Settle and Reflect

Today is catch up day. First we’ll debrief about the three tools we’ve learned so far. Then we’ll polish our portfolios. Today is the last day I will accept any work done in the first two weeks.  We should be settled in now, so unless you use your late-pass, you can not turn in a late assignment in the future.

Too much digital noise?
Read this article about taking down time from digital noise.  Do you believe this is true in your own life?

If all we have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
We’ve explored several tools so far, including Wallwisher, Google Sites and Delicious.  These are all tools to add to your professional toolbox. How could you apply anything you’ve learned so far into your life? Personally? Professionally? How is this related to what you’ve learned about learners in the digital generation? Be ready to share with the whole group.

Clean-up, clean-up: everybody everywhere!
We’ve been playing around with tools and building our websites, but it’s time to polish our work. You can create another Google site for fun, but the one for EDIT 2000 should be considered your official portfolio. As such, it should be professional. That includes the language choice, your pictures, and your layout. What kind of site would you show to a future employer after graduation? That’s your guiding question for today.

Make sure you have the following pages and revise them to meet the expectations of a professional portfolio:


Home – This is the first page people see when they land on your site. Make sure you:

• Introduce your site: What’s the purpose? What will we find here?
• Include a representative picture
• Optional: Insert a related gadget. Find additional gadgets under the Insert Menu.

About Me – This is your autobiography page. Using complete sentences, answer the following:

• What’s your current major and anticipated graduation date?
• What are your talents and abilities?
• Why should an employer hire you?

Delicious Bookmarks-Place here a link to your delicious account

• Your delicious account should have at least 3 links of technology related to your future profession
• All links should be tagged
• If you were not able to add a bookmarklet to your browser, go to: http://www.delicious.com/help/tools to add one now. This will help you save and tag bookmarks easily.

Digital Generation – This is where we will link to your place-holder page for your Digital Generation Reflection page on Googledocs.  Make sure you’ve followed the directions we discussed previously.

Sidebar Navigation – This is how someone can navigate on your site

• Make sure your pages are organized the way you’d like them.
• (optional) You can add a countdown to an important event. You can tweak yours to make it related to your future job (launch party, first day of school, couples workshop, etc.).

Finish your site this weekend if you need more time. On Monday we will talk more about your learners and the content standards you might teach.