So here I am in my classroom typing a Blog entry in MS Word 2007. The big question for me is: “Is this better/easier/more effective than using the Word Press online editor?” Well so far so good. I created a new document with ease and typed in my blog URL and username and password. It appears to connect fine. So getting started seems easy enough, I suppose the next test is whether or not formatting performed in Word transfers correctly to Word Press. I’ll play with some sample formatting changes and pictures and check out the results.
Students in my ITT OYAP class are currently working on creating their own digital portfolio’s using Dreamweaver MX. I think this is a worthwhile task and hopefully students gain the following:
- An introduction to HTML, CSS, and Dreamweaver
- An awareness of themselves and their career goals
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A polished finished product that will be useful to them in the future
I have to give credit to my experience at UOIT and Dr. Liesel Knaack who assigned teacher candidates a similar assignment while earning our BEd. The students appear to be working well on their assignment. The only challenge for them really seems to be staying on task in terms of creating content; students love to mess around with how their digital portfolio looks. As a side note, the image on the right was taken from my BEd. digital portfolio. I think it was a great “fake” picture. I’m trying to look like I am teaching, when really I am in an empty classroom except for the friend who took the picture. As I recall, the work on the board behind me is a mixture of quantum physics and gibberish.
Well, all in all it seems that Word 07 does it right. Formatting text, and inserting an image (and placing it properly) was all much less problematic in Word vs. the Word Press web editor. The only thing I notice is that the image appears larger online than in my Word Document. So, in case you’re wondering, all my future posts will be posted via Word.