{"id":509,"date":"2012-10-15T00:46:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T06:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2012-10-15T00:46:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T06:46:38","slug":"unimaginative-week-6-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/unimaginative-week-6-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Unimaginative Title for POTCERT Week-6 Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had relegated Hyper Text Markup Language <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"old books\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OXf-o5ewrs4\/Tw7bhmzTKhI\/AAAAAAAAEcA\/cYeUeV_R5V8\/s1600\/desk2.JPG\" alt=\"old books\" width=\"173\" height=\"235\" \/><br \/>\nto the same dusty corner where my &#8220;DOS for Dummies&#8221; lay forgotten and irrelevant.\u00a0 Why bother creating a web page the hard way?\u00a0 I have WYSIWYG\u2020 authoring options ranging from Nightmare (MS Word) to Dreamweaver.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started using WordPress and Moodle.\u00a0 Formatting buttons are kind of limited there, but Hey, there&#8217;s an HTML tab where I could enter code to do more imaginative stuff, if I could remember the tags.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s so nice of WP to allow a bit of formatting in comments too.\u00a0 So I dusted off the old tome (figuratively speaking &#8211; literal translation=I Googled it) and found <a title=\"W3 Schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/html\/\" target=\"_blank\">W3 School<\/a> and <a title=\"HTML Code Tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.htmlcodetutorial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HTML Code Tutorial<\/a> &#8211; the two resources I raid when I want almost anything beyond the basic <strong>bold<\/strong>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">underline<\/span>, and <em>italics<\/em> tags.\u00a0 I still can&#8217;t remember where the quotes go in <em>img src=<\/em> nor the syntax for <em>span<\/em> which replaces the <em>font<\/em> tag in version 5, but I don&#8217;t have to.\u00a0 Sure, if I use them frequently enough I&#8217;ll remember; but just knowing that I can find the code goes a long way.\u00a0 And understanding what it&#8217;s supposed to do allows me to play with the parameters when I copy and paste snippets I&#8217;m too lazy to type.<\/p>\n<p>I usually paste the embed codes from YouTube or Vimeo into the HTML view, but I&#8217;ll try just pasting the URL into Visual view without creating a link as per the <a title=\"embedding videos\" href=\"http:\/\/help.edublogs.org\/2009\/07\/29\/embedding-videos-from-video-sharing-websites-into-your-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">edublogs video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tlicho Lesson\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9uticjTKplE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, how about that?\u00a0 Sure enough, it works!\u00a0 Something new and easier.<br \/>\nThis video from an earlier language class has a dual-purpose, hard and soft.\u00a0 One can learn the names of the ten objects on the table, but it also demonstrates a learning procedure which can be adapted beyond just identifying nouns.<\/p>\n<p>Now about RSS &#8211; It&#8217;s dead easy to subscribe to a tag or blog with Google Reader &#8211; &#8220;Really Simple Syndication&#8221; is an accurate name.\u00a0 My problem is, when am I going to find time to read all the posts that get harvested?\u00a0 My best intentions are forgotten in the flood of new stuff from the firehose.\u00a0 My DS106 subscription alone has over a thousand unread posts.\u00a0 Even POTCERT Subscribed a few weeks ago, shows 142 (now 139 because I got sidetracked looking at it).\u00a0 Ignoring my RSS subscriptions is a choice I make, just like ignoring most of my Facebook notifications and email lists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>\u2020 WYSIWYG (pronounced &#8220;wizzy-wig&#8221;) stands for\u00a0&#8220;What You See Is What You Get&#8221;, just another example of\u00a0 disgustingly cute acronyms for unimaginative computer-speak.\u00a0 It&#8217;s even in spell-check for goodness sake!\u00a0 More examples of this pocket-protector vocabulary are TWAIN for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thing Without An Interesting Name<\/span>,\u00a0 SCSI (pronounced &#8220;scuzzy&#8221;) for the now thankfully obsolete <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Small Computer Serial Interface<\/span>, and GUI (pronounced &#8220;gooey&#8221;) for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graphic User Interface<\/span>.\u00a0 Masquerading as jargon, these unsavoury characters get away with sounding acceptable when they should be marched out and shot along with all the nouns like interface, mouse, key, blog, surf, etc. that have the chutzpa to aspire to action verbs.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had relegated Hyper Text Markup Language to the same dusty corner where my &#8220;DOS for Dummies&#8221; 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