I will use the skills that I have learned in this class when I go off into the real world.  I can use html when working on websites if I plan on having another class like this in the future.  From this class I have learned how to create and manage my own website which was a really cool experience.  I mean I have had other pages before, but I never kept up with them, such as live journals or myspaces.

Something from my electronic portfolio that I think is the best part of my page would be my technogical autobiography.  I really liked working with movie maker, it was something that I enjoyed most about this class.  This project doesn’t only connect with me, but with the class since it talks about technology in my life.

This class had more work than I had expected and it wasn’t the class I expected it to be.  However, I really did enjoy working with the different programs and creating pages.  It was a good experience and I believe that it has made me more technogical advanced.

On Wednesday we had received our mid term project grades to see how we were progressing.  I feel that the grade I had gotten was greater than I thought it would be.  When I got the paper I was happy that I could see what I could work on to improve my advisor’s blog.

Throughout the week I continued to work on my advisor’s blog and make it the best it could be.  On Friday we learned how to add polls and surveys to our blogs.  I liked working with the polls because it adds a little extra to spice up the page.

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.

There was nothing really special to check out or listen to on my advior’s page because this week I really just messed around with the widgets.  Although there is nothing to check out of my advisor’s page, I got a new header on my page which is pretty cool.

Next week I plan on adding a teacher tube video and creating an image for my side bar in paint.

My long term goals include adding more depth to my pages and making it more complete as the days go by to make my advisor’s website the best page it could be.

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.

In the middle of the week, I created a chart to add to my portfolio page.  This chart contains work that I have done in the class so far this year.  I think that creating the chart would be useful for future use.  It helped me work more with the code side of the posts.  On my chart I added my brochure in publisher, my advisors website, and my project progress page.

I was not in class on Thursday and Friday.  I think that on Thursday there was a sub, so the class worked on their advisor’s pages and I think there was a tutorial on Friday from what I remember what Mr. Stengel said.

Overall,  I think that even though I was not in for the end of the week, I understand more about my website from adding the audio and the chart to my page.

Something else that I did this week was mess around with the widgets.  I explored the widgets and looked around for widgets for my advisor’s page.  I e-mailed my advisor and talked to her about widgets, but I still haven’t heard anything from her.  I created a page for widgets, but the widgets weren’t working so I deleted the page.

On Friday I added two new things to my advisor’s page.  First, I found a picture of the Statue of Liberty and I put it in paint and adjusted it to the size I wanted it.  Then I got the html code and put it on my advisor’s page in a side bar.  Also, I checked out the teacher tube and explored for videos.  I found a video that has something to do with history, and then Mr. Stengel showed me how to put the video on the 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.

Throughout the week I worked on my blog.  To be completely honest, this week was a little hectic and I didn’t get the chance to talk to my advisor as much as I would have expect to.  One thing I learned this week from working on my advisor’s blog was that certain themes cannot have more than one side bar.  By learning this, I decided to choose the Mandigo theme because I feel more experienced with that theme and I like working with it.

Yesterday in class we had to read an article on widgets.  From reading this article I have learned a few things.  I learned that MySpace is part of Fox Interactive Media, which had bought Photobucketfor $300 million.  I find this interesting because I have used Photobucket to place photos on and get codes to add to my MySpace page in the past.  After reading this, I also learned that Yahoo and Google also have their own widgets.

In class today we had received our grades for our April blog entries.  From reading the comment that Mr. Stengel had left me about the title I enabled the shading around the title.  I didn’t know how to do this until I asked Kayleigh and she helped me find it.  Thanks Kayleigh!