I had way too much fun with One True Media… Way too much…
I can definitely see how this program could be used for something far less purile than this idiocy…
Now you can see just how much stupid stuff myself and my family get up to on road trips…
I couldn’t get the embed code to work though.
I have recently discovered a pitfall of using an online name in most places – when it comes to things you use your actual name for, you keep forgetting which version of your actual name you have used…
It took me seven tries to log into here tonight… go me.
I’m running behind! I just did the wiki and cruised around. I can definitely see the benefit of a wiki in the classroom! From prep to year 12, I can see how they would be useful. I can also see how I might use one now, since MSN groups is closing down and the writing community I have with a friend there has nowhere to go, except Multiply, which we weren’t altogether impressed with.
I intend to have a bit more of a play around with the wiki when I have time, but tonight has not been my night for computers, and let’s just leave it at that.
I did, however, add a website to the wiki – and discovered it a little easier to use than my previous adventures with the RSS reader. Much more intuitive, you might say.
A little late, I know! I was a little later to get going on the RSS readers, and as it turns out, I probably should have stuck around on the Thursday afternoon for the online conference, because once I signed up for the thing, I had absolutely no idea how to use it!
Not a familiar state of affairs for me! Blogging, I’d done, bookmarking, I’d done – Delicious just makes it easier and much better. I’d never even heard of RSS Readers, but I figured how hard could it be, right?
Wrong.
Signed up for the thing, and then discovered I couldn’t use it. I could not work it out simply by messing around with it which usually works for me! I’m sure some of my mates would have loved the look on my face when I realised I had absolutely no idea how to work the RSS Reader!
Sheepish is hardly the word.
Thankfully, Darrell came to my rescue by providing that great 3 minute video on the Moodle.
Problem solved – well mostly. I’m still kind of muddling my way around with it and trying to get it to work to my advantage, not always successfully. I do, however, intend to fiddle about with it some more, when I’ve caught back up and done week 4.
Hooray! The first post in the new blog!
I found setting this up not very difficult at all, except that it asked me to preferably use my private e-mail address, the result being that the confirmation e-mail got sent to hotmail, which I couldn’t actually get into at school, so right now I am sitting at home doing this.
I decided to call this “The Non-Abandoned Blog” because I have had many blogs in many places which I’ve generally grown tired of and… you guessed it… abandoned.
However, never let it be said that I can’t go on about things in a place like this. I like words, and writing in general and do quite a bit of it, mostly on the computer.
But I don’t know if I’d be able to get my students to blog… some days they struggle to log onto the computers! Anyway, hopefully this course will give me a lot of ideas on how to incorperate more ICT into my classroom!
