Tama has a great presentation: iTeach, iLearn: Student Podcasting outlining the pedagogical benefits of student podcasting! Let’s get into it!
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
Last week saw the public beta release of Microsoft’s latest browser: Internet Explorer 7, which has a significatly different User Interface (see A New Look for IE, on the Microsoft IE blog), a built in News Reader, and many other improvements.
It’ll be interesting to see if this helps IE regain it’s 90% share of the web-browser market over the next year or two… Right now, the IE7 beta release is becoming the latest piece in a long history of “Browser Wars” and Internet trends that make up the history of the World-Wide Web - a history that helps those of us learning about web design to understand where our industry is headed!
If you’re new to the world of browsers and web design, it’d be worthwhile to do a bit of research and see if you can discover some of the more significant events that are shaping the webdesign industry to the present (you could try searching for some of the following terms: browser wars, Bernes-Lee, google, NSCA Mosaic, blogging, newsfeeds, podcasting, Amazon).
If you’ve been hanging around in web design circles for a while, why not instead see what the professionals are currently saying about IE7? Will you be installing IE7 Beta2 and testing your own designs?
When you get a chance, help the rest of us learn by updating your own site with what you find out! For those people who haven’t yet been subjected to EPIC 2015, check it out a fun history and possible future for the web!
At the start of every semester, we walk around the college with the new web students, pointing out all the places of interest, “college tour” at the start of each semester where you walk around the college, showing students the cafeteria, fire-evacuation points, etc.
We thought this year it might be more fun and memorable to arm ourselves with digital cameras (or Mobile phone cameras), and get out there for a 15 min photo chase!
Here’s our thoughts so far (if you’ve done this before, or you’ve got other ideas, please drop us a comment!):
NOTE: make sure that you ask permission before taking a photo, and explain why you are taking your photo!
Divide into 2 or three teams (4 people each?), and get as many points as you can! Winner takes all:
- 5pts for a friendly librarian with a smile: (15pts if you get a pic of an angry librarian - a very very rare species in our college!)
- 5pts for some ducks that haven’t yet been run over. (Note: Drive slowly around car-park!)
- A place where you can play some sports such as Basketball or Frisbee or Soccer.
- … (bonus points if you manage to use the macro feature of your camera for this photo)
- A security or maintenance person (smiling of course).
- A door that opens to a room where you can get counselling 5pts (Bonus 10pts if you get a pic of Louise our counsellor, Bonus 20pts if you get a pic of Louise’s special bike).
- The place where you have to gather when the fire alarm goes off: 20pts. (Bonus 10pts if your photo demonstrates something that should not be done during an evacuation!)
- 5pts for each of your IT head teachers.
- 10pts for a photo of the door where Judith Cooke, one of your facilitators, hides when she doesn’t want to be found ;).
Special prize for most creative photo, and funniest photo.
Over to you Genie (or anyone else!)