This is the week I was worried about! I expected that at some point in this class I would be required to upload some sort of audio into my blog. Though I have read about many potential web 2.0 tools I could be using in my classes and that I recognize as valuable, I always dread the day I have to actually LEARN the technology! How sad is that for an online instructor?
Actually, it’s not that I really mind learning the technology. It’s actually about all of the troubleshooting that I have to go through to make something finally work. It never seems to fail.
I’ve been wanting to at least incorporate audio messages to my students. But I’ve just spent over an hour trying to find out how to record an audio message onto my computer in order to be able to load it into audioBoom, and it still isn’t working. I’m guessing that I either need a new microphone or that what I thought was a microphone isn’t one at all, which means I’ll be making a trip to Best Buy, Radio Shack or some other such store that sells a reliable and very user friendly computer microphone. In the meantime, here is my silent introduction to my class:
https://audioboom.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=annemariesaxe
I enjoyed the reading this week, and I attempted to utilize several of the tools Ko and Rossen recommended. In trying to find out how to conduct an advanced Google search, I Google searched “how to conduct an advanced Google search”. I stumbled across a very helpful web page explaining how to conduct advanced and alternative searches in all kinds of websites. I conducted an advanced Google search on “shield volcano”. I was specifically hoping to find an image that was free for use, was written in English and had the term “shield volcano” in the title. The advanced search definitely helped reduce the number of images needing to be screened as the search yielded only two pages of websites, however I was unable to conduct a search for only .jpg formats. I found two great photos as well as a wonderful animation of an erupting shield volcano!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hE2DZdl0IA
