Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Happy Halloween



Wow, where did October go!?  I can't believe November is here already, I miss the summer soo much, especially the nice little break I had from school.  Not a huge fan of the time change that is coming, it will get so dark so soon.

So I am about halfway through the fall semester and it has been great so far!  We have created a blog (the one I am using now) a podcast, wiki pages, voice-threads and we are starting to build our websites.   We have been reading through Dreamweaver CS6: The missing manual to teach ourselves how to build a site.  So far so good?  Not sure about that, I vaguely recall building my first site titled "the hot spot" with a very early version of dreamweaver in college.  8 years later...here we are.  Going through the book is very helpful, but I'm going to check out some online tutorials and get some other workbooks from the library to really dive into it this week.


Dreamweaver Cs6 Logo
Image: Dreamweaver Cs6 Digital Ghost Logo

As far my final project, I am going to focus on Social Media Retail and the affect it has on Consumer Behavior, more specifically focusing on Retail Businesses.  I am very exciting about doing research on this topic and I hope to finish the second part of my lit review in the next week.

This week we are focusing on 508 Compliance and its affect on web design.  I will actually be using this blog to see if it passes compliance without errors as part of one of my class assignments.  In my other course we are creating another voice-thread with regards to copyright and its implications on online distance learning.  


Alright, now back to work people.




Thursday, October 18, 2012

Podcasting

Today I made my first podcast!  It was very simple using PodOMatic (you can sign up for a free account using the link)  Episode 1 and 2 have been posted tonight, where I talk about my experiences in an online community and what I think is the most important component of online education.  They are both brief..but I will post more podcasts later about other topics relating to my final project, my moms real estate website and other interesting technology things that pop into my head.

You can hear my voice here!

Grace G's Podcast


I used my brand new Apple EarPods (which I love by the way, thank you Apple for the redesign) to record the episodes on the recorder app on my Iphone and emailed myself the files and uploaded them directly to my podcast.  Once I am more comfortable my voice I will sound a little more cheerful!  It will come with practice :)


Apple EarPods
Apple EarPods