A forgotten place

Check out my Slide Show!

After viewing Dana’s slide show I decided to give the program a try of my own. It wasn’t as hard as I thought, but I had to borrow some pictures from my nephew. I am going to download some pictures from my sisters files and then make another slide show. This was great for [...]

ICT Learning for students in a high school (Great Digital Divide)

 
After going through this course and getting help from several students with skype, yugma and other topics, I was wondering how this would work with a school because of student illness. As it is, I have been working with about 15 students who are currently ill and they are not able to come to school. [...]

Podcasting

Thanks to Jolene and Angele for their help getting my podcast setup. I was having difficulties with the podcast and through yugma and with their help I was able to produce a shart podcast. I am still having problems with Yugma. While Jolene was the presenter on Yugma, I was able to see what she [...]

Text to Voice

As I downloaded the podcast program today to work with tomorrow, I stumbled across these tools, Voki and VozMe. The Voki has a better sound quality than the Vozme, but it is limited to the amount of text that can be converted to voice. Also, it allows you to create chartacters to speak the text [...]

Yugma

Had a little difficulty getting Yugma set up on my computer. Everything went fine and then pop-ups started appearing. There seems to be some type of conflict between Yugma and the microsoft products I have on my computer. I had 33 errors appearing and more continuously appearing before I was able to shut down my computer. [...]

Blog Talk

I would like to comment to Glen ’s comment “Rule of thumb…..” In the MTS paper that was published in September and should have been available in all public schools across the province had an article about teacher blogs. In the article it explained what happened to several teachers because of what they included in [...]

Grocery Shopping

Should the course have a check list? I hope that it does not come to that. The idea of this course was that it would be a self directed learning experience with collaboration. Having to follow a check list to see if you accomplished you grocery list for this week is not my idea of [...]