When I saw this week's topic, I almost froze. I am not a "crafty" or hobby type person. Once I got to the page, I decide to look into the Home and Leisure category. This proved to be a good one for me. I went directly to the subcategory of "Healthy Cooking" and found lots to keep me reading for awhile. I focused on recipes for main meals I could cook on a weekday, mainly made from fish or poultry, foods my husband and I like. I found a lot of recipes from magazines I have heard of and, in some cases, used. I don't believe we have the cookbooks in our middle school library but am not really sure since I don't look for cooking magazines when I am in there.
I browsed through the recipes when I clicked on the link to the information. Something I found with all the recipes I read was that the html versions were not really user friendly. The recipes seemed to blend into each other with no differences in font print or size. I had to read very carefully as I was looking at the recipes. Also, none of the recipes I read had photos which I find very helpful when looking for recipes. I did save recipes to a folder, however, as some are going to be on our dinner menu!
The "help" button came in handy with my folder. I decide to open a personal account so my folder could be saved and I could add information to the folder as I browse through other areas of the site. The "help" information led me in the correct direction and even told me what to do if I forgot my user name and password.
Before quitting the site, I had to go to one other link - Halloween crafts for kids. What fun! The links I checked showed recipes as well as gave directions for all kinds of crafts and cooking projects. One thing about the links was that most had photos and step by step instructions which made them user friendly for kids (and for "visual" people like me). I think this would be really helpful as a teacher if I wanted to do some "themed" activity around holidays.
Fun activity this week! I plan to go back and browse through some other topics!
I agree with you on the fun crafts for kids. I found a few I could use with my grandsons and with my story time groups. I am for ever forgetting my password for different places, guess I need to learn to use the same one over and over. I also agree with you on the repipes. I hate to cook and this would not help change my mind. I do love the help buttons if I only had the time to use them...
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