Week 9 Thoughts

I am very relieved having received clarification from Datta Kaur regarding assessment assignment; "You will not be assessing your team members. Instead you will be assessing your team paper (self-assessment) and another group paper (peer-assessment)."

Clarice, Tokyo (3/4/08)

When I opened my group's document that was posted to the class DB, I was a bit surprised at the errors I found. I don't recall seeing this on the document I received my email. I went ahead and based my self-assessment on what the rest of the class would be reading.

I finally turned in my self and peer assessment after much thought. I was much harder on my group's paper because it is a reflection of myself which may not be the way to do an appropriate self-assessment. Also, because I was most familiar with my own group topic, this may have contributed to my assessment results.

When I checked the DB, I did not see any comments from my group regarding the errors on the document. I'll wait and see who will post a comment.

Clarice, Tokyo (3/5/08)

I read DB posts from Marsha, Mark, Herb, and Susan. I believe Susan made an honest mistake in posting the incorrect version and Marsha as our team leader is correct. There are minor flaws but they can be fixed. The information we presented is very good.

After reading my group's comments I went back to the rubric. Looking over the various categories, I still feel that each category was applicable and relevant to a good research paper. It did not put more weight in one area or the other. This rubric was designed to produce a fair assessment.

Clarice, Tokyo (3/7/08)

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Datta Kaur,

This has been a difficult past two weeks, not in this class, but in another. I am required to complete a mini-dissertation or critical incident analysis by week 10. I chose to write about eLearning in Japan and my husband was not pleased with my subject. Here's the short story, an excerpt sent by email to my instructor.

"I am at a crossroads with my paper. I chose to write a mini- dissertation on Japan's progress in the eLearning environment and using"real life" examples from the Japanese newspaper rather than solely relying on academic writings and research. Formal research documents did not provide all the information I was looking for.

My husband, who is born and raised in Japan, has difficulties in understanding certain guidelines for this final assignment. He knows about them because we talk over coffee.

1. Producing a paper from the perspective of an "experienced practitioner in designing for interactivity" - If I am at fault in my thinking, it will bring untold shame to his family name. It also shows that I am not a humble person. It does not matter if this paper will be published or not. This is not proper Japanese way of thinking.

2. It is OK with my husband if I write a paper from the perspective of being a foreigner, a new student to online learning (as not to offend any Japanese educator or business person), and showing humility and respect for Japanese and Japanese culture.

3. It is OK if I am constructive in my thoughts but, offering any strong conclusions or opinions would be most distressing (American/New York thinking). A fair summary would be more appropriate."

In hindsight I should have known better. When I wrote the mini-report "Learning How To Bow on the Inernet" my husband could not decided if this would not be too offensive to have published online. He finally consented but, there is some invisible line or boundary that I still cannot fully comprehend at work here.

Also, a foreigner writing about Japan and Japanese is a very tricky subject and seems to be an area that one should steer clear of if they do not have enough experience and understanding of its people. I am glad that my instructor allowed me to convert this assignment to a critical incident analysis which I have been working hard to complete. My participation in DB 9 has been poor for this class for above reason.

I will try to catch up with the DB if possible.

Clarice, Tokyo 3/11/08 Tokyo

Week 8 Thoughts

I gave my students an opportunity for peer review - group project and F2F interview. The experience was both positive and negative despite guidelines that were provided to the entire class. Some students were very good at offering constructive criticism. Others used this as an opportunity to "get back" or "gang-up" on another student which really surprised me for junior college level students.

The students did a better job critiquing a F2F interview than working together on a group project for a grade. What I learned from this experience:
1. Not every student will feel that this process is fair and good guidelines need to be in place and reinforced by the instructor.
2. How much weight the project carried made a difference in the students' stress level in performing well and I believe it affected their assessment.
3. When situations arose, students didn't know how to react in a professional manner requiring a lot of instructor intervention.
4. Students didn't feel comfortable working as a group online and many met F2F at times of their own choosing. Cell phone communication was also heavily used.
5. Many of my students met F2F for other courses on campus. I don't know if their personal interactions away from the online environment had any effect on how they viewed my peer assessment activities.

Clarice 2/28/08 Tokyo

"Peggy" (Margaret) post a note to me on the DB which I found very interesting. It really got me thinking which is such a wonderful way to start my day.

