Web Authoring

This entire semester, I have been working to create and perfect a personal website that reflects who I am as a student currently, and what I aim to be as an educator in the future. The website is a great extension of my classes this semester; it is a way to express and show all that I have been learning in an interactive and attractive way. At first, the site was difficult to navigate. I started by picking a "theme", which is the way that my site appears. I chose a simple layout that had a green calming background and a simple oriental flower design. I thought some of the themes to be very overwhelming with color and pattern and I did not want my site to look too busy. Creating new web pages and editing the settings of my site was at first, so foreign to me. Eventually however, all of that became second nature and putting it all together became an issue of perfection (appearance and editing), as compared to just figuring out how Google sites worked. My site has many pages including, "Meet Your Teacher" and "School Supplies". The part of my site that I enjoy the most, and that I worked the hardest on is the section titled, "Web 2.0". Each of the pages under this heading includes an explanation of a specific Web 2.0 tool and either a screen shoot or an embedded artifact to give viewers a visual of just what each of these tools are. 

This is the link to my site: https://sites.google.com/site/mscochranesclassroom/
 

This is a screen shot of one of the pages of my site.