Welcome to the Photo 1 website! This website is where you can see upcoming assignments/homework, projects, due dates, etc. as well as review what we did in class, see instructions for how to do certain assignments, and revisit PowerPoints we went over in class.
Not only will you be using this website to navigate the course, but you will be building your own website and using it to submit certain assignments.
In this class, there are 4 ways you will turn assignments in:
Through a dropbox on Schoology
Submitting it to a shared Google Drive Folder
By turning it in physically to Ms. Jones
By posting it to your website
If you aren't sure what is due and when, just check the home page of this website under the homework section and it will take you where you need to go! In addition, at the top of each assignment page, the due date and preferred turn in method will be marked in bolded red, as you can see at the top of this page.
Website checks will be conducted on the first day of every week (Monday or Tuesday). This is when I visit each student's website and check to make sure they are caught up and have posted what they need to on their websites. Again, if you need a reminder of what I will be checking for in an upcoming website check, just look at this website's homepage and it will be next to the homework icon.
Begin by watching the following video tutorial explaining how to create and use your own google site.
Then, follow the instructions below to create your own website:
Click this link to view a student template website. Your website should something like this one when it is finished.
Home page setup:
Sign into your google drive account on google.
Click on create new, then click on google site.
Choose a theme for your website by clicking the "themes" icon in the top right of your screen. You are welcome to choose from any of the themes, so select something that feels like it fits your vibe.
Name your website "Your Name's" Portfolio. For example, for me I would name my website "Eve Jones' Portfolio"
Next, go to the insert tab on the top right and click text box 3 times. This should create 3 text boxes.
Inside the first text box, write "Units," in the second text box write "About Me," and in the third write "Gallery."
Change the font of each of the three text boxes to be titles and make sure the type is in the center.
Setting up your other pages:
Navigate to the pages icon in the top right and click it.
Click the plus icon, then select "New Page." Name this new page "Units."
Click the plus icon again to create another new page. Title this page "About Me."
Units page setup:
Click on the new page you just created called "Units."
Navigate back to the insert icon and click on the first icon under "contact blocks" (should look like an image next to a few lines).
Using the template I linked earlier, create a new content block with an image and text for each unit. There are 8 units in total, just copy over the names of each unit from the template. You may leave the images next to each unit blank for now, as you will later be adding your favorite photo you took from that unit into that spot.
Under each unit, write "Assignments," "Projects," and "Notes" with a blank bullet point under each. This is where you will eventually link all of your assignments, projects, and notes that you have done for that unit. In other words, when I go to do website checks, this is where you should link all your stuff so I can view and grade it. You may leave these all blank for now, as we will fill them out as the semester progresses.
About Me page setup:
Click again on the pages icon and navigate to your "About Me" page.
Click back to the insert tab, then under content blocks click the first icon again (the image with lines next to it).
Upload a picture of yourself in the image placeholder. If you need to get an image of yourself off your phone, you can simply email it to yourself, login to your email on your computer, and download it that way.
To the right of your image, write "About (insert your name)" in the larger text section.
In the smaller text section, answer the following prompts about yourself (You can just copy and paste these in and answer them underneath each question. Be sure to bold the questions and leave the answers in regular text):
What grade are you in?
Are you involved in any after school clubs?
What made you decide to take a photography class (besides having to fill an electives credit)?
Do you have any prior experience with photography?
What are some of your favorite hobbies or things to do?
What is your favorite movie, book, and/or video game? Why do you like it?
If you could travel to any place (fictional or real), where would you want to go and why?
What is something you like about school? Something you dislike?
If you were to change one thing about the school system, what would it be?
Bonus extra credit question: Take the Myer's Briggs personality test and write your result below (include both the 4 letters you got and the name of the personality type, for instance "ENFP, the Campaigner"). Do you agree with your results? Why or why not?
Create hyperlinks to the different parts of your website:
Return back to the home page of your website by clicking on "Pages," then "Home."
Highlight the text you wrote that says "Units," then click the icon that looks like a chain above it.
Click the Units webpage. This will link the word "Units" on your homepage to your units page, meaning that when you click on it, it will automatically take you to all your unit assignments, projects, and notes.
Repeat the same steps to link your "About Me" page to the homepage. Don't worry about the Gallery section, we will add stuff there later in the semester.
To make sure all the links work, you can test it by entering preview mode. First, navigate to your home page, then click the icon in the top right that looks like a computer and a phone. This allows you to view your website from a visitor's perspective (aka my perspective when I do website checks). Click through your links and make sure they take you to the right places. When you are certain everything works, exit preview mode by clicking on the x in the bottom right.
Publish and share your website:
When you are happy with your website, click the publish icon in the top right corner.
Next, click on the share icon in the top left (a person with a plus by their head). Under General Access, make sure that by published site it is set to private instead of public, making it so that only people with a link to your website can view it.
Copy your website's URL by clicking the link icon in the top right toolbar, then click copy.
Submit your website link here by first finding your class period, then find your name and insert the link in the box to the right of your name. This is how I will access your website in the future, and how I will give you points for this assignment.
IMPORTANT!!!! If you do not press publish every time you upload new content to your website, it will not show up for a visitor and will instead stay saved as a draft. DO NOT FORGET TO HIT PUBLISH WHEN YOU HAVE ADDED NEW CONTENT TO YOUR WEBSITE!!!