Having just finished our online curriculum unit on quadratic function, I was happy about organizing and sharing some of my brick and mortar materials into one google document. It was great to become more familiar with google documents and learn how to collaborate.
I do like the kind of open-ended lay out of google documents and the comfort in knowing that I can easily "share" my document with anyone who has web access basically. I also feel that I am often drawn to and tempted to use the spreadsheet format of a document. But an even better starting place I found again was http://www.mywebspiration.com/ that I could kind of brainstorm using a concept map mentality and that can actually by saved as or transferred to a google document to create a more linear outline.
Those were things that I learned and practiced in the process. What I see in other unit plans and would like to improve on is a more polished final product. Having looked at the linear functions unit plan which is organized on moodle, it is so much more impressive and easy to follow.
Our unit had all the right "parts" but it needed to be laid out in a more user-friendly manner on to a platform (if I am using the right word) like moodle. Also, the links and visuals were so much more easy to follow.
I guess I feel like I am always in search of a "template" to put all my ideas, however, I get frustrated because the application of the day always seems to change. I have spent a lot of time trying to improve my faculty website at our school districts website. However, it is just too clunky. I have a lot to share but the process is just too tedious and limiting. I know just enough to be dangerous in a lot of different arenas but don't have a home base to organize my thoughts, unit plans, lesson ideas, etc.
Not to bring it full circle or contradict my original message board post this week about open-source applications, but I would be happy to pay a reasonable fee to have a template and flexible application to share my materials with my students and collegues if it avoided roadblocks and constant changes.
However, after seeing
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