Wikis....

Image: Andrew (Megan) Laing The definition of 'wiki' is Hawaiian for .... fast.

Hello everyone. Enjoy the wiki ride....
My understanding of a wiki is that it functions through pages linked to each other. The word 'wiki' itself does suit the function, as to start up and create pages takes less than 30 minutes. Let's continue the 'wiki' ride this week. I have set up my gmail calendar and fed this into the home page. Live up dates for the learners. I have also tested my voice ... no not singing but up-loaded an mp3 file. Lets try this on Friday.

Wiki visit

Hello everyone. Here is the wiki address: http://learnforlearning.wikispaces.com/

This Friday!

Hello everyone. I think I am eventually following everyone! I now know that I am not going to use edublog. I hadn't realise what I like most is to see my work as I go. I like the icon in blogger that lets me view my blog from the same screen. A bit vain I know - just want to see my words in print!
So this Friday I hope that we can continue to look at wikis. We can look into setting up a wiki and investigate the functions. Have a look at Michael's links into the learning styles. From the quizz, look at your learning styles. Am I teaching the same way - blended teaching style? Have we exhausted this discussion?
See you all on Friday.

Using Spell with flickr

I have tested my skills with images and ventured into Spell with Flickr! However what did stump me was I thought I could embed the code but didn't know where. So I had to work in photoshop to create the image as a jpeg and upload the image from there. A solution of sorts but I am sure this isn't quite the right way.

The camera’s ability to depict ‘a moment in time’ – to stop the clock for a brief moment – gives photographs a unique capacity to direct our consideration towards the mechanics and poetics of this pervasive and mysterious cosmic force.

Why put this in my blog? Thanks to David I read the critique from the NGV Photography exhibition and I think it sums up a lot of what we could achieve by using images rather than words. How would that be if all our classes were taught with pictures? This would definitely benefit those of us who are visually perceptive.

Have you all looked at the Learning styles that is on the 23things wiki? I know Learning styles has been out 'there' for awhile but sometimes it is worth reminding ourselves about whether the effort we put into preparing our material for classes really suits.

Look forward to seeing you all on Friday Learn@Lunch.