Class Response November 3rd November 3, 2008

The topic of class today was building our own website.  We will be uploading our annotated bibliography assignment onto our own website.  In order to do this we used our flashdrives, so that although the software isn’t on all computers, we can use the portable flash drive to work on it anywhere.  We learned how to follow UNCW’s directions in order to upload our website and make it public.

I liked how we were all able to work independently and help each other if we got stuck.  I also liked that I was learning something I had never done before, because I feel like these skills will be beneficial later in my education and my career.   I disliked that I had technical problems in the beginning so I got off to a late start and felt as if I was falling behind.

I don’t think that any part of class needs to be changed to make it better.  The way that we got a preview of how we were going to progress step by step on the overhead gave everyone a good idea of what needed to be done.  Then we were able to work at our own pace and ask questions.  I think this was a very effective way to teach how to make our own webpages.

I think that the instructor intended that we learn how to upload our own website, so that when we are by ourselves we don’t have questions or get stuck in the process, because we have already been threw the process a few times.  The instructor intended we learn these skills so that when we are trying to work on our annotated bibliography our problems will not be technical.

I actually took away from the class a new skill, how to create a website and upload it to the public web.  I also took away problem shooting skills, because I ran into a few problems and error messages in the class and now if I encounter any of these problems when I am at home working on my project I will be able to solve the problem on my own and not waste time trying to find a solution.