#youshow15

We started a writing group today on campus. There are four of us. Three of us are meeting today. We decided:

to document our lives and how we write.

what does you day look like.

how do you manage to write.

A #walkmyworld remix

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by Greg McVerry

So I just finished this remix. It is for #walkmyworld.

I started by first reading and annotating my two sources. Today I stole from JPG's Anti-Education Era and Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter idea of knowledge communities

I wanted to play with Gee's work so I made a series of Gifs. One for each element of the circuit of reflective inquiry. Gee's premis is that we are dumb alone but groups and tools can make us smarter...if we engage in the circuit of reflective inquiry. To make the gifs I just held my smart phone and used an Android App Video to Gif. Took some experimenting to get the file size down.

Then I found images from #walkmyworld to remix with Scardamalia and Bereiter's work. All of the words are straight lifted from here.

Engineering Better Teachers

So I decided I wanted a slider on my static homepage. Hacking at Wordpress seemed to be frought with danger.

So I decided to build a slider myself. This is actually what got me involved with CSS on my blog. I needed a webpape with columns and a slider. I needed CSS.

So back in September I started to teach myself...and bug those who know more to no end.

Today was spent trying to make a new slider for the blog I blew up

I dit it!

I like the idea of having a slider I fully control rather than being held hostage to a theme. If I want to link to something or someone else I can. If I do not want posts showing up in the feature slider they won't. I am in control I like that.

I started with some code I found online. I should have bookmarked the link. I had to change the size of everything, but that's easy (really you can learn CSS just as I did....by breaking lots of stuff).

The problem arose when I tried to overlay a hyperlink. I lost hours of my life on this hunt.Here is the finished product (hit remix to see the code). My Slider

Turns out all of my issues boiled down to positioning. I started with an absolute position. All of the links basically stacked on top of each other (I think). Then when I switched to float:left problem solved. I switched to a right float and spaced out my margins.

I now have a working slider on my blog

A couple issues are left

I have to edit my CSS tochange slides. Just copy/pasting img url nothing too rough

I have to resize images to 640*300. I know I can set width to 100% but this never works for me. I like to know the images are set.

I originally set the slide size to equal a medium download on Flickr but it was too square for my taste

I hope the folks at TRU don't mind me stepping into the Feed and sharing my gibbership. The idea of having a backstage blog just intrigued me since I saw @cogdog write about it