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Michael, What a great page you prepared for us! Lots of ideas and exploring to do! Thank you so much for being available for the BaW group, Michael! It'll be my 'special' pleasure to have you with us tomorrow and to introduce you. BaWers, I'd like to second Michael's suggestion that those of you taking part in tomorrow's presentation take a look in advance at his fabulous resource page - especially prepared for us! :-) http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/evonline2004/onlinematerials.html I'd also like to make a final request, since Michael's presentation is about 30 hours away: -- please register in our Yahoo Group Database (menu on the left) if you're planning on taking part in this event tomorrow, Feb 23, at 20.00 GMT, at Tapped In. We like to have an idea of the number of participants and I'm sure Michael will too. Thank you all. And do register. It'll be well worth your time, you'll see. :-) Teresa (22Feb04) |
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. . . Week 5 starts out with
a very experienced online colleague and friend, Michael Krauss, who
will be talking to us about 'developing online materials', yet another
way of building an online presence. He has prepared a great page for
us (http://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/evonline2004/onlinematerials.html).
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All! The chatlog for Michel's Krauss' presentation is at http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/webheads/baw/logs/23feb04-mkrausspres.html I hope that those of you not present, such as poor Elaine (I feel guilty!), will read it carefully and take a good look at all the great links. Those of us present will need to start doing our homework, right? Thank you again, Michael, this time on behalf of the Baw participants! It was a great session with lots of practical ideas and resources. Cheers, Teresa |
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all, Sorry to admit my slowness, but I am far behind my dear co-moderators in terms of organization talent and overview. I was responsible for our week 2, moderated it and was trying hard to keep up with the huge amount of messages. Week 2 had about 220 messages. To me, this is not easy. But I promise to do my best to get over the hurdle. Believe it or not, I am still messing with a good way to sort out the discussion threads and create pages with the most interesting and useful messages has become an overwhealming burden, so I am not yet done with this task, so unlike our hard working Dafne "and her fantastic efficiency and organization, the 'weekly threads page' with the major topics discussed - there were many!" Sus (slowly cheing through heaps) |
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Hi
Dafne, Maria, Teresa and Sus, All the effort you're putting in to collecting and organizing all this information for us is spectacular! Though it feels exciting to check the daily digest and message board as it's in progress, there's nothing quite as relaxing as finding your weekly threads page to sit back and enjoy. It helps put me in a more reflective frame of mind, to try to digest all the teaching and learning concepts, the technology, as well as the social energy being generated. There's a warmth to seeing all the participants' photos in the left margin. It's all in one place, so that we can go into any of the URL's posted, then back to the main page, again. It feels like we're all part of a live, weekly magazine. By the way, the weekly readings are excellent as background for learning new concepts. Is there any particular place you'd like to have us post reflections on those (in the group weblog? in this daily posting?) to make life easier for you? It might be nice to respond somewhere to those, collectively, before the last week is finished. Take care...and take it easy, a bit! I'll see you all early in the morning (5 am in Japan) for the Michael Krauss event. Got to catch up on his webpage beforehand. Best, Lea |
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Dear
Leah, You've made my day! Reading your message right after getting up, has made all the work and hours spent on the threading task worth the effort. I think threads are vital, as you say, to create the sense of community, to give faces to the ideas, create bonds, and to record all the ideas, comments, reflections, artifacts, etc, that at the end are the steps that help us go up the ladder we are all constructing together. I love the imagery of a live weekly magazine :-) Re: readings and comments on them, good point! We would love to hear yours and others' reflections about them. You can post them here, or in the blog: http://yomar.bravejournal.com/ (I will make an entry for that purpose), or in the discussion board: http://dafnegon.tripod.com/discussionboard.html (you can select the one means that fits your style) Leah, remember that the 6 weeks are just a matter of formalism for the EVOnline sessions, the same way BaW started before the date assigned, we will not vanish in cyberspace after week 6, we will invite you all to join Webheads in Action, or you can stay here in this group, or both :-) and we will keep "blogging" our lives away" ! Hugs, Daf |
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Dear
Leah, I couldn't have said better than Daf did what I felt while reading your message. I think the weekly threads page is a very convenient way of bringing together the main ideas that 'you' all brought up together in one page without all the clicking back and forth that Yahoo Groups messages involves. BTW, I also love your "live weekly magazine" analogy. :-) I will just add one thing to what Daf said: "BaW's response, dynamic attitude, commitment and enthusiasm has made it 'all' worth while!" And by this I mean several weeks of planning, having meetings online and creating the materials. It's been a fantastic experience so far and we have learned a lot with you all. Thank you all for making this such a gratifying 'learning in a fun way' (expression I used in my early Webheads days) experience for everyone! Regarding the readings, Leah, try to go through all of them and then make any comments you consider appropriate either in the BaW blog or in Daf's discussion board, as hse has suggested. Thank you for your kind and warm words. They always feel very sweet! Hugs, Teresa |
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Hiya,
Just to say that its so wonderful to have this brilliant thread to try
to catch up and remain 'part of BAW' even though I've not been able to
be acyive for nearly a week. No, I haven't been away from home,
but my partner has and, with three kids, a full-time job, no home help
and just having become an assistant examiner for the TOK component of
the B Diploma, suddenly I was in the fast lane! BAW activities
suffered severely...Taxi-driving for various kids activities and
parties was the star activity of the weekend! Anyway, my nearest and
dearest is back so sharing is reinstated and NOTHING will prevent me
from being at Micheal Krauss's workshop. By the way, i tried to sign
up last night but the yahoo page wouldn't work and I couldn't find the
facility to sign up in Geocities...possibly its a Yahoo groups
feature. I'm very behind with learning about blogging and web-page-making, but have discussed it with my small group of IB students who are keen. I'll try to start a simple blog later this week. See ya in tapped-In :-) best wishes to all, Antonia |
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Antonia! The threads page is certainly a great idea, even more so for people who fall behind for some very natural reason. Priorities are a must! You have such a great description of your hectic week that I could feel your hustle and bustle while reading your message! However, I'm glad that life has gone back to normal in your household and that you can make it to Michael Krauss's presentation this evening. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Behind in BaW tasks? No problem, Antonia. What's important is that you do get a chance to try things out, even if at a later date. We'll be here and. . . glad to help, if necessary. :-) FYI, Yahoo has been acting up strangely for some of us in these last few days. And, yes, the database for registring is an exclusive part of our YG. See you later, Teresa |
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All, Just for the fun of it, I have figured out the number of messages sent from the pression to week 4. Here they are: Presession: Jan. 3 to Jan. 25 = 355 messages Week 1: Jan. 26 to Feb. 1 = 217 messages Week 2: Feb. 2 to Feb. 8 = 189 messages Week 3: Feb. 9 to Feb. 15 = 186 messages Week 4: Feb. 16 to Feb. 22 = 233 messages For a total of 1180 messages :-) Quite a number, eh? Thanks a lot for your great participation!!!! Numbers make me sleepy, so, time to go to bed ;-) Daf |
