Why does computer stuff always take so long?

I have been having problems with my web site recently. I have been unable to make big changes to my site for a while now and I have been teaching myself Dreamweaver so that I could open a new backdoor to the site that would still allow me to add stuff to the site and stay up to date. But, learning Dreamweaver is slow! I have tried to put together some basic stuff and it has been taking me absolutely ages. It is very slow. I think this is the thing that frustrates me the most about ICT - it takes so long to do everything. I like my students to get fresh content and to be able to get my presentations, podcasts etc - but it is taking progessively more and more time to stay up to date and to be able to do this. Is ICT slowly becoming the realm of the professional again. I must admit to be struggling with all this RSS and web design stuff - surely there are easier ways to stay up to date?

As it is - i think the resources that I put together about the Giant's Causeway are pretty good and reflect a whole departmental effort with Mr B and Miss A in the Geog department at Slemish. I think it provides a good example of a good learning resource packed with thinking skills, accelerated learning, creativity and ICT can actually look like in the real world. The big question is now if the students can engage with the project and produce the goods . . it is over to you -

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Giant's Causeway-cliff view3_jpg

Giant's Causeway-cliff view3_jpg
Originally uploaded by mapsman06.

I have been doing a little work about the Giant's Causeway for a Field trip that i am involved in next week. We are trying to develop a more interactive type of Geography field trip that will stimulate the kid's learning while they are on the trip and later on when we get back to the classroom.

The picture above is one of the things we are thinking about using - in flickr you can add notes to the picture that when the student scrolls over give more information about that area. We are going to try and develop this into some sort of interactive map - maybe! Any ideas about how we can do this without using flickr would be much appreciated as unfortunately the students can't access flickr in school!