Online Scrap blog

The next technology I will explore is called online scrap booking. In online scrap booking you collect all the photos you want to share in your scrap book and then you categorize them with other pictures you want them with on a certain page. There are plenty of templates you can use for your photos. For example I chose a sports background for my scrap blog, because I had a picture from a colts party I attended. My sample scrap blog can be seen at: . I didn't have many photos uploaded but I just wanted to show everybody an example. I have never done a scrap blog before and to be honest it was fun and wasn't hard at all. All I had to was upload photos from my computer to the website www.scrapblog.com, and set it up to my templates chosen. I would see myself in the future creating scrap blogs it was very fun.

Podcasting

I have researched podcasting and from research and personal experience I know that podcasts are series of audio and/or video files that are distributed over the internet that can be linked to mp3 players like i pods. It makes reviewing class lectures or other bits of information easy and gives you the ability to rewatch the material over and over in case you missed something.
I have had experience with podcasting and I didn't even know it. Every Thursday my church puts the services we have on the internet via podcasting and when I miss service I download the podcast onto my i pod and watch it on there. I really believe podcasting is user friendly and very easy to use for everybody.
You could visit www.itunes.com for more information and help on examples of podcasting. The only tips and suggestions I have is just follow directions from places where podcasting is available and you should be allright.

Assistive Learning Technologies

Out of the assistive learning technologies we were supposed to experiment with, I have only had experience with the translation services provided by sites like google. I had used it in the past to translate from English to French and visa versa when I was in High School. The translation services are so helpful and it is awesome that most of them are free. However They are not completely accurate but that does not stop the service from helping complete the tasks that invovle two languages.

I was somewhat aware of the changes you could make on a computer to better someones learning ability while using it, but I did not know you could change settings for the keyboard and mouse and the fact you could format different sounds for different keys on the keyboard. I was however aware that there were certain settings for people with troubled hearing and seeing, and I think its great that computers provide these learning assistances since so many people around the world struggle with disabilities.

I was shocked at all the information I learned about photosensative epilepsy. I didn't know it was so rare, occurring in only 3-5% of the population. It also effects women more often than men. Even though there are no cures for the disease, siezures can be prevented or limited by lowering the brightness of the t.v. or computer screen. Also covering the sensative eye can help too. In most cases headaches are more common than siezures. Hopefully they can soon find a cure for this problem.