I can’t believe how much I’m loving putting all my energies into the final stages of the hiking 101 course I’m developing! I have experimented with creating a wav file and incorporated it into my course. I used http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and I borrowed a real decent microphone from the college AV department where I work and I’ve been practicing. I didn’t realize that there is such a real science to recording your voice and you have to pay attention to dictation and pronunciation. I gave it my best try. (Gulp, I recorded it over dozens of times!) I also went to http://www.flickr.com/ and uploaded my hiking photos. I wanted to create an rss feed into my blog that I created specifically for my hiking 101 course. I’m having trouble getting the feed link onto my new blog. I don’t know exactly what the feed url is to tell my blog page.
So I created a second blog, called: http://catsmtnhiker.edublogs.org/ I put a link to it in my course creation. I don’t know if I’ll have time to make it great, but at least the idea is there and how I’ll use it in my course. I guess at this point I should stop looking at new ideas and work with what I have. It’s just that it has become real addicting and I find myself thinking more and more about what I can do to develop it better.
What I have learned in this past 2 weeks is just so hard to write down because I have really worked hard and getting all of the pieces together. I have learned so much from this course with Alex and the rest of my classmates that I want to thank all of you! I have grown so much and I know it’s only the beginning. I want to spend some time putting together all of my resources learned from this course so I don’t forget them. There were so many great tools.
So at this point, I believe I’m in the “prettying up stage” and I’ve spent so much time on new tools, that I hope I haven’t neglected something. I’ll look it all over once again and I’m sure when it’s time for critiques, I’ll learn how I can improve further or what I forgot!
– Geralynn (4)
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parkerk1
// Aug 9, 2008 at 8:33 am
Hi geralynn: nice blog!! it looks great.
As i mentioned, this is your blog and i hope you will keep it beyond the end of the course to continue to document your journey as an online educator : )
I used flickrslidr in my blog to create a little slide show on my blog, you might want to check that out. http://flickrslidr.com/
Your students could also create voicethreads with pics of their hikes and add audio reflections to each … that would be cool.
I was also glad to hear that you experimented with audacity. Did you find the audio “welcome ” at the top of our etap coursemap – a link under the word “welcome”? i did that with audacity (as well as the interviews with the instructors) in our course.
I am thrilled that you have created a blog that you will use with your students in your course. It looks beautiful and i am sure will add a wonderful dimension to your course. It is perfect for your students to chronicle their hikes …. i love it!
Thanks for all your reflections. Your enthusiasm is infectious : )
Your blog looks great by the way, (though you need to categorize your posts.)
me
(unfortunately i can only give you half the credit for this assignment. 2 blog posts are required per module. )
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