While the idea of developing a blog is not high on my list of go to activities, it has been interesting to be exposed to the elements of WordPress. Developing systems for organizing time, and information at the outset of… Continue Reading →
Keep them focused! Incorporating technology into the learning environment is now common practice. Technology provides unlimited resources, student support and effective organization of student work, it also provides distraction. Students can at times get lost down a rabbit trail following… Continue Reading →
My experience narrating/modifying my personal WordPress site was analogous to piloting a boat with the throttle engaged at full speed, yet struggling to achieve the desirable efficiency up on a plane. Once I achieved a better level of navigational understanding, the bow trimmed up and the boat began planing nicely. As it relates to comprehension, …
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your posts in response to this week’s activities. It seems that hypothes.is is a tool that has resonated with at least one of you, and for good reason! There are some significant advantages to having students annotate in situ on the web. There are, as you might imagine, people who […]
After stumbling through the hypothes.is user name sign up sequence, mistakenly using a pseudonym (sultanofsurrey), rather than my real name, it came as no surprise that this manifesto for “teaching online” hails from the United Kingdom. Like the University of Edinburgh, the University of Liverpool has also been encouraging and delivering a platform to support …
Thank you to those of you who have been posting this week! Your insight and wisdom is much appreciated. If you are having difficulty with getting signed up for WordPress, or with any of the other web tools introduced in the Digital Skills Unit, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You can find me at […]
To be completely honest, working through this part of the orientation has been a bit of a challenge for me. I am not so far removed from school that doing online course work is foreign, but customizing my own site and using WordPress and these types of digital skills is new territory to me. I … Continue reading “Narrating U”
Creating a structure for my site proved rather difficult. I want to organize the content in a way that makes sense and makes navigation easy. I know from personal use of the web that difficult navigation often results in minimal… Continue Reading →
I really enjoyed learning about hypothes.is in this activity. It is a new extension to me. The instructions to set it up were clear and I found the sign up and interface rather intuitive. I can see why it will be… Continue Reading →
It’s a little scary to be vulnerable like this … but to be brutally honest, learning how to use WordPress for this course has been a bit of a challenge for me, mainly because my class website is on Weebly and I’ve used it for years. Like anything that you are comfortable with, what would […]