How to Build a Student Website using a TEMPLATE
How to allow students to EDIT their personal websites.
TIP: Build the sites on one account and GIVE PERMISSION to EDIT to the student.
Give the access to ADMINISTRATION so that the principal can look at and edit any part of the template or any individual website.
Set up a list of conditions
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| The list of websites by students at High Tech High School |
STUDENTS: If you maintain a useful website with positive words showing your school work, then the school is more likely to keep
a one-way link to your website ACTIVE on the school
"list of websites by students"
This is what the "List of websites by students" looks like at High Tech High School
If an offensive photo or video is included in any of the links on the
Invite students to create PLAYLISTS of their...
favorite music
poems that inspire them
lyrics of songs that (stduents can blog about the meaning that they attach to the songs. Why did the students select these songs? What music do the students carry in their playlists and what happens in their heads when they play those songs?)
Example: When Mr. Steve plays the song "To Dream the Impossible Dream," he thinks about his father. His dad was one of the few private citizens to attend the 1972 Environmental Conference in Stockholm. His dad brought back a strange blue and yellow poster with no images. "Ostrich politics will not protect the environment. In the soil we should plant beans." Huh?
Those are the thoughts that come when the singer say, "to run where the brave dare not go... this is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far..."
Mr. Steve then thinks about Dr. Fischler's blog and how Dr. Fischler describes the three parts of education as computer-assisted instructions, projects and discussions. LINK Those elements can be captured in the student's portfolio -- so bring a smile to a retired university professor and high school biology teacher by putting a little more effort into writing about your projects. Your attempt to capture your thoughts and display to the world something about what you have learned, your attempt to create something makes you a "creator" (not just a consumer).
What are you going to do with the things that you have learned? (That's Tony Wagner's big question. Show us how your behavior has changed since you learned that there are six or nine teaspoons of sugar in a 12-ounce can of soda).
Invite students to ADD TO their personal websites.
Invite students to PERSONALIZE their websites.
Examples:
Add a Personal history Workbook. Learn history "backwards" or "in reverse": start with your life, then study the lives of your parents and grandparents and interview them about "what was it like in the 1960s and 1980s?" Then go back and imagine what your great-great-great-grandparents saw and heard during World War One... Get the free ebook TinyURL.com/PersonalHistoryWorkbook2
Add a YOUTUBE channel
Post a "WELCOME VIDEO"
Post a video to explain each of the essays that you put on your website. This is going BEYOND
Add a blog
Add links to other social media
Tiwtter
By exposing your voice, your teenage way of looking at the worlld, your "way of talking," you will "turn off" some people. Some college advisors will hear your voice and unconsciously decide "I don't want this person on my campus." But your passion, commitment and excitement and interest in the things you talk about will inspire other people to want to learn more. Change your website into something more ACTIVE than the typical High Tech High website (a list of projects. here's my essay. here's my book report.") Think about your reaction when you look at a High Tech High digital portfolio. What is more interesting to you? The essays and book reports... or the photos and videos?
TIPS about making a video about your essay
1. point the camera at the essay
2. use a camera that has enough clarity and resolution so you can
3. make sure the camera remains in focus on the page
4. prepare a head of time by opening four or six Youtube channels to show videos that inspired you or that helped you with the writing of the essay. "This travel video showed me where the Frankenstein monster was invented by Mary Shelley."
Encourage students to take photos and make movies, upload the photos and movies to social media and then link those photos and videos to the Digital Portfolio (personal website).
There is an ad: "How far?" It gives me pleasant chills
360 / How Far? Australia / Expedia ad
How far would you go for the things you love?
How far would you venture out?
Would you climb a hill to see
them in their homes?
Would you brave the wild to feel them in your bones?
Would you cross the seas to see new things?
The light, the dark, the dirt
Would you capture them and bring them home?
to see what home is worth?
How far would you go for the sun you love,
beating on the sand?
Would you dive deep down into the depths of a stranger's land?
How are would you go for the things that make you wise?
Would you travel back into the past and see through someone else's eyes?
How far would you venture out?
How far? Australia expedia
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