The occasional musings of a Christ-follower, husband, father, and student.
For the past 2 weeks, our assignment in Educational Media has been to evaluate 2 different Website Building Platforms: Google Sites and Weebly. Actually, we had the choice to work with WordPress, Google Sites, Weebly, or Wix. Since my blog is a self hosted WordPress site and I actually maintain...
For the past 2 weeks, our assignment in Educational Media has been to evaluate 2 different App Building Platforms: AppMachine and AppyPie. Both of these services give the novice user the ability to construct a mobile app with little to no development knowledge. These platforms are based on selecting pre-built...
Our second assignment for this week is creating a screencast demonstrating how to use a piece of software in an educational or corporate environment. For this video, I chose to create a tutorial on how to clear your web browser cache in Google Chrome. Since my daily job deals with...
This week’s assignment in my Educational Media class is to create a podcast. My understanding of the assignment is basically to get us to learn how to use audio recording and editing tools. This has been a fun assignment because Audacity was the recommended tool for the audio recording and...
One of our assignments this week was to take a personal photo and “retouch or otherwise alter it in Photoshop.” That was the only direction so it really allowed for us to do whatever we wanted as long as we edited a photo in Photoshop. I am by no means...
So…this is where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. As I’ve said previously, I’ve worked with HTML and CSS in the past, but merely from a maintenance perspective. If I have problems with some code, I just go in and tinker with it until it does what I...
For this past week, one of our assignments in my Educational Media class was to begin working with HTML and CSS. As a “website customizer,” I’ve been around HTML and CSS for quite a few years now, but never really dug into it. I just know enough to get by...
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This week’s assignment had all of us create a .html file using HTML5. Pretty basic page that had to include the following: Headings Embedded pictures Paragraph of text Link to a website Mailto link Color change to font or background Luckily, this wasn’t my first foray into HTML5. As a part time website...
In our last lesson in Educational Media, we learned about accessibility features when designing documentation and web courses. It was eye-opening to say the least. Accessibility in documentation and websites is the process of creating content in such a way that it can be consumed by all, including those with...
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