Here's my reply to Peggy.
Thanks for you post, it got me thinking.In hindsight, this are my thoughts on how I would try to ease my students into the peer review process:

Here's my Fast Food Project Idea
1. Individual project - I would have students start with an assessment of online websites based on a rubric. In this way they are not targeting individuals, just what they see online.
2. Individual project - Many established businesses in Hawaii post their corporate goals somewhere within their establishment or online if they have a website. I would have my students elect one establishment (a fast food chain), then I would ask them to build a rubric based on these guidelines as well as other aspects of the industry they feel is important to them.
3. Group project - After they have gained some experience creating a rubric on their own, I would have them form groups of 2 or 3 and come up with a single rubric.
4. Group project - Each individual would go to McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, etc. near their home and do a visual assessment and rate the establishment based on their group rubric.
5. Group project - I would have the group summarize their findings and critique themselves this project (I would provide them with a rubric for this).I'm typing this as I'm thinking, so please pardon me.

As for my students being aggressive - I have to always remember that the majority come from the public housing area...times have changed in my area. I should appreciate the fact that they are in school at, which is an accomplishment on their part for starters. Secondly, they will bring their social and economic backgrounds into the classroom whether it's F2F or online. Confrontation is survival of the fittest in their world and as an educator I feel I need to show them a different side to life so when they do graduate they will be able to succeed in the world that I know.

Clarice Tokyo

I just finished reviewing final draft for group paper. I think we wrote a good paper, but the experience I had with this team was excellent. I also enjoyed this week's DB topic as much as last week. Having to work on final project has kept me from the DB but I hope to catch-up starting tomorrow.

Clarice, Tokyo (3/1/08)

I am sad that these are my last two courses for this program. I have learned so much and I feel that I'm just beginning to learn some new things...like peer assessment.

My hesitation about offering peer assessment is cultural. It is very difficult to critique my peers, very un-Japanese and not the way I was brought up. Yet I am OK with receiving peer review for myself. This week's assignment in completing a peer review for another person is a difficult task for me to complete.

Clarice, Tokyo (3/2/08)

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I overhead a conversation between a Japanese student and an American student over coffee. The American student was trying to explain that open discussion, opposing viewpoints, debates, etc. were OK and acceptable in American culture. I did not mean that we (Americans, American couples) don't like the person to whom we are speaking. It was just our way of sharing differing viewpoints, trying to understand new perspectives, reach a mutual conclusion and learning from this process. Very interesting coffee conversation.

I feel that I will require more training or information to feel comfortable applying peer assessment into my online course. Coming from a mixed cultural background, even I am uncomfortable discussing others actions, but I'm OK with receiving critique from others.

I am hoping the CSU MS OTL program will offer graduates workshops to brush-up on these skills sometime in the future. It is also a good way to keep our connections going.

Clarice, Tokyo (3/3/08)

Week 7 Thoughts

For my contribution to the group final paper, my responsibility is to prepare the first draft by this coming Friday, Feb. 22nd. I am nervous because I want to produce a good first draft. I am also the first to write a conclusion to the paper.

Regarding my continuing experience in Japan - Weekend Event:

My husband told me in very brief details about a bank employee to took 1.5 million dollars from his bank over a period of years. He confessed and explained exactly how he did this to his superiors. The bank officials did not call the police nor did they file any paperwork. They released the employee to the custory of the parents and they just waited. Within a few days they received word that the employee coimmitted suicide. This employee did the honorable thing. No need to follow-up, case closed.

How would this cultural behavior impact online learning when so many of us are consious about our grade and performance within a group setting? How would you handle cheating? How would you deter fear of failure in the online environment? How do you explain that ostrasizing one's peer for poor performan is not acceptable?

Clarice 2/20/Tokyo

I was able to finish my group's first draft and I posted it to group wiki. I wanted to finish this early so my team could provide input as to where we might need more research data, etc. I offered to work on this until I hand it off to Mark on Friday. Also, I had a difficult time writing the conclusion. Marsha is a good team leader. She already sent me an email that she will review my draft sometime today.

Still need to work on my mid-term report. I've been talking to my husband and watching the Japanese as I drink coffee every morning, trying to pull my thoughts together for a re-write.

Clarice 2/21/08 Tokyo

I'm glad that I submitted by draft early. Marsha had many suggestions which I think is great. I was just struggling with the conclusion. Since the outline for the paper was created by Mark and three of us on the team didn't know that we were slightly off-task in our research until just a few short days ago, I think we did well. We're all working hard to keep-up with the established time frame.

