Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
To Add Gadgets
Go to new post then layout then add a gadget. Choose the gadget (and there are hundreds see Most Popular). Choose those you want by clicking in the plus sign, then Save. Go back to view blog and lo!! see the new gadget on the top left of your page.
Recapping this Learning with Leigh 7/04
1.Sign in via Google Reader with your name on bar. This means you can glance at all the new info that has come in. Means you can comment and interact socially.
Lower left corner are the others in this group - if they are bold and have a number that means that there are new items to be read. These are displayed so you can glance through them. [Job for me to do - investigate a Youtube for how to use Twitter and post it for the others]
If there is an RSS feed there will be a square symbol with 3 demi-semi circles on a yellow ground. [NB new tab = control T]
Go to the site you want and click on the RSS feed and put it onto Google which then which gives you 2 choices. Add to your Google Homepage or Googlereader. Select Googlereader. This will then put it our group page.
2. Looking for free software under Wikipedia ('FOSS' [free and open software] search)
OPEN OFFICE 3 free alternative to Microsoft Office 2007. Go to Open Office 3, install and use.
GIMP alternative to Photoshop
INKSCAPE alternative to Illustrater
Lower left corner are the others in this group - if they are bold and have a number that means that there are new items to be read. These are displayed so you can glance through them. [Job for me to do - investigate a Youtube for how to use Twitter and post it for the others]
If there is an RSS feed there will be a square symbol with 3 demi-semi circles on a yellow ground. [NB new tab = control T]
Go to the site you want and click on the RSS feed and put it onto Google which then which gives you 2 choices. Add to your Google Homepage or Googlereader. Select Googlereader. This will then put it our group page.
2. Looking for free software under Wikipedia ('FOSS' [free and open software] search)
OPEN OFFICE 3 free alternative to Microsoft Office 2007. Go to Open Office 3, install and use.
GIMP alternative to Photoshop
INKSCAPE alternative to Illustrater
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Blog for Assessment
This is another site which I want to explore further.
I would like comments and other peoples' experience of using blogs for assessment - especially for Foundation learning.
Jill
I would like comments and other peoples' experience of using blogs for assessment - especially for Foundation learning.
Jill
Bamboo Project
As I have been exploring this blogging business I have come across some sites which I think will be useful to teachers. This one has some good links you might like to try. Jill
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Beth Kante
What do people think about Beth Kante? I think she is amazing and keep finding new things each time I watch the vid. Jill.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Delicious way to bookmark
I have started to use My Delicious as a ‘favourites’ storage point because I can access it universally. I have a computer at work in my office, I often do research in computing labs with my students and I have two computers at home so I want all the web sites I am using to be accessible.
I also have access to the Delicious sites of some colleagues. I subscribe to various online journals and materials, and when these come through on my email, I can scan them and book mark those I may not need now, but that look useful for work I may cover. As I book mark them, instead of putting them into folders where they can be lost for days, I tag them with keywords reflecting their content. The beauty of this is that you can use multiple keywords to find them. They are then tucked away for reference without my having to trawl back through my emails to find them – a hit or miss system I have used in the past. Nor do I have the frustration of knowing the site I want is booked at home and having to go through the rigmarole involved in connecting to it and then finding it buried in a folder.You can access the delicious site at http://delicious.com/and I see that you can also make it an add on in Firefox, which I haven’t investigated but which might be useful.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615You are all welcome to visit my delicious site and have a look at how it works. I have not organised the folders particularly tidily yet – that will happen as I am using it. My address is http://delicious.com/JillDD Look forward to seeing you on Tuesday – to learn more about this world of helpful tools!Jill
I also have access to the Delicious sites of some colleagues. I subscribe to various online journals and materials, and when these come through on my email, I can scan them and book mark those I may not need now, but that look useful for work I may cover. As I book mark them, instead of putting them into folders where they can be lost for days, I tag them with keywords reflecting their content. The beauty of this is that you can use multiple keywords to find them. They are then tucked away for reference without my having to trawl back through my emails to find them – a hit or miss system I have used in the past. Nor do I have the frustration of knowing the site I want is booked at home and having to go through the rigmarole involved in connecting to it and then finding it buried in a folder.You can access the delicious site at http://delicious.com/and I see that you can also make it an add on in Firefox, which I haven’t investigated but which might be useful.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615You are all welcome to visit my delicious site and have a look at how it works. I have not organised the folders particularly tidily yet – that will happen as I am using it. My address is http://delicious.com/JillDD Look forward to seeing you on Tuesday – to learn more about this world of helpful tools!Jill
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Introduction
This is my second attempt at creating a blog and, of course, I want this try to be wonderful, but I fear it will be a bit shakey as I become familiar with the process. Six months ago I created a blog (not through blogspot) but I then lost my username, password AND blog title (which I carefully wrote on a torn off scrap of paper), so that is floating, untethered in cyberspace, never to be tracked down. I hope this attempt will be more successful. Here goes...........
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