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Daf, Once again other priorities got in the way, that's why I'm commenting on your data (Feb23) only 4 days later. Wow! This group has really been active. Such an intense message flow is amazing. And it has been quite regular too, with a tendency to increase as we advance. Another interesting piece of info would be to see the percentage of 'active' participants, as well as who they are, merely for our 'internal home-made' statistics, so to say. Research says that only 10-20%% / 15-20% (I'm sorry, but I don't remember the exact percentage) of members ina community participate actively. It would be interesting to see if that has also been the case in BaW. I guess this info could be collected more easily in the weekly threads pages, just to give us an approximation. But we can do that after we have finished. There are still other priorities to take care of in the official tome that remains. Thanks, Daf! Hugs, Teresa |
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Michael
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Agata's
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husband is very tolerant :-D The falling hearts are actually the falling snow flakes (I used the same script, different picture). And it is javascript. I got it from the administrator of my university website :-) but there are thousands of them in the cyberspace. If anyone wants it just let me know and I'll post the script and instructions. Cheers, Agata * * * * * * Me again ;-) |
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Agata, Though I loved your wedding pages and the idea of making a private family-friends event public to your students, colleagues et al. - brilliant! -, I'm especially enthusiastic about your English Interactive Exercises. I've already bookmarked some of those that fit like a glove to what we've been learning. Can you imagine my students' excitement when they find out that they're doing exercises created by Tommy's mother and Wojtek's aunt? I can't wait to see! Thanks for making all these pages available to us. Hugs, Teresa |
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Dear
Agata, I was finally able to get to your pages :-) and yes, I second everything that has been said about them. I like to include culture capsules in any of my courses, and I love how you have developed material from your own wedding ceremony and the one about Christmas is really wonderful. I was frustrated not being able to see your pages. It seems this is going to be a great day. All the messages I have read since I woke up are lighting up my day. Thank you :-) Hugs, Daf |
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Dear
Gary, Congratulations on your web page! I love your recording :-) It is a very professional page, and you followed the KISS parameters. I like the layout, it is easy to navigate, and the iformation needed is easy to locate. Great job! I am really happy with your work, and I am looking forward to seeing your other pages and your blog. WoW!! As of September I will be teaching in the Applied Linguistics Masters Program at my university in Caracas and one of the courses I think I will be teaching is Methods, would you agree to be an online guest speaker about using drama in language teaching? Best, Daf |
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Gary Congratulations on your webpage! I'd just like to add a few remarks on your images. Your picture takes some time to load, and I noticed it is located here: http://garycarkin.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/gary_carkin.jpg Well, this image is huge! and though the image we see in your webpage is small, it loads the huge one...and so it takes a long time... You should never resize an image in your html editor... on the one hand, it takes more time to be loaded, if the original image is larger...on the other hand, images get distorted... compare your images of cdroms in: http://www.carlislepublications.com/carlislepublications/id1.html and the original image: http://www.carlislepublications.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/layout/cdgreyscale.jpg Sorry if I'm too technical, but I think we should also pay some attention to the aesthetic side of web design Fernanda |
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Dear
Gary, Do you mean to tell me this is your first professional page and your second page ever?! The first was a personal one at GeoCities, right? Well, Gary, you truly astound me! It's a beautiful and simply laid-out page, definitely my type of page. Navigation is fast and everything is visible and user-friendly! Congratulations! I just wonder, if this is the beginning, what will you be doing in 3-6 months' time?! BTW, congrats on the invitation from Daf. What a great idea! Best of luck in all your endeavors! Teresa |
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Teresa! Thanks for your response! Yes. This is my first for the company. It does need work though. Both Fernanda and Ismail have remarked that the size of the picture is too large and takes too long to download. My project (one of them) for today is to try to reduce the size. I guess I will have to play with my photo editors. And yes, I am looking forward to chatting with Dafne's class. Trust you are enjoying Carnival! Gary |
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Dear
Gary, Congratulations for your new website. It sounds cool. I am happy to know that one of your hobbies or talents is being an actor. This is a new addition to the BIA. Of course we have many authors here in webheads, but only one actor, Gary ;-) The photo you used is (1440*2160) which is a big size, may be you want to reduce the file size using a photo editor, this will help in the download of the page. Best regards, Ismail |
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think it depends on the scanning software you use. Most programs use jpeg as default file extension, but in all cases, it will give
you the highest resolution. In order to reduce the resolution you need to be careful with the file size and file quality. In some
programs, like photoshop 6 or 7, it will prompt about the file quality giving you options from (1 to 12) to choose from. According
to the number you choose, you will reduce the size but will loose more quality, so you decide accordingly. If it is for web-based files, try to low quality but if you are using it for other purposes, like powerpoint presentation or media/ video files, it is better to keep the highest quality of course. (.Gif) files are common too for online purposes, especially for animated images.. BTW, you can check my new phot album in the following page. It has a lot of photos that I had earlier and I tried hard to reduce them in order to post them online. Check it at: <http://ismailfayed1.netfirms.com> I included them in a new sub-page since I was about to loose my free web space in my original site. Ismail |
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editor as part of your scan package, such as Photoshop Elements. Before you
resize the image, try to figure out how big you actually want the image to
be. A starting point would be figuring how wide your page is, for example
800 pixels. (In the past we planned for 640 or so but with new monitors,
800 might be okay). So if your page is 800 wide and you want the picture
to take up 1/4 of the page, you are going to make it 200 pixels wide. Make
sure you"constrain" the proportions (usually a choice in the
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Susan
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Kyi, thank you so much for your thorough comparison of Tripod and Bravenet free homepages. Right not I'm unable to open your new page at http://www.kyishwin.bravehost.com/index.html - I will try again later to see if it is just a temporary problem, and ask others to report back if they have a better result. Your problems with Tripod are annoying! I can understand that life may be hard for developers who may not be funded by research or corporations, but they should not lure just plain folks into using a free service and then spoil all the careful work by closing down services; that is a discouraging and unfair business. On your question for linking to an image stored somewhere else - I think that your Yahoo Briefcase is a personal storage that others could not access. you will need to find a better solution for us to have access to your illustrations. We discussed where to find free server space for images in yesterdays Tapped In chat that I will forward to you, as you were not able to join us. In an earlier posting from Saturday or Sunday, Dafne explained in detail some aspects of images in homepages that may also be helpful for your endeavors. I'm looking very much forward to see your page once it allows me to have a look :-) Yours, Sus PS You're welcome to link to my blog at www.xanga.com/susnyrop and a very new one started yesterday at www.tabulas.com/~susnyrop it is free and has capacity for 50 images and many well designed features. * * * * * * Hi Kyi, |
