Sunday, October 28, 2007

Week 5, Thing #10


Here's an image I "generated" though Fototrix, a comic book image generator. It was fairly simple. I browsed through some of the other image generators but really didn't find anything that sparked my interest. This one at least offered the option of uploading your own photos or images and then tweaking them. Again, I'm going to have to find something other than my photos of my Peruvian trip to use in these exercises. The photo you see was taken on my birthday in June, on my way from Cuzco to Lake Titicaca on a very slow train.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Week 4, Thing #9

I used the "Edublog" Award-Winning Blogs and found a link to a site called "K12 Online Conference 2007". The conference is still in progress as of today (Oct. 21) and the topics covered in the online conference parallel what I'm trying to learn in School Library Learning 2.0. The description:

"The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2007 conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries”. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 8, 2007. The following two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view. Live Events in the form of three “Fireside Chats” and a culminating “When Night Falls” event will be announced. Everyone is encouraged to participate in both live events during the conference as well as asynchronous conversations."

I posted the RSS feed for the conference on my own blog instead of on my bloglines account. For me it's a little easier to access this via my blog and, besides, it gave me the chance to try out different features that can go on a blog.

Week 4, Thing #8

I did a lot of reading on this topic (RSS feeders) before I set up an account on Bloglines. It was all new to me. So I went to some of the sources recommended on the School Library Learning 2.0 blog and got myself caught up a bit on this Web 2.0 feature. Shortly after, a parent at my school approached me about updating our school website. One of the features she wanted to put into the restructured site was a monthly calendar with an RSS feature for parents and community members to select. I was glad I was able to follow what she was referring to, thanks to the reading I did online and to my own experiences setting up my account in Bloglines.
Bloglines is a site that's very easy to use. But what I'd really like to learn is how to set up an RSS feeder on my own website. Maybe my work with the parent who's helping with our school website will give me the chance to grow in that area.