My research work was not wasted. I gave me a foundation for my mid-term report since there is very little research done on Japanese and the online learning environment. Many research titles say, Asia (except Japan) which I thought was quite odd but interesting.

Clarice 2/22/08 Tokyo

I continue to work on my report despite my wanting to post to the DB for Week 7 because I have a lot of ideas jumping around in my head right now. This was one of the best topics, on the DB and I can't wait to go through the DB.

Regaridng my mid-term, it's not so much that I don't know what I want to write, so much as how I write it, and that it is accurate as possible from a "Japanese" perspective. I've drank coffee and talked to my husband everyday this week, just to get it right....then he says his secretary should review it...I would need a whole semester for this!

I finally turned in my re-written paper. This re-write is very different from my earlier submission and I think it is better organized. The conclusion was a bit weak and not as strong of an ending that I would like. Thank goodness bad weather prevailed today and I was able to stay at home and spend more time on the conclusion.

I'm actually looking forward to submitting my mid-term report for posting when it is approved.

In hindsight, I think if I stuck to a subject that I was much more familiar with, I wouldn't have struggled so much. The learning curve and preparation required in order to write this mid-term report was much more than I had anticipated.

Clarice 2/23/08 Tokyo

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This week as a long but rewarding week. I spent much of my time on the re-write and I am glad that my group project is going well. Everyone in my group is very on-time or ahead of time with our project paper. With this type of shared commitment, this group process has work-out very well. Maybe the Japanese, with their group mentality, has something going for them in their favor.

My former department chair has been emailing me off an on asking for my opinion about program matters. Though I am far away, I try to keep up with what's going on in the health care industry in the US. I have also found being in Japan offers so much more worldly information. I learn about education and health care in other countries here-and-there and it's wonderful. I'm starting to save these articles for a future online library. I find much of what the Japanese write stays in Japan. Not everything is put online for outside viewing which was a surprise to me.

I have also enjoyed this weeks DB quite a bit, though I have yet to do much catching-up to do. This is a good group of students.

Clarice 2/27/08 Tokyo

Week 6 Thoughts

I had dinner with an instructor who taught with me while I was in Hawaii. She is still not convinced about online learning for the rural community and for vocational certificate programs. She is my friend and I didn't want to bring up anything unpleasant over a wonderful dinner. I would like to develop a set of online modular courses and write a grant to pilot the 'open learning' concept. It might have some real potential for those women who are housed in shelters, etc.

Carice, Honolulu 2/13/08

I received my mid-term report and I got a good grade but, I didn't realise that I had missed two major areas that I needed to cover. I thought I read all of the requirements for this paper and now I'm a bit confused and will ask my instructor for clarification. I want to get it right because I love the topic I chose.

What I learned from this experience***
Despite my shortfall in meeting the paper requirements, my instructor recognized the effort I put into this short piece and I appreciate the grade I received from her. Even though I have to work on it to bring it up to an acceptable level, I am not discouraged. In fact I am encouraged. Though she is online and I can't see her face, she makes me want to improve and do better. I know that she's out there for me. It makes me feel like she cares. This is the kind of online instructor I want to be. I want to learn how to convey this to my own students. Maybe it all started with her wonderful and personal website or the short notes she writes about the allowance for extensions on her announcement board...

I have to run off to my Aunt's funeral and my son is nagging me that we're already going to be late and Grandma will gives us *?#!...but I just had to right this before leaving the house.
Clarice 2/15/08 Hawaii

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This has been a very tough week for my personally. My Dad is not well and it is so hard to be so far away from home. I just don't know how my grandparents (immigrants) managed to live in a new land without their family to support them. I have a computer, cell phone, iChat...but I already miss my morning coffee with Dad.

Question for the week -
What would I like my readers to get out of my mid-term report? I have an opportunity to refine my thinking regarding my initial topc as I plan to rewrite it. Focus of paper - I'd like my report to showcase the importance of understanding culture at it might impact online learning, specificially communicating online. I don't quite know how I'm going to write it just yet, but I believe this a much better start.


What I learned this week -
My first mid-term report focused on the cutural aspects of the Japanese and I didn't tie it in well with online learning. What I did learn is that you have to understand the cultural to some degree before you can understand how this might impact the online environment. I learned a lot about Japanese culture that I would not have otherwise.

