Hello,
I have finished the concept map of Snow Snakes AL site. We can discuss it tomorrow if we have time for it. See you tomorrow!

Parents

The folks really came through - my dad made a lovely snow snake and I was thinking maybe I could make a few little videos with it to illustrate the steps. I thought that might be a nice little interactive piece. Jim, what format would I need to save them in? Or should I do the You Tube thing? I've also got some pictures that my dad took while in the process and I'll revise the lesson with those stuck in. Jim, will that be complicated to upload? Would it be better to have links to the images in each section or to have them right in the text? My poor little Front Page brain thinks it would be so easy to link them but I'm guessing it doesn't work quite that easily, eh?

So I'll get the two lessons revised before Tuesday (I probably won't make it by 4:15) and let me know if you like the video idea and I can do that, too.

Allison

Today's Work on the Site

I activated the discussion forums today. They seemed to work quite well after some trials and tribulations. This is an essential piece of the site because it enables the registered users to collabarate and upload material.

I also uploaded the video and audio files I received on Tuesday. I'm really not too happy with the time it takes for these items to download for viewing. An alternative would be to submit all of the videos to YouTube and then use the streaming video instead which seems to work much faster. I'm not really sure I want to change anything just yet.

Lastly, there was much ire placed upon the uploading of the 360° image of the U's Mall. I could not upload it to the component we are currently using because it does not recognize the .mov format. The alternate files (.mpg, .avi, etc) could be uploaded, but I could not convert the 360° image to any of these files without losing the features essential to this media. I eventually just uploaded the file to my personal server space and linked it into the menu. I could have changed the component to something that reads .mov files, but the truth is that after we complete this for a grade, Brant will use this site and will not need this class assignment that really has nothing to do with the site, so where it is at now is fine.

Progress?

Anything? I received a packet from my parents, so I'll scan that stuff in and get it all ready to be a slide show of sorts. My dad was going to go out to the cabin and make a snow snake from scratch yesterday, taking pictures after each step so we can include visuals with the directions (good plan, huh?). I'm not sure if it ended up working, but I'll see them today. I'll assume it did since he didn't call to say otherwise. Anyone else have anything to report?

Allison

puzzled

I'm sure it was just a map I created in my imagination, then. Sometimes it gets a little too realistic inside here...

Allison

Tuesday at 4:05 Peik 230

I delved into Joomla today trying to upload a few items. Needless to say I got stuck pretty quick. I would like to spend a little bit of time on Tuesday having Jim show us some Joomla basics. My lesson should be close to final. Did anyone check out the google docs page? Thoughts? We could maybe look at that as well. I have some further lesson ideas and would be happy to look into a climate lesson on snow snakes. I don't recall seeing a map Jim. But I am intrigued. See everyone Tuesday afternoon at my place.

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I swear I've seen a map of the areas snow snakes were played in some of our research. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It's entirely possible I imagined it...

I have one pretty long but very rough lesson going. I'll try to get some more done for tomorrow. Can anyone do anything on climate? I was maybe going to incorporate it into my stuff, but I'm not really sure what to do with it. Maybe we can discuss tomorrow. I didn't write anything down...what time did we say?