PART 1
Mock Classroom Website (details/guidelines to follow)
This is a website you create (you may have already created it) with a link to it from your assignment tracking sheet)
Please consider these suggestions as the floor rather than the ceiling. A well designed website that contains these items will receive a “B.” To receive an “A” there needs to have a significant quantity of your own or ideas (not words) inspired from other websites to facilitate educational and administration functions. Think about the ideas discussed by Alan November and incorporate mechanisms in your website to implement those ideas (eg one could have a database of accessible playgrounds with critiques that students add to regularly).
Design Considerations
Visually appealing/well organized
Easy to Use
Fun activities
Fun!
Functional--links work and is easy to navigate
Website Should Include as a minimum/starting point
General Information
Teacher Contact Information
Background of Teacher including you educational/ed-tech philosophy
Class description
Tech Tools
Use of resources learned in (and out of) class
Google Forms (Example classroom ones)
Google Docs (Example classroom ones)
Spreadsheet (Example classroom ones)
Administrative functions
Class schedule
Assignments/expectations/homework links
Upcoming events
Calendar (does not need to be a Google Calendar--can be one you create with a table)
Educational Functions
Links to useful Sites and resources for teachers, students, and parents (You can use your annotated list)
Section for student participation/feedback (Create and publish a link to a Padlet or any blog platform)
Security issues with levels of permission for parent agreements (Google Doc)
Assignment(s) (Include your activity for your video lesson and at least 1 other)
Instructional Video(s) (Module, Video Lesson, and one other found video teaching a topic)
Also
Creativity and ideas from other websites. Include items beyond what is listed to enhance the appeal, interaction, educational value, administrative value, networking opportunities of your website.