Amber’s Blog

This week, I added a text reader and more images to my blog. I also signed all of the book club members up and I am just waiting for them to sign in to add them as contributers. I also got more information from my advisor and will be putting that on this week.

Next, I plan on editing some of my pages and setting up contributers. I also need to put one more picture on the page and I will be taking a digital picture of the media center this coming week for the about page.

My long term goals are to set up how to use the blog for my advisor and also make video tutorials for the site. Most of my blog is complete, there are just a couple of small things that need tweaking.

I really like this project because I am making a site for future years and for the book club to use over the summer.

This week I worked mostly on my advisors blog and it almost completed. All I have left to do is add another image, beef up my about section and develop my last category. My advisor seems to be really happy with the blog and I am setting up the users now so that the book club can start blogging.

I do need to catch up on a few things. I wasn’t in class when we learned how to insert tables and polls. I had an issue with placing a picture on the site but I wasn’t quite sure how to put a table to place the picture in. When I figured out how to make the table, it didn’t work the way I wanted it to, so I went back to what I had done before.

I am very happy with where my blog is going and I can’t wait to see the final product.

This week I added an audio reader to my blog. It was fairly simple to set up the second time. The first audio reader I tried to set up did not work very well because I had tried to set it up on my advisors blog which did not have any posts for the audio reader to read.

I was unable to learn how to make a table however since I was out sick for the remainder of the week so I will need to catch up when I get back to school on Tuesday.

This week I wasn’t able to get much done because of AP testing. I was not in school on Monday because of an illness and then not in school on Tuesday for my AP Chemistry test.

I was able to meet with my advisor this week and she really likes the website. We decided on some ideas to add to the site which I am planning on completing this coming week. She really likes the site and all of the things I have done so far.

I have some work ahead of me with this website but it is coming alone. The actual website portion is almost done and now I have to work on tutorials and discussion things.

This week I learned how to put a google calendar onto my blog. I also learned how to add images and how to place things in a text box.

This week was very productive. I was able to place widgets in my blog and learn about how to add things to my blog to enhance the blog.

I enjoy learning new things to place in my blog and they are really helping to enhance my blog and the blog for my advisor.

This week we learned a lot of new things that can enhance our blog. I learned how to make a text only reader on my blog and I started corresponding more with my advisor to create the blog for the book club.

The text only reader that I put into my blog will help people with disabilities. If they need to have a screen reader then the text only option really helps. The text only also really easy to add to my blog. It didn’t need a lot of HTML code and there was a program that I could plug what I wanted into.

This week I also set up the book club’s blog. I used the mandigo theme because I can change the header. I made this headera stack of classic books. I also set up the columns and added different aspects into the columns.

This week we started to learn more about what is going to be required for our final projects. I am excited for this project and ready for the challenge that it will present. I need to learn how to set up usernames for everyone in the book club and subscribe them to the blog. I have a lot of work ahead of me but I’m ready for the challenge.

This week we also learned about the negative effects of the internet. I learned about a beating of a sixteen year old whose family is suing Youtube because of a video of her beating posted on the site. I think that the internet is a great place to access information but it is also a dangerous place because there is a great amount of anonymity, so you are unsure who exactly is posting things or who you are talking to.

I firmly believe that children need to be educated on the internet to keep them safe.

This week we worked on our tutorials for our collabrative group projects.

I found that using Microsoft Encoder is very tedious. There is no way to record the tutorial in sections, you need to record your entire tutorial at once. This is difficult because if you mess up one portion of your tutorial you must start the entire tutorial over again. My group and I found this to be very frustrating and used the pause button as a tool. We recorded in sections pausing between each section.

Over all it was a very productive week and now we are just ironing out the bugs we have with Encoder.

This week we learned how to use Microsoft Encoder. At first it seemed a little confusing but after watching the tutorial today I believe I should be able to understand how to use it.

We are going to use the encoder to make tutorials in our collabrative groups. I got a firm grasp on how to make these tutorials and I’m looking foward to make these tutorials with Microsoft Encoder.

This week we were put into groups to work on making tutorials. This is going to be very helpful to work on my final project. I am going to need to make tutorials to show how to update my website for when I am off in college.

My group and I are going to make a tutorial on how to use Windows Movie Maker because most students do not know how to use movie maker. I was very confused on how to use it when we started using it for the Technology Autobiography. I am looking foward to working on this project.