Project #3 Blog

The main challenge I faced with project #3 was how unfamiliar I was with the Google Sites program. It actually equated into a load rework for me as I spent a lot of time on power-point presentations for my website, only to find out that I couldn't upload them and had to use the presentation option provided by Google. After the initial frustration, and there was a lot of it, things went fairly smooth. I came to appreciate how user-friendly Google Sites was, and found that power-points aside, there are many great things that you can do with it.
In my opinion, it's almost all pros for teachers being able to create their own websites for their lesson plans. One of the biggest collective concerns we had in W200 as far as using the internet in school was how to censor what the students had access to. Providing the websites upfront does wonders for trying to keep students on track, as they have no need to go elsewhere. I guess I would have to recognize the one con I can think of, and that's the amount of time it takes to put a Google Site together. I can't imagine too many teachers having enough free time to set a site up for every lesson they teach.
I really can see myself assigning a project similar to this one to my students, not very often of course, but as part of a science project, or even a project of its own. I think Google Sites offers a very easy way to allow students and teachers to utilize the internet constructively for education.