Actually, the show was made public as soon as I finished it. I used the URL gadget to get an embed link that does not show anything when I try to put it in this blog.

Another question. Is the application compatible with Linux? When I first created the show I was on a windows computer. I did not import the show, I created it online. When I got to my home computer, which runs Ubuntu, everything was just a bit off (like text was missing off the bottom of the slide and the arrow boxes were hiding text) and I could no longer control the arrows I had inserted at all! So I can not even move them or remove them to show the text they hide!

I hope this will also be fixed with Show 2.0 because, like I wrote in my original post, I like zoho and hope to continue using it but will only be able to do so if it becomes more compatible with my home computer.
Tracy

This is ahmed from Zoho.

Thanks for trying out Zoho Show and blogging about it. The presentation that you have created with Zoho Show is not accessible for public view as you have used the slide show link instead of the public link. Please use the public link so that others can view your presentation. Go to “Actions >> Make Public” and get the public url.

As for the issues with undo & spellcheck, we are working on this and it will be available in Show 2.0.

Best Regards,
Ahmed

This blog is one way I intertwine ICT and the teaching process, as a reflective tool for myself as well as a way to get some feedback on my reflection.

Another way I am using blogs in the classroom is here, in a more hands-on way with the kids:

Miss Rosen’s Classroom.

I like the idea of the ICT word wall for teachers! Could go in the staffroom, perhaps…

Thanks for the great questions!
Tracy

It’s a simple yet insightful way of demonstrating how teaching can include ICT tools without taking over the process (in fact enhancing it as I see it!) - something I often feel teachers struggle with if they have yet to delve into ed technologies (or even more, have had negative experiences with ICTs in teaching or learning).

To me, this really sounds like an emergent design process as well - what are your thoughts on that? (I know you previously sent me a paper about emergent design).

I’d love for our curriculum team to see this as an emerging curriculum design process too!
I would certainly like to point our teachers to your post here too. Especially when you say:
“But a lot of my planning needs to be done after I meet these students. ”

Yeah! True learner-centredness! And should we perhaps be developing ‘word walls’ for newbie e-learning teachers too?!

Cheers, Marg

Thanks

The ambiguity around it all can be a bit scary. This is the 2nd time I am starting such a program and at least I have the experience of the first time to remind myself that ambiguity is fine, though it is up to me to craft something meaningful for myself and my students.

I am excited to get started!