This week's assignment was to play with/setup an Eportfolio. I must admit I was a little nervous about the assignment at first seeing as though I had to do something like this for a similar class and used the Google sites for it. Due to me having trouble with loading different pieces of technology I got frustrated and moved on to doing a simpler task. The website that I chose to use for my Eportfolio was Wix. The school district utilizes this site for the library webpages in the district. Unfortunately, though I never changed the school's website for fear I would mess something up and because I liked how it matched the school's mascot.
Well, I'm quite pleased with this site. I love how it has so many choices of backgrounds for the user (e.g. over 50 )The templates are divided according to what your purpose is for building the site(e.g. Entertainment, Education, Business, etc..) This is important because what is suitable in one profession to have on your website might not be suitable to have on another. You can put in a slideshow which I have one so I hope you like it once you get a chance to see it. I know your thinking well that not a big deal but I 'm not have to preassemble one and upload it to the site. I simply have to add the photos that I want to use and it is built into the template. You can move the pictures up and down to arrange the order in which you want them to appear. You can also do the pages this way.
Another aspect that I like about Wix is that during the setup stage you can link it to just about all of the social media sites, it has an App Market where you can get a lot of apps free like Dropbox and others. One of the best features that Wix has is that it has a SEO(Google). SEO(Search Engine Optimization) is a great feature because it enables you to have ease in finding your Website. Now that doesn't seem like it would be very important if you are just getting started creating all these wonderful technological products, but take it from a person who has had numerous courses in Educational technology and have lost some of my products to either viruses or not remembering what I have named something. This can be very helpful.
The only problem that I saw with this site is that it would not let me open the webpage on my IPad. This is a problem because so many people are going to tablets because you don't have to do much to get online. If I were a teacher and was assigning my students to create/update their portfolio I would like to be able to have the ease of accessing it on the go versus having to login to a computer and check their progress. Also as a student if I couldn't afford a computer but have a tablet I would hope that I could be able to edit at home instead of having to wait the next day to use the school computer.
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