Weekly Reflections- Week 4

Week 4: This was my final week to finish off my website and I was able to do a good job because I finished every single page that I needed to include in the website. The two final pages that I completed was the vocabulary test and the helpful  overall vocabulary for each different topic. The first page I had to complete was the vocabulary test. On that page, I had to include the vocabulary exercises that our French teacher told us to do. There were two exercises with 10 questions each on two different topics which were colors and classroom objects. Both the quizzes were created by the same website I used to create the other quizzes and they are also multiple choice.


The student would get the name in English and would have to choose the correct translation of it in French. The final page was the helpful vocabulary page which is the vocabulary that the teacher gave us to use in our website and I put a picture of all the vocabulary on the last page so the students could refer to it if they did not understand the video or needed more help. I think the website looks very good now and it is suitable for the Year 7's to use as it has a good design, is attractive and easy to navigate around and is also very informative and fun which would teach the students just learning French very well.

Weekly Reflections- Week 3

Week 3: In this week, I was able to make the same progress as I did last week as I was able to finish two pages which were the dialogue with questions page which was another one of the activities I had to include on the website and I also added the vocabulary video which is there to help the students complete the activity. On the activity page there is the entire dialogue that our French teacher told us to write and I had to write it on to the website. Next to the dialogue which is about introducing yourself and two people are talking to each other about themselves there is a picture with two people talking to each other that I got from the internet. Under the picture is the quiz which is about the dialogue and after the student has finished reading the dialogue they can then answer the questions about the dialogue and about introducing yourself. The quiz is made from the website that I used to create the other quiz as well and once the students answers it all right he can see what he did. I also changed the page color of this page for a different feel and then the student would not get bored and they would still be attracted to the website. The color is also the same as the banner. At the bottom of the page there is pictures of students in school/working and it would give motivation to the students that are using the website. Then the next page that I did was the vocabulary video which is the sub page and it teaches you all the vocabulary/ sentence structures that you would need to know to do the activity. The page color is also the same as the normal page. I think that these two pages look very good and neat and attractive to the students and I made good progress in this week as well and I am hoping that in the coming week I am able to finish the website and start doing the evaluations/reflections.

Weekly Reflections- Week 2

 Week 2: In this week, I was able to finish my first exercise and the vocabulary video to go with it. The first exercise that I finished was the comprehension which was about the family and I had to write what we were asked to write by the French teacher in class. I wrote the paragraph and I then added a picture of a family next to it. Under the information about the family there is the quiz which is about the family and they are the questions that are related to the text. I created the quiz with an online website that is used to create quizzes and I put the 10 questions that I made on that quiz with multiple choice answers. The background of the page is the French flag because the whole website is about French. The sub- page which you can go to from the activity choosing page or from the task bar is the vocabulary video. The video is what I got from you tube and it is a video explaining french family words that would help the year 7 students to the exercise much easily. I had to embed the video from you tube and it works properly now. I think that the two pages I created look very good and are similar to my plan except that in my plan for the page I had more activities on one page but our French teacher only told us to do one activity on different topics that she gave us and this is what I did. I think I did very well and I made good progress in this week and it looks very good.

Weekly Reflections:Week 1

Week 1: In the first week of  creating the website, I was able to finish the homepage and also I was able to finish the choosing the activity page. For the homepage I used a template from Wix which was a tutoring website template and then I changed the colors and the background and I added my own pictures and my own information. As you can see, I named my website French for Beginners because for most of the Year 7's it is the first time that they are learning the language. Then I added a task bar which was there in my design and it contains all the pages that I am going to include in the website. Under the task bar there is a slide show with pictures from France and pictures of the school and next to it is the signing up area. When a student signs up to the website, the website sends me an e-mail and I would then know the names of the student and their e-mail. Under the slideshow and sign up, I put an area where the student can read about how the website would help them, what they would learn, and also about me( about the creator of the website). Next to the information there are pictures of France and buttons under each one of them and if you would click on the buttons it would take you to a website with fun facts about that thing. Under everything there is quotes that are in French by famous French people. The background of the page is palm trees which are moving as you go on the website. I think the homepage looks very good and very neat and it looks similar to what I had designed but with a few things added and removed and I like the way it looks now. In the same week, I also made the choosing the activity page and that page is one that I added and was not mentioned in my design. On the page there is a paragraph saying why you should learn French with a picture of a girl working next to it. Under that it shows the different activities on the website. There are buttons under each one saying test yourself or vocabulary video and when you click on it it takes you directly to the page. This page is very useful because it will make things easier for the students to guide themselves around the website. The background is also the same palm trees and it is the same on every page of the website. In the first week I made good progress and I was able to create two important pages of the website that look very good and better than my designs that I made. The banner of the website which is the top also stay's the same through each page of the website.

