Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course

Tomorrow I’m starting the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Course being offered online by George Siemens and Stephen Downes.  There are over 1,600 people participating in the course.  It will be quite an experience!  I’m going to start some of the readings tonight, but was disappointed to find that many are pdf. documents which don’t allow [...]

Web 2.0 Overload

I had been trying to keep both this blog and my Blogger one going in order to compare their capabilities and offer my students a choice of blogging sites to use to create their own blogs.  By using both sites, I hoped to be able to answer some how-to questions as they would come up. However, [...]

Eureka

  Yipee!  I found how to get back my original sidebar.  In the Word Press forum someone asked the same questions that I had, “How do you delete a widget?”  The answer was to go to Presentation>Widgets and then click and drag the widget you don’t want into the widget box with all the icons.  [...]

Voice Thread

I have been trying out Voice Thread and think it has a lot of potential for teaching.  However, I experimented by copying 4 photos of my daughter from when she was younger and asking my relatives to post comments on the photos for her birthday.  The uploading and commenting with the webcam were easy for me [...]

Reflections

This fall semester teaching at SUNYAB has been quite overwhelming.  Having had 50 students to provide feedback to was rewarding but extremely time-consuming.  I found that I didn’t have time to explore new online  tools myself or to refine my skills at using the tools that I am familiar with in order to keep my [...]

Learning is about Building a Network.

On Monday Will Richardson gave a presentation as part of the online conference on Connectivism.  An idea that really struck home with me is that learning is about building a network of reliable  sources.  Richardson emphasized that we should model that type of learning for our students and showed a visual of his own network of [...]

Blogging from Flock

I haven’t had much time to try out Flock, so this is a test run to see how to blog to WordPress from Flock. I’d also like to see if I can successfully blog to Blogger. I now see that when I click Tools in a Blog Post in Flock, I get a window called [...]

Inserting a Power Point Presentation

 This was a successful attempt to upload a PPt about creating a webquest on Quest Garden to both a post and to the sidebar in Word Press.  Here is the uploaded PPt.    Tips for Quest Garden    The same PPt now also appears in my sidebar.  Here are the steps I followed.
In the Dashboard view of Word Press:
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To Do List

This is just an online reminder for myself of things I want to check out this week.  For each of the following, I’s like to compare the manner of doing the operation in Blogger and in Word Press.

Inserting a Power Point presentation in a post and in the sidebar.
Inserting pictures in a post from hard [...]

Relative Success

First Snow Fall 002.jpg,
originally uploaded by Anciana.

Thanks to Nancy and Patricia for their help in learning how to post pictures directly from Flickr. I chose a template, but some coding shows up above the picture.  Help!!!
Maryanne