Digital Photos

I am sick of this one. I am not able to upload my pics on the website! I keep getting the following message:

ERROR: Resizing images for a TP slideshow : Your File (march 2010 030.jpg) is too big (3998 kb). There is a limit of 2560 kB per image. Please reduce your image using a photo editor before uploading it using this page.

What is really frustrating is last year I did do a slide show. The difference was I used pics burned on to a CD. This year I directly uploaded the pics from my camera to my computer. I tried uploading 1 pic at a time. I tried saving the pics to my desk top and then uploading. It is not working. Any suggestions for how to upload pics to my teacher's website with pics saved on my computer?

Teacher Website

I had to laugh when I read the direction to update my home page. To be honest, I had worked really hard on having a main page that didn't need to be updated. I wanted it to be something that anyone coming into my program at anytime could visit and understand what my program is about and learn about me. However, I did make some minor changes. Since, I already had a calendar I added some puzzles. Which was really fun. I would like to take some current pictures of my students and make their photo into a puzzle. I think they would be excited to log on and complete the puzzle of themselves and their friends. Any great ideas for teacher websites I would be willing to try.

Google Apps

I can see this being used when educational teams are working on a presentation or any shared project. This reminds me of how Zangle works. Any educator working with the student can open the file and work on student goals, progress reports, or part of IEP. The best part is that everyone has access to read and change the file. Everyone can do their part to complete the whole project. I think for those of us in a very isolated field (special education support) this would be a helpful tool in working with those members out of our building but in our field. I could see students beginning to share workload as well. They could collectively create a paper or research project. I am excited to learn more about this.

Connecting with Skype

This was a bit harder for me than the others "lessons" so far. After setting up my account, I realized I do not have a microphone built into my computer. Then I tried to find a friend that has a Skype account and was not successful. I went with their email account information since I do not know their user name. I was able to find David and Carol's information but I had their user names. I am not certain this would be something I would use in my classroom so I am going to start "playing" around with it this week at home. If anyone has suggestions for how to use it with my students I would love any input. They are young and visually impaired.

Tweeting Again

I am happy to report that I had a twitter account over the summer for another online class and loved it! But then I spent too much time away from the account and forgot my username and password:-( I could have easily set up another account but never sat down to just do it. However, this class once again gave me the chance to get back on and I am loving it!

Follow me at enrichment02!

Connecting & Blogs

I am happy to say that I did enjoy the video in the first lesson. I found one over the summer which I found very powerful. Sadly, Facebook no longer posts "my links" so I am unable to share with you. But the message was the same we need to engage our students in their language which is electronic.

Blogging - I see this as a wonderful tool for "borrowing" other educators ideas. It is fast and easy way to search a topic or follow someone you think is brilliant. Sometimes it can be over whelming. I am looking for ways to really streamline the information. Any tips would be helpful...