Posted in toolkit on Jul 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
Accessibility Toolkit Reflection Well my LMS is not accessible for students with needs. My site does satisfy W3C web accessibility initiative in text alternatives, sufficient contrasts to make things easy to see and hear, operability, is understandable, and is robust (please see the following link for breakdown of terms http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/glance/ ). My site is easy [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
DVD Authoring Toolkit To be honest I was hesitant about doing this toolkit activity. I was thinking to myself, why do a toolkit about DVD authoring when I have personally burnt DVD’s. Now mind you I have not burnt many DVD’s, but I had burnt a few. However, I decided to try and complete as [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Social software Toolkit. Wow, after reading the terms of service’s (TOS) for Flicker, Picasa, Twitter, and Facebook I am glad that I am not a lawyer. During the Wiki Toolkit activity the following analysis questions were asked of us to consider while reading the social software TOS’s. 1) Who “owns” materials posted by members? 2) [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Audio Toolkit This has been my first time using Audacity. After downloading the program along with Lame I found it straight forward to create an audio file and convert it to an mp3. I tried to edit some of the sound files I created and believe that it will take some time to learn how [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
Still Images Toolkit Today I did the still images toolkit activity. For this activity I had to alter two copies of the same image within the free photo editing software of Picasa. The alterations were to crop one while resizing. Cropping of the first copied image was straight forward and was not labour intensive. Upon [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Wiki toolbox For the past few years I have seen Wikipedia being used by students as a resource for various projects. Most of the time, students have plagiarized content from Wikipedia. Students seldom referenced the wiki site within their projects and at times the information has been wrong. This was my introduction to Wikipedia. Thus, [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jun 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
Blogging Toolkit. Let’s talk blogging. I am not the sort of person to write about my personal life; thus, I have decided not to create a personal blog. However, I will comment on the ease of setting up the ETEC 565 blog. I found the process of setting up our course blogs to be somewhat [...]
Posted in Rambles, Reflections on Jun 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Synchronous Communication Tools. As I journey through the toolkit activities I have come to the synchronous communications tools toolkit. Looking at the many different types of synchronous communications tools brought fourth memories of my youth. Let’s take a journey back some eleven years ago. Picture if you will a young Addis (looks pretty much like [...]
Posted in Rambles, Reflections on Jun 4th, 2009 4 Comments »
So, does my amazing website suck? The website that I spent countless hours creating way back in, hmm how long ago was that, 2003. I have since used this website as a template to create yearly class websites. The original website took me about a week and a half to build, while annual class sites [...]
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