(03/24/08)

Last week, I learned nothing.  I was sick and out of school for two days, and Mr. Stengel was out another day, so that little time I was actually in school really had no importance because there was nothing new to learn for my blog.

(03/16/08)

This past week, we changed the look of our website.  We changed the theme and were able to put in our own personal image, of basically whatever we wanted.  My image is kind of odd, I just like all the colors and abstractness of the image.  We activated more plugins, I changed the subtitle to something a little more original, even though its not too original.  Also, I came up with ten questions that I am going to ask Mr. Vitali concerning the online school store for the athletic department.  I spoke with him and we are planning to meet one day in the future and discuss the website.

(03/09/08)

This past week, I tried to upload my technology autobiography onto the blog, but for some reason it did not work.  I tried on numerous occassions and on numerous computers, but yet I could not fix the problem.  I now know that alot of people had issues uploading their videos, so I am not too worried about it.  During the week we just messed around with our blogs and learned how to add websites to our google reader.  Besides that I did not really learn too much.

P.S.       

This post was created on the 9th, but I did not publish it I guess until today, the 17th of March.

(03/02/08)

This week in online communications I learned how to get started on making my own personal website.  I learned that we are creating these websites so that we can teach the teachers at our school, Joseph A. Foran High School, how to use edublogs so that in the future they can use this website with their students.  So far I have learned that using hotmail as your email source does not work too well with this website.  Hotmail considers this website as junk, or does not send the emails at all.  In order for this to work, I have recently created a gmail account, scsapilla@gmail.com.  After creating my new email, I was then able to activate my blog with the password they sent to my gmail.  Seeing how the password they send you is difficult to remember, I figured out how to change the password to something I will always remember.  I learned how to pick a theme so that my website is a little more personal and more interesting to look at; I choose the blue bird.  I also learned how to add to my sidebar.  I added recent posts, archives, google search, edublogs search, and categories to the sidebar.  After browsing the website, I learned how to add a plugin and activate the Advanced Editor which adds more styling options to my WYSIWYG (what you see if what you get) post editor, like font color, special characters, copy from word, etc.  I learned how to create, edit, save and publish a post also, which is obvious because this would not be here if I hadn’t.  And basically this is as far as I went because I did not learn what to do next.  As for next week, that is a whole different story and I am sure I will learn more ways to improve my edublogs website.