Technology...You've got to love it...You've got to hate it. I like many of the things I can do because of technology. I love digital cameras although I wish they weren't so expensive (The ones I need to shoot ballet from the back of the theatre without a flash). I love not having to develop my pictures. I like that I can delete them instantly. I love that I can take as many as I want and never worry about the cost. I wish the speed between pressing the button and taking the picture were a bit faster ( they are improving daily; especially in the high end cameras). I miss the prints and I know that I can print them at home or at Longs for a few cents.I love Word processing. I remember having to re-type papers in college because the Professor wouldn't accept even a whiteout correction on the finished paper...it had to be pristine. It's much easier to compose and edit on a computer word processor. I like being able to stay in touch with e-mail. It's instant and the feedback is usually quick, even from my friends in Japan. Much cheaper as well.
I love using Geometer's Sketchpad http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/ in the classroom. It makes the subject so much more flexible and visual. Nothing can replace that ability to really "see" the relationships and how they change when I chose different parameters.What I hate is WHEN IT DOESN'T WORK! When I have something planned for class and the interface doesn't work or the speed is too slow or too many people are on the server or the printer is jammed. When I become dependent on it's services and the services are not available I get frustrated. Like the photo that is supposed to be at the top of this Blog.
SO AFTER CAREFUL EXAMINATION THE CODE (IN THE TEXT PREVIEW) ACTUALLY TURNED INTO THE PICTURE I WANTED SO...MY FRUSTRATION WAS UNJUSTIFIED. HOWEVER I STILL CAN'T IMPORT A SKETCHPAD SKETCH INTO THE BLOG OR EVEN MAKE MY URL A HOT LINK.
Peggy dresses up for Spirit Day at Longwood Elementary.
Try this as a workaround for getting a sketchpad sketch into the blog:
ReplyDeleteUse a screen capture.
Get the sketch on your screen the way you want it to look, then take a screen shot by pressing Command (apple) Shift 4. It will give you a cursor shaped like a target and you can click and drag it over the portion of the screen you want to capture. It turns it into a picture on your desktop. Then you can post the picture to your blog.
Shawna
ReplyDeleteGreat Job. It works. We had to play with the placement.