Ms. Brock's World » Tech Camp http://brockblog.edublogs.org A living record of a teacher's technological development with her students Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:53:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 On my own http://brockblog.edublogs.org/2008/06/23/on-my-own/ http://brockblog.edublogs.org/2008/06/23/on-my-own/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:52:06 +0000 brockblog http://brockblog.edublogs.org/?p=28 Scott Holcomb's session on digital photographyAfter listening to Scott Holcomb’s discussion during Tech Camp on digital photography and photo management (free!) from Picasa, I picked up my camera, which does have a white balance control for use in flourescent lighting, bought a USB SD memory card reader ($4.99 at Target), and started playing.  I also uploaded all of My Pictures into Picasa.  It has many usable features and works with with those who learn technology by intuition, rather than by actually reading instructions.

N.B.:  As I was uploading Scott’s image, I was unable to use the Flash uploader, and had to use the browser (Firefox) uploader instead.  I suppose this is a bug to work on during the play day this coming Friday.  Note to self:  ask about protocol for links when a possessive is used.

Another query:  how do we keep our blogroll from getting too big?

And another thing:  why do I have two blogrolls posted when I only have one widget for it?

]]> http://brockblog.edublogs.org/2008/06/23/on-my-own/feed/ 1 It’s over http://brockblog.edublogs.org/2008/06/20/its-over/ http://brockblog.edublogs.org/2008/06/20/its-over/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:49:01 +0000 brockblog http://brockblog.edublogs.org/?p=22 The day has come to a close, and Tech Camp 2008 was a great success.  It’s interesting that people were working on so many different things during instruction.  It would make me crazy if I were the instructor.  I know that during the Podcast and wiki sessions, I went to another world on my blog and working on the Skype list, but at least I was working on stuff for the camp.  I can’t remember working so intently and with so few breaks.  It really suits me, because I ultimately prefer solo learning rather than collaboration.  Now that I want to pursue the technology certification, though, I will have to plan with others.  Ew.  As Dr. Walters always said, “The reason God created the world in six days is that He worked alone.”

I plan to attend the play days and I’m sure that my principal will approve my going to the Technology In-Service.  All social studies will do is introduce the new textbooks, and since I was on the adoption committee, I think I can skip the orientation.

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