Clarice 2/18/08 Tokyo

Summary Week 5

I've enjoyed working on my mid-term report. It has benefited me so much. I can understand and empathise with my husband when he comes home just exhausted from a day's work in the corporate office. The stress he feels when he has to deal with both Japanese and foreign clients. How he anguishes over how to smooth things out in order to make business happen. This was one of the most rewarding personal projects that I've worked on.

Clarice 2/8/08 Tokyo

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Summary for Week 5

I'm in Hawaii right now and it's great to be able to log onto Bb and continue where I left off. Though my parents can't understand why I have to sit at home on the computer so much. I tried to explain to them that I use my computer in a lot of different ways to help me complete my assignments for the courses that I'm enrolled in. It's just easier to go to church with them and sit for coffee and log-on to Bb when they're too tired to drag me along (I feel like a 7-year-old again).

While in Japan I have travelled to many different Asian countries and I've read so much about the efforts being made in Asia with eLearning. When I came back to Hawaii yesterday, after talking with my family and friends, I am hearing about the problems local people are having right here in my own state. The "houseless" (not homeless anymore) problem, mult-cultural issues in the classroom, neighbor island access to educational opportunities, etc. We have many unresolved problems in our own backyard.

Is online open learning an option for Hawaii's poor? How can you convernt skills and knowledge learned in the online open environemnt and turn them into recognized course credits that community colleges will recognize? Who would fund an open online course moduels...state agencies?

It seems that academic institutions have guidelines they need to maintain for accreditation purposes which still seems to be one of the major stumbling blocks in providing learning options for the poor. Maybe you could create online modules that a communty college could censor if they choose too and approve hours of learning and covert them into credit hours.

Clarice

Week 5 Thoughts

I have been very busy working on my mid-term report and working with my individual group in order to finalizing our group project. This has kept me very busy and I have not started on my weekly readings as yet.

Coordinating our group project has taken some time to gel but I think we are on track. Everyone is very cooperative, considerate and flexible. They would make a great Japanese team, meaning a U.S. team that can work with Japanese.

Sadly, I got another email from yet another team member asking for advice. They are struggling to pull their project together as I write this. I provided her with a very brief outline of our overall focus, individual research topics, and timeline. I hope this is helpful to them.

With such difficulties involving group projects, this class is unique. I have also found that when group cooperation is difficult, it seems to make all other work in this class a bit more difficult even though my group if fine. I feel for my classmates.
Clarice 2/7/08 Tokyo

Weeks 1 thru 3 copied from JournalHome

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - Week 3 - Thoughts
I decided to start my blog entry early. I'm having problems with this blog. Herb is unable to add comments to my blog, and my instructor sent me an email that she also added comments but I can't view them.
How did Mark log on and add comments?
This is all new to me and it is a bit frustrating on my part. I was able to log onto Google's blog but it comes up in Japanese. It took me awhile to figure out the "katakana" but once I got in, a message popped up saying that I needed to turn-on my "cookies". Having very little technical skills in working with computers, I'm just so afraid to touch my laptop and make my own adjustments because I wouldn't know how to correct myself. In this area, I'll admit, I need face-to-face assistance.
Clarice 1/22/08 Japan

The American economy is having a terrible effect on the dollar to yen exchange rate. The value of the dollar has fallen so fast that I still have uncashed Travelers Checks. You can get a slightly better exchange rate if you had American dollars. CNN Asia is all about business and it doesn't look good right now. While working on my OTL courses, I have to think about how to stretch my yen...the cost of living in Tokyo is one of the highest in the world. Other Americans living in another part of Tokyo told me that some of them are paying $20,000 USD per month for an apartment! I guess it more tofu and less meat. Today was the first time I made a baked tofu...haven't tasted it yet.
Clarice 1/22/08 Japan

Nobody in my house wants to try my tofu steak...well it was worth a try. It wasn't bad, but Japanese food just doesn't have that California-Mexican kick to it! I was able to download all of the readings except for one article. I'll start reading today.
Clarice 1/23/08 Japan

