podcast video

The podcast video ch 1-3 explains how to plan out your podcast, gives the definition. It also gives you ideas of how to check out other sites and see which format suits what you are doing. Ch 4 shows how to edit and add music. Ch 5 discusses publishing your pod cast and then ch 6 leads into different types of equipment and the purposes of the equipment. It also tells what types of pod casts it will be good for. Ch 7 discusses getting the podcast out there and possibly getting profit for it. different marketing strategies and how to promote the podcast weather it is video or just audio.

Blogger tutorial 8-17 continued

Chapter 8 begins showing how to edit, put up the first post and how to edit after the post is already up.
Chapter 9 show all the different tools available for editing such as fonts, bold, italic, links, alignment, alignment, blog quote and clean up. The clean up is fixing up the blog to make it look better. And last but not least spell check.
Chapter 10 discusses how to upload images and where to get them from.
Chapter 11 talks all about editing the profile and making it better. You can add photos and decide how you want others to see it and how to view it.
Chapter 12 lets you know how to put your blog to work and how to send pings and list in the directory for others to be able to view your blog.
Chapter 13 Tells you how to make multiple blogs, invite members, restrict people and their comments and post comments. Publishing the blog and removing a member from the team or adding and deleting a blog.
Chapter 14 has you thinking about getting daring with your blog and and changing header colors and backgrounds. Changing templates and adding links.
Chapter 15 discusses audio. It shows how to use audioblogger and leave a voice message that can go to your blog.
Chapter 16 is very important because it tells different areas that one can go to for help and and tells what each section means, such as knownissues. Knowledge is the newsletter of blogger. There are different ways to contact blogger with questions. Developer is a site by blogger for the more advanced blogger.
Chapter 17 discusses advanced issues and tell different things available beyond blogger.

Blogger tutorial

The blogger tutorial was very helpful in setup and how to use the site. Chapter 1 gave an overview of what a blog is and different uses of a blog. Gathering info on how you want to set up your blog and the goals for what type of blog you would like to use. It also describes the different templates and hosts.
Chapter 2 continues with creating, naming and templates in more detail. Discussing how important choices of the profile and how to catch the readers attention.
Chapter 3 shows how to switch to a host server, ftp info and how to republish and give a description of contact info.
Chapter 4 teaches how to set the settings, encoding- how things appear on the page and the post template.
Chapter 5 gives examples of how to post and receive comments and who can post and how to keep people from posting. It shows how to have notifications sent to email if someone posts a comment.
Chapter 6 shows how to set up archives, enable posts and set up a URL and create sub folders.
Chapter 7 continues talking about site feeds of different kinds and notification of different posts. It talks about short feed, feed URL, blog send and mail to options. The mail to option is nice so that you can send a blog post from your email and add it to the blog.

Google Docs

The Google docs from Lynda.com:
Ch 1- taught how to sign into google docs and how to add to favorites
- setting up a google apps acct and how to use gadgets and navigate through the site.
-putting in headers and how to change settings.
This ch basically showed how to get going.
ch 2-Showed how to create different documents like word processing, spread sheets and presentations and how to view each one. It gave the use of different functions like uploading and handling techniques. how to create folder.
Ch 3- Discussed how to use the word processing documents. What special characters were and the differences from using word. It also discussed how to choose languages and different functions.
ch 4- discussed different ways of formatting and showed the specifics and how to use doc styles.
Ch 5- Spreadsheet set up and how to change properties.
Ch 6- Discussed how to set up inserting objects and how to use different links and bookmarks to make it easier to navigate long documents.
ch 7- showed how to begin collaborating with others and discussed the different ways and why google docs makes it easier. It explained about making revisions and how to use history and tracking. Manage sharing was also discussed and how important it is to know how to add and remove someone from a document.
Ch 8-11- Showed how to use the spreadsheets and the different formulas and functions and the differences .
Ch 12-14 showed how to set up presentations and how to navigate thorough the site.

twitter post

I put my blog info onto my twitter page as post. It is from the blog I am working on for my final project.

oh!

I just asked Ken about setting up the utube video and he gave me the web site liquiddrum.com/multimediastorytelling.html. Very helpful.

Still watching the lynda.com tutorials. I could not watch the videos on the link that Ken sent. I am starting a list of things to ask about in class. I kind of have an idea on how to do them but like to have someone there if I screw up. checked out the second life site and am going to set one up this weekend.

Searching

I have been searching for articles to add to my new blog. Thanks to the tutorial I learned how to incorporate pics into the blog. I am messing around with a few of the other options, in the video, not sure if I want to use them in my new blog.

blogger tutorial

I just scanned through the chapters to set up my new blog for the final project. It came in handy because I forgot how to set up a few items. I also watched the first 8 chapters of the podcast video. It is interesting to see the different types of products out there and how many different venues can be used to create a podcast.

picture

Yipee, I just got a picture on my blog page. I thought it was going to be hard. I am learning!!! I did not try it because I just assumed I could not do it. Hmm... maybe I should be more confident and not be afraid of the computer lol.

