McCaffrey Website

I created my first website. Well, not exactly true. All teachers in Loudoun County Public Schools have a web page they are to maintain on their school's web site. But this is my first experience creating my very own website with my own pages. AS with everything we have done with Google this was a very user friendly experience. I played with some of the pages others had created, read the Google help, and probably spent way more time than was needed reading about the options in Google Sites. However, after doing this over the week, I made myself sit down this morning and actually do the assignment! I selected a template, created the introduction text, and began. My Welcome page just has a short paragraph about me and then I played with gadgets and added a gadget. There is a resume page and a page where I could place my rubrics for easy access by my students and parents. I also went into the settings and added some tags, and then had to place a few pictures in too. Here is my website: Mrs. McCaffrey

I had never created a website before, so there was much for me to learn. I spent time looking at sites that others had obviously spent a great deal of time creating. I looked at pages that others in class had created. I started simple and learned how to link documents as well as other websites. I made sure I had a side bar with the additional pages that I created. I learned many new things in this activity and I was surprised at how easy and intuitive the steps were for me.

I created this website keeping in mind the instructions that it should be created with my future use kept in mind. So, the site is one that I could build on as an easy place for parents and students to go to access the information that I am always distributing to them. Because I spend a large part of my day disseminating information, this site will be very useful to me going forward. It is an easy way for me to share my information with both students and parents.

The NETS standard that applies here is modeling digital age work and learning. I used a website to easily communicate relevant information effectively to students, parents, and peers. I also modeled effective use of current and emerging digital tools and used information resources to support learning.