Update

I thought i better continue with my posts. It does seem a bit weird writing to everyone and no-one at the same time. On the USQ study desk, at least you know there are people reading your posts. Here it is not guaranteed that anyone will.

As you can see I have made some alterations to the blog. I have added a photo slide show. This was extremely time consuming and frustrating. I already have a google account which is why I chose to use blogger. What I didn't realise, it is not as simple as uploading photos and arranging them in to a slide show for viewing. I needed to become a member of Picasa web albums (through Google) and then upload an album to there. This could then be uploaded to my blog through the slide show gadget. A very steep and time consuming learning curve for a very frustrated pre-service teacher.

I imagined trying to teach this whole process to students. It would take several different lessons, many hours of signing in and signing out of accounts and uploading photos. The benefits of having free services like Google Blogger are great if the process to create a interesting and engaging blog are easy. Students would loose focus very quickly having to go from one program to another etc etc. I know I did!

That is my little rant for this afternoon

Cheers

Al

The first one....

Well welcome everyone to my very first blog attempt. As part of the EDU5471 - Web Resources for Educators course all participants need to set up a blog so here is mine. I found it rather intimidating choosing the right colours and template. Also what picture to have on my profile took a while to upload. What does everyone think? I was a cute baby wasn't i?

I will be journaling my feelings and thoughts about the course hopefully weekly and if I become accustomed to the ways of blogging perhaps daily. You are welcome to subscribe or follow my activities as I will also be loading up pictures of my life to show who I am and hopefully explain why I have chosen to become an educator. The past year has been extremely eventful with the birth of my daughter Grace Mair who is now 9 months old. There will be many photos of her and of our recent trip to the UK.

My initial feelings about EDU5471 are that the course is going to stretch me beyond any course I have taken so far. As an undergraduate, i have already found a huge benefit listening and interacting with the professionals on the USQ studydesk. More on this later...

Cheers for now

Al