Frustration…

Okay, so this week in the tool kit I concentrated on building a website; I spent 1-2 hours each day on this, and I can’t believe that fact and the fact that today is Saturday. One hour can simply disappear as you read through instructions, try stuff out, fail, try again and so on… I do not have a website that I would want anyone to see and I’m beginning to wonder what the point might be in terms of education. Okay, I get the point, but why do all that work when you can use an LMS?

Working methodically through the toolkit page on websites, I began by writing a couple of simple web pages and linking them together. This worked but not until about Wednesday. I then went to “Bravenet” to get a domain. This was straightforward, but when I got an account, I realized I can use themes and write pages right in the site. Because my pages are so rudimentary, why bother writing code? So…

I chose a colour scheme and all that jazz and now I’m sitting here with a fill-in-the-blanks shell and I’m done for now. I seriously can’t believe that this is what I’m left with after a week of work. Something to think about when estimating time for beginners.

I learned Moodle alone; I played and fiddled with the site while researching and reading about pedagogical approaches to online learning on and off through the entire summer of 2004; my course ran that fall and it was, in my opinion, a thing of beauty. 😉

Do I need all summer to build a website? After completing assigned tasks in my two ETEC classes,  after my dog is walked and my garden is weeded…I’ll give it some time. Truth is I’m now bound and determined to figure it out, but one must prioritize.

Time to let the things I’ve learned gel and focus on my LMS proposal for 565 and tons of readings for 520.

Sooner or later, I will prevail!

(ps: in my opinion an LMS is infinitely easier to learn than building a website…which reminds me: I’ve also got a new Moodle site to build. Gotta go…!)