Well done Shirley, Cheryl and Andrew for your blogs

I have not looked at everyone's blogs but Shirley, Andrew and Cheryl have done really well with their blogs

https://cherylwestfield.blogspot.com/

https://crazylaneloony.blogspot.com/

http://gregorywalk.blogspot.com/

These are great!

Saturday Challenge - use google keep, blogger and share the links

Here is the Saturday morning challenge

1. Find a poem and add it to your google keep account as a note

2. Use your phone/tablet/camera to take a photo and upload it to google photos

3. Make a post on blogger combining the poem and the photo

4. Share the post with me by adding a link in a comment to this post

Good Luck everyone 



HINTS

Find a poem











I looked for lockdown as it seemed current.

Highlight the poetry and copy (CTRL+C/COMMAND+C)

Open keep and paste your poem into a note

You have it safely stored away after you have closed the note

(Don't forget to pin it to keep it at the top of your notes)

Go get a picture to suit. either take a photo with your phone/camera/tablet and upload it to google photos or browse for one on the internet and pop it into Google photos by copy and paste . I have a bathroom themed pair of photos here done by either method

To combine these into a blog post open blogger and select new post

Give the post a nice name

Get the image from google photos by selecting Inserting image from the menu. Choose the option 'from your phone' to look at google photos, and pick your photo to add to the blog

Go to Google Keep to find your poem and copy out the text. Now past it into your block entry

Et voila! you have a post with a picture! I added two pictures to show off and it looked like this

Adjust the blog page to improve its looks and then click Publish and you have made the post 

Click View blog to look and see the result.

Now let me know about your blog . 

Copy out the address of your blog when you are viewing it. Here is mine.

Open my blog https://teachitsussex.blogspot.com/

Scroll down through this instruction sheet and add a comment at the bottom including your blog address.

We can then have a look at your own efforts -Great eh!

Can you imaging how complicated it was making this post?

Find online courses during lockdown

Amazingly enough there are plenty of computer courses available for free thanks to the lockdown. Just have a look at sites like https://www.meganga.com/lessons/, alison.com and openlearn, the open university service. The offer free guidance and only charge you if you need official certificates.

Social distancing at its best along the coastal walk

Don't feel you are limited to computer courses look at this fab site for art https://artyfactory.com/ or this one http://www.drawingcoach.com/

By the way with all the excess wildlife around the area at the momen you can ask alexa to name the sounds they make so that you can work out what is going on. simply say Alexa what does a blue tit sound like? and be rewarded with a chirp or two

Enjoy lockdown :)

Beginners windows 10 course update

Our intrepid students are powering through  the course on getting started with windows 10. This is a real challenge since it is being offered over skype using the very computers that they are learning about.

I have shared a PowerPoint show on the windows features for reference go and have a look using this link

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AXMr1iutN5UgBuSp8rriJv_vO2h0DYpI

Or this one

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Lhlvq4Ite7XxNfSD0O-0Vlj2dEvmuleUNYH-MEkHkWk/edit?usp=sharing