Jillian dealing with technology. Created by Meme TN Source: flickr |
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Technology is "not" evil
I have very little skills when it comes to technology. I often think I am lucky to be born into my generation because I have the basic computer skills we were forced to learn growing up. But I haven't really edited pictures since my friends tried to teach me back in the MySpace days. I thought I was on the ball because I had made a blog before, but I have never made a website. I have used a weebly before, but didn't realize weeblys were a way of making a free site. I am excited about perhaps making my own site, though I am nervous about editing graphics. I am also happy to see the suggestion for a bookmarking tool. I always find myself bookmarking so many websites, only to lose them in my crazy collections of bookmarks.
This is very different from my other classes. As a humanities student, most of my teachers are not comfortable with technology. We usually only deal with Canvas/D2L. I had one class Freshman year that insisted we tweet about our readings and respond to other classmates' tweets. However, this system objectively was a failure, and no one in the class really learned from the experience, or enjoyed it. I have much higher hopes for this class, especially since it is a tried and true practice.
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Ha ha, I love that graphic! And thank you for the detailed information here; this is a new assignment and I'm basically looking for ideas about how I can revise/improve the Tech Tips part of the class to respond to the kinds of things people are interested in. I think you will be surprised at how easy and convenient the web-based image editing software is!
ReplyDeleteAnd, as I said yesterday, THANK YOU for working ahead like this. It is really good to know that the links and instructions are working. I made a lot of little changes to the Orientation this year, and it is really nice to have it "road-tested" before everybody shows up next week. Much appreciated!!!