As you all know, we did not meet last week as a class. However, our project group - Mary, Kate, Erica and I - met for a few Margaritas and a bit of food to discuss what our plans are for our project.
Erica has posted a number of things for us on Google.docs, such as meeting minutes, etc. Mary has started a blog site for us on blogger, entitled 826 Valencia, and we have pretty much decided on roles.
We were to have met Joel from 826 Valencia yesterday to discuss next steps and share some ideas with him, but unfortunately he had to cancel. We will try to meet with him the week that we are on break and in the meantime we all have assigned tasks to complete before our meeting. Things are looking good!
I have not reloaded our video blog to blogger. Suffice it to say that it is on iLearn and I will load it withing the next week.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Week 8
This past Thursday, it was fun to watch everyone's vlog on Pink's content - I especially enjoyed Peter's and Ben's. I have just uploaded mine, but am a bit nervous that the content is not okay because it is from images we got from Google images and screenshots of websites. I would have gladly loaded it onto the SFSU server and then streamed it from there, but we have not gotten instruction in this. Does anyone have feedback on this. If it is not kosher, then I would rather delete my video from You Tube and make another that is okay.
Erica's presentation on Google.docs was also informative. I had not been aware that such a thing was available.
I was glad we got a few minutes to talk about our project with Dr. Foreman. I am anxious to get started with this part of the class.
Erica's presentation on Google.docs was also informative. I had not been aware that such a thing was available.
I was glad we got a few minutes to talk about our project with Dr. Foreman. I am anxious to get started with this part of the class.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Week 7
I appreciated the presentations on Second Life, Video Blogging and Tagging last Thursday. I'm having trouble keeping up with my First Life . . . but Second Life is very intriguing. I've become more aware of simulation software that uses avatars so that students can experience a scenario and learn at the same time - there is one I was talking to a colleague about called "River City", developed by Harvard. It is designed to teach students about environmental concepts, pollution, problem solving/scientific method.
The Tagging was something that really didn't resonate with me. I tend to be very linear and organized in my thinking and for myself, I could see it as something that would hinder rather than help me. However, I did see that it could be helpful to people whose minds work in a more abstract - random fashion.
Mary, Kate and I met with Joel at 826 Valencia and I think we may have found a match for ourselves with a project with them. 826 National would like to have a site where students from different 826 locations can share their creative writing with each other. I hope we can fulfill their needs. A related question is, how do we access our server space at the university? Maybe you can go over this with us Dr. Foreman.
I liked the short and sweet article about visuals and text. What I really enjoyed leading up to class on Thursday was going through the color and design web site. For a non-artist, it was really informative and enjoyable.
The Tagging was something that really didn't resonate with me. I tend to be very linear and organized in my thinking and for myself, I could see it as something that would hinder rather than help me. However, I did see that it could be helpful to people whose minds work in a more abstract - random fashion.
Mary, Kate and I met with Joel at 826 Valencia and I think we may have found a match for ourselves with a project with them. 826 National would like to have a site where students from different 826 locations can share their creative writing with each other. I hope we can fulfill their needs. A related question is, how do we access our server space at the university? Maybe you can go over this with us Dr. Foreman.
I liked the short and sweet article about visuals and text. What I really enjoyed leading up to class on Thursday was going through the color and design web site. For a non-artist, it was really informative and enjoyable.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Week 6
I finally found my way to posting my story in five frames! Finally figured out how to get the URLs - I could not figure out how to upload them as an entire set - advice? Maybe I missed something on Thursday?
Anyhow - it was fun to see everyone else's stories and to hear everyone's interpretation of John's picture story - especially his own!
Mary, Erica, Kate and I are going to check out a possible project with 826 Valencia. The organization is interested in setting up an interactive site for youth where they can share their writing! Could be fun!!
Where can I begin with the Flickr site??? After just figuring out a way to get my pictures into my blog, I can tell you that it was a bit of a problem solving task to figure out that 1) the URL of a photo "set" did not work, 2) Using "help" on flickr is not easy, and 3) finding the URL of an individual picture was a bit convoluted once I navigated through help and got an answer.
The fact that I had to click on a photo, then go to "different size" at the bottom of the page, then on that page find the bar with the URL in it seemed wacky to me! Why wouldn't the URL of the picture just show up when you click on the picture itself? When I tried to get help (which is where I fould what I just described via reading through others' FAQs) I found that it was a list of FAQs - not a regular help site - did not really make things easier.
After posting my photos in my round about way, I did look at the flickr sitemap and found the section on posting to my blog via email - I will have to try it out!
At any rate, I don't find the flickr interface to be very user-friendly - like I said, it is more of a problem solving activity!
Anyhow - it was fun to see everyone else's stories and to hear everyone's interpretation of John's picture story - especially his own!
Mary, Erica, Kate and I are going to check out a possible project with 826 Valencia. The organization is interested in setting up an interactive site for youth where they can share their writing! Could be fun!!
Where can I begin with the Flickr site??? After just figuring out a way to get my pictures into my blog, I can tell you that it was a bit of a problem solving task to figure out that 1) the URL of a photo "set" did not work, 2) Using "help" on flickr is not easy, and 3) finding the URL of an individual picture was a bit convoluted once I navigated through help and got an answer.
The fact that I had to click on a photo, then go to "different size" at the bottom of the page, then on that page find the bar with the URL in it seemed wacky to me! Why wouldn't the URL of the picture just show up when you click on the picture itself? When I tried to get help (which is where I fould what I just described via reading through others' FAQs) I found that it was a list of FAQs - not a regular help site - did not really make things easier.
After posting my photos in my round about way, I did look at the flickr sitemap and found the section on posting to my blog via email - I will have to try it out!
At any rate, I don't find the flickr interface to be very user-friendly - like I said, it is more of a problem solving activity!
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