January 29, 2009

Reflections: Weeks 1 & 2

Week 1 was a complete learning process for myself. Although I had taken the Computers in Education Course with Dr. David McCarthy there was still a lot I had to learn about gmail as well as Blogger. The first week was an introductory to both of these programs and Dr. V slowly taught us to to use each as well as some of the features Blogger provides for it's users. This first week has gotten me excited about what we will be learning, the projects we'll be working on and getting to know the other individuals in my course.


Week 2 was continuing the learning process. This week, we had gone into further detail on how to use Blogger, using it's gadgets as well as learning how to use the Google Reader program to organize our groups blogs and make reading new posts easier. This week has shown me many new things I can do with my blog, and has gotten me even more interested in learning about Blogger, and using the it's capabilities for outside of class reasons (using it to blog about things going on in my life that I find interesting and would want the people close to me know about).


Overall, I have discovered that this course is going to be challenging, exciting, and will open new means of communication for myself. It is environmentally friendly in the fact that we will never be using paper, and will constantly be able to stay in contact with our classmates and see what is going on in their life, environmentally wise.

January 27, 2009

Welcome to E is for Environment!

My name is Erika Serena and I am a Junior at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. I am a Community Health major, minoring in Psychology. Currently, I am on track to graduate in the Spring of 2010. This blog is going to be used for my Environmental Health course with Dr. Amy Versnik Nowak.

Blogger is a place I am going to attach my assignments, create posts about current issues and things I am learning, while commenting on and learning from peers blogs. I will also be posting pictures, getting to know the blogger website and hopefully build my knowledge of technology! :)

There are 5 possible types of posts on my blog. They include:

  1. Advocacy Project

  2. Eye Openers

  3. Reflections

  4. Reviews

  5. Share and Voice

If you notice at the bottom of this post, the categories will be listed as labels. This post is has been labeled with all five kinds of posts. You will also see the number of each kind of post in my Labels Gadget at the top of the page. All post titles from now on will begin with one of the categories above.

The members of my web group are:

  1. Jessica
  2. Hannah
  3. Jeff
  4. Lauren

You can subscribe to my blog by clicking the subscribe gadget in the gadget column. You can also follow my blog by clicking "Follow this Blog" in the gadget column. I am subscribed to all the blogs in my blog list gadget. You can see my complete profile and all the blogs I am following by clicking on "See Complete Profile." (Make sure all these gadgets are in place).

(The photo in the above corner was taken at Birch Lake which is located in Babbitt, Minnesota)