My sister sent me an email. My aunty passed away last night. I have a good mother, but she was just too busy trying to raise 5 kids back then, so I landed up at my aunty's house quite a bit. You could say that she was my holiday and weekend mother. I learned how to cook by watching her in the kitchen. I read two of my required articles for class and then I decided to make banana bread. I was planning to make it tomorrow but I just felt today was the day to do it. The sun was shining, the sky was blue with some puffly clouds. I opened up my kitchen blinds which I normally don't do, since my neighbors apartments are so close...but it didn't matter to me today. I baked banana bread...I even made a batch of baked Italian chicken, and it's only 2:30 in the afternoon. My aunty believed in education. She saw this as a way out of poverty and a means by which to secure a good job. She wouldn't want me to mess up on my school work right now...she'd be upset.
Clarice 1/24/08 Japan

It looks like my group is just moving along quite well with Susan and Marsha's input. We've come to an agreement on our topic. Now I'm just waiting for more input as to how we will divide up the research. I hope I'm on the right track. My mind is a bit far away at the moment, but I know I'll be better tomorrow.
Clarice 1/24/08 Japan
Bb is quite slow right now so I decided to post my thoughts here so I don't forget. "I agree with Susan that a wiki would be very helpful in creating an outline for this paper. As a foreigner living in Japan, I am personally interested in best practices for building community and encouraging interactivity among students who live and work within a collective culture like Japan." DVD I want to watch, ?Downside or ?Sideline - foreign movie about Iranian girl who wants to watch her country's male soccer team compete for title against Japanese team. Issue here: Women are not allowed to watch men play, yet Japanese women are allowed into the soccer stadium to watch the championship. Here in Tokyo, the Iranian Embassy is not far from my apartment. All female employees, no matter what nationality, wear a "burka" at all times. The only uncovered portion of their body is their face...no ears, no neck, partial forehead, etc. Life is different in Tokyo.
Clarice 1/25/08 Japan
Curtis and Susan both posed some very good and interesting question on the group DB. I spent some time looking up information in order to answer their questions. What I have learned from this research (past two days) is that our cultural anthropologist and sociologist have a lot to offer educators in the way of providing some very important insights in how to best educate those from outside our own culture. At the Tokyo American Club library, I found a book that I hope to read before this course ends, "Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program" by David McConnell, published in 2000 by the University of California Press. After reading the introduction, it touches on both Susan and David's question.
Clarice (1/25/08) Japan
Summary of what I learned this week:
I never considered culture and it's effect online learning until I took this course. Now that I have had a chance to read some very good references on this subject given to us by our instructor, I am beginning to see the importance of understanding culture and it's impact on learning and more specifically learning in the online environment. I've started to look into Japanese education which is a new for me and quite interesting.
I'm a foreigner living in Japan, and though I notice the differences between the U.S. and Japan, I'm in survival mode about 80% of the time - read a menu, tell my hair stylist how short to cut my hair, directions to an English-speaking medical clinic, read "katakana" or "hiragana" so I get off at the right subway station, finding grocer items, explain to my apartment management company that the heater doesn't work, my cat has a medical problem and needs attention, etc.




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Monday, January 21, 2008 - Week 2 - Thoughts
Small successes: 1. I was able to change the template from "Hello Kitty" to something I am more comfortable with...plain simple colors. Questions: 1. I'm still not sure how to adjust privacy on this blog. I just switched the privacy command from "everyone" to "friends". To my OTL classmates, pease let me know if you have a problem viewing my blog. 2. Still haven't figured out how to add a single space between my paragraphs.
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Monday, January 21, 2008 - My thoughts for the week
Posted by Clarice
I'm not very comfortable with technology and being that this assignment required me to create my own blog, it was a bit stressful for me.
Still unsure about the privacy of my blog despite changing settings. I can't tell if it is working or not. Because of this, I feel that I have to be very careful about what I write on my blog.
I didn't have a problem with group formation. I am looking forward to working with this group. It looks like we have similar interests with some overlap so I am pretty confident about having to select a group topic.
I figued out how to create a paragraph; Yeah!!!...happy : ).
It's not difficult to bounce back-and-forth between blogs to read what my teammates have in mind for a project, but it does take time. I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about negotiating a team project.Edited by Clarice on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 5:37 AM
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by dutchboy
Your entry Week 3 - thoughts is invisible to me, and also to the rest of the world. If you want your classmates to read it, you'll have to get them to sign up with JournalHome (they're certainly not obliged to blog in any way) and you should add them as friends. For that everyone should go to this page within their accounts:http://www.journalhome.com/manager/view_friends.phpThere's an Add Friends button on that page, and the easiest thing to do would be for all of them to add 'Clarice' as a friend. After that you only have to go to that page yourself and each of them. It's all pretty self-explanatory. Don't add me unless you want me to read your stuff. There's little else to be gained by it. Or you could make your blog public again, or select with each entry which ones you would like to be private, public, members only or friends only.Edited by dutchboy on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - Thank You Dutch Boy and Admin Staff
Posted by Clarice
I changed my setting to allow "everyone" in since I am not sure about "adding friends". When you add a friend, does this mean that you just type in their name?Clarice
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - Adding friends
Posted by dutchboy
If you want to add a friend you have to type in his or her username, which in your case is Clarice. If you like someone else's blog enough to add the author, and you're not sure about the username, you click on "View my profile". Look at the URL, and whatever follows journalhome.com/profiles/ is the name you want.



