Yesterday I attended the Wikis, Blogs, and Podcasts class provided by STS. The class was fairly straight forward and the instructors were very helpful. We spent the first hour and a half learning how to record our own podcast using Audacity, which is a free program, and then we uploaded the podcast onto the internet. After that we set up a blog through wordpress.com. I really liked this weblog provider because it had a lot more options than blogger. After blogs, we moved on to wikis, which, we learned, is Hawaiian for quick. We kind of rushed through this section because there wasn’t much time left. Basically they showed us that there is a special code for writing in wikis, and it is very easy to edit what other people have written.
I think that the class would have been very beneficial if I hadn’t already set up a blog. The podcast section was a little complicated so that took up most of the time. I would have liked to learn a little bit more about wikis because they mentioned how wikis can be very useful for collaborative projects.
Overall, this class was okay but I think I might attend a Dreamweaver class for more software training.
2 comments:
Thanks for the post. I'm glad to hear you liked wordpress. In the future, I should probably emphasize this one in addition to blogger.
Wordpress has tons of options, which could be a little overwhelming at first. However, I think that it allows for more creativity with your blog.
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