Week 8

In the Tuesday Thursday classes we covered
1. Picasa. Picasa is a Google program (more...even more...Picasa) which
a. helps organize your photographs
b. provides a method for selecting your "better" pictures and putting them in a folder
c. Color correcting photos
d. Adding all sorts of effects to photos
e. Sending photographs to printers
f. Creating CDs of photographs
g. Sending pictures to blogs (an example is in the immediately preceding blog with the picture of an iris.
h. Creating a "Web Album", an example of which can be found in the second previous post. Actually, you already have a Web Album since Google now sends all pictures you upload for your blog to your web album. It will become visible to you when you use Picasa's Web Album tool
i. Creating an "html page" which is not really a page but a collection of pages that work together as if there was one page and lots of other pages that show larger versions of the pictures displayed.

Additional information can be found about Picasa from Google's help area and on the web in general.

Web Site
All classes also covered the start of the development of a web site. We will continue this is Week 10. You need a plan! Create your plan in Google Documents and share your plan with me. You will need 6 "pages (actually separate blogs) for you web site. Your web site must be focused on the tools, approaches or techniques you use as a teacher. The first "page" must be about you, have an approriate picture of you on it, and have links to all the other "pages" in your "web site" (actually a collection of blogs). So here is an outline of what my web site might look like:
1. John Strange's Teaching Tools and Approaches
2. Blogs
3. Google Gadgets
4. Google Documents
5. Google Spreadsheets
6. Google Presentations
and I certainly do not have to stop at 6 pages so I will continue with pages emphasizing the roles I try to model...
7. No Burp Back Education
8. I Don't Know...Let's Find Out
9. It's Free
and ...

If you missed this class do your plan and share it with me as a Collaborator (strange.john@gmail.com)