Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Stormy course ahead??


I know that it may have seemed in our previous courses like I understood technology... given that I helped some of your with course registrations, and Blackboard issues. I teach a computerbased summer school class and I am even the Infinite Campus (our grading program in OPS) building coach at Burke, but that is just because I use those tools regularly or have past experience. I am actually fairly clueless, my mother-in-law Skyped last weekend and I still have not figured out my microphone on my laptop! I don't Facebook, and I am more likely to write a card to my friends than I am to email. So I have an uneasy feeling about an Internet course about technology! I even tried to look up standards for blogging so that I wold have something to base a review of someone else's blog with or to write my own... it seems that anything goes and there are no standards! so here goes my first assignment!





Aquarium Field Trip


Get the behind the sceens look








The Science club is sponsoring a field trip to the zoo which will include a full access tour of the Aquarium. You will get to see where the animals go when they are sick for extra attnetion. Checkout how the water is kept clean and walk the tunnel from above!



June 1 2011 9am - 1pm


Pick up a permission slip in room 200






For more information on the above, please contact:


Katie Mauseth


May 11,2011




Well that did not seem so bad. I definitly found this to be more difficult that using microsoft word or publisher to creat, but I also found it difficult to come up with an idea to develop a flyer for. As I mentioned above I do well with technology that Iam more familiar with and I am definitly more familiar with word or publisher than I am with this. I also got frustrated that I could not space things on the page the way I would have been able to rearrange things with word or publisher. For instance I did not want as many spaces between lines as what I have above, b ut I was unable to determine how to get rid of those spaces. Right now I am frustrated that there is no word count option, another wonder of word for a specified word length assignment.

2 comments:

  1. I found blogging frustrating also especially trying to enter my paper. I ended up going on word processing for the word count. Then pasting my assignment on the blog. Many people did the flyer so I decided to choose the software corner which was very interesting. I think blogging will become easier as we work with the program.

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  2. You are exactly right when you say "anything goes" in the blogging world. I just started my own personal blog a few months ago and the thing I've learned the most is to just have fun with it. I know we are in an on-line graduate class and so "fun" might look a little different here than it would on a different blog. Just be creative, explore different fonts, colors, text sizes, hyperlinks, lists, bullets, etc. The more eye catching and appealing it is, the more people will want to read your posts! Happy blogging Katie!

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