Creating a Website & Multimedia Activity with SoftChalk

My multimedia professor told me about an awesome program called SoftChalk. It's a lesson builder for teachers that allows you to create interactive lessons and publish them to the Web. It is so user-friendly it's crazy. I converted a 26 page Word document about the computer system into an 18 page website in less than 10 minutes. Each day during my free moments, I'm adding interactive quizzes and activities to each section of the unit & I've been able to link videos to certain sections too. All the hyperlinks that were part of the Word document carried over into the program. So, no information was lost. It's so easy to use, I love it. The only downside is the price. However, because I'm a student I can get it at a discount - yeah!!! I plan to buy the program once my 30 day free trial is up.

I was very apprehensive when my professor first told me about it. My initial thought was that I couldn't handle another new thing this semester. But, once I started playing with it and watched a couple of the tutorials, I was hooked!!!! I would highly recommend this program to any teacher looking to jazz up an activity. It is great!!!!

Creating an Advanced Website

One of our final activities in the multimedia class is to create an advanced website. This has me very nervous! I am not a computer wiz, by any means. But, I've pretty much decided that using iWeb is the best way to go. It is just so user-friendly. My little brother has an Apple computer, and thankfully, we don't live too far from each other. So, it looks like I'll be spending some quality time with him in an effort to create my advanced website. I hope all goes well!