                                                                                                 

Reflection- Web designs: Web Pages 2

This is my other design for the web pages and this is one of the topics that I am actually going to include as one of the activities. In the design you can see that the topic is Family and under it is a text. The text will be about a Family which is what we are writing in French class and there is going to be questions under it. It is a comprehension activity which is something that the Year 7's would actually be doing and they would be having test's and classes where they will learn about the Family. With this page in the website it would help them a lot for their learning. Under the Comprehension activity there is a matching up the pictures to the text activity where there are three pictures and three pieces of text and the student would have to put the correct ones together. This activity is good because it would not take that long and it would not be that hard but at the same time the student is still learning something. The next activity is a spelling test where there would be the English meaning of the word or a picture and the student would have to translate it into French. The words will be related to the topic and they will not be that hard or something that the student has never learnt. The last activity is the fill in the blanks where there would be a sentence related to the topic and there would be words missing and the students would have to fill it in with the word options below. I think that this web page is better than the other one because there are more activities that would attract the students and make them want to keep doing and it and there are pictures other than the ones related to the activity which would make the page look nice. I choose this web page and I think I am going to use this one for my website but I will make changes to it and add more colors to the background and I will also make sure that it is more spaced out and it is more attractive.

Reflection- Web Designs: Web Pages

This is one of the webpage designs that I had created for my website. In this webpage there are many different things that you can see including activities and images. The topic on the page was just an example and is not the real topic that I am going to put on the website. On this webpage you can see that there are 4 activities. One of the activities is matching up the images to the correct text. The other one is a comprehension which has a text about the topic I would include and there is questions under it. The last one is Images with a text and there will be questions about the images which the students will have to answers. I think for this web page design I did very well because I have many different short activities that are included which the Year 7 students would enjoy and it would not be that hard for them to do but at the same time they would be learning something that would help them in the French Class. I think that for this design I could have included more pictures that were not the pictures for the activities and something to attract the students to the pages. I could have also included a good background and made it more colorful. The way that the activities will work is that once the question is answered by the students, it would show a tick or cross beside it to show if the student got it correct or wrong and the matching activity there will also have to be a drag and drop kind of thing so that it is easier for the students to use and they would actually have to interact and do the activity other than just looking at it and answering it in their head.

Reflection- Web Design: Homepages

In our first week of making our own websites for Year 7 French learners as our IDU task, we had to first start designing our websites on a piece of paper or on the computer. In this week I was able to create 2 designs which were my homepage designs where I including all the things that I wanted in my website.                                        

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From my two designs, you can see that I named my website French for Beginners as this would be the first time for the Year 7's learning French and the website will include everything that they would need to learn to be prepared in school. In the first design I included a sign in box where the student that is going to use the website can sign up using their email and whenever they want to use the website again, they can come on it and log in and all their progress will be saved. There is also a tab bar where the student can guide themselves through the website and through the different pages by just clicking on one of the buttons on the tab bar. Next to the sign up and tab bar there is going to be a slideshow where it is going to be saying Hello! in different languages, including French. On the other side there will be quotes by famous French people about the language or about France in general. Under all of those things, there will be and area where you can choose your level of difficulty and also which topic you would want to learn. Once you click on it, it would take you directly to the page where you can start learning. Then the rest of the things are showing who created the website ( which is me) and also what you are going to learn on the website and why you should learn french which are both in paragraphs in boxes. The second design is the same as the 1st except in a different format and there are some things added like the levels instead of difficulties and also more activities. I think my designs for the website are quite good but once I get to creating the website, I might have to remove some things as the website might not be able to make it and I would also need to add other things to fill the space as well as figuring out how to direct the students to different pages and also make it much easier for them to use the website. I would also need to figure out a way of how I would make the sign up work so that it saves their progress every time they come back to the website. Now in the next week I need to finish the pages designs. The homepage design that I am choosing is the design 1 because it is more organised and less crowded. It would also be much easier for the students to navigate around it and locate each thing they want. It also looks more attractive than design 2 and it includes everything that I want it to include.