Also, I will try to find some new images to add to my pages.

Long term goals aren’t really any because the project is one week until completion.  I will basically just be working on finishing my project and working on the areas that need work.

I think that overall this was a really good week and I worked hard.

This week I don’t feel like I have progressed much on my advisors blog.  Monday I worked on my advisor’s blog.  Tuesday we learned how to add the audio to our page and Wednesday we learned how to add the chart to our portfolio page.  Since I was out on Thursday and Friday I feel that I did not progress well on my advisor’s blog.

Something that I did get the opportunity to add to my advisors blog that I hope the audience gets to check out is the teacher tube video.  I also worked in paint and added a picture of the statue of liberty.

This week I plan on adding polls to my website.  I remember that last week Mr. Stengel said that we will learn how to add polls to our blogs.  I think that this will make my blog more interactive with my readers.  I still need to add more widgets to my page and get in contact with my advisor because I haven’t heard from her.  So that is on my short term goals, to go see my advisor this week or e-mail her.

My long term goal is still to develop a well blog for my advisor.  I still feel that I have a lot to add to this page because I have not been able to progress much in the last week.  It is a very hectic time of the year and I hope that my blog becomes to be more complete in the next week or two.

Some thoughts that I have are that I need to work harder and stop procrastinating.  I feel that if I work hard and focus this week that I can get the job done.

This week I worked on the content of my advisors page.  I added an American flag as my image header, I felt that this was appropriate for the image header because my advisor teachers history.  I also created four pages; FAQ, About Me, Schedule, and Contact page.  I met with Ms. Liberman on Friday after school and worked on these pages, except for the schedule page.

I decided the Mandigo page for Ms. Liberman’s blog because I have experience working with it.  I like how you can have more than one side bar and how I can select an image header.  This theme is open to having a lot on your page which will be useful.

I don’t really have anything that is important to look at or listen to on my advisor’s page.  Maybe if you want you can look at the content or  layout of the page.

Next week I plan on working on the home page maybe by adding more widgets.  I will also add more details to the other pages that I have on my advisor’s page.  I also plan on maybe adding a voki this week and adding the five widgets that we are suppose to.

My long term goals for this project are to create a page that my advisor will like and that will benefit to others.  I can’t really think of anything else right now, but I’m sure over time I will think of more long term goals for my project.