Master's website

(1) Master's Program Home Page 

VIDEO - Creating a Google Site [3:32]

Task: Create a home page that includes the following:

• Portrait: Include a photograph of yourself on your home page.

• Banners: Include a banner for your home page that is relevant to the subject you teach. Although your own photos are best, you may wish to use a royalty-free photo from Unsplash or other Free-imagery site. 

• Background: Write one or more paragraphs in which you explain your personal, educational, and professional background. Include links to the high schools, colleges, and universities you have attended. Identify degrees earned and the fields of study in which they were obtained.

• Teaching: Explain how you became interested in education as a career, and describe the classes and levels you plan to teach. Express your philosophy of education. Provide links to schools at which you have taught or student taught.

• Interests and Hobbies: Describe your interests and hobbies. Include photos relevant to your interests

• Image Carousel: Put on image carousel on your home page, with links to your personal photos folder

• Appearance: Make sure that your home page, and all subsequent pages, appear professional.

(2) Master's Courses Sub-sites

VIDEO - Creating  and Organizing Subpages [8:18]

Task: Create the following sub-pages or sub-sites

Syllabus & work for each course - Create separate websites for each class in the program.  Record ALL work for EVERY class in the appropriate page.

Banners - include unique, relevant banners for each assignment.  The banners can be images related to the subject you teach, or related to the nature of the assignments.

• SED 600 Research in Secondary Education

• SED 610SC Leadership in Science Education

• SED 616 Computer Supported Collaborative Science-1  

• SED 625SC Theory & Research in the Teaching of Science

• SED 656 Computer Supported Collaborative Science-2  

• SED 676 Advanced Laboratory Curriculum Development 

• SED 690SC Advanced Research in Science Education 

• SED 697 Directed Comprehensive Studiesor SED 698 Graduate Thesis or Project 

• Elective 1

• Elective 2

(3) Directory of Files on Drive

• VIDEO: Organizing files on Google Drive [13:37]

Task:  Create a logical directory structure on your Google Drive that includes the following.  Provide "view only" links so that others can view the contents of your folders.

• Master's Folder - Save all of your files for this class (photos, screen-shots, spreadsheets, slide shows, etc.) in a master-folder.  Make certain that the folder privileges are set so anyone with the link can view. 

• Course  subfolders - Create subfolders for all Master's Program courses:

  • 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. SED 600 Research in Secondary Education

                2. SED 610SC Leadership in Science Education

                3. SED 616 Computer Supported Collaborative Science

                4. SED 625SC Theory & Research in the Teaching of Science

                5. SED 656 Computers in Science Teaching 

                6. SED 676 Advanced Laboratory Curriculum Development

                7. SED 690SC Advanced Research in Science Education 

                8. SED 697 Directed Comprehensive Studies or SED 698 Graduate Thesis or Project 

• Personal photos folder -  Create a personal photos folder and place in it photos relevant to your interests.                                                                         

(4) 616 Sub-site - with directory

VIDEO: Incorporating files in your website [9:32]

VIDEO:  Organizing photos from your phone in a cloud folder (Google Drive) [2:17]

Task: Create assignment pages for SED 616 that include the following:

• Checklist: Embed your checklist on the home page of your 616 website.  Each item on the checklist should be linked to the subpage where the artifact may be found

• Links: Link each item in your checklist to the appropriate webpage or file.

• Assignment pages - Create a new sub page for each assignment within your 616 website.

• Photos - Create a photos folder that will include photos that you have taken on your phone, screen captures, and photos and videos you have obtained from other sources.

• Menu - Include links to all assignments in your sidebar.  

• Banners - include unique, relevant banners for each assignment.  The banners can be images related to the subject you teach, or related to the nature of the assignments.  Sample banners.  You may also wish to use a free resource such as Unsplash or Creative Commons.

• Documents - Include documents in your website as requested in assignment descriptions

(5) Master's Action Research

Task:  Create web pages for your Action Research

• Ideas - list your ideas for an action research project

• Action research chapters

  1. Proposal

  2. Introduction

  3. Literature Review

  4. Methodology

  5. Data & Findings

  6. Discussion