LiterateLife

I have logged in today and the Moodle post looks much better! There is one video that isn’t loading, but the elements aren’t all over the place like they were when I first made it. I haven’t made any changes.

My campus is really lucky to have a Distance Learning Lab that I have used about 3 times this year in an attempt to get used to how the whole thing works. I have to admit that what I participated in wasn’t well coordinated to fit my curriculum. I teach ESL, though, so the experiences (one about migration of cranes and the other at Christmas about storytelling) were valid in terms of language development.

That said, I would like to get more on the ball and take advantage of not only sessions, but collaborative opportunities for next year. I have a membership with CILC, so over the summer I hope to get some programs planned for next year.

I set up a Word Count Journal. I must write!

I have spent the last 3 hours surfing, beginning with the Edublogs home page and getting into Second Life and WikiEducator.

I am pretty overwhelmed! I do have lots of questions which I will record here, as I would ask my students to do the same when delving in to new information.

How do I get my voki into my sidebar?

What is up with RSS? I now have some RSS feeds in myyahoo, and some in explorer. I don’t understand why RSS feeds are different (interface?)

I can’t seem to log into SecondLife…I have had an account for over a year, just downloaded SL onto my laptop…wonder why I can’t play?

I want to follow and be followed on Twitter, but how do I get contacts??? And I have to be an edublags supporter to get Twitter on my blog, huh?

I want to create and avatar for my username and blog…the voki would be ok, but I can’t get it to work. Do I go to an avatar creation site?

 I don’t think my district will allow me to use student blogging.  I think, though, I can create pages with student writing published on it. Might be an option to get started, once I figure out how this all works.

It’s almost midnight and I’m pretty tired, but excited about what I am learning here.

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I can put a Voki into my blogs now! Maybe I should put it on my About Me page.I followed the directions from The Edublogger and only had difficulty trying to decide how much code to highlight. How are teachers using these with their students?