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Kyi, What a pleasant surprise to find your message with the link to your first Web page this afternoon! Congratulations! Great work! I'm sure it took some planning. I enjoyed reading my piece of advice about starting small and all I can say so far is that you're the exception that confirms the rule. :-) I love the blue on black background and the white font in your home page. The KISS principle is certainly working! I navigated very easily and smoothly from page to page. It was very interesting to read your background - how old is your son now? - and very nice to know of the enormous success of the Gobal English Course you coordinate and teach. Way to go, Kyi! My Web page is titled Teresa Almeida d'Eca at http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/ Thank you for comparing Tripod and Bravenet. It'll be part of a page we will set up. Congrats again, Kyi. You've been doing a fabulous job considering the restrictions you have. Best of luck to you! Teresa |
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Kyi, Congratulations on such a great page. I think it is super! I like the design and even though I have not had the time to check all your pages, I like the structure of the ones I have seen. You do not have to give apologies for not starting small, everybody is different, and you are showing us that you can do it :-) What was the problem with Tripod? I have one of my pages there. Sus, where is the comparison between Bravenet and Tripod? Re: Yahoo briefcase, you can share the images stored there, if you select to do so, just need to make the page public and send the link. Congratulations again, Daf |
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Kate, Great page! The pics are clear and the layout is simple and easy to navigate. Good selection of photos, BTW. And Yes, you could make a page for every country that you've visited. Make sure that you use the same lay-out (spiral notebook) so it gives the viewers the 'album-like' feel. Remember, to put all the the links to your pages on your index page and should be placed here at this url:http://www.oocities.org/katedodge2002/ If you don't have this index page it will appear that you still have not started creating your page. How do you create an index page? Save your page as 'index' and upload it on the 'katedodge2002' directory I hope this helps. aiden |
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Gary's
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Gary, There must be a typo error on the url. Can you please resend? . . . Aiden |
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Gary, Buth is the expert with Tripod and she even has a tripod blog. I know that in Bravenet, they give you a code that you insert using an HTML editor, or if you are using a Bravenet template they give you spaces to insert the code, but I do not know how it works with Tripod. Will try to find out :-) Congrats on your mass web page production ;-) Daf |
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Gary! Congratulations on your webpage and I know what if feels to deliver your baby online. You will get hooked, like I did, and will never want to stop adding and re-designing it. Every day a new challenge :-) I love the pictures and the idea of drama in the EFL classroom. I know Poland has a strong tradition in acting and am sure there is a lot of creativity in the air. Some years ago I followed a clown workshop here in Brazil...not directed at language...but I have taken advantage of many sketches and techniques to improve my classroom management. I would love one of these days to go into this area again... As for your specific problem, I have a site on Tripod, but have never used the blog so I am presently inside it, trying to find an answer to your question. I know Blogger, which I use, gives you the possibility to host the blog on your server and gives you to code to do so, like Bravenet according to Daf. I will be back as soon as I discover something. Warm regards from Brazil and see you later at Tapped In. Bee |
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All that in one page! Great start! You might want to break future
pages up to make them easier for machines to access; even my broadband
cable comes up with "page not found" on your page sometimes
and then I have to reload. As far as the blog goes, I hadn't done anything with the Tripod site I made last year since I have my own site, but just checked and found that I was offered the choice to add a blog to it, with a separate directory (membersite.tripod.com/blog) I don't know what you do at this point, but it looks like if you set up regular site with a "static" home page, you can set up the blog as a subdirectory. Bruce Moon |
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Bruce: Thanks for that tip about tripod. I shall look further (tomorrow. It is 2:50 AM and time to go to bed.) I've added two more pages tonight and I'm just at the point where I want to put the blog device in. I tried to lessen the load on these two. Once all this is done, I'll go back and redo some of the pixel count on the first pictures to lighten the load there, too. garycarkin.tripod.com/garycarkinseslefldramalog Thanks again for your help. Gary * * * * * * Thanks, Bee for your help and interest.I will be experimenting later in the day Gary * * * * * * Hi Dafne: |
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Dear
Susan, I am really happy that you have given birth to your first web page :-) I am looking forward to the links to the digital stories, let me know when they are active. I have posted the thumbnail of your pages on the page I created yesterday for participants' first pages, take a look: http://www.oocities.org/bawebhead/participantspages.html Regarding Web page servers, it takes a while to get used to the logic behind each of them, but reading around, with some trial and error, you usually get to find out how each one works ;-) Congrats on your first page :-) Daf |
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Susan! I like the simplicity of your first Web page and love the background color. It's one of my favorites. Like Daf, I'm also looking forward to the CALL exercises and Digital stories. Work on it, Susan! Definitely! To wrap-up, what first attempt is a true first attempt without trials and tribulations?! Nothing comes easy! ;-) Bfn, Teresa |
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Susan, Try with this if you have problems with the free servers you have been trying... http://www.iitalia.com/_site/cre.start It is very good and they give you a lot os space to upload diffferent kind of stuff.... If everything goes well with the one you have now is ok! :) Ah! Congratulations for your new website, because it seems cool... María |
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all-- Violating Web protocol, I have three topics: (1) Inspired by all your efforts, I updated my main Webpage last night, and would be honored if Daf would add it to the list: http://www.oocities.org/ehansonsmi Please check out the slide show of my garden and our vacation spot in the Florida Keys. . . . --Elizabeth |
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Karen's
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Hi
Karen, I like your ants page ;-) Yes, we are like ants: hard workers and moving and moving all over :-)) and you used and adapted Agata's Java script!! Thanks for sharing your great tutorial on converting "favorites" into a web page collection of links, very handy ;-) I have included your web page here: http://www.oocities.org/bawebhead/participantspages.html Way to go, next step: blogs!!! Cheers, see you later at TI Daf |
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Karen, First of all, what I remarked when I opened your homepage was the title: Karen becomes a Webhead - I like that sentence because it reflects your urge to become "one of us!". The first page is fun because of those lively creeping ants all over, symbolising the bust Webheads working together - and the next page is useful because of your manual explaing how to get more out of your Bookmarked preferences, with your BaW workshop collection of URLs as a showcase on the third page. And besides, it is a very personal page because we get to meet your best friend, the beautiful black dog Foxy. What race is that? yours, Sus (formerly friend and walking partner with a Flatcoated retriever called Frido, and another called Strömer, a curious mix of a Labrador and a dachshound!) |
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Hi,
Karen! As I said yesterday at TI right before Isabel's presentation, I love your page with all the very active ants crawling their way around! And the wizard for grouping our Favorites, Bookmarks, whatever. . ., is fabulous. Great lessons learned through peer collaboration and shared with us all in such a nice way. That's the Webhead spirit! Thanks! Congrats! Keep at it! :-) Teresa |
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Karen, congratulations on your webpage. very nice and the ants are something! Susan |
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WOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!
