In terms of the tools and related articles introduced in Week 1, I found "Reducing PPT Overload" (Atkinson & Mayer, 2004) and "Visual Design for Presentations" (Michaels, 2012) particularly helpful. Powerpoint is one of the most frequently used technological tools in language classrooms. Thinking back, I have produced so many highly overloaded slides for my students in class but have never thought that it might sometimes be the very reason for making students bored, tired, or distracted.
We were also given a chance to create a blog in Week 1's class for this course. Although it was not the first time I had created a blog, I did learn more about various options we had in terms of the layout and personal settings. What I do not like about the Blogger is the banner ads automatically added to my blog, and what make things worse is that those ads could be completely irrelevant to my blog content and some of them are even disgusting. Yes, I can remove the ads by not allowing the "blog feed", but then it says, by doing so, "your blog will not be syndicated and its content will not be indexed by Google Blog Search". No free lunch. I see.
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"No free lunch. I see." HA. Good stuff, Rong.
So listen, don't tell anyone, but I'm not the most blog-savvy dude in town. A lot of this -- using this, that is -- is new to me. I was a bit confused by your comments about disliking the blog feeds/banner ads. I don't see any ads on your site -- are you referring to the "Translate," "Blog Archive," and "About Me" links on the right?
Hi, Zack. Glad you asked. I have actually disabled the "blog feed" function, which I think should be the reason why there are no ads on my blog now. Yeah!But again, as I had mentioned, "Blogger" has taken away some of the embedded function from my blog because of what I had done :(
I like your blog background and the cursive title, I don't know how to change mine. I also found the "Reducing PPT Overload" helpful. It made good points about power point use which I can use for class presentations.
Here's a little anecdote about the perils of blogging -- I have tried to post a comment to your blog three times today! Ack! Let's hope this one sticks.
I also thought about your comments on banner ads. It's a little tricky to be posed with the options of having your blog read by the public with ads, or having it read only by the people who already know about it with no ads. It also makes me wonder, since some of the ads were inappropriate, if there is a specific platform available to K-12 teachers who wish to assign a blog or blog reading as homework, one that wouldn't contain ads. At the same time, if there IS such a platform, does that take away some of the authenticity of such an act then? I don't know. Interesting questions and thoughts, Rong!
And additionally, here's something that might interest you after our Statistics classwork today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjexqsSjq0U
:)
Liz
Hi Ella, if you go to "design-template-customize-advanced", you can change the font, size, and color of text anywhere in your blog. Hope it would help:P
Hi Liz, OMG, it is this song. I have heard of it sooo many years ago. Classic never fades.Thank you so much!
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