My Own webpage!, wow!

I have been asked to do a website (not just webpage) in one of my courses, so
i have been working on it, and after a lot of work, changes, and frustration with the edit buttons and options (is not so easy as google says), i did it, and i don't think is half bad.

Maybe it doesn't have a lot of fancy features because of the short time and pressure to do it, but i think it worked out pretty well.

The theme of the site is about education, I used a classroom website template, and some imagination to see how I would do the page if i were working with students in a school, so I tried to keep the language simple and easy to understand, also I tried to implement some gadgets to keep things interesting, like calendars, videos and stuff like that, so i hope you like it.



https://sites.google.com/site/instructionalfun/home

My first screencast!

Hey guys, today im showing you, a video that i myself did, with the help of camstasia studio program.

I was asked to do a screencast, for a lesson or educational purpose, so i did this little video as a way to show students how to create a blog account that would later be used in other lessons in that course.

I tried to do it simple and easy, and i think that for the most part i succeded with that, also, i remind you that this is my first video, so go easy on me.

and sorry for the bad english!

Lesson and maps

Ok guys, i have been asked to use a map in a class lesson, so it can
help the understanding (and the interest) of the students in a class.

So i though about using maps in a class about hurricanes and weather changes.

The idea is that, first we give the students the information about how the hurricanes work, and then the use of the map would be to simulate the trajectory
of a hurricane from it's starting point to it's possibles routes.

This is not really a good example, but is just to give you an idea of how this may work.

Also another possibility is using this one as an example and make the students do their own maps based on real trajectories from past cyclons or hurricanes.

well anyway, here is the example i did:


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hope you like it

My map

Ok i have been fooling around a bit with google maps again, and i made a customized
map with directions of how to get to the near guitar center store from here WMU in
Kalamazoo to Portage.

so, there you go!


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The dreaded Swine Flu

Last weekend i was feeling kind of weird, and then sick, it all seemed like a pre-winter
cold so i went to my local clinic ( the university one) and got diagnosised with H1N1 influenza
or "swine flu", and so i was put in isolation last monday.

Since that two days have passed, and i have been thinking on a lot of different issues in
my own life, different possibilities and choices, things that i failed to do or that i shouldn't have done...., it's interesting that is in times like these that i can reflect on these matters, and i think that it is maybe a situation like mine (an illness) that we stop worrying about our daily concerns and start looking at the big picture.

Podcasts!

Lately in one of my WMU online courses i have been using all kinds of internet based technology and resources, as you have been seeing, pic sites, videos, wikis, even maps!. Anyway, this week is no different and what im bringing to the table are podcasts links!, i found some interesting ones and, im sharing these ones with you!

Take a look:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/coffeebreakspanish

this one is for a spanish learning broadcast, like a radio show with chapters and all
that.

http://www.japanesepod101.com/feed.xml

this one is similiar to the first one, but for japanise.

and finnaly:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/iruk

this one is a british indie radio station

Hope you like it.

Dominican Republic

OK this is a map of the Dominican Republic, my home country, it's an island located in the caribeean sea, near Central America, our closests neighbours are Haiti, Puerto Rico and Cuba.

Take a look, my city is Santo Domingo, see if you can find it:


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