Classroom Website

My prior experience to working on a website only includes when we first began working on websites at the beginning of this fall semester. We learned how to select our templates, edit, hyperlink our pages, and even upload photos onto our website. Other than this learning experience I had never worked with google sites before.

For my updated website I was easily able to navigate around my website as far as editing goes. I did forget for a moment how to hyperlink my page, but quickly remembered because of how many times I had done it before. This time though our instrument scavenger hunt I was able to learn how to easily add my google slides, saved under my drive, and add it to my website. At fist I thought that it would take a long time to make the transfer, because I believed it was such a large file but I quickly found out how easy it really was!


This assignment is extremely important for every teacher! My orchestra website needs to constantly stay up-to-date for my students, so that it is easy and convenient to navigate. I will definitely use my website in my classroom. When I use this for my class I will add other important materials that they might need and have a concert countdown on our main page. I also want to make my website more personal for my students by adding pictures and videos of them.   

Digital Images

I have a lot of experience with digital images in both my social life and through my work. In my social life I like to download images onto my computer to save them, even if I don't have the time to print them out. I upload pictures onto Facebook. I like taking pictures because I like going back and remembering what I've done, and to see how much I, my family, and friends have grown. I work at CVS/Pharmacy as a photo technician, so I work with photos more than most people. I am also trained to develop, print, and cut film. I've taught customers how to use our Kodak Kiosk app so that they can send pictures from their smartphone to our kiosk without a chord or a mini sd card. I knew most of what was taught in class yesterday because I've been working with CVS for the past 5 years, so I've had to constantly keep up with our ever changing photo clientele and learning new technologies to upload or download photos.

In class I did learn how to properly download and resize photos using preview on my macbook. I also learned how upload photos onto google presentation. And finally I learned that resizing the photo works way better than dragging the corners of the photo. The next thing that we did was go to the music building and find all of the instruments for our scavenger hunt and download and share them through dropbox! I had never done this before, and I still was not sure how dropbox worked because I had heard of the software but never have used it, so it was really exciting to learn how to work it.

In my future classroom I can see me using this information to create slideshows for my students with picture that are properly sized and are at 72 resolution. I'm excited to be able to start finding good pictures of composers and artists to show to my students.    

Resources

This week we worked on our our resource list for helpful websites that we would use in our future music classrooms. Although I have now have had prior experience with wikis and how to properly upload a file, I've never had the experience using google doc where all members can type and edit our own page. I've never done an assignment where we used a google doc to upload a resource list for a group.

For the resource assignment I was able to discover good resources that I can use in my classroom that I had never thought about using. I really liked learning how to use a google doc! It was very easy and I was able to see what each website was like in the description. I also learned how to paraphrase my website to help make it short and sweet so that the student may get an idea of what the website is like.

Finally I would use this in my classroom for group projects. I think it would be a good idea to have students research websites and put them up on a google doc to help them do research on an important time era in music. Other than this I'm not really sure how to use this in my classroom because unfortunately and honestly there is not enough time for students to do projects like this because students have to reach a certain level in their playing in such a short period of time. There really isn't any time for any of these kinds of projects. I'm hoping that this will change to help enrich student's experiences but I've never seen a music classroom that has time for things of this nature which is very sad.