Karen! What a tremendous resource! Your webpage is a Godsend! First, your information about how to move favorites to a website and then your library of bookmarks related to this workshop. Many kudos indeed! Gary Carkin |
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Karen,
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Karen, As everyone says, your webpage is wonderful. All the bookmarks bring to mind something I've been thinking of over these past few years of doing academic research: there's a fine line between a research librarian and a teacher.(At least in the materials design and preparation stage). I imagine you'll enjoy using some of the new technology we're learning, such as the Webquests and searches on Isabel's page. (Did you get a chance to read the Tom March readings or week 5?). Love your personal touch with photos! You really capture western Massachusetts with rushing brooks and woods, insects returning after a long winter. :) One question: how did you get the frosty effect on the ants to make them show up dark background? Leah in rainy Nagoya |
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Fiona, Congratulations! You have worked hard and I see you have started playing with all the flash and roll overs. I cannot answer about Bravenet but I do not see why you shouldn't be able to upload the pages using your dreamweaver. Have you configured it correctly? Sometimes this may be the problem or sometimes it is just the connection that day. I have been uploading my material directly from Dreamweaver to Tripod for quite a long time. I do not recommend the free hosting option though. You must put up with the horrible ads and hot potato exercises do not open. Result: I had to switch to a paid service. Some people have told me Dot Easy http://www.doteasy.com/ provides you with good full hosting service and no ads. Warm regards from Brazil, Bee |
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Fiona, very nice website,and a lot of work! the pictures are really nice. did you take these pictures? it was really enjoyable to go through your lovely pictures of wedding, traveling, pets... hope i can do so soon, but seems to me i missed the dreamweaver session!! best, Susan |
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Fiona, Congratulations on your first page made on DW. Wow you really took advantage of your course and learned to use many of the features of the application, you even worked with Fireworks!! Now we now who to ask about DW ;-) I do not think there is any problem uploading your pages to Bravenet. When I joined Bravenet they did not have their own server, but offer other free services, which I am still using, and I can upload pages using a simple one by one file upload, or a ftp where I can upload complete folders. I have added a thumbnail of your web page to: http://www.oocities.org/bawebhead/participantspages.html Cheers :-) Daf |
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Fiona! If this site was just for practicing, wow wee! I hope I can be doing something similar after our DW course with Bob et al. I like the roll over gifs and the doggy animations, not to mention all the photos: wedding, pets and travel. BTW, I dream of going to Egypt one day, because many years ago I translated a book on the Tutankamon (?) burial site and all the curses around it. Besides, the "Death on the Nile" movie also roused my curiosity, as well as several documentaries on TV. Keep up the great work! :-) Teresa |
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Raymond's
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Raymond, Nice to hear from you again, and even happier to see your brand-new web page :-) I have already added it to our page for participants' first pages: http://www.oocities.org/bawebhead/participantspages.html I love to travel, and it shows that you and your wife have been to quite a lot of places. I will go back to your travel and travel tales jjournals. I am looking forward to the addition of images and songs, WoW! cheers, Daf |
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Hi, Raymond!
I love it when a quiet student
at the back raises his/her hand! And that's exactly what you've
done. Being silent or lurking (virtual lingo) doesn't mean there's
no input, but it's always nice to have some confirmation now and
then so that we feel others are a part of the bandwagon. :-)
So many Web pages
started in this group. It's just fantastic. Congrats on yours,
Raymond! And all about travelling, something I also love,
but don't get to do as much as I'd like to, unfortunately. Lucky for
us that this virtual world allows us to travel in a
different way by contacting friends in so many and far away
places.
I'm glad to have heard from
you! Get back to us now and then even if just to say 'Hello, I'm
still here!'. I'll try to get back to your travel journals
a.s.a.p. Right now I'm totally swamped in work. Is this just a
problem of mine?!!! ;-)
I'm sorry about the
synchronous sessions. Such diverse time zones make it very hard to
get everybody together. However, it's something we'll probably have
to look into better next time (if there is one! I hope so). But, as
I've said before, the recordings and chat logs are the next best
thing.
Cheers,
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Hello
Raymond, what a great storyteller and travel reporter you are! I was totally immersed in your adventures with the Indian guide Ali, and the Street Opera event in Paris. Your homepage looks fine and neat, and you have used the instant power of Blogger to post longer stories. Is this a link to your son's own homepage? That sounds like another story! http://www.momentumanimations.com/ (I had to instert the3 www in the URL from your page :-) So nice to know we still have active observers in the back of our workshop laboratory :-) hope to hear more from you, Sus |
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Dear
Daf, I've been imposing myself to be AFK [away from keyboard - esp. for you, Karen ;-) ] as much as possible today - I'm even working in another room -, because my school work needs attending to. However, I just can't keep myself away for very long! And every time I've come back, there's something new. Earlier it was Raymond's first Web page and now your first DW page. Congrats, Daf. It looks very nice. And I like the links. I also like the picture of the market in Valencia. It reminds me of one in Lisbon. I just wonder when I'm going to find the time to get so many things done, such as a DW page, with all the ongoing commitments. I need a longer day! Don't you all? Back to my school work! What will I find next when I come back in about an hour and a half? Can I resist that loooong? I wonder!!! :-) Hugs, Teresa |
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Dear
Daf, What a brilliant idea! I love the page. :-) Will put it up in the mirror site tomorrow for Kyi to see. He'll love it, I'm sure. I'm going to call it a day. It's about time. Hugs, Teresa |
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Tere
is right, Daf, brilliant idea! It would be better if you could have all (those who created pages) have a link to (or screenshots)
of the before and after pages (like Gary's). The first page
that they've created and the improved ones. You'd be surprised to see thedifference! Now that's learning. aiden |
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Hi
Daf, Elizabeth! I've uploaded the scripts and pictures into the Links-->Javascripts folder. And here are the instructions: 1. Download the javascript (snow.js or hearts.js) and the corresponding picture (snow.gif or heart.gif) to your computer 2. Open the html source of the page you want to add the script to and copy and paste the code below into the <body> section: for snow: <script language="javascript" src="snow.js"></script> for hearts: <script language="javascript" src="hearts.js"></script> 3. Upload all three files: your page .html file, javascript .js file and picture .gif file into the same folder on your web server That's all! Hope this wasn't too detailed for you, I'm sure you've got all the knowledge needed! Enjoy the results! Cheers, Agata |
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Dear
Agata, I agree with you about the wonders you can make with java script. It is very easy and user-friendly for anyone who can uses HTML. It also creates a lot interactivity in no time. The more important is that you don't need to set up an internal server in your PC to have it functioning. I would recommend this tutorial website for javascript and other HTML coding programs. <http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp> It is a formal website for that purpose. In addition, I used what they call (Dynamic HTML) or DTHML, it is similar to javascripts or could be more developed javascripts. I used it a lot in my website and can recommend you this site where you can find a lot of free tricks, scripts, and even full games: <http://www.dynamicdrive.com/>. Hope you like them, Ismail |
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Hi
