Week 4:

This week kicked off by exploring through Google-Reader and discussing a few queries people have had about how to comment others blogs. It is vital that we comment each others blogs and give the appropriate feedback to ensure we are enhanced each others learning.

We then used Flickr.com to brows pictures and were taught how to determine which pictures we had the right to use for ourselves and which were protected by copy right. The guidelines for these copy right rules include: Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works and Share Alike. Attribution means you give the right for others to copy, display, distribute and perform your work on the agreement that they give you credit. Noncommercial means others can copy your work but only for noncommercial purposes only. No Derivative Works means you give the right for others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
For example, this is how we reference an 'Attribution License' picture.
We were also introduced to podcasting in today's lesson. Podcast can be a voice recording or video that people can access on, for example iTunes. I tested for myself the series 'Dog Wisperer' (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/dogwhisperer.html) First I searched it then clicked 'subscribed to iTunes' and it downloaded strait to iTunes.

Podomatic is also a great site for subscribing podcasts - http://www.podomatic.com/
And finally we learnt to re-size photos, which is quite important when uploading to the internet. This reduces the amount of pixels in the photo which, in term, decreases the time it takes to upload each photo onto a web page. For this we looked briefly at http://www.mobaphoto.com/ and http://www.picnik.com/home for photo editing.