Sunday I met with Mary to go over what we needed to get accomplished for the project. Unfortunately, Amanda couldn't meet with us because she is out of town, but we updated her on what we got completed.
I am creating a website that will accompany a project she is doing with Blowing Rock Elementary. Mary and Amanda are doing a lesson on immigration where they will be working with the 5th grade social studies teacher as well as Kathy Moore. The students will learn about immigrants coming to America at the turn of the 20th century. Students will be researching reasons why immigrants left countries in Eastern Europe as well as North America. Students will create their own "passport" based on some pre-determined specifications and use this information in small groups to travel through a mini Ellis Island that will be created in the library. Based on their research and passport, they will meet with judges who will determine if they can enter the country or not.
My website will be a way to house all the information that is used during the lesson. It will also be a way for other teachers to access the information to use in their own school and a way to keep the information organized so that Kathy Moore can use the information over again.
To see if other teachers would be interested in using the program, I am going to send out a survey to the other teachers in Watauga County to get their feedback. The teachers at Blowing Rock are incredibly excited about the project and the website but I want to see if it would be beneficial to others.
On the website, I am looking at having most of these components:
Background information describing the project
Background information on Ellis Island
Background information on the Statue of Liberty
Background information on immigrant homelands
Files of finished passports
Video of the completed project
Finished script to be used in mini Ellis Island
Now I am looking at formatting the website and where to post the website.
My issue is that I would like to use Dreamweaver to create the project and Filezilla to upload it onto my free ASU domain space. The problem is that I can't remember the password I used to originally create a website using Filezilla and without that I can't upload using Filezilla. I need a way to either change the password, find out what I used or another system to upload a website that gives me more flexibility in terms of design.
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