Ismail: Thanks for letting me see your picture albums. I enjoyed looking at them to see the activities and also how you organized them. Wow. You are certainly active! So many conferences! Your pictures cover so many activities and are so nicely organized and presented. I am learning from the way you've done things. I am working on my sabbatical project where I will have many pictures, so this is an important area that I really need to understand and get under control I don't want to be burning up file space with unnecessary pixels! Thanks so much for your help thus far! Gary |
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Ismail, I checked out your photo album. It is great. How'd you do it? Cheers, Kate |
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Kate, Thanks for your comment about my new photo album. In fact, I found this amazing easy-to-use software "Web Album Generator": <http://www.ornj.net/>. It is designed to allow you to use your saved photos and organize them in a photo Album, write some titles and comments about each, and then save them in a web template. You can customerize the way it is going to be and the number of photos per page. At the end, it will save your photos again (should be a new blank folder for each album). The outcome of this process are four components: - a new photo folder with the same size - a new photo folder as sumbnails - an index page - a template page All you have to do is to save each album in a new folder. After you finish, create a new main page as the one I did and make links to each separate album. I would not recommend that you try to change the name of the page, just organize them into folders and keep them. You will have many (index) pages in this case, but it is ok, the browser will differenciate among them acoording to each link. BTW, are you in Tanzania? I was in Botswana and partially in South Africa last year, they are pretty natural places. I am sure it's fun out there, it's clear from the safari tour you made in your website ;-) Ismail |
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Teresa, . . . I did try to set up a blog with my kids today. They were so patient, but the internet connection was not good enough for the process to work. We filled out the blogger forms several times, only to get the 'Page cannot be displayed' message. It was really funny though when one of my five year olds read it! Cheers, Kate |
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Dear
Kate, Way to go! If it didn't work this time, try again! Just don't give up. It's really amazing how patient kids can be when they are really motivated and interested in something. And they don't even need fabulously fast conections or fancy this, that. Yours were a great example of this today. Mine have also been on several occasions when the connection is slower than usual or when some get the slower computers. The great thing is that they never give up! Cheers, Teresa |
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Anna's
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Dear
Anna Welcome among Blogging Webheads :-) I really like the name of your Friendly class blog, as well as the setup. Yes, I also like the free www.tabulas.com blog because it had no ads and can host images. I enojyed the view of your beautifully changing Jacaranda tree - this is a tree I only read about but never saw in full bloom!! But the ubiquitous fern grow in my garden summer after summer. Hoping to learn more about how your class will use the blog in your daily work. bye for now, sus |
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Anna! By now, and considering my latest comments, you all know I'm a fan of the KISS principle. So. . . Anna, my warmest congrats (40 degrees? wow! unbearable, I'msure) to you and your Friendly Class 4E on a great start with two blogs! I love the name they chose! I'm sure it says a lot about them and the environment-relationship there is between students and teacher. Great! I love the photos, Anna. It looks like a very nice college. In my 7th grade blog last year I also used to post the homework. They liked it! I'm not doing it this year, because so few students have Internet at home, so the majority would probably feel left out. Keep up the great work, Anna! Cheers from a beautifully sunny Lisbon area, Teresa |
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there! I have updated our BaW Weblog, creating links to Anne's two new blogs and Renata's. There is also a new entry which was inspired by some comments made by Leah here in the list. Check it out! http://yomar.bravejournal.com/ Daf |
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Lucy, You ask a very interesting question, since Google now owns Blogger, one of the prime blog sites. I found that Google has a directory you can search ( HYPERLINK "http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/"http ://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/ ) for blogs. Something like Blogwise * HYPERLINK "http://www.blogwise.com/"http://www.blogwise.com/ ) might be on the list at Lights.com HYPERLINK "http://www.lights.com/weblogs/directories.html" (http://www.lights.com/weblogs/directories.html ) and give a better directory. Bruce Moon |
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Dear
Bee, Thanks for your HTML version of the e-book. It still looks like an e- book :-) It is a great idea to have different supports for materials. I love keeboo and it is easy to create but it is so cumbersome to get on the web, and I think it still has many bugs which should be taken care of by its creators. There is a new version, but I have not updated mine yet, so I do not know if it is better than the one I have. I might update when I have some spare time..hmmmm (I wonder when that will be). Hugs from cold and humid Valencia Daf |
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Antonia's
new personal blog! In the midst of her excitement, I believe, she sent
this message to the Webheads in Action. . . and later that day sent it
to us, BaW!
Here's my new weblog!!! This is the personal one, only a little starter at the mo., but it's such fun, so satisfying and so easy to start!
I'm also working with Dave,
who is school webmaster to develop a couple of weblogs for working
with students. We're using blogger.com for those and shall host them
on the school website.
a big hug,
Antonia :-)
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Dear Antonia,
I've been trying to post a
comment to your lovely blog for about half an hour, but it doesn't
seem to be posted. :-( I have Refreshed the page but it
isn't there. Can you check and see, please?
BTW, it seems that you
sent this message to Webheads in Action when you should have sent it
to the Becoming a Webhead Yahoo email address. Can you resend it?
The Webheads in Action
community is only for later!
Beijinhos,
Teresa
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Teresa, hallo, thank you for
your kind and encouraging 'postcomment' for my new blog. I'm
sorry that your valuable time was used up trying to post. I had
chosen the wrong setting, not really realising the implications.
Anyway, eventually i've managed to change the settings to 'open
post' so anyone can do so.
As to sending my mail to WIA
instead of BAW I got confused because I've had WIA in my address
book since you introduced me last summer! Anyway, I'll re-send to
BAW, although I'm having problems with netcabo at present. maybe
I'll try using Yahoo.
bom fim de semana,
beijinhos,
Antonia
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Antonia,
I'm so glad my comment was
there and not lost! :-)
Do you
mind if I post these messages in our Week 5 Threads page? Nice
weekend!,
Beijinhos,
Teresa
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Hola, estás bõa?! -
Absolutely fine if you post the messages! Sorry this is short
but I'm trying to clean the house :((
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Antonia, I really enjoyed reading your new blog entry. You have a great descriptive-narrative style. Your images are so vivid that I could picture your surroundings. It seems your a born blogger ;-) Thanks for sharing that piece of literature with us. I will be adding a link to your blog from our BaW Weblog today. I am looking forward to the blogs with students. Working in team with a techie is the best an e-teacher can dream of. I am sure he will make your pegagogical dreams come true ;-) Keep on blogging!! Cheers, Daf |
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Antonia, "A little flame in the forest" is such a poetic piece of prose! I love it! What a beautiful way to start a personal reflective blog! :-) I've posted a comment. Keep up the great work. Hugs, Teresa
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and offers a number of possibilities for teaching. Time is also a big
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For those of you who are
working on Blogs and are curious about who else inyour physical area, might be doing the same thing, here is a real cool
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Interesting resource! Thanks
for sharing it. I had no idea there was such a tool!
