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I’ve been going over the posts on my Japan and China blog for inclusion in an artist book made from the blog, and adding photos in places where I couldn’t post them from China, a whole different subject. I intend to make insertion of images the topic of my second week of teaching. We will all have blogs by then, and I will encourage my students to bring photos to class. I am not happy about the way WordPress is handling photos and am rethinking my use of WordPress for the class. My other choice would be Blogger. I will begin another blog, using Blogger, with some of my garden photos from Japan. I hope I will then feel comfortable about using it.

I intend to cover scanning, screen captures and the use of Picasa and iPhoto during this class. I will briefly touch on the use of cell phone pictures, but this is an area where I am definitely not up to speed. My cell phone only makes phone calls. I have a camera for photos, although I’ve begun to see some virtue in using a cell phone. (Next contract.) That gets me to another issue: pixels per inch. When I worked in publishing this was an important consideration. I don’t think it’s too important in blogging, but I haven’t been able to find out whether blogging software automatically downsizes ppi, or whether having a high ppi will slow down how quickly the images appear on the receiving computer.

I’m using this blog to think out loud, so to speak. At some point I’ll post an outline for the class–after I do all this thinking.