Week 5

RSS Feeds - from Week 4
My students had no trouble blogging and creating an avatar - what a good teacher I must be. However, I had trouble with the RSS feeds until Peter helped me out - what a good teacher he is. Anyway I am now able to get into my students blogs easily and see their updated work each week - great.

Digital Story
I've created quite a few digital stories as well as teaching students to create them, as I teach this every Friday afternoon. They are great fun to do and I've learnt heaps from working with my students. Some of them have created amazing digital stories. I've created a photostory and tried three times to put it on my blog and it refused to co-operate. It keeps saying that there was an error.
Update: Peter came and viewed my photostory and tried many times to put it onto my blog with no luck.


Web 2.0 Awards
This is a terrific site which I really enjoyed exploring. What I didn't like is TAFE's firewall which kept blocking some sites (typical). I tried Games and entertainment but after being blocked three times, gave up. The next area I explored was Foods. I looked at the 1st Prize 'Im Cooking' and learnt how to make Tomato Basic Crostini, vegetarian gravy and lots more. Great videos, and easy to follow. I explored the Galaxy - very informative. I also looked at Writeboards. I did the tour and created my own. Unlike a word document, you can get to your writeboards from any computer in the world with an internet connection. Students can use it to:

• contribute to a group paper
• collaborate with another student in another town, city or country on a project
• collaborate with a friend on wording for their project
• work on any type of text with anyone they wish throughout the world.

It is easy is use - just enter the persons email address.

Smartboards

I use the smartboard every week in my maths lessons - I usually use a visual manipulation to reinforce the objectives of the lesson or to help students gain a better understanding of the concepts being taught. I also use google to find a maths dictionary so that students can understand maths terminology.

At present I am in the process of creating my own lesson on the smartboard on Mapping Skills. It is very time consuming but I am learning heaps through trial and error.

Week 4 - No. 1 RSS Feeds

I've created my own RSS feed using the URL elm2008 and have created a new folder. My students on Friday are going to blog and I'm going to put them into this folder so that I can give them feedback as well as see all their blogs like we can in elm2008. I'll keep you up to date with how things go.

Week 3 - No. 7

So this week we have to talk about technology.

Let me see. Technology I find very frustrating, time consuming and I hate it when things don't go the way I want them to go. However, over the past few weeks I have learnt to create a blog, use flickr, create an avatar, edit my blogs and I'm loving it. Yes, it has been time consuming and that is what I find with technology - you'll find it after much searching, it will work only if it feels like it and depending on the mood of my computer, will let me view it after much groaning and snoozing.

Frustrating, definitely. Challenging, very. Enjoyable - yes, but only if the damn thing works.

The girls getting some beauty sleep

Hi here is my Georgie having an afternoon snooze on the bed while I am trying to do flickr as well as an avatar. As you can see, she won't have a sleep without her flea dolly. Charlie and Millie are also on the bed snoozing.

Week 3 - No. 5 - Photo of me with Georgie the pup

Here is a photo of me which I downloaded from flickr. I'm pleased that I was able to download it as well as edit it. The photo is taken of me when Tom and I went to pick up our puppy Georgie. The black shadow underneath her mum is Georgie suckling on her mum.

Week 3

Creative commons licence image from flickr

Image: 'Watersport or SPORTS in the water?' http://www.flickr.com/photos/15745225@N00/2198689841