I've done a couple of
searches and went to a few blogs that were nice. And in English,
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all, Here you have the database ready for you to register at Isabel Perezsession. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/becomingwebhead/database I am sure all of you will know her, but if not, have a look at her website! It is great! (Do not forget her "Happy Verby Hang"! I love them! www.isabelperez.com See you there and have a nice surfing! Kind regards, maría |
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Maria, I have some experience with Yahoogroups, in fact I am a member of many groups of thousands of people, but this exclusive database part is completely new to me. You mentioned something about registering at Isabel session. Will you explain it more, how to register, what are the steps of registering, how can you/we make benifit of this service as a moderator or member of the group?? Thanks in advance, Ismail |
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Ismail, We have been using the database to know in advance how many people will attend our live sessions. Earlier in the workshop I posted the instructions, which can be found on our "hints" page. I am copying them below for you: [they were moved to the "how to" page] - Click on "Database" (menu on the left of our YG) - Click on the link (e.g "Session with Michael Coghlan at YM") - Click on "Add Record" (top left corner) - Add the required information - Click on "Save Record" (Daf, 30Jan04). I have used the database with different purposes in the courses I have delivered using YG as the main platform, for instance, having students select the readings they want to work with for which I write the name of the readings and participants write their names next to the reading they select. I have also used it to form groups where everybody selects the group they want to be in,another use I have given to the database is having each participant to keep track of the activities they have completed. As you can see there are many thingsyou can do with the database feature. cheers, Daf |
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friends, You can now access the chatlog for Isabel's great presentation this evening at Tapped In. http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/webheads/baw/logs/25feb04-isabelperezpres.html There is a wealth of resources and exercises produced by Isabel that those of you who couldn't make it shouldn't miss. There's also a very well organized and beautifully laid-out presentation. What else can I say to whet your appetite? :-) And don't forget to get those exercises coming in! We would all love to see practical results from both these great presentations this week, Isabel and Michael. Isabel, thank you again so much for the doors you opened to many of us. And. . . welcome to the Webhead family! Hugs, Teresa |
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all, The presentation this morning was great. It's exciting to see yet another use of the possibilities for presentations on line. A power point presentation, website tour, and live tutorial, all integrated so well today. I've been studying on line for three years and am used to the style of tutorial used this morning (with ????for questions, etc.). I think it can be efficient, especially in a multimedia situation. Maria's role as a moderator was very helpful, too. It was like watching a panel discussion on stage, with a moderator tipping off the guest speaker when someone in the audience raised their hand with a question, then also uploading the URL at regular intervals so that we could get into the link without scrolling back. It was very thoughtful. Did you have a lot of rehearsals, or have you done this before? The websites and learning activities which were shared with us are invaluable. I'm especially happy to see something I can begin to use immediately without having computers in my classrooms. The new school year begins in April in Japan, and I'll be sure to share this resource with the other teachers in my language school, and be report back to you all on what's being done. I did the week 5 readings beforehand, and it was nice to be able to have chance to have the author live in Tapped In to clear up some questions! For example, the use of a host site, which enables us to work without our own website. And, some ways to use html in printed form, online and offline. I'm sure I'll have some follow-up questions. Just wanted to send in thanks right away. Have a nice day, Leah in Japan |
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All, Yesterday, after Isabel's well organized and full of resources presentation I felt like starting preparing exercises. Unfortunately, I will have to wait to do that, but it is refreshing when you leave a presentation or a class with energy to start working, and that's how I felt. Thanks, Isabel, you are really a hardworking person, and as I said last night, I am sure your students love you :-) I have uploaded Isabel's chatlog to our Bawebhead page: http://www.oocities.org/bawebhead/logisabel.html Michael Coghlan has sent us a link to a page where he has summarized his session with us. Do not miss it, some of you are on it :-) http://users.chariot.net.au/~michaelc/fll/events_debrief.htm#baw Of course, you can find all these links on our chatlogs and events page: http://www.oocities.org/bawebhead/chatlogs.html Enjoy, Daf |
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Ten
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JM! sounds like a great resource. I have bookmarked the page to have a
look later. It is good to know that they will also offer an html
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Jean Michel, What a fabulously comprehensive resource! This needs time for digesting, so I've bookmarked it as a VIP reference. Thank you. I really like Athabasca resources. Hugs, Teresa |
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Dear
All, Earlier this week Aiden asked a question that I believe is still unanswered. "How do you FTP files to bravenet free webhost account using other FTP services (for e.g. WS_FTP)? Is this possible? aiden" Please correct me if I'm wrong and let me know when it was answered. If there has been no answer, does anyone have a suggestion? Bfn, Teresa |
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Hello, just wanted to remind you of the upcoming free session in LearningTimes Toolsday today - in less than two hours from now ! That is, at 17 GMT We're going to meet with our workshop participant mr. Elderbob Brannan who is going to present Moodle - the Open Source collaborative courseware - he has an interview with the devloper Martin Dougiamas and will walk us through the basic features . The aseeion will take place in the LearningTimes ToolsDay room You need to be a member of LearningTimes I think (not sure how to get asccess with out). Join the www.learningtimes.net, click on Webcasts and Events, and find your way from there! (Susanne) |
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Bob! A round of applause from the Lisbon area for a very well-prepared and interesting presentation this afternoon. You got me real interested in Moodle. It seems like a fabulous and very comprehensive tool. And if this was your first presentation of its kind, I wonder how the others will be. As I said at LT, you performed like a pro and extremely at ease. I haven't seen the movie, but I'll get back to you when I do. Congrats, Bob, on a great job! I'm very happy you joined BaW and have shared your expertise so generously. I hope you will choose to become an official member of the wider Webheads family when this session draws to a close by joining WiA. Best of luck always, Teresa |
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Bob, your presentation of Moodle for ToolsDay was remarkable for several reasons; first of all because I know how much you had prepared for this session, and then because you managed to give us a tour, improvise and answer all relevant questions from participants, as well as giving enough space for an unexpected and experienced Moodle contributor, Bryan who was able to show us his own Moodle course site ( remote-learner) . This was a great example on how Application sharing from a remote desktop can be very useful!!! I think that it was a good last minute decision to save your 30 minutes video presentation at http://elderbob.neptune.com Mediashare for individual viewing - and let us follow up with more questions and discussion as we work through a deeper knowledge of Moodle advantages and features. After this introduction, I will definitely look forward to the coming session in LT where Martin Dougiamas , the father of Moodle will present his newest version that has some new interesting features. A lot of BaW folks had found their way to join us, and for the rest of you, I'm sure Jonathan managed to save a recording. Last but not least I wish to say thank you so much Bob, because you have shared your pre-session experiments with me as a backstage assistant - I was more than happy to open my virtual office in LearningTimes and have another occasion to train the moderator functions and other details in there with you. yours, Sus |
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(and Webheads), I'd like to echo Sus and Teresa's comments: you did a great job today introducing us to a learning collaboration tool (LCT) during today's LearningTimes "Toolsday" session. I'm pleased that so many Webheads were able to join -- and indeed truly participate -- in the session. Thanks also to Sus for her great support of the process. In case you missed the session, or attended but just wanted to go back and hear Bob start the session off with his musical abilities -- the complete recording is posted at: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=329922 If you are already a LearningTimes member, simply login in at the above link and click "enter now". If you are not yet a member, click the "join" button at the above link, then follow Option A to set up your free account. Incidentally, we have also started a discussion thread on Bob's presentation within LearningTimes at: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=330285 If you have follow-up questions or comments after seeing the Moodle presentation (live or recorded), please feel free to post them in that forum. Finally, if any of you would like to follow Bob's lead and lead a "Toolsday" session of your own, here's the official description of a Toolsday: "A 'Toolsday' is a LearningTimes member-led, live online "show and tell" session in which a collaborative tool or activity is showcased. The spotlight may be turned on a new collaborative use for an existing or readily available tool; the concatenation of a series of tools in an engaging manner; or on a specific tool that enables effective collaboration in the learning process." Write me directly if you have an idea for a Toolsday that you'd like to lead, and we'll get you on the calendar! Again, thanks Elderbob! -- Jonathan |
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There
are so many of you Webheads in Waiting that have provided me a wealth of support for this project. I will not ever be able to thank
you enough for all the pats on the back and helpful links and
"attaboys" that I have received. I don't look at today as "my project",
instead I like to think of it as more of a collaborative product. Skills I learned from many of you, combined with things I have got to experiment with at TappedIn and Alado and Learning Times, were the spine of this presentation. Even the video and audio portions were things that I collaborated with others on. It is truly a thing of beauty to see so many minds working in tandem toward a common goal or solution. So I want to turn all of these thank you around and send them to everyone one of you who participated in my efforts...WE had a really awe inspiring day, today. And I for one, am not yet through. I still have to the Moodle to master and the DreamWeaver group to collaborate with. I also still have the Webheads...the dynamic, edge of the envelope Webheads, who probably don't even realize the impact that they will eventually have on this big blue marble we call earth. This has been an amazing few weeks in my life, and it will change me forever. I salute you all.... elderbob PS. Language folks that you all are, here is a new link for you. Language on a Moodle. ...http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=31 |
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Dear Jonathan,
Is it all right if we make a
link to Bob's presentation
http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=329922
in our BaW pages? TIA.
