Alyssa’s Blog

This week in class we had received groups for our tutorial project.  We learned how to add pages to our collabroative wiki and learned how to use the tool bar for it.  The pages that we added to our wiki were Collabrative wiki, sample tutorial, and helpful links.  The Sample tutorial showed us what a tutorial is like and we learned more about it.  Another thing that we learned is that when using wiki anyone in the group can edit or change what is being wrote.  There is a history of the wiki that shows everything that was added to it.  On Friday we brain stormed what we want to do our tutorials on and started our project.

This week I was not in class very much because I was sick.  One thing that I learned this week though was how to create a new page.  I created an about me and wrote a little bit about myself in it.

This week in class I learned how to work and manage my blog.  I found out how to add widgets and to change my blogs subtitle.  Some widgets that I put on my blog were the general search bar, google search bar, email subscribe and meta.  From adding my widgets I learned that you cannot use certain side bars to place the widgets.  When we had a sub I changed my theme to Mandigo and I learned how to create my own image in the header.  Along with this I learned how to change my header, I selected a quote to put on my header because it is a positive quote and I like quotes.  Lastly, I learned how to add the online communications blog to my blogroll.  This week was a very progressive week.

Since we didn’t have class everyday this week due to the CAPT testing this entry wont be as long as the last reflection.  This week I learned about RSS which stands for Real Simple Syndication.  RSS distributes a list of headlines, update notices, and sometimes content to a wide number of people.  Who uses these?  Well, it is used by computer programs that organize those headlines and notices for easy reading.  Secondly, today in class I learned how to create a google account.  I’m not quiet sure how to use this google account, but I am looking forward to exploring it this weekend.  Finally, in the beginning of the week I tried to load my video onto my edublog, but it did not work.  I think that this didn’t work because I tried to load it at home, but it did not work.  After trying to load it at home I tried during school and it didn’t work again, I guess I will try to have to attempt again.

This week in class I have feel that I’ve learned several of things. One thing that I have learned is how to create my own edublog. I learned that the World Wide Web is a network of computers all over that communicate using standard protocols and languages.  Javascript is something else I’ve learned about this week, which is used for programming the web browser. You can teach yourself Javascript to deliver more dynamic website content. Lastly, I learned HTML which happens to be the language of the web. It’s used to “markup tags” to define the content and layout of your web pages.