Archive for November, 2012

Blog 14: Scratch!

I watched the video about “Scratch” before I read the short “how-to” reading. Even though the video was only 2 minutes and 40 seconds long, I had many mixed feelings about the program. At first when the video was describing what scratch was (within the first 30 seconds to a minute), even though it looked […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 26/11/2012 at10:11 Comments (0)

Blog 13: September 11 Archive

I decided to look at the September 11 archive and I found it to be a lot like an archive-esque website devoted to Columbine that I visited a while back to learn about that event.  I like the idea of having an archive because it’s so useful to have a variety of resources in one […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 19/11/2012 at10:29 Comments (0)

Blog 12: Exploring Wordle!

Other than reading Mr. Cohen’s article, I enjoyed exploring Wordle! I liked the fact that it was a bit interactive and very creative. You can virtually use it for any thing you wanted to do using words. Some of the examples they had featured on the homepage were from students possibly who made cover for […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 12/11/2012 at10:25 Comments (0)

Blog 11: PowerPoint is Evil

I  found this article to be kind of over analytical at first.  I s PowerPoint really all that bad?  Well, apparently if you’re Edward Tufte, then yes.  I’ve used PowerPoint numerous times for simple and serious presentations for high school and previous college classes.  When I use PowerPoint, I think it’s actually very good for […]

Published in: Uncategorized on 05/11/2012 at10:33 Comments (0)