New Day - New Attitude

Amazing what a good night's sleep can do for the ol' troubleshooting skills. I woke up realizing I needed to take all the formatting out of the book analysis post and start over. I'd copied the analysis from a Word document into a Google doc. I attempted to do like Amy had posted in class about uploading the file; but that wasn't happening either (the world kept spinning.)

So first thing this AM I tried something different and republished. The post now appears to have fewer additional lines (??) - but they are still there; definitely not there in the Google doc. I'm to afraid to even look at the 'edit Html'. I'm having my coffee first! Whoa - just hit something on my left-side of the keyboard and a 'developer tools' screen came up in a new window. This learning curve just continues.

I'm so tired of trying :-(

Much apologies on posting my 'book analysis' - the edit Html feature is scaring the you know what out of me! There is so much code and I can't seem to be able to delete the correct line to delete the extra lines??!! What I see in Google docs is not what publishes in blogger :-(

Google Docs - to Blog

This is the link for the HOW TO on publishing a Google Doc to your Blog ...

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37571 

Google Docs supports posting documents to most of the popular blog sites, as well as to any blog that supports the Blogger, metaWeblog or MovableType APIs.

To specify your blog settings, and instruct Google Docs to publish to the blog of your choice, follow these instructions:

1. Click Settings in the upper right corner of your Docs list page.
   
2. Select edit info in the Blog settings section.
   
3. Enter the requested information (blog provider, username/password, blog ID and title), and click .

Note that you can also enter this information by choosing Publish as web page in the Share menu in the upper right corner of the Docs Edit page and clicking on change your blog site settings. Once this is done, you will be able to publish your documents to the blog you selected. If you'd like to publish to a different blog in the future, simply re-enter your blog settings.

After these settings are in place, you can post any document to this blog. To do so, follow these instructions:

1. From the Docs Edit page, click on "Publish as web page" from the Share menu in the upper right corner.
   
2. Click "Post to blog."

Once this document has been published to your blog, the time and date of this posting will be displayed.

Please note, at this time, it's not possible to publish PDFs.

Google Apps users, please note that this feature is not available for Google Apps domains at this time.

Learning Curve Continues

I'm so impressed with myself, I had to share :-). The last post included a 'blockquote'; but the end of the post wasn't suppose to have the 'block' and I couldn't figure out how to change it. Luckily for me I'm from the era of DOS prompt, Word Perfect and 'reveal codes'. I was able to edit the code in 'edit html' and problem solved in under 5 minutes.

Word Verification

Is it just me, mature eyes and all, that sometimes I can't decipher the 'word verification' to post??!!?

Learning curve continues

Seems I have way too many gmail accounts and I must remember (i.e., write down) which one I am using for this blog and class assignment! Sorry Sarah - I need to go back and unfollow your blog on the gmail account I'm not using for this class!

Anyone who is interested in program design and needs a true guinea pig, I volunteer my uneducative stumbling, tripping about in this medium :-)

Sweet Smell of Success

A graduate level class I will be taking this summer semester requires creating a 'book blog.' My learning curve is somewhat wide - so I'm starting early. Special thanks to my husband and daughter for possible blog titles. It appears I lead a very boring life - nothing jumped or screamed PERFECT, totally fits you. Oh well - in time.

My book options are:

From Telling to Teaching, by Joyce A. Norris
Mentor, by Laurent Daloz
The Learning College for the 21st Century by O’Banion
In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
Woman’s Ways of Knowing by Belenky, Clinchy, Goldgerger & Tarule
The Tao of Teaching by Greta Nagel
Ethical Issues in Adult Education by Ralph Brockett
Honky by Dalton Conley
The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leonard Q. Ross

I'm familiar with three of the books from prior coursework ... so a bit of research will be necessary to narrow down my book selection.