My Album on Panraven

Here is the album I made of Chefornak

http://www.panraven.com/mylife/ViewStory.epage?sp=102547

It sure was hard to pick the pictures that might represent Chefornak with only ten pictures to choose from. Okey enjoy anyway!

Using Panraven

Using Panraven to create an album was fun. The only problem I had with it was that it took my pictures forever to load on to the program. I would wait for it to load and almost forget what I was doing. On my first page I had an arial shot first than decieded to change the picture than forgot to change the text. I think I will try Panraven again just for fun and practice Here is the address

http://www.panraven.com/mylife/MyStories.html

One good thing about this program is that you can go back to it and make changes anytime. The program having a guide format make Panraven easy to work with.

Looks like I need more practice

I was trying to send in a slideshow I guess I forgot how. Will try again next time. Its hard to get rid of a blog once its posted.

http://flickr.com/photos/11197724@N03/show/

trying to put in my flicker slideshow

these are the first pictures I took
http://www.google.com/accounts/RP?c=CNftgM6z3t6XFxDT-LKS-K_R0rQB&hl=en
I hope this worked

A few reflections on Ed 429

The class has been fun! Learning how to use the software programs, discovery how we can put most of the programs together to create or learn. Once students learn this stuff they can work on the computer from anywhere in the world. The way I look at it, this knowledge makes the whole world smaller but still expands it through the internet.
Another issue that I would have liked to get into would have been with the personal and professional issues that arise when you are confronted with a major change in the instructional environment in which you teach especially on how to deal with students on what limits we should place on them, or respecting other students rights on the use of computers. We also have to let the students know how thier postings might affect the villages in where they live. Anyway I really enjoyed the class and look forward to reading others blogs and watching those pictures.

Happy kids in Chefornak


Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Contagious computing

Working with computer is always contagious! Just watching everyone working on a computer makes me think "I wonder what they are working on?" I bet it's what students think when they see someone else using a computer. Learning how to use software programs gets a little getting use to, especially if it is the first time using them, but with practice, practice and more practice the software becomes a great teaching tool source, especially if you want to personalize your teaching material.
One thing I was thinking about these past two days, coming from a small remote village, was that we might have learned all these new software tools but might not be able to use them without a good tech person in our schools. Some schools might have to wait a long time waiting for someone to fix the problems so please make it aware to your village schools boards the importance of tech help. Helping students with the use of the computer seems to make them competent with other students from all over the world. Its exiting to watch a student from a small native village conversing with a student from half way around the world.