Month: June 2009

Well, I’ve completed the communication tools assignment.  I chose a discussion forum and a chat space within the Moodle course shell for my Social Studies 11 living standards project.  I chose to stay within the Moodle framework becasue I’m not that terribly knowledgeable in communication tools.  I’ve never used Skype, don’t use MSN or any other similar animal, and I don’t use chat rooms.  I’m honestly way too busy in life to take the time to use these tools.  That being said, I definitely can see their appeal.  I actually found myself looking forward to getting the opportunity to try these out with an actaul class of Social Studies students.

Now that I’ve spent a bit of time working within Moodle I’m getting eager to try it out next year.  Our district is introducing Moodle in September so I hope to be using much of what I’ve learned here next school year.  I’ve chosen to focus on a human geographyunitb in this course for two reasons.  First, it’s one of the more interesting units, and secondly, it’s what I always start the course with so I’m hoping to migrate over some of what I develop during this course over to a district Moodle shell for use in September.

Cheers,

Ken

Well, I’ve just completed my first attempt with the Audacity software for audio capture.  Overall, I found that the process went very smoothly with no glitches.  The installation of the software was very easy and there was a link on the website to the LAME MP3 software that also installed very easily.  Once I had made my recording I saved it as an MP3 on my destop and then played it back in Windows Media Player.  Everything worked flawlessly.  If I was surprised by anything it was how well it worked.  I really didn’t find it that labour intensive or challenging.  The instructions in the e-learning toolkit were very clear so it was easy.

Cheers,

Ken

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Well I just fooled around with the Picasso program with a picture of my kids and found the experience to be surprisingly easy.  I actually found it easier to explore myself rather than follow the video tutorials.  The cropping tutorial actually threw me off because there was no sound.  I kept waiting to hear something and then realized it was all text based so I had to restart it.  Picasso seems like a good program but I’m not sure how much I’d use it because I already have Photoshop loaded on my computer and it really does the same thing.  Anyway I think I’ll include the pics here.

Cheers,

Ken