Thanks for all the great work
you're making available to all of us, WiAs and BaWers!
Cheers from rainy Lisbon,
Teresa
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By
all means, Teresa. Feel free to link to the Toolsday session! :) Jonathan |
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Thank
you, Jonathan, on behalf of the BaW group! :-) Cheers, Teresa * * * * * * Dear All, |
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I
was disappointed to miss Bob's event. I had checked the files for Week
5 in the BAW site but it wasn't included. I can see Micheal Krauss's Monday 23rd event and tonights with Isabel Perez, but not Bob's yesterday. Anyway, I'll go to the recording available in LT so its lovely that that's available. Just to let you know that I rather rely on those weekly files to know what's going on. maybe I'm missing another source of info...trouble is I'm very short of time with all the exam marking and don't have time to read all the messages in the thread. See you all later for Isabel's workshop, Antonia |
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Dear
Antonia, Sorry about that, my apologies to you, Bob, and other participants for not having properly announced Bob's presentation at the Tools Day. Shame on us :-( his great presentation really deserved it. Bob has shown us his dedication and his skills at moderating and designing visual material, way to go, Webhead Bob!!! We only have on our weekly activities pages those events which were planned before the session started, but we should have indeed placed Bob's events on our chat sessions page. If Jonathan grants our request, we will link his presentation to our chatlogs page. Hope to see many of you at Isabel's presentation this evening :-) Hugs to all, Daf |
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Hi
Bob and Jonathan, I tried to get the recording and the video, but I haven't been successful for either one. When I tried to get to the recording, it asked me to download a file. I did. Then asked how to open the file, and I chose 'from the web' option. After that, I was taken to a page and I didn't quite know what to do from there. Can you help me? With the video, I got to the screen fine. It just stayed black no matter what I did. Are these just my problems? Cheers, Kate |
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Kate
-- It sounds like you may not have the required Java Web Start installed. You can download it by clicking the yellow "Get it Now" button at the top right of: http://www.java.com Please let help@learningtimes.net know if you have any further questions. Thanks, Kate! -- Jonathan |
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Kathryn, Next time you are on line, please contact me via Yahoo messenger and we can see if I can walk you through the process. I am wondering if you are on a dial up connection. You may not be giving things enough time to load. I have viewed both sections since yesterday and didn't have any problems...Hasanyone else out there had any problems accessing either area. elderbob |
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Dear
Karen, Bob's video takes a while to download, that is why you have the black screen (you need to click on the button -square I think) and let it download (it took a lot in my case) and then it will start playing, you can see a line getting longer as it download. Hope this helps, Karen :-) Cheers, Daf |
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Kathryn, Sorry to respond to this twice, but I think I may see what happened. In both cases, you may have to manually start the program... On the Learningtimes screen, up in the upper left hand corner there is an arrow pointing to the right. Click that arrow once, and the screen should load and the presentation should play. On the video, the on button us just below the black screen of the video. It is also an arrow pointing to the right. Click it once and it should begin to play. If this doesn't work (esp. on the video) then I suspect you may have a connection problem. Again, if it doesn't work contact me via Yahoo and I will help you work through it. I should be around here for most of the day today and tomorrow. Or if you will email me with a specific time, I will make arrangements to be online at a given time. elderbob |
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Hi
all-- Violating Web protocol, I have three topics: . . . (2) Sorry I missed the Moodle, which I used extensively last year. One of the things I like is the ability to form working sub-groups easily and link them from the frontpage. Also, the built-in chat function works pretty well. . . . --Elizabeth |
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Thanks
for the link Jonathan...I've already listened and watched the whole presentation and shall watch the movie too(had to dwnld Wind media 9).
It was just like being there!! very much appreciated... See some of you at tapped in for Isabel's workshop at 21.00 GMT tonight. Antonia * * * * * * Elderbob, thank you so
much for your fascinating and informative * * * * * * Elderbob, thank you so
much for your fascinating and informative presentation which i missed but have now accessed through jonathan's
generous link. Moodle interests me so much that I'm now working
with our school webmaster (who happens to be my partner ...tee hee..) to pilot
this wonderful virtual learning facility on our www.stjulians.com school
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To
lead a 'ToolsDay' session
Bob (and Webheads),
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To
a REO (Real Engish Online) Video Webheads chat
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Hiya
Elizabeth, I'd love to accept your invitation but surely you must mean
another date - rather than feb 15...is it March 15? or maybe something
different altogether? Let us know, thanks and very best wishes, Antonia |
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OOPS!--- The date of the REO video Webheads voice chat is Feb 29, not Feb 15, unless we all can squeeze into a time machine somewhere. We will meet in TI as our backup, and use the Webheads room at Alado from 16:00-17:15 GMT, Sunday, Feb 15. You are welcome to join us! http://www.alado.com/webheads --Elizabeth * * * * * * Third correction--typing
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the Dreamweaver warm-up session! :-)
Dear Webhead
Dreamweavers, |
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Weekends
are a real problem for me because I work the whole week and I have a
family who demands and insists on my presence - we are usually in the
countryside then, where I have not even a dial-up connection. You can
count on my presence from Monday night to Thursday night. I will make an effort to be with you for the first warm-up because I would like to know how all is going to develop and share with you what I know. Warm regards from Brazil, Bee |
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Daf
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Weekends are usually
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Excellent
question Van! Dreamweaver is paid software and quite expensive. There is an educational version (which includes Flash and Fireworks) and costs far less (here in Brazil I bought it through Senac in SP). Some people have found a Brazilian "jeitinho" [and so typically Portuguese. . .] to get it for almost nothing or for free...You can download the trial version for 30 days if I am not mistaken. And a question to all Dreamweaver participants? Which version are we going to work with and learn about? Who's got what? Warm regards from Brazil, Bee |
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Hi
Bob, thanks for the invitation - I'll try to be in the DreamW club on Sunday - but eventual family demands may have a first priority. I'm planning to download the trial version, but when I see the price for this useful tool, I have my doubts because my actual financial situation is not good. However, it is always good to learn new stuff - and I also wish to learn how to use Moodle dusing this collaborative course! yours, Sus |
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a question to all Dreamweaver participants? Which
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Anna Koorey, Daf, Fernanda, Jacira, Maria Jordano: Dreamweaver MX Bee, Buth: DW4 Karen García: DW3 Sus: will download the trial version |
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Jacira, Sorry you cannot attend our warm up meeting, but since it will take place at Bob's TI office, we will have a chatlog of the session, and I am sure Bob will place it on our Moodle Dreamweaver site. Btw, Bob has created a diagnostic quiz at the Moodle site. Please, complete it so we have an idea of everybody's level and expectations. Cheers, Daf |
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Just
a heads up for folks to let you know there will be a get acquainted
and share your thoughts meeting in my office at TI, Elderbob's Back Room,
