Team Website

Since I was behind on the last assignment, thought I would get a jumpstart on the next one.  I've listed out all of the things we need to do for the web site and figured the ones that would just need to be completed by 1 person we could each volunteer for.  If you guys would like to handle in another way please let me know I am completely open to suggestions.


What is needed:
1) sign-up for a team account - let me know if anyone has done so otherwise I can do this immediately so it is one last thing for us to worry about and I will post the URL address once available.
2) final concept map - currently I am unable to open the file that was sent for the storyboard, but if it can be shared through another format or resent I can update the concept map to match the storyboard.
3) description of team web site - from our teacher:"Most of the projects created in this semester will be attached to our Team Web Site."  "Remember, the target for this web site is for teachers.  It will contain information and resources on how to implement project-based learning, walking students through the process of a specific project.  The web site should be developed in a clear, logical way with activities, examples, etc."  Mainly I got from this not to just list out our projects on our website but it needs to flow in a logical way that a teacher could follow.  I feel like this should be easy to meet as long as we follow the instructions.
4) items required that we have already completed

• each lesson plan (1 and 2) - once this section is created on the web page each group member should be able to post their own following the directions.
• each digital story - this could be done each individually, or if one of us would like to volunteer to put all three on here since they had to be posted on e-learning.  Let me know your thoughts on how you would like to post.
• collaborative podcast - I'm not sure if it would be easier to have whomever submitted the final one to the teacher to do, but please share your thoughts.
• link to collaborative blog (also needs a short description of what it is about) - anyone want to volunteer for this? If neither of you would like to do I can do this no problem.
• web site evaluation (links of web sites review, description - "be sure that they placed within the descriptions on each page of the web site in appropriate places" - I am a little confused on this, I get that we need to list all of our web sites that we evaluated with an short description but are we supposed to make this a section of our website or determine what sections we should put each one on based off of what they are about?  What are your guys thoughts?

5) New Items Required:

• opening page must contain standards the web site meets (Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations and ISTE: National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation) - these standards are for the whole web site (not just lesson plans) I will volunteer to work on
• each web page needs to contain an image - Who would like to work on this? (please note she does state they need appropriate copyright/ownership notices - you can "click on the link that Google Sites give you and use the web site where it was found by them.  You can cite the image by clicking on the image that you inserted into the page and changing the link to the URL where you found the image")
• Navigational bar needs to be organized in the order it should be viewed - I feel like the mock one that Meredith posted in the previous blog was organized and in order sufficiently, but who would like to finalize and work on this?
• use a common design throughout the web site, use the same font, font size, placement of the images, alignment of everything If we can just list what font, font size, placement, alignment here we can agree easily.
• Western Michigan University logo, must appear at the bottom of the 1st page (not on any other pages) Who would like to do?
• include the page that has the project your team has been working towards, what this semester has been leading up to - we have stated our general idea but I'm a little confused is this suppose to be a whole page on its own?  What are your guys thoughts?  Who would like to write this up formally?
• at least 2 web pages per student member (6 minimum for us), this is to be determined from the storyboard so if we can get to view this we would then each need to state what 2 web pages we would like to work on
• each web page must have 1-2 new items of information (description & links to 1-2 other web site with more information)
• create one original item (lesson plan, podcast, etc.) - do you all know if this is different then "1-2 new items of information", I'm a little confused...?
• each page must contain the name of the student that created it, a linked e-mail address (either team email or single team members email)
• opening page: description of information found on web site (talk about project-based learning and the big project) who would like to do this? Since I am looking up the standards and that is to be posted on the opening page I can do this unless someone else would like too.
• each team member must find at least 3 additional web sites (teaching resources, lesson plans, interactive web site resources - needs a description and plugged in appropriate places) individual work, but we should list here so we don't duplicate
• REVISED COLLABORATIVE CONCEPT MAP - (PART B), must be posted on blog by 11:59 p.m. April 19th - since I already volunteered to do this earlier I will do this
• POSTING URL FOR FINAL TEAM WEB SITE (can only be submitted for grading once) (PART C), must be complete and posted by 11:59 p.m. April 26th who would like to do this?

For a Key anything highlighted in:
YELLOW = someone needs to volunteer to work on
BLUE = individual work (some we may need to post on here so we don't duplicate one another)
GREEN = I have volunteered to do these items, unless someone else would like to do so I can volunteer for another portion