August 27, 2007
When I got up at 7:00 it was 36 degrees Fahrenheit. Looks like it will be a cool day to visit Crater Lake and to hike up Mount Scott. At 10:00 we left the campground and made our way to Crater Lake National Park. Magnificent views as we entered the park from the North and arrived for lunch at Crater Lake Lodge. Barbara had the spicey salmon wrap and I had the Northwest fish and chips. That should prepare us sufficiently for our Mount Scott hike. Got to Mount Scott trailhead and started up at 1:38. Turned around at 2:38, rested for 15 minutes while sending email on the iPhone and returned to trail head. We completed our trip around the rim road and then headed to an RV campground North of Crater Lake on Diamond Lake. We wanted to see if it would be a suitable place to stay for a future trip to the area. It looked just fine. We got back to the RV and Chobe was glad to see us. So ends the day we hiked partway up Mount Scott. We took some nice pictures and I will let you know where they are posted on the web.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Visitors to Medford
Thought I would post a blog even if I am not on my iPhone. I am just entering this into my iPhoneJournal page on Blogger. Have to keep in practice here and if I did not do this I would have to work on my EducationalResearchToday Podcast. We had a delightful visit today with nephew Erik and his daughter Sarah who were on there way to Bellingham from Minnesota by way of Texas. I don't see anyway to put pictures on this blog but then if I wanted to I could put pictures on Facebook where I have been enjoying Jeff's pictures of his travels with Max including some spectaular views of Crater Lake. Erik and Sarah planned on traveling near Crater Lake on their way to Bellingham. They are taking highway 97 to avoid the traffic problems around Seattle on I-5. Everybody seems to be taking a look at Crater Lake. Next Wednesday Barbara, Chobe, and I are going to pile in to the Winnebago and go to Klamath Falls, Crater Lake, and then back to Medford. I should figure out how to put some pictures on Facebook by then (before I can do that I have to figure out what my gmail account is). Well that's enough for now, better get back to reading an article to turn into an ERT podcast episode.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
iPhoneNotes002
Greetings and salutations from an iPhone, Google Docs afficiado (spelling?). As stated earlier this blog is to act as a repository for my rambling writings or journals on the iPhone. However I am not creating this entry on the iPhone but am entering it directly into the Google Docs application with Firefox on the MacBook Pro. I wanted to try this new entry and then publish it to the blog and make certain that the process works OK before I attempt to create a document with Safari on the iPhone and publish that doc to the iPhone.
Another thought, I wonder if the students in my online course, could prepare their assignments using Google Docs and then email them to me. They would have to include identifying information at the top of the document so I knew who it was coming from and also which assignment it purports to be. To check that out, I will try emailing this document to myself so that I can see if it works (as well as posting it to my blog). In the current version of my online course, Ed 603 Educational Research Methods, 2 credits, Fall Semester 2007 at Minnesota State University Moorhead, I am using a series of podcasts for the course. The 20-30 minute podcasts each review a current research article in education, educational psychology, or educational technology, and then follow the review with a brief discussion of a concept or point in educational research methods. For each week there is an assignment to complete and submit to the instructor (me). The submitted assignments are then posted to an assignment web page for instructor and peer review. The student's full name is not posted and I add my comments to their assignment in a green font so that it is differentiated from their assignment. So if this works out I might recommend that students who do not have access to Word, use GoogleDocs to complete their assignments and submit them to the instructor.
Well I was able to get to google.docs with safari on the iPhone. However when I opened a new google docs page, i could not get the keyboard on the iPhone to come up, thus I could not add any text to the page. I am adding this text to the page on the MacBook Pro. I guess when the iPhone says it is a closed system, it really is a closed system.
Greetings and salutations from an iPhone, Google Docs afficiado (spelling?). As stated earlier this blog is to act as a repository for my rambling writings or journals on the iPhone. However I am not creating this entry on the iPhone but am entering it directly into the Google Docs application with Firefox on the MacBook Pro. I wanted to try this new entry and then publish it to the blog and make certain that the process works OK before I attempt to create a document with Safari on the iPhone and publish that doc to the iPhone.
Another thought, I wonder if the students in my online course, could prepare their assignments using Google Docs and then email them to me. They would have to include identifying information at the top of the document so I knew who it was coming from and also which assignment it purports to be. To check that out, I will try emailing this document to myself so that I can see if it works (as well as posting it to my blog). In the current version of my online course, Ed 603 Educational Research Methods, 2 credits, Fall Semester 2007 at Minnesota State University Moorhead, I am using a series of podcasts for the course. The 20-30 minute podcasts each review a current research article in education, educational psychology, or educational technology, and then follow the review with a brief discussion of a concept or point in educational research methods. For each week there is an assignment to complete and submit to the instructor (me). The submitted assignments are then posted to an assignment web page for instructor and peer review. The student's full name is not posted and I add my comments to their assignment in a green font so that it is differentiated from their assignment. So if this works out I might recommend that students who do not have access to Word, use GoogleDocs to complete their assignments and submit them to the instructor.
Well I was able to get to google.docs with safari on the iPhone. However when I opened a new google docs page, i could not get the keyboard on the iPhone to come up, thus I could not add any text to the page. I am adding this text to the page on the MacBook Pro. I guess when the iPhone says it is a closed system, it really is a closed system.
iPhone Notes 001
This is a new document submitted to Google Docs, the new name for writely.com. I can't seem to find the other documents I have saved here but would like to use this repository as a place to enter documents written on my iPhone. About the only thing you can do with a Notes document on the iPhone is to mail it to someone. So it seems that if I want to write documents or keep a journal with the iPhone I will have to get on the web with the iPhone (safari) and go to docs.google.com and find my Docs stored there. So let's save this doc which I will name iPhoneNotes.
Well that sounds pretty straight forward. Now let's hope I have the url to this page in my iPhone safari favorites so I can get to this page (or another doc page) easily with Safari on the iPhone. What I actually ended up doing was to copy and paste my google docs page into the new blog I created on blogger.com
So there you have it my first iPhone Journal blog entry.
Maybe I can find this place on the iPhone with Safari and then compose directly into my new blog or conversely go to google docs with safari on the iPhone, create a document and then publish it to this blog.
Well that sounds pretty straight forward. Now let's hope I have the url to this page in my iPhone safari favorites so I can get to this page (or another doc page) easily with Safari on the iPhone. What I actually ended up doing was to copy and paste my google docs page into the new blog I created on blogger.com
So there you have it my first iPhone Journal blog entry.
Maybe I can find this place on the iPhone with Safari and then compose directly into my new blog or conversely go to google docs with safari on the iPhone, create a document and then publish it to this blog.
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