My first experience with web design came with ETEC 565A, and the software of choice for me was Amaya. I watched some tutorials on YouTube for Amaya and for NVU and I felt that Amaya would suite my needs the best. I downloaded the software and played around a bit with creating pages and then […]

Believe it or not, this was the first time I used a hand held device to browse the internet. So, I can thank this course for giving me motivation to do this, as well as my brother-in-law for lending his Blackberry. End user experience Try accessing both the ETEC 565 WebCT Vista course site and […]

Now that I have been exposed to RSS and weblogs in a much deeper way I feel that I can stand back and ponder what I feel about everything. I really like the RSS as it finds me and that can save a lot of time in my day. Quite frankly, the time commitment was […]

Tonight I played around with some synchronous communication tools and I reflected on my past experiences using some of these tools. One of my favorite synchronous tool is Skpye. I love the ability to have audio and video at the same time. I find that these features have been invaluable when working as groups in […]

Develop an Activity and Provide a Rationale My Moodle site will be used for the purpose of blended instruction.  I have chosen a unit in the Physics 11 curriculum call Special Relativity.  This topic has many weird and wonderful anomalies that are very tough for the human mind to wrap itself around.  It is because […]

In the last 12 hours I have spent about 4 hours on my Moodle page.  It is very time consuming but very rewarding as I can see it progressing quite nicely.  I have determined my topic and laid out my shell and I have put in a variety of forums for asynchronous discussion.  I have […]

My time tonight on Wimba was great.  It reminded me of a few of my experiences on Elluminate Live.  John hosted and lead using a screen shot of his computer with voice.  It was very helpful to see how to use some of the more in-depth features of Moodle settings.  I definitely got a better […]

I have spent the better part of today doing something that was not planned.  I began by playing around with my UBC blog and trying to organize my entries into categories.  Once I figured out how categories work I began to get a better sense of how I can keep everything streamlined.  I guess you […]

My experience working through the Moodle toolkit assignment was very positive.  I don’t have very much experience at all with Moodle so I was looking forward to this first step.  I have heard how easy Moodle is to work with, so I am not surprised at how effortless it was for me to create my […]