Today’s goals:
- Review Harvest of the Month graphics
- Discuss ways to manage your online presence and how to create an online portfolio
Today’s featured website:
- http://www.internethalloffame.org/– A little bit of internet history for you! Is the site responsive? What design differences do you notice at different screen sizes?
Harvest of the Month media
- Where your stuff goes: school webpage, school/city Facebook, school/city Twitter
- Take a few minutes to review your media on this page.
- Are you using photos from the appropriate sources and not just grabbing any photo from an internet search?
- Are you proud of everything you’ve created? Why or why not?
- Do you see room for improvement for the next time?
- If someone who didn’t know about the Farm to School program and the Harvest of the Month viewed your media, would they understand what it’s about and would your media provide a good impression?
- Coming up- Potatoes (April), Seeds (May), & Strawberries (June)
How to manage your online presence
- Do this in pairs and respond to the questions on paper or on your computer. We’ll share our ideas as a group afterwards.
- Google yourself right now.
- What comes up as the top result?
- What appears on the first page?
- Does anything here surprise you?
- On that first page of search results, what sites are under your control?
- Were you even “findable” at all? If not much shows up, is that good or bad? Why?
- What impression would someone receive of you from this search?
- Why would someone do an internet search for you?
- Go to Bing.com and search for yourself there. What differences do you notice between this search and the Google search?
- Online portfolios: what they are and examples
- Online portfolios: make your own
- You have done great work and it’s time to let people know about it!
- You will do this on the class webpage, using the student examples above as a guide.
- Your portfolio will be a sub-page of the page you have here.
- I have created a “My Portfolio” page for everyone that is linked off of your page. You are free to edit this link- change the text, maybe add an image to serve as the link, whatever you want.
- First, log into the class webpage here. Second, click on the link to your portfolio page and then click edit page from the top menu since you’re logged in: Andrew, Cameron, Curt, Gina, Gustavo, Jamaal, JJ, Lincoln, Mohammad, Pat, Racquel, Sam
- If you don’t remember your user name or password, see me.
- For work that is not live online, post a screen shot. For example, if you like a page you created recently, open it in a browser, take a screen shot of it, and post it as an image. Make sure you have no other tabs open. Use Paint or Pixlr.com to edit your screen shot.
- For your Harvest of the Month media, post both the graphic and a link to where it is published live (here). It will look impressive to have your work live online!
- Some of you opted to have your work posted to our online directory. If you did, find your name here and include a link to your directory on your page (make sure it’s yours and not the general class one). It’s not too late if you don’t have work up here and want to; let me know.
- Don’t forget to post brief explanations about what your work is (see the student examples for a guide).