Teaching Others About Technology (LT130)

 Hello, my name is Michelle and though this is my first blog that I've worked on, I consider myself tech savvy and hope to share some tech knowledge here.  My first contribution to this blog is the addition of a favicon to distinguish ours from other Blogger blogs. A favicon is also known as a tab icon, URL icon, bookmark icon, etc, and is visible on the browser tab for the webpage.  In making this change, I also learned a valuable tip. At first when I was attempting to change the icon, the change was not visible. I learned that to force refresh a website and show changes that were made, I had to press Ctrl + F5. 

 Hello! I added the label widget to the blog. I think as we add more information it would be useful to label posts to make it easy to access relevant information all at once. 

 Hi all! My contribution to the set up portion was editing the date header format, time stamp format, and comment time stamp format. In addition to the “Wikipedia” gadget that Susan added, I added a “Search This Blog” gadget so users can search for key words and phrases within the blog. I also went in to double check my work and take a look at what the other group members contributed.  P.S. I love the blog theme colors that Carly chose!

 Hello!  For this blog I wanted to add an iPhone/IOS user guide because I felt it could be very useful for teaching others to use technology. Many people who attend libraries don't have computers and come to the library to use the free Wi-Fi on their phone, or as I have witnessed think that it's a safe space to get help with learning how to use their phone. The iPhone is not the only phone people have, but seems to be the most common and I felt have a user guide allows people to learn how to use some of the apps that are available and set up their phone in a way they can understand. On a personal level, I have not used blogs very much other than for some guidance on assignments, but I have experience with assisting people with technology and have helped many older adults with their phones (mainly iPhones) because they struggle with understanding all the technology, especially when their family members believe they should have the most advanced technology without taking into con

 Hi! For my contribution to our blog, I changed the blog Theme to Notable Coral and customized its primary color to light blue. In doing this, I realized that if I am not careful in making that sort of change can inadvertently cause my groupmates' contributions to disappear. When I looked at previews of the new theme, the Wikipedia gadget that Susan had added disappeared. To make sure I didn't undo anyone's work, I created a test blog of my own so I could have a low-stakes place to test the change to the theme without ruining anyone else's contributions.  -Carly L.

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