Tweaking....

I have been tweaking menus this past week. I have looked at static content pages and coordinated them with the menus. I changed the Curriculum Menu Item under Support--I added a Lesson menu category and Course Readings menu category. It seems to me that although our site is dealing with one lesson, we should design it to accommodate all the potential lessons and resources that would be needed.

Also, I have been working on writing a script to use for the training videos--since I will try to redo those to show screen captured video instructions. I would like to rework the "help" videos I did since I was so new to using camstudio and the settings caused the files to be large and unsynched. I watched the video that Mr. P. sent to me--it was a good camstudio tutorial that really helped with the settings.

I have been trying to think of some type of "map" that would suit our curriculum and students. I looked at various components, modules and bots and found some progress bars that I thought might work--however, one is strickly a backend progress bar component for admin--tasks done, etc. The other is a module that doesn't give much in the way of tweaking to fit with our template or purposes. So, I am thinking I will look around. Maybe I can use Inspiration to create a type of map that is tied to the different lessons--like a "You are here" and that would put a spatial map artifact into our site....I will think about it.... The reason I was thinking of it is that it might be nice for students to be able to see how much of the course is completed and the projects that should be completed by that time....a little different than a calendar (which is kind of a map). Well...wish me luck on this....

Actually, what I have decided is that you could tweak a site like this every day 24/7 and there would always be more improvement. I really am beginning to admire the comprehensive coherence of the PolarHusky.com site.