HowTo: copying links into moodle

How to do this:

Okay so its pretty simple if you use Internet Explore (IE) versions 7 or higher

When you go to enter a new discussion or new reply your text area should look like this:

Text Editor

Shown in the figure above is a text editor its built on java script or asp.net.

If you have that text area shown above just simply copy:

and paste into the text area and it should look something like this:

and finally submit your post and it should show up something like what I had first shown you.

WHAT MY SCREEN LOOKS DIFFERENT THAN YOURS WHAT THE HELL MAN!!!

If your screen looks like this instead:

DO NOT WORRY I GOT YOUR BACK!!! Read on my friends!

Following the same step and copy the object you wanted to copy but instead your going to have to paste it into a different text editor this one is much better and more universally supported in all browsers older versions and new versions.  Here is a link to one I use often:

http://www.asp.net/ajaxLibrary/AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditor.aspx

That should bring you to a page with a text editor to the side looking like this:

if you see "Some text Some text Some text Some text" delete all of it so its clear like what I got on my screen.

okay so paste your stuff into there instead and it should look like this:

okay now the fun part its been the same up to this point what we need is the HTML code for this so what we are going to do is click on the button on the bottom that looks like this <  >  once you click on that button you will see a bunch of HTML Code like this:

YOU WILL NEED TO COPY ALL OF THE TEXT DO NOT LEAVE ANYTHING OUT AS IT MIGHT BREAK YOUR HTML CODE!!! SO COPY EVERYTHING!!!

and then click on post and you will get your nice links and everything there.

Some spacing might be different due to the fact that your copying the exact width and length of the original post

blogging for blogging

Meta blogging... what?  Blogging about blogging or maybe its a blog about my past few blogs.  I don't know really I don't.  My past few blogs were just something I thought up on a spur of the moment thing.  I didn't put to much thought into those blogs sure they were for a grade, but most of my blogs to be honest are last minute and are the last thing on a long list of homework and work related stuff to do.  So to be fair I think these blogs are something I try to vent some of my last bit of will into and finish it but god does it drain me.  This post for instance is two days late... Why you ask?  I should be like all the other students and turn it in on time you say.  I know that, but there just isn't time in the day... ugh... this is getting off topic I apologize I'm sorry back to topic meta blogging.  As I type this up in the computer lab at fretwell I think these few blogs are helpful in some ways reading other blogs I find some of the blogs fun to read some are well hard to understand, but they are blogs.  My writing doesn't really reflect well in my blog post because it's a place for expression.  I think of blog post as a wild west where anything goes you want to use fragments why not I say.  You want to use fragments and incorrectly spelled words and cap every single other letter sure go for it I say.  Blog post are experimental and fun to write at times sometimes a bother, but you really see the character of a person start to show when you read their blogs.  You start to figure out that you might actually like this person or maybe you just want to troll on their blog.

So to sum things up blogs are blogs they exist for people to write whatever and however they want if you change and improve because of it then that's great but if you don't then that's fine too.  Just don't go trolling because you can't improve.

Peer Review

This wasn't the first time I had my paper viewed and commented on by my peers or will be the last time.  I found that within my group they found my careless mistakes and help me improve my paper.

I learned that my grammar still has problems and when I type faster than my brain wants to work I make careless mistakes.  I found what my peers liked about my paper and what they didn't like.  They helped me improve my paper for the better.

I liked the fact that we were given time to discuss our papers with our peers this help me refine my target audience better since they were there giving me the inputs of what to improve on my paper.

The dislikes I didn't find anything to dislike about this peer review.

The struggle with this peer review is that I myself am not a great writer so I don't know if my inputs and comments on other people's paper is really worth anything.  I just read my peer's paper and commented on what I thought would be better but that is only my opinion hopefully I was just as helpful to them as they were to me.

