I updated my website with the calendar for the course, added graphics, and checked all links. This was an easy assignment for me because I have made MANY websites in the past few years. NVU was okay to use. I would suggest it for beginner learners but ONLY if they have a tutorial that is well designed. My students would never be able to figure out this software without step by step instructions like Dr. Wang gave us. They struggle with Dreamweaver too. I believe that if you start a student off with building a website from scratch, they will be able to work with any program after that. This is how I learned. I was not given any templates or anything and had to design and build the entire site myself. Once I learned how to do this, using templates just saved time but I rarely use them because I know how to make them more suited for what I want.
I will reflect on this assignment again when I begin teaching web design to my students this coming year and decide if I would like to use this software. Again, I am not sure because my curriculum requires me to teach them Dreamweaver.
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ReplyDeleteYou are right that beginners do need step by step tutorials for a web site design. They need to understand the struction of the Web site. So start from scratch is a better choice than using a template like google site. Great job.
Thanks. I was such a technology geek in school that I never thought of all the instructions I would need to create for my students until I started teaching technology last year. It has been a real Eye opener.
ReplyDeleteYour website is great! Thanks, Kala, for some insight into creating a website before I started working on mine. Your suggestions were very helpful.
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