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Sunday, January 20, 2008 - Unit 2 Assignment - Possbile Group Topic
Hi Everyone, Here's my thoughts on a possible group project for your consideration. My healthcare program was not prepared to move their F2F curriculum online. They did so without formal training, additional resources or faculty time. The continued development and improvement of an efficient online program continues to evolve, but at a very slow and uneven pace. Upgrades to each course has been done by individual faculty members and there is no consensus on cohesive development of the online curriculum. The program has not ruled-out online learning, but much of the courses are now offered in a hybrid format. The reasoning and justification from my program director is that the current student population prefers the F2F environment over the online environment. I suspect the faculty is more comfortable with the F2F format as well. The current student population is generally female, adult-learner, single parent, second career, low-income, working part-time and seeking a career track program that will land them a full-time job when they complete their certificate degree in the shortest amount of time. Faculty issues and personal views in regard to online learning is an important area to address, but for this course, I would like to do more research to answer the following question, “what are the most important features that need to be considered when designing an online environment (not a hybrid) that will increase time-on-task, student satisfaction and improve academic achievement given the student population mentioned above. A possible title could be ‘designing the online environment for the at-risk adult student population.’ Your thoughts on this would be appreciated even if this topic is not chosen. Clarice
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - Sounds good...
Posted by Mark
Clarice,Sounds like a good idea. Like you said, we have similar issues, addressing at-risk student needs. I don't know if you have looked at Herb's blog but he also addresses a similar question for his project idea.Great job.Mark



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Friday, January 18, 2008 - My First Personal Blog for CSUOTL 6707
My instructor asked us to create a personal blog and this is one of the recommended sites that was given to the class.
This is my first personal blog since all others were created within our Blackboard system.
- I don't know how my instructor or classmates are supposed to log into this site?
- I'm not sure if this blog automatically dates my entries.
- Does this have a spell-check feature?'
- How do I change my template design? Hello Kitty...must have clicked this my mistake
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by dutchboy
Welcome to JournalHome. Here are a few answers to your questions. It does automatically date all entries, while the spell-check feature exists in theory only. It doesn't work. In order to change your template, you must go tohttp://journalhome.com/manager/choose_template.phpGood luck on JournalHome. Little did you know when signing up that we, the regulars here, view JH as a community rather than a bloghost, and we act accordingly, freely posting comments at each others blogs. Another good thing about JournalHome, is that upon having your account upgraded you have absolute freedom over all the technical features you want to have. Something which in most other bloghosts is too much to ask for. And I don't get paid to say this. Edited by dutchboy on 1/19/2008 at 10:41 AM
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 - Thank you
Posted by Clarice
Dutchboy,Thank you for your help. I was finally able to upload an image to my webpage! Small success.Clarice
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Sunday, January 20, 2008 - Dutchboy - Can you help with this question
Posted by Clarice
Hi Dutchboy,I wrote my proposal as a Word document. Then I did a copy and paste. I notice that my spacing does not show-up in the blog. I can see only one large paragraph.Does this mean that I cannot do a copy and paste command?Clarice
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Monday, January 21, 2008 - Untitled Comment
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Spacing is a bit of a problem here. One way of solving it, is clicking on the HTML icon, and making sure that every paragraph is followed by . (Hopefully these tags show up in comments)Another way is to use shift+enter to create spacing between paragraphs.The only way you can be absolutely sure, is by writing your entries within JournalHome, in the basic editor. On the page where you write entries you can choose between either the 'basic'' or the 'advanced' editor. When the latter is true you're there. In the former case you click on 'switch to basic editor' or something similar.edit tags: br and br, inside <> and <>Edited by dutchboy on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM
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