Podcast tutorial

I am still not convinced I am capable of doing a podcast. I watched the tutorial and it seems cool for people who have a strong background. I laughed at the one where it says to have no background noise. I never realized that a car would be sound proof. There are so many different tools out there. I have been checking out some pods on the internet, but not finding any that really interest me.

panic

Ok so I am halfway through the podcast tutorial and am freaking out. It is very informative, but I do not feel confident at all that I can actually do this. Will I do it at the center, what on earth do I have to give of any interest to anyone? Does my windows vista work with the equipment? and will I be borrowing it from school.? I don't have a mac so the music will become an issue. I feel as if I should not be in this class. I have no background on any of this stuff and feel like I am on a sinking ship. I am not confident at all about what I will be doing and am afraid to watch the rest of this tutorial. I am only halfway through and not sure I can do this. I have not even been able to get the video cam to work on my computer, how will I do a whole project. I think that there should be something in the course description before someone signs up for the class. I am not going to be able to learn all of this in this short amount of time in order to finish the clas.

dvd

Getting ready to watch the google docs training.

web cam

Trying to use the webcam and cannot get it to work. Had a friend try to help but it still is not working.

facebook article

Read the article about the guy who used his facebook post to get out of trouble. That is very interesting, but I don't know if that is not something that can easily be used as an alibi without it being the person. I found the comments quite entertaining too.

funny

Last night I was at the center and had a funny conversation regarding the class. I spoke to a student who was way more experienced than I am at all this techy stuff and she made me laugh. I guess everyone has a few glitches no matter how good you are with all this. I am planning on watching all the videos this weekend. I watched all the blogger one's. They are very helpful and speak in simple terms, what I need lol. I still need to use the webcam this weekend too. I was wondering if I need to have a microphone to post on the u-tube site. I also need to get the steps again to post on it. I wrote it down, but seem to be missing a step.

Ok so I am having too much fun with this aardvark. I even asked it a question about a paper I have to write. It is cool having people respond from other countries.

Holy cow. I just tried aardvark. It is so cool. I am having fun with it. I am starting to get better at trying new things and new sites. Not as gunshy as I was before.

monday

Just wanted to post since it has been a few days. Trying to think of something to do for a utube video with the web cam. I hate seeing myself on it. Would rather put up the kids or the cat.

Tuesday

Ready for class again. Making myself blog. I am getting used to it now.

Reading

I have been reading some of the blogs that are of interest on the main page. They crack me up. I wish I had it in me to write a hilarious blog about my life... which would be quite entertaining after the fact lol.

Delicious

Tried to post something on delicious and it would not let me in. I need to double check the sign in password.

check it out

Just was playing around with the blog site and saw blog buzz. There was a blog day. I wish I would have seen it sooner. Everyone should check it out. It would have been fun to do.

interesting

Getting so much info everytime I try to punch info on web 2.0 in. It is crazy. I never realized it existed until I started the class.

in class

Hi everyone that just added me in class!!!

Feeling kind of blah today. Must be the weather. Decided to try some color text but not so sure if it will do well on the background. We shall see. I checked out the web 2.0 sites. Pretty interesting. I have been home with my son who is sick all day. Class is tonight. A bit of apprehension because I feel lost already. I did not get through all the videos because I actually did what it was showing so I would have a hands on experience, unfortunately it took me too long and put me behind.

wacky wednesday

Everytime I sit down to watch the dvd that would help me with this something happens to distract me and take me away. I have to say I have no idea how on earth I have gotten to this point in my term. I would like to freak out because I am overwhelmed by each and every course. Not the actual courses but I just seem to have a panic attack about the work load. I have to get everything done because I start my masters at Medaille in January. Who was the crazy person that told me to go back to school two years ago anyway??/ Ok just kidding. I know that I complain a lot. That must be the defense mechanism to get me through. I so regret not finishing my degree when I was still young and had energy. I am not that old yet (35) but I also did not have two kids. and work three jobs and all the fun stuff. That's enough of the complaining. Time to pop in the dvd again.

Blogging

Ok so I have not blogged in a few days. I checked out some other blogs and realize I am not utilizing this like I should. I have to get moving on this. I would like to be an expert by the time we are done with the class.

windy

still a little confused!

Still a little bit confused by all this information overload. Hopefully someone is reading these lol. I am going to continue watching the rest of the DVD and post daily so that I get accustomed to all of this. I have a major head cold today so I will get to this as best as I can. I still cannot figure out how to bring followers from the class at least in. I accidentally added myself as a follower to myself. I honestly am trying, and I am not an airhead. I just am technologically deficient in my skills. This is sort of like learning a foreign language to me. I have a taste of the background and really want to get myself into the game. I want to post photos and change my own background on my screen saver. I just rarely do. I have been shown how many times, but just never seem to get the gist. Anyway, I am off to twitter... which by the way is kind of dull so far. Maybe I just have to get the hang of it.

weather

Brr it's cold today. I like 80's. Just watching the DVD and seeing what blogger has available. Still need to think of better titles.

new post

I am just messing around a bit in the blog site. I have not gotten to watch the dvd yet. I want to make sure I am not distracted by the boys or other things. I think I am getting the jist of it. I just need to figure out how to join other peoples and all that fun stuff.

article

ok

Well I got this far with some stress. I guess that is why I am here to learn.

first day of web class

Yippee!! I created a blog page! I don't know about this. I am a chicken when it comes to technology. I am so worried that I will not do well in this class because of my computer illiteracy. What did I get myself into?? I will be okay once I get into things. Just my moment of initial fear. This is way out of my comfort zone.