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Wordle part 2

Karen — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:34:26 +0000

Well, I’ll try this again and see if it fits in the post . . . if not, I’ll try to figure it out later. The first time, I used Jing and embedded the code into my post, but it doesn’t fit.

This time I created a Wordle of ART: Evaluating Research Project Assignments and saved it from Jing to my documents (instead of using the embed code). Now I’m going to upload it as an image and see how it works…ah, it worked! and if you click on the image you can see it larger.

MILI Thing 5: Websites

Karen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:58:57 +0000

In lieu of a teacher webpage (Thing 5), I’ll share a couple of mock websites I created for classes I’ve taken. In both situations I pretended I was creating a school library website — in one the focus was on content, and in the other the focus was on design. For the first one (content) I just used Word. For the second one (design) I used Photoshop and Dreamweaver, which was a real struggle for me.

Even though these assignments were repetitive in a way, I actually appreciated having to think through both the content and design thoroughly in different contexts. While I don’t love either of my creations, they are probably better than what I’ll actually be able to create in real-life (i.e. as a school librarian) because of the limitations of 1) time and 2) the webmaker used by the school. While I LOVE anything that doesn’t make me use html, I’m frustrated with how cumbersome many schools’ webmakers seem to be (and I’m not just referring to the districts we are working with . . . it looks like most districts haven’t found a program that allows for great design and content and is easy to use.)

Here’s the one in Word (o.k. this was a good idea in theory, but this wouldn’t load properly, so I had to just do a screenshot.)

Here’s the one in Photoshop/Dreamweaver (and this one can’t load properly, either There are cool pics behind each of the colums and a logo on top that signifies learning, unlearning, and relearning. Oh well. For all I know, ya’ll might not be able to see anything.)