Hmm, show you my design?
August 19, 2006 by quillstress
How’s this? Design concept number one, brought to you courtesy of ScreenHunter, Adobe Photoshop, and Flickr. Boy, talk about “integrating” software technologies…this is ridiculous! lol lol
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This is an awesome design! The combination of technologies is a bit daunting to me…but some of those were involved in just getting the image here, not in making the original design, right? Is the zine online?
The Zine was simply an exercise dreamed up by the workshop facilitators, and I don’t have access to lunapages or any hosting service so the pages aren’t actually on-line. The list of Applications was indeed for getting the image on the blog. Let me explain a little more fully. I opened the pages I designed in Nvu and snapped a “screen shot” of them using Screenhunter. Since the file type created isn’t readable by Edublog’s uploader (and since I didn’t want to have a lot of separate pics on the blog post), I opened these two images in Adobe Photoshop and layered them into one image that I saved as a jpeg. I tried uploading this jpeg into Edublogs in their compose/edit window of the dashboard, but it wouldn’t work. So, I uploaded the image to Flickr instead…I knew I could insert images from Flickr since I’ve done it before. I hit the “image” button to insert it into the post when I wrote it and TADAA!! lol Anyway, hope that demystifies what I meant a little. Sometimes it’s just a matter of coming at it from a different angle.
Definitely demystifies! I really liked the whole idea of designing the ‘zine…been mulling that over in my mind for a class that I teach. Thanks for sharing your experience…
No problem, glad you got something out of it. I’m now trying to figure out how to design an “all encompassing” website for myself. It seems I will be a study hall teacher yet again this year, so I’m thinking of branching out and becoming a CYBER TEACHER> yeah, still not sure what that means, but should be fun to experiment. I’ve been playing with the notion I had during the website workshop of having a “study” image as a front door to my site with buttons leading to all sorts of places….from a virtual classroom where I can invite participation to a “bookshelf” of varous reading for teachers and students. Just so many ideas running around my head after all these workshops!
That’s an interesting concept…perhaps the beauty of not knowing what a cyber-teacher is lies in the opportunity to define yourself! I’m not certain what a study hall teacher does, but I’m guessing you are in a position to have to support work being done in a variety of disciplines. Perhaps that offers an idea for your website. What things do your students struggle with, typically? Are there things in writing, history, math that you get asked over and over again? Creating a space to help move kids forward in those areas would be an interesting and useful space to develop. Doors to literacy, if you will.
In “class” I teach small study skills lessons, help students with anything they’re working one (all subjects, like you guessed, but involving a lot of writing), and generally keep the peace while talking to students about anything and everything. I also am Homebound Tutor for the district and have “students” in writing and life in general that aren’t even in the same school. (Some not even in the same country!) In all of this I have no “geographical” classroom to make resources and opportunities available to students, so I’ve been thinking a good deal about a “cyber space” as my “classroom.” (My father says I should teach under a tree…But I can’t even afford that rent!) Add to that the need to have a professional portfolio on line and it just seems that I could really make use of all I’m learning to create my own web realm in a way. I was just thinking of a way to link Google Notebooks to a virtual bookshelf, wondering how many I can fit on a visual respresentation, etc. And then this weeks workshops are on web searches….oh, don’t get me started on the possiblities there. I’m too much the naturalist/curator/libarian not to have to turn my website into the cyber chapter of the Library of Alexandria and Museum of Natural History! I need a laptop sticker that says, “I was born to Wiki”. lol lol
All I can say is that you rock! Keep posting so I can watch your cyberspace grow!