Always looking for the NEW and IMPROVED
Tonight I taught a web class that included MS Publisher, on-line web site generators and my personal FAV 'Blogs'! I had changed at one point in time, from Blogger.com to WordPress.com
But tonight, during instruction, I found WordPress was a bit cumbersome for folks new to blogging to navigate and the impeccable training event I had planned was a bit hindered by different users having different results during the setup phase.
So naturally I googled around for a while to see what other bloggers are using and came up with weblog. So this is my test run to see if the setup and layout are a bit more 'clean' and intuitive than the other generator.
Actually I really like Word Press, but have been working in a few different blog generators now and enjoy figuring out how they work. For our busy teachers, I wanted to bring them something a bit more intuitive and user friendly, that they could use immediately with little to no anxiety!
I reviewed and examined some on-line web generators and they are 'cute' with some fun little icons for primary and elementary, but I find that blogs are absolutely the way to go for the rapidly changing content and for Middle and High School web and communication needs!
OK, a publishing I will go - let's see if this holds my favor - if so I will share this with today's class participants and plan to introduce it at the Santa Cruz web development class, next week!
And for Ms I., I am uploading a picture just to see how it work! OK - I had to resize my original picture using MS Picture Manager (to small web). This is a picture from Black Mountain Road look east toward the Palo Verde Mountains, the site on which my solar-powered, straw bale home once stood!
Update - shortly after this class at Pima Butte, I held another at Santa Cruz. I merely mentioned a variety of blogs and focused on weblog.com. Several staff produced webpages in Publisher and on-line creators and were published within 24 hours. One entire grade team came together and are planning a community (grade level) webpage and on it will embed individual blogs for each team teachers. What an innovative idea. It was a very successful and motivating class!
POSTED BY Amy Chayefsky AT 9/20/2007 11:43 PM
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