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From Print to Digital

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In the previous post, I mentioned having a printed worksheet to accompany the online upload process for book reviews. This week, I would like to present what I have put together and what my thoughts are for moving forward with this idea. Here’s a look at the layout I designed: The entire worksheet is an 11 x 17 page, printed and folded along dotted lines. I think it’s important to keep the format a size that […]

Content Creation Process // Part 1

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Building an online class library is not as simple a task as I had initially imagined it to be. There are so many details that relate to the young audience’s scholastic capabilities that differentiate such a platform from many other content-browsing and uploading sites out there. The trickiest issues I’ve encountered in creating an online class library for young students are: figuring out the balance between browsing content and creating content building a system for creating content that has been approved […]

Book Reviews, Not Reports

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Over the past two weeks, Kim and I had some discussions on the structure of this project. The more we discussed “structure”, the more we realized that this entire project and it’s components are all built on structure. The system diagram I created illustrates that on a broader scope. As mentioned earlier, we see this site as an online class archive for books that have been read by the students and their reviews on them. […]

Building an Online Class Library // Research

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This week I made some important progress on the research side of the project. I don’t think it’s enough to build a final, flushed-out product, but it’s enough to get started with, and to start building wireframes in the next few weeks. Education Week Webinar This past Wednesday, I attended a webinar that was part of Education Week titled, “Deepening and Widening the Way We Teach Writing in K-5”. Some important points that were brought […]

Building an Online Class Library // First Steps

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If you read my previous post, you know that I recently got in touch with my first grade teacher and have started working on a project with her. This will most likely be an archive for kids to share their reading experiences, and view those of others. In building this project I imagine to have a harmonious relationship with Mrs. Mason. We will most likely be making constant iterations, so I see it important to know […]

Mrs. Mason and I Reconnect After Over Twenty Years

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This is the beginning of one of the most exciting projects I think I will create. A few months ago, I got in touch with my first grade teacher through Facebook and we started chatting as any two people who hadn’t spoken in over 20 years may. Kim (formerly addressed by me as Ms. Blau, and later, Mrs. Mason) asked me how my family was, what I was up to and where is was living. […]