This is my entry since the end of January. Why you ask? I have been away for five weeks and haven't had a computer at my fingertips on a daily basis. I did get on the web at least once a week. Hey, I used del.ici.ous. When doing that discovery during Learning 2.0 I didn't see the need for delicious. Wrong!!!!! Before I left for my trip to bookmarked several game sites into delicious. Wow. When I got to my destination there were my favorite games. Thanks delicious.
Today I worked on the newest Learning 2.0 discovery. I looked at semoz, reddit, and digg. Very interesting. I will look at those sites again.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Wrapup
After attending the Learning 2.0 wrapup, I returned to my computer with some real uses for what I had experienced over the months of discoveries. I tried locating a book on LibraryThing using a tag. It works. What a great discovery. I also revisited YouTube with the idea of using it to learn something rather than be entertained by people's videos. I looked up several topics students might be researching for school projects. I found several useful videos on Martin Luther King and the Grand Canyon, just a couple topics I investigated. I keep learning.
Photo article
Here is the article about the pictures released by The Library of Congress.
http://http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/16/library-of-congress-1.html
http://http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/16/library-of-congress-1.html
Library of Congress photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
A friend made me aware of this connection. Interesting use of the net.
A friend made me aware of this connection. Interesting use of the net.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Revisit
This week I have revisited many of the sites I did while completing Learning 2.0. Now that I have time--no "new" lessons--I can spend more time on Bloglines, Flickr, Facebook etc. It is still fun finding new things on each site to explore. I feel more comfortable running through the items than I first did.
I have shared some of the sites with fellow workers that haven't participated in Learning 2.0. Today I showed Bloglines and my Feeds to a Weed worker. She got onto Boing Boing right away. It is fun exposing people to what I have learned through L 2.0.
I have shared some of the sites with fellow workers that haven't participated in Learning 2.0. Today I showed Bloglines and my Feeds to a Weed worker. She got onto Boing Boing right away. It is fun exposing people to what I have learned through L 2.0.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
THE END
I can't believe I have completed the 23 Things. When I first started this program I was easily frustrated. My blog reflects that. I think it was because the most difficult discoveries were early on in our learning. Bloglines was a killer. I might not have been so defeated if Bloglines was later in our learning. Some of the easier activities were ones we just completed. Experience with some of the easier more popular sites might have made the more difficult ones a little easier if they came later in the list of discoveries. As I worked my way through the lessons I found some I enjoyed a lot more than others: Flickr, Web applications, Facebook, and the biggest surprise to me, keeping up my blog. I hate to write but enjoyed recording my learnings.
I discovered that Learning 2.0 opened conversations with fellow workers and anyone that would listen to me. Four of us at Weed participated and we often shared our experiences and offered help to each other. I was able to help Shelley save here URLs from her Bloglines feeds to the lesson tracker. It was satisfying answering questions asked of me by fellow workers. Friends heard my tales as I worked on lessons. One friend in particular, Jim, was encouraging. I often thought of giving up but he would convince me that it was worth going on. He also offered ideas which helped me get through the Bloglines blues. "Focus on something you're interested in" were his words of advice. "You like the UCONN Huskies womens' basketball. Look for blogs written about them. That would be a good place to start." It worked. I found feeds in the Hartford Courant and the Connecticut Post. That was the beginning of my Bloglines success.
If I had not participated in Learning 2.0 I would never have done some of the activites I was exposed to through the weekly Discoveries. I would never had done a blog. I would never have opened a Facebook account. Del.icio.us and Technorati were never part of my vocabulary. My Pictures is where I house all my photos. Now I know I can store them some where else--Flickr so others can see them. Will I continue to do that? I don't know. Facebook. Will I continue to keep that account? Do I want to continue my social networking? I don't know. The teen tech did show me I could cancel it. That makes me feel better knowing that is an option. I never conquered Rollyo. I tried several times and was defeated by that search engine activity.
I now have some new words to add to my vobulary list thanks to this technology workout:
tags URL, HTML, XTL(?) Del.icio.us
authority RSS Technorati
blogshpere WIKI feeds
blog LibraryThing
Each word has taken on new meaning since completing this technology workout. There is an ad on TV for medical care for the elderly. At the end of the ad the people say, "I'm old, I'm bold, Get used to it." That's me. "I'm old but wiser. I'm bold and smarter. I'm a technological wizard." What will I do now? No mail from Maura. No lessons to complete. I'll live. It's holiday time. Thanks Maura and Learning 2.0. I had a great time.
I discovered that Learning 2.0 opened conversations with fellow workers and anyone that would listen to me. Four of us at Weed participated and we often shared our experiences and offered help to each other. I was able to help Shelley save here URLs from her Bloglines feeds to the lesson tracker. It was satisfying answering questions asked of me by fellow workers. Friends heard my tales as I worked on lessons. One friend in particular, Jim, was encouraging. I often thought of giving up but he would convince me that it was worth going on. He also offered ideas which helped me get through the Bloglines blues. "Focus on something you're interested in" were his words of advice. "You like the UCONN Huskies womens' basketball. Look for blogs written about them. That would be a good place to start." It worked. I found feeds in the Hartford Courant and the Connecticut Post. That was the beginning of my Bloglines success.
If I had not participated in Learning 2.0 I would never have done some of the activites I was exposed to through the weekly Discoveries. I would never had done a blog. I would never have opened a Facebook account. Del.icio.us and Technorati were never part of my vocabulary. My Pictures is where I house all my photos. Now I know I can store them some where else--Flickr so others can see them. Will I continue to do that? I don't know. Facