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Class Website Reflection

Barbara Arroyo
Miami Dade College
February 8, 2016
Professor Jessica Rodriguez

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Class Website Reflection

Experience
Creating a class website was truly more complicated than I had imagined. The free
website creator, weebly.com, was fairly user-friendly, despite my use of the limited version as a
trial subscriber. While attempting to add the required tabs for different sections of my website, I
did encounter a problem. I could not find a way to show all the tabs across the top of the page
without them being tucked away into a drop down tab on the right-hand side of the page.
Another slight issue I faced was with the alignment of text boxes. For instance, when attempting
to center images and place text boxes beneath them, the image would sometimes disappear or
stay exactly in the same place on the left of the page. The easier part was adding images from
my computer, adding text boxes, and editing title sections with brief descriptions of the
information shared on the page. Furthermore, adding links to outside websites and embedding
content on individual pages were also a breeze - click, copy, paste, and voila! Once I completed
and published my website, I was amazed! The site appeared very professional, well organized,
and informative. Overall, I would absolutely recommend Weebly to other users making their
own websites.
Analysis of Feedback
Upon completion of the website, I shared the direct link with my peers, cooperating
teachers, and parents of the students in my clinical experience classroom. After collecting
several completed feedback surveys from my site and carefully analyzing the data, there were
resounding concerns brought forth by parents. Among their concerns are: the ineffectiveness of
teaching styles, the lack of student motivation in attending school, and a lack of student interest
in reading for fun. Parents were concerned about the ineffectiveness of the current teaching

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methods and too much importance placed on testing. Additionally, a few parents questioned the
lack of assistance (or individualized instruction) provided for their child in the areas where they
required help it seems the parents are being informed of the areas in which their children
require the most help, but yet, the only instruction given to them is focused on preparation for
assessments. Lastly, the feedback I received from my cooperating teachers will be useful in
planning for my future classroom website. Some of their advice included providing parents with
an overview of the actual books being used in the classroom (Reading Wonders, Maravillas, and
level readers to name a few), including another tab or section to share the weekly lesson plan
with parents and providing an extensive list of recommended books for students to read for fun at
home. Upon analyzing the feedback received from my peers, I would revisit my website to make
slight adjustments in the font used in the titles and subtitles of each page it was italicized and
somewhat difficult to read. Lastly, some of my peers enjoyed the clean and simple background I
selected for the site while others felt it was too plain and uninteresting. In response to that, I
would attempt to change the backgrounds available on the free version of the site creator and
select a more user-friendly theme. In conclusion, learning to create my own classroom website
was an interesting assignment. Although it was somewhat difficult, the overall process was
fairly easy and the outcome was great!

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