Technology Overview
In terms of blogging, I've used WordPress for a few semesters now for the Global Engagement Fellowship blog that I'm required to maintain about international events on campus and my experiences abroad. I'm most familiar with that format, but Blogger is very accessible and user-friendly and I'm enjoying my experience with it so far.
I've also experimented with Twine, Wix and Weebly in the past, but only for small side projects and not for anything as in-depth as the storybooks. I'm looking forward to learning more about these programs, because they can easily be used for assignments and classes in future semesters.
For bookmarks, I've always just relied on the bookmarks feature that comes with Chrome. I'll look into Diigo, however -- I've never heard of it before. For now though, I've just got a handful of relevant links in a folder for MLLL-3043 on my Chrome bar.
I've also never had a class that is divided amongst so many web platforms -- everything has always just been confined to Canvas in the past. I appreciate that the ClassAnouncements blog and the class wiki are pretty comprehensive -- it would be easy to lose track of where things are and miss information, so I'll make an effort to stay on top of announcements and assignments so that they don't slip through the cracks.
I don't know how applicable this will be, but I've always wanted to be a better image editor. I don't want to pay for PhotoShop, so I've used Pixlr in the past, which is a great free resource for image editing. Hopefully, I can find a way to practice those skills. Additionally, I love doing video projects for assignments so I'll keep an eye out for opportunities to implement videography this semester.
I've also experimented with Twine, Wix and Weebly in the past, but only for small side projects and not for anything as in-depth as the storybooks. I'm looking forward to learning more about these programs, because they can easily be used for assignments and classes in future semesters.
For bookmarks, I've always just relied on the bookmarks feature that comes with Chrome. I'll look into Diigo, however -- I've never heard of it before. For now though, I've just got a handful of relevant links in a folder for MLLL-3043 on my Chrome bar.
I've also never had a class that is divided amongst so many web platforms -- everything has always just been confined to Canvas in the past. I appreciate that the ClassAnouncements blog and the class wiki are pretty comprehensive -- it would be easy to lose track of where things are and miss information, so I'll make an effort to stay on top of announcements and assignments so that they don't slip through the cracks.
I don't know how applicable this will be, but I've always wanted to be a better image editor. I don't want to pay for PhotoShop, so I've used Pixlr in the past, which is a great free resource for image editing. Hopefully, I can find a way to practice those skills. Additionally, I love doing video projects for assignments so I'll keep an eye out for opportunities to implement videography this semester.
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| The Pixlr interface. It's moderately easy to use (even for me, with no real idea of what I'm doing) and best of all, it's free. Pixlr can be found here. Source: University of Adelaide. |
This is GREAT, Spencer. You have a lot more web-based tech experience that most students do coming into the class... so with the tech tips, feel free to make up your own tech tips as you go along! If you want to teach yourself some videography, go for it, and just write up what you are learning and declare that as a Tech Tip; I'll see that in your blog, and then I can snag stuff that could be useful to the whole class (the Twine tech tips emerged from the Twine projects people had done over the past couple of years). One student last semester used the project in this class as the basis for a podcast project in her Media class, and that was also really cool: Why We Hate Humans. So any time you think of a technology experiment you want to try, like video or podcast or whatever, that would be super!
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