Saturday, May 27, 2006

how to add link

dear sir,
u show us how to add tag box, video... but how do we add link?
what is the web-page to go for creating link?
as we can only post and view blog under Designing Learning Experiences, i can't cut and paste the html from here... my own church blogpage has no link.. so thinking of adding it in...
ac//

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Cute Virus...I mean dog

No, I don't think that participating in a blog will enable you to catch viruses. And it is definitely not a "Mac is safer than PC situation." The majority of bloggers are not Mac users. In fact, it is more of a pain blogging using Mac on Blogger site than on PC.

Where's everybody?

I called, but nobody came.
I invited, but there were none to be found.

So what does it take to get people into a community blog?

What are reasons why people want to use blogs? What are reasons why people don't want to use blogs?

Monday, May 15, 2006

My information on phobias

Hi All

A few of you have started your blogs already. I want to invite you to click on our designinglearningexperiences site which is the other blog you will have access to.

On the topic of phobias, you probably have done searches on the internet and discovered the sites I got my information from. Actually, there are a few sites you will come across when you do a Google search. I used the search term "Common Phobias" and the first site listed was this one. Notice how I created a link to the site, which is what good blogging does. A good blog site remains sticky because it invites people elsewhere (that is kind of ironic isn't it?). Here's another site which gives good information about 10 common phobias. I did'nt know that arachnophobia and sociophobia were top two. Any thoughts? Scared of spiders?


O, here is a funny video about Triskaidekaphobia - the fear of 13!

Friday, May 12, 2006

Community Blogging

Hi All

Last night I introduced to the class the idea of community blogging. What you need to do is to respond to the email invitations I sent you to join our blog.

To do that, you need to create an account (which means you need to set up your blog). That means creating a user id and a password (which is like setting up a yahoo, hotmail or gmail account). Actually, sometimes it helps to keep the same user id as your email account so that you don't have to remember another set of id/password.

The name of your blog ie the "xxxxxxxxxx" part in http://xxxxxxxxxx.blogspot.com should reflect what your blog is all about. Don't forget to put in a post and publish.

But the idea of the community blog is for you to write in our common blog http://designinglearningexperiences.blogspot.com. I set for us a topic yesterday, which is "Phobias."

If you don't know much about phobias, do a Google search and you will be surprised what you can find there. After you have done some of this, we will try to talk about the idea of phobias in our community blog. The questions below are just a guide for your discussion.

1. What are some phobias faced by people?

2. In our blog, identify a few phobias and discuss how they impact our everyday lives. Illustrate with examples you know of.


Just some guidelines about discussion in this virtual space. I know you may discover interesting things about phobias that you want to talk about. If there is a link to a great site, link us up and briefly describe what it is all about. Don't copy the entire website information and paste in your entry.

Also, try to interact with each other. Pick up a thread from someone else's post and comment/build on that. Otherwise, we will get parallel developments with little intersections at all.

Enjoy your blogging experience and try to be as active as possible.

Wow, how did he get the text to move like that? (ask the question next lesson)

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Lesson about Blogging

Hello All

Today's lesson is about how to blog. One of the reasons why I am so interested in what's happening in the blogsphere is because of its influence on the 4/14 window. I hope the lesson was helpful and can add an additional layer of insight into your ministry of Christian education.