Final Concept Map

Here is the final concept map. I will be posting the URL for the website tomorrow after I finish my final touches on it.

Finishing touches!

I'll add the google map to the interactive classroom page. I added the podcast already it is just in the format of a YouTube video because I thought more people would listen to it if it was directly linked to the page instead of downloading an audio file.

Concept map looks good!

Is this ok?

Is this ok for the final concept map? I wasn't sure what you guys wanted to include so if you want me to change anything just let me know. Also I noticed that the google map wasn't included along with the virtual pen pals and the podcast is still missing. I was thinking we don't have anything about the culture of Kalamazoo so I am going to work on that as a lesson. But I think another great lesson would be about advertising- I thought that we could include in the creating a live museum ways we could get students to advertise the museum by looking at different newspapers from Kalamazoo from the past. I think we need an introductory lesson as an overview of what our unit will be over. I was also thinking of having another lesson of Kalamazoo then and now which would have the students look at how Kalamazoo has changed over the years. These are just ideas I have been coming up with while doing the concept map. Is that something you guys would like to add? Let me know.

IDEAS ON LAYOUT

So here are some of my ideas on our layout of our website.

• Main page - description of project and website. The main page could also include where we would talk about the project our team is working towards and what this semester is leading up to. 
• Page on "Historical Landmarks/Buildings in Kalamazoo" - at this page we can include any lesson plans, digital stories, etc that fit in this category. 
• Page on "Historical Figures of Kalamazoo" - at this page we can include any lesson plans, digital stories, etc. 
• Page on "virtual penpals" -at this page we can include our virtual pen pal part and our concept map. 
• Page on "Interactive Classroom" - this was an idea that Jessica had that I like as well. We could include this in "virtual penpals" page too? We can include our inspriation map (concept map) and explain the effective uses of a blog (and this is where we would add our blog link) We could also put our podcast on here. 
• Page on "Create a Live Museum!" - this page can include what our final project would be for the students. This would be a good page to add some of the new items that we need. 
• Page on "Standards" - This can be one of our last pages that includes the standards that we need. 

I just wanted to post some starting ideas on here so you guys can look at it. I will work on this tomorrow as well. I think as long as we figure out the pages we are each going to focus on and include in our website, by lets say wed at the latest. 

We also each have to make a new original item. I am open on doing whatever will fit best into our website. 

web site

I added a little more information to the home page of our web site, and I also added the WMU logo. I can't figure out how to make the logo smaller though. I also couldn't figure out how to add links off of the home page to go to other pages to add assignments on those pages.

Final concept map

Hey, I was wondering if you guys could be more specific about the historical landmarks, building etc. that you researched to add to the final concept map just so we can show that these are the places, buildings that our students will be making the museum about. For the majority of the project I focused on the historical figures and for my second lesson plan I talked about population and how WMU and other local colleges have affected population so I will add that to the final concept map. Let me know if you guys have anymore ideas regarding the website or final concept map. Is the idea of the fixing the collaborative podcast still on?

Team Website info

The Team Gmail account email is kalamazoohistory2012@gmail.com. The password is Western11. I already made a Google Sites page. I haven't started working on creating any pages but I would like to start working on it some time this week. We still need to decide who is doing what and how we are going to put it together. She wants the website to be organized the way we would teach it not based on the assignments we were assigned. Let me know your ideas as soon as possible as I would like to get working on it so we can get the best grade possible.