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
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Lovely pictures. Well done. Trying to get around using all this technology is horribly time consuming and I sympathize / empathize with you. I seem to be doing the same- spending hours trying to find out how to do something on the computer. I even had problems trying to post to blogs as I couldn't see how to select an option below. I now have a google account-or maybe I had automatically created it by using "blogger" and was unaware of this?.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is good for us as teachers - what may be simple and obvious to one with the knowledge is not always so for someone else encountering it for the first time. Can we simplify our instructions / teachings so as not to lose our learners focus?
Maybe I will have to try your instructions above and return to you with "Excuse me sir, it won't do as you said. How -----"
Regards
Joan