Photography

The curious nature of photography and the magic it brings.  I have been taking pictures for years some good pictures some terrible pictures, but pictures are pictures they capture a moment in time you will never get back.  From my travels around the world I have taken pictures of friends, animals, and landscape trying to share my experience in the world.  I wonder why sometimes I take these pictures I look back at a few pictures I took in Taiwan and its only pictures of rocks and I wonder to myself why I took these pictures.  The longer I stare at the pictures I started to remember the surroundings I was at  it was the beach I was with my friends we played with those rocks stacking them as high as we could I lost by the way which made me laugh a little and wonder what my friends in Taiwan were doing.   Pictures bring back memories of the past sometimes good memories sometime bad memories, but they are all precious memories.  Sometimes I take pictures just to find good pictures to share a few pictures I took recently were pictures of my koi pond.  It started out as something to kill time, but as I kept taking pictures the koi never did what I image them to do so I kept taking more and more pictures before I knew it I take taken over 100 pictures of my pond.  Why does pushing this one little button on a camera capturing time seem so fun at times I wonder and why does it bring back memories when I look back on these pictures.   I’ve always wanted to take great pictures that when you look at it you just lose yourself to those pictures.  I’ve seen pictures like that before in a lot of different places be it landscape or people they just bring out feelings when you see them.  I want to take those pictures, but every time I’ve tried I never seem to just get it right.  Something seems to always be missing in my pictures that those other pictures have.  I wonder when the photographer took those pictures did he think to himself that he had one of the greats in his hands or did some else came along and told him that.  I’ll always take pictures in hopes that I can find a great one that will inspire feelings in people.

Start of a new adventure

Learning a new language and culture is always intimidating and yet curiously fun at the same time.  I am currently trying to learn Japanese and having to learn hiragana, katakana, and kanji is a hassle sometimes.  Hiragana is a type of alphabet with 48 characters and is a flowing style of writing.  Hiragana is mainly used for words that are native to the Japanese language.  Katakana is another alphabet with 48 characters just like hiragana but has a much sharper edge to it.  Katakana is mainly used for words that are from the outside countries.  Kanji is probably the hardest to learn because it has characters that are symbols that mean a specific thing.  To properly read higher level things in japan you have to at least remember 2000 kanji characters.  Hiragana and Katakana even though there are 48 characters this isn’t counting the combined form of ya, yu, and yo also the dakuten and the handakuten markers for some of the characters.  The dakuten marks are the characters with quotation markers on them that change ka to ga and so on.  The handakuten markers are the characters with circle dots on them that change ha to pa and so on.  Learning to correctly use all of these together and trying to make sense of them does take a lot of studying and practice, but you will get better at it.  I have memorized both the katana and hiragana characters and started to memorize some of the kanji characters.

Here and There

I was not born in the US and lived nearly half my life outside the states.  I originally came from Laos I then moved to Thailand and finally came to the US.  My accent and the way I use words have always been changing to adapt to where I currently live.  When I first came to the US trying to learn English and how to use the words correctly I ran into many troubles with different words.  At first people did not understand what I was trying to say since in my home country we pronounce every letter that is in the word, but in English there are silent letters or letters that combine to sound like another letter.  Take in example the word phrase, ph creates an F sound but for a time I would pronounce the ph in phrase like my last name Phomsaly many people would pronounce it Fomsaly, but that is not how you’re supposed to say it.  When I speak with people I always change the way I speak with them depending on who they are.  To my family and friends who speak my native language I will sound different to them when I speak my native language.  To my friends who speak English depending on how they talk I adapt my speech to them sometimes I sound a little from the south or if I don’t know where they are from I will speak with no accent and pronounce my words just like how they are sounded out in the dictionary.  To those I don’t know yet I always try and remove any accents and pronounce the words just like in the dictionary.  I am currently learning Japanese and have some Japanese friends and when I try to speak their language it’s like learning to speak English again at first I sound my words out and speak slower than normal but later on I will speak at a faster rate more natural just as I have done with English.

Programming Literacy

Literacy defined in the dictionary could mean one of two things the ability to read and write or having knowledge that relates to a specific subject.  I would like to write about the second definition and that is the knowledge pertaining to programming.  I worked as a computer programmer for five years and learned many different languages that exist only in programming.  I learned from the basic known as visual basic or VB up to visual C# or just C# there are many more languages, but I will only use those two for now.  I mainly worked with and programmed for C# programs.  At first when you look at a block of code all you see if weird words with dots and semi-colons or an underscore at the end of the lines and you wonder what those words and symbols mean.  To learn programming you have to have a curious mind and the willingness to accept failure because you’ll fail many times before you succeed, but you’ll learn a lot when you fail.  The whole process of learning in programming is from failed experiments while trying to do something new.  When you start a new programming project it never starts with coding anything.  First you need to have a defined paper of what this project is for and what purpose it has.  Second you need to start a logic flow where different variables, methods, functions, and classes do what and where they interconnect with each other.  Then starts the fun of coding when you have both the defined purpose and logic flow the coding is a little bit easier.  After comes the most frustrating part of coding the quality assurance testing making sure your code works as it should.  After that is done you will have a finished program.  This is just a brief overview of programming.