How Framing With Frames Can Give You More Powerful Photographs

Let me first respond to Heather’s insightful argument that people’s perceptions of others are “framed” by their outward appearance, especially in today’s Western culture in which people are sharing so many pictures and videos with each other. I completely agree. So, for your viewing pleasure, I begin this post with the photography of Jason Row. What you see above is the first of several pictures. The entire collection can be retrieved from the Site How Framing with Frames Can Give You More Powerful Photographs.

The hours I spent on this course since my previous post were filled with moments of delight when I could say, “Aha! Now I know what this button is for.” But to be truthful, I also experienced many surprises when the buttons I clicked didn’t do what I expected.

The UMW DTLT videos were very helpful, but after seeing them I still needed to refer to several additional videos and guides while trying the various Dashboard options. Just for practice, I moved to a new site theme just to see what would happen. Then I investigated a number of options:

• I started organizing our course in Feedly. Great experience! I will definitely use this program when I teach my next MA Lead course–It will save me a lot of time, because the Moodle site doesn’t update me as efficiently on which students have posted and in what order. Additionally, this resource will become a place from which I can draw the bios and writings of the main authors featured in my course. In my Feedly I identified every fellow student and Colin as “feeds” and I also identified a “Board” which features the main authors and topics highlighted in my course. Another really helpful “feed” heading is Photography, which is becoming a virtual bank of great pictures I can use.
• I investigated Gravatar. Great tool–now my picture shows up in a lot of places on my site and elsewhere else where my posts are submitted, helping everybody sort out who wrote what.
• I learned about GitHub and GitBook, a great tool for collaborative problem-solving on a global scale.
• I followed the YouTube video “How to Start a WordPress Blog the RIGHT WAY–Beginner’s Guide (Step by Step)” to get help in downloading media to use in my posts, and in formatting the posts so they would catch the reader’s interest.

By the way, in case you haven’t already noticed, the above links all “open in a new tab” so you won’t lose this page when checking them out.

This was, for me, time well spent. I’m already slightly less intimidated than when I started this course. Thanks again, Colin!