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Team- Let's use this page as a place to collaborate. We can delete this page later. **Make sure you scroll all the way down to see most recent**

Thanks for setting the pages up...especially this one. The first page looks great. Thanks for the help. I think the other item that is to be included on the front page is the rating system. Have we decided on the icons? Maybe graduation caps, diplomas, a computer?
 * //Hey Team...Do you think that we should perhaps link our names to our personal blog or our blog's page that has our info on it? For instance, I (Dean Bennett) highlighted my name on the home page, clicked on the link icon up top (in edit mode of course), then chose external link (new window) and pasted the url of my blog. If we all do this, then visitors could theoretically get to know us. If we were really brave, we could find a way to have our picture pop up when someone hovers over our name (I have no clue how to do that though). // **

Someone cleaned up the first page quite nicely. Any ideas for the blog site page? I thought maybe a table with three columns. First column the url, the second column a description of the site, and the final column is the rating according to Mack's "at a glance." What do we think? I just added a few sites for experimental purposes on that page (dean).

​ What about adding a few pages that contain resources for teachers? I have included several on blogs page 2.

Also...I really like the idea of having several pages for our categorized blogsites. Any ideas on categorization?

Possibilities are grade levels, subject areas, and technology.

thurs morning 9/24: Are we ok with listing the blog sites as done so far, or do we want to create tables. I think that if we categorize pages, then we won't have too, too many on one page, so they'll be alright just listed. We should, however, get started on creating definitive categories if that's the way we want to go. (dean)

thurs afternoon 9/24: What do you think about additional pages that list helpful resource sites for

educators. For example the site that Mack used to create the rubric. We could also use this to list the sites from the first two courses that are helpful. I picture the wiki as a way to create an ongoing list of helpful sites. What do think?

thurs 9/24: 4pm: sure, sounds great. go ahead and add a page. (dean)

thurs 9/24 @ 7:30est: Hey Mack, shouldn't the title of your rubric be "Blog Site At a Glance" instead of Wiki at a glance? I thought that was being used to put a rating on the blogs or websites we all found? I'm probably wrong...yes, no??

Clip art ideas for rating: 9/25 Hey All, I cleaned up the first page; once everything is set, I'll go back and make everything look coherent. One of the biggest principals in website design is coherence of pages. I have a decent amount of experience in layout and design, so once everything is posted, I can go back and clean it up and make it all look like it belongs together. I just need to make sure that I have time to do it, so we can't be adding stuff at the very last minute on Sunday night! I should have all my blogs and links up at some point during the day tomorrow. Jessica.

9/25/09 Jessica-I am grateful for you stepping forward to help coordinate the look of the wiki. I will add a couple of resources to the Resources for Educators tonight. I added some clip art above if you want to use it on the front page. Do we have the criteria for the blogs yet? Joan

9/26/09 I posted the rubric Mack made under the "rating system" link, which I think was based on stars. It's on the page as a PDF, so if you didn't get it, you should be able to see it there. I also uploaded it as a word document, but I just didn't post it that way. 9/26/09 I looked at the rubric. It appears to be an evaluation tool for our wiki page. Has one been created for the blogs? (joan) I also changed the rating scale on the educator resource page to reflect the same 4 stars rating instead of 5 for the top rating. I change the words to the clip art. (joan) 9/26/09 I started adding the ratings to the blogs page. But also noticed that the rubric was for for the wiki page and not the individual sites. How do we want to rate the sites? What criteria should we use? Any category ideas? I am also having difficulty getting the font styles to match. Anyone figure out how to do this? Michele 9/26/09 How does everyone feel about organizing the blogs in pages by category? I was thinking of adding pages called: Technology Blogs and Resources, Teacher Development Blogs and Resources, Classroom and Curriculum Resources, Must Follow Educational Blogs (Thought Provoking Blogs). We can organize the sites everyone posted on these pages. Any suggestions?

We do need better categories. Those sound great but should they be simple like, Technology in the Classroom, Content Teacher, K-6, Must Follow Eductaional Blogs, Sites We Like. I can not for the life of me get a ratings widget to work on here. Has anyone else tried this? If we can figure this out I think it will work and look much better. And please post how you did it if anyone does work it out. Kleespies

9/26/09 The clip art is great! Val

9/26/09 Thanks Val. The clip art is a download from Microsoft. Joan Michele, To change the font style, click on "edit" and the fourth link after **B //I// __U__** is the T with the art icon. Click on this and you will see how to change the font. To change the size,​ click on the + or - next to the 100%. Color of font can also be changed here. Joan

9/26/09 Hi Joan, I tried that and it didn't work. Some of the sections became smaller than others. Some even remained in a different font. Frustrating!! I'll keep trying. Michele

Hi everyone, My links are posted on Blog Sites page 2. I tried to move them to Technology in the Classroom, but I wasn't able to cut and paste. Is there a trick to it?? Sarah

9/26/09 9:28 PM PST I thought I would drop in and see how things are going. I will be doing some clean-up work on the final site and adding a few things to spruce it up. Groups 2's site looks amazing, but we can do better. If anyone else is working tonight, see what you can do to make our page shine. Thanks. ** Mack

Hey all, I was wondering if we needed put our names with the blogs we've contributed. I was thinking maybe not so our site would look a little more professional. What do you think? We just use the honor system with the number of blogs we're contributing. ~Val**

That is a very good question Val. I am okay with the honor system. We win together, we die together, or fail. Let's go for the win. One thing, though, we need science resources. That is the only thing we are lacking now. I have put up as many resources that would work for this page as I have. Most of mine are for students, though. If anyone has any good science resources, please post them soon. Thanks. 
 * Mack

9/27 Here's a question...we're supposed to reflect on our comparisons and differences to other groups' sites on the discussion board on Walden, correct? I can't find the pull down tab for it, there's no dropbox application for it. I can't find where I need to write anything. I'm a little frustrated. I take that back. I'm a lot frustrated. Help anyone? ~ Val ** ....So now it's up. Sometimes I swear.....

9/27 Mack, I set up the initial style for the page and have all of the color information, and I was going to go in and change it all, but you're welcome to do it. The text should all be trebuchet MS, and the main color is #2a2b2d. The heading color is #e16bc3. (you have to put the # sign in or it won't work).

Thanks! Jessica

9/27 I cleaned up and added some phrases to the ratings on the first page. Check it out. You may want to add something. I'd actually like to get rid of the two pages named Blog sites and More blog sites. I started going through last night and moving on sites to the pages I thought they would best fit on. I think it was Kleespies that had the same idea. It seemed that we were working on that exact thing simultaneously last night. Please if you are adding sites today, put them on the pages that are categorized and NOT blog sites 1 and 2 pages. I have tried my best add graphics, pictures, etc. I am having a difficult time with this. Anyone else having luck with this? Michele

9/27 Hi Everyone, I finished moving Blog Sites page posts to the categorized pages. If you want you post in another category please go through and copy and paste or cut and paste in to the appropriate category. Dawn and Dean, can you please distribute your posts to the new pages? I'd like to get the Blog Site part 2 page deleted. Thanks. Still no luck with making the fonts uniform. It is driving me insane. Anyone know how to add some graphics. Michele

9/27 A **//__big__//** thank you to everyone. The site is has undergone a huge transformation in the past 24 hours. Joan Michele, I used the picture icon on the "Editor" toolbar. It allows you to upload clipart. I inserted the cap on the first page, a mouse icon on the teacher resource page, and a picture of two students using a computer. Feel free to change them. Joan

Thank you to whoever helped me out with moving my links to the Technology for Educators page! Sarah