Transfer of classes

It's good that I am forced to revisit my blog... I created this for PP105 and now get to use it in PP107. I'm not much of a blogger... but this is a great reconnect. Yeah me!

Welcome!

Greetings to all who have arrived here. I'm sure you are classmates from PP105. I'd like to take the time to say a few words about creating the content of this blog. Here are some things I learned.

1. Adverbs of Time: In a blog, you really shouldn't use them. I find myself starting posts with words like next or then or now when those words really don't belong here. Example, the first thing I wrote on this blog is at the bottom. So, when I start a post with the word "then," it creates a problem. The reader hasn't read that happened first yet! It seems that you would want to reverse the order of your posts... but then the reader would have to scroll down to get to the latest item. It's a conundrum.

2. Surprise: Just when you think it can't be done, you click on something AND-IT-CAN! So often I felt that I was at the end of my Blogger's rope. But by reading, and re-reading, things Steve put up about embedding and links and stuff like that. In the end, I was able to upload everything I wanted, in the order I wanted. That makes me happy.

Overall, I am really pleased and excited about what I've learned in this class. I hope to use all these pieces of information daily. :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Making a movie... Very scary.

The most exciting thing I did in PP105 was to create a short video of surya namaskar b. It took a lot of time... Recording the bits and pieces was easy... getting it all the flow together perfectly... a bit of a challenge. Enjoy. (Please forgive my poor poses.)

Photoshop!

I also got to make just the silliest picture of me using someone else head. Can you guess who she is?

Making pictures Smaller

Over the years, I have been working on getting pictures just the right size to send to friends and family. Being overseas, I was much more cautious in the size of the photos I would email.

Here are the photos I used for PP105. The picture with more ice is the "bigger" photo. The guy with me is my husband. :)

Voice Thread

I think this was one of the most amazing discoveries in PP105. There is so much possibility here! I want to find several ways to use this in my classrooms and in my life!

Audacity

Then, we were asked to make a sound file using Audacity. I really enjoyed working in this new sound editing software, mostly because it is free. It was one of the only assignments I didn't share with my classmates and only put it in the dropbox. To be honest, it's kind of embarrassing...

I took a favorite song of mine and just read the words aloud while it played. So, here you go... Beck