Addie – Analysis
August 15, 2008
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Analysis
The users for my intended project are going to my third grade students. The students at Las Palmas Elementary come from diverse backgrounds and speak languages other than English. The majority of my families are Mexican and Filipino. The students in my class are ages eight and nine. Even though the majority of users are English language learners, there are a few English only students within the group. This helps because they serve as language models for the rest of the class. In addition to the students, their families are intended users. I expect some hesitation on their part and difficulty accessing the site as well, but I am confident that the students in my class will serve as great facilitators.
As a result of using the web site, I want my users to feel comfortable accessing the site as well as make useful contributions and take away knowledge. Most importantly I want my users to adopt the site as part of their everyday learning and living. This will take work on my part. As the instructor and designer of the site I will have to promote it and mold wiki/blog heroes in my classroom.
Several classmates in the Ed Tech Comet program have already adopted classroom blogs. Grade levels of users range from primary all the way through high school. In my school community there are no other classrooms using a wiki/blog page at the moment.
As mentioned earlier, I anticipate hesitation among parents, but I think the children will be on board. If I share my enthusiasm for the site the children will too. One performance driver I foresee interfering with learning, skills and knowledge is time management. It will be a huge committment for me to make time available for the “blogger” to work on the site and I will need to make time to update it weekly to make sure it is always current with the happenings in our classroom.
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