#7 Google Books

Fantastic resource if the book you are looking for is there. I looked up two of my favourite novels - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. Both were there. I also looked up some non-fiction relating to my husbands interests and work area (Model and Prototype Trains). My books were there in full versions as well as directing to sites to purchase, but his were only acknowledged without any preview or copy available at this point in time.

It will be interesting to explore what non-fiction works might be available - being a teacher of Visual Communication and Design (also Art by interest and training) let alone resources for my faculty which includes food and materials (woodwork etc) - it would be a good facility for students to access if there are resources of this nature available. Draw back is that they might be still under copy write for many of these areas.

On a personal note, I can see it as a useful tool. I have a Smart phone and this would enable me to access books away from home, school or a library so long as I have reception for my girls and I.

#5 Google Maps

This is not new to me. I have been using this function for some time. It is really good to locate unknown places or to highlight locations for different events. It is great that you can highlight places by designating them on maps, and also it is an interesting facility that shows the locations on the side of the window. Concern for this is that when the images were taken, this was unbeknown to the people. Easy to remove images - my parents had to do this as it showed directly into their house (well garage anyway) with my father standing there!

#5 Google +

Well, I tried like others before me to use Zoho Writer. And like those before me, I got the grey screen. I went out and tried again, but despite all my efforts, it would not post to my blog! I even managed to work out how to change to the https setting that it demanded. After all this, I still could not post it properly. It kept telling me that my password and login name were incorrect. I double checked everything and still it wouldn't work. Oh well, it was interesting to try it anyway.

Activity #4

Wow! So much information to absorb. It is amazing to see the depth that is available and not generally considered. My memory is also not what it used to be! (That makes me sound so old!). There is a lot out there to try - just have to find more time to explore it properly.

Who am I?

ACTIVITY # 3

Well, my name is Caroline and I teach at a Christian College on the outskirts of Melbourne.

When I was setting up my blog and worked through the design settings and made all the choices for font, colour, background etcetera, I discovered that there was a design that was very close to my own work. when I was a student, I was very active in the art form of Polychromatic Screen Printing. Funnily enough, this background is just like that work. So, needless to say, it stands to reason that I am one of the Creative Arts teachers at my school.

I hope to learn about blogging and using it in an educational capacity and any additional activities along the way.

First Time

Well, this is my first blog! Not sure about my page set up, but that will get better with working on it.

This wasn't a difficult task to set up, but a bit fiddly when it didn't work properly the first time. Now it is all done, full steam ahead!