Sunday, October 15, 2006

Another Weekend almost over


I have to complain. In class on Wednesday I was working on my page o' links when the entire thing (my added text/links) disappeared! There was no way that I could find to bring it back, which meant I had to start all over. On top of that, I couldn't figure out how to link it back to my homepage. I've done it before, but the brain just wouldn't remember. Bah Humbug with this stuff! I am just aarrrghhh.

I was on the Blackboard checking out some of the external links. The Kairos site had a really interesting article on using web page creation in the classroom for author biographies. There was another, (Merlot?) that had a plethora of links to a variety of educational sites. Thanks Dr. R!

I spent some time today looking at other class members websites and a few of the group blogs. It's interesting to see how different they are. I don't feel so bad about my geocities fiasco, since other people seem to be having similar issues. I am jealous of those folks who have cool backgrounds on their websites. If you know how to do this, talk to me! There are places on the web where I can get free backgrounds, icons, buttons, etc. but how to use them is another story. Check the link. Now I have to finish up what I'm doing on my site. And face the fact that another weekend is almost over and I didn't get everything done on my To Do list, c'est la vie

2 Comments:

Blogger Jackie Rhodes said...

It's good to see a blog that finally answers the question: "What do David Bowie, Russell Crowe, Tears for Fears, and Yo Yo Ma have in common?"

Mon Oct 16, 02:15:00 PM  
Blogger Summer Writers said...

It depends on what you mean by cool background. The backgrounds automatically tile, so you have to be careful what you choose. I went to SeaWorld a few years ago with my best friend and took a picture of a dolphin at Rocky Point Preserve. It swam right up to the glass, looked at me, and I snapped the pic. I lightened it with a photo editor and uploaded it to the user files on the page builder thing. Then, I selected it as my background. If you're interested in seeing the original picture, let me know and I'll try to post it when I get home.

Mon Oct 16, 05:28:00 PM  

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