tomorrow after the general Sunday morning get together. By no means do you have to be there, it is simply meant as a chance to voice your thoughts about directions to go in. I will be passing some information about who has been asked to be a guide or facilitator to the group but the same information will also be posted to the Moodle in case you cannot make the meeting at TI. I would ask for all participants to go to the front page of the Dreamweaver class, and at the bottom of the Weekly outline #section marked "25 Feb-Mar 2 - Welcome" click on and complete the short questionnaire on "Dreamweaver and Web building familiarity" (It is an icon that looks like a piece of paper with a red check in it.) This information will be used to produce the SyllabUS for the class which will be posted by Wednesday of next week. Once the SyllabUS is posted, you will all have an opportunity to share your thoughts and then I will have a final draft for the SyllabUS on the following Sunday morning. At that point we will be in full swing. Note also, that you may see some changes this coming week. My web host will be working to upgrade my Moodle to newest version. I do not expect this to be a problem, but just in case I am downloading a backup archive of the site, and the site may be momentarily off line. Don't get too worried, I am still here, it is just a matter of going in and making some changes in the PHP before we have all the new tools. I am really pumped-up about some of the new modules and think that they will be super helpful in our quest to produce Dreamweaver web pages. For you really creative types, if I understand this all correctly, we should be able to ad things like real audio instruction, power point and other types of audio and video presentation. I challenge you all to use the things we have learned in the last few weeks of Becoming a Webhead to produce this course. I truly believe that we learn best by doing, so having this opportunity to "do" so soon after the original learning, should give you an extra opportunity re-enforce all the learning we have done. I want to remind you again, that the intent here is a collaborative project. I am trying real hard to maintain only a miniscule control over what happens. I have picked the guides simply based on their qualifications either in moodle, dreamweaver or class planning. As soon as the guide/facilitators are on-line then they will handle the bulk of instructional planning and exercises. I am still not sure which version of Dreamweaver that we will be using but I think that, to make a simple websited, virtually any version can be used, including the free downloadable 30 day sample. So many questions....so little time... See you all tomorrow. elderbob PS. There will be cyber toast and muffins in the morning. |
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The
BaW Dreamweaver session was officially launched at Tapped In today!
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To
Bronwyn Stuckey's presentation on Research on
Internet-Mediated Communities of Practice
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(Simple) Problems ? |
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all, An embarrasingly simple problem, probably. Antonia has got fed up with being known as antoniamelvin142 (too long), so we have created a new profile (tona142) and set is as default. Err.. what now? the member directory still shows antoniamelvin142 - or have I got confused between the yahoo ID and the profile. Yahoo is very good, but being a bear of very little brain I do find all these ID's, profiles etc. confusing. Any help, advice, insight or offers of comforting chocolate welcome. [David Cousens] |
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David! I've been going to YG Members for the past couple of days on several occasions and still cannot find Antonia's new profile/ID (?) tona142. Yahoo has been acting strange lately in different respects, so, after exchanging ideas with Daf, here are two options (probably too simple - the first - or very unorthodox - the second) that may solve the problem: -- leave things as they are (the original ID, I mean) for the time being; or -- get a new ID, if you haven't got it yet (though it seems like Antonia does) and join BaW with the new ID; -- then unsubscribe with the old ID. However, and since we are only a little over a week away from the official end of BaW, I suggest that Antonia keep the antoniamelvin142 ID in BaW, because we will not close our doors after Mar 6, and join Webheads in Action with her new ID. How's that for Portuguese-style improvising?! ;-) Hope this helps and doesn't mix you up more. Teresa |
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Obrigada,
Tere, I shall follow your advice and do exactly as you say! beijinhos, kisses all, Antonia |
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Bee, I'm so sorry to bother you with this again, but I just can't open your ebook. It takes ages to dowload the page and it doesn't even dowload it fully. Any ideas what the problem could bee? :-) I have ADSL connection, so it can't be connection problems. :-( Thanks, Babi |
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HI
Babi, I am sorry to hear that...I will forward your mail to the ebook company and ask them to tell me what the problem may be.... I will upload the original webpages I used to make it so that you and others with a similar problem can read them. Warm regards from Brazil, Bee * * * * * * Babi ,Leah and all of you who did not manage to open the e-book! |
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Incorporating
slides into tutorials (question asked on Feb 15)
Hi Sus, thank you for your welcoming me and giving me feedback on
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Elizabeth
has a practical solution! :-) (reply given on Feb 26)
Hi Karen-- |
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Dear
Elizabeth, and everyone... So THAT'S the trick! I just learned to copy the screen (by pressing control and print screen) and then paste it in an image editor.... but the quality is still not the best..... how can we make the copy sharp and legible .... ? Thanks for the tip. I am debating between staying with the simplicity of html or jumping over to FLASH which is the new thing for me... (after all we have a dream weaving venue openning up....) And after withnessing the presentations in TappedIn and Alado I would enjoy some talk about what it takes behind the scenes to get the presentations ready. I thank you for your tip here and would welcome more discussion about tips..... Best regards, Karen Garcia |
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Vance Stevens' presentation |
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Dear
All, You are all invited to attend our next online event, with Vance Stevens, Webheads Coordinator, on Monday, March 1, Noon (12:00) GMT, at Tapped In. Vance will explain what it means to be a member of Webheads and what binds its members together. - I am sure you have some ideas about that :-) I have created another table in the database section where you can indicate your willingness to join this session. This is not the last live event of our session. On Saturday, March 6, from 18:00 to 19:30 GMT., we will have a guided tour to Van's FatecMOO, but he will tell us more about this experience. Cheers, Daf |
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Hi
everybody, Vance Stevens, our Webheads coordinator and mentor will be presenting live for us tomorrow at Tapped In (noon GMT) and I would like to suggest the reading of a plenary speech he delivered recently at a conference in Cairo: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/cairso2004/plenary/speech.htm You can ask Vance all the questions you have about Webheads, how we have been working and what is it that has kept Webheads in Action together. Please get your name in the database if you are planning to attend the session. Hope to see you later at our Sunday session at Tapped In, Bfn, Daf |
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Hello
all-- I am Van and I invite you to get prepared for BaW last live event at FatecMOO. I have built a simple webpage giving you some directions on how to get ready for the meeting. http://www.vansouza.com.br/mooshop1.html More instructions will be posted next week. Please, let me know if you face any sort of problem. Sir Van |
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Hi
Van and All, Thanks Van for posting your page with instructions. I went there today and it was very easy. I happen to find Van there, and he helped me, because I had forgotten that I already had a character and a password since I attended a workshop prepared by students a couple of months ago. Today,I added an icon to my name and learned how to do many things with commands. I will tell you more about this soon ;-) Remember to get your character before the session (at least three days before as Van suggests) http://www.vansouza.com.br/mooshop1.html Bfn, Daf |
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Daf-- I really had a great time this morning with you at FatecMOO!! You're a very fast learner. Now you have your own character and home in FatecMOO don't hesitate getting around whenever you want to. By the way you managed to create and operate your webprojector pretty well! Congratulations! Despite the fact that people connected to FatecMOO are Portuguese speakers, most of them are able to communicate in a basic English, so if you're in trouble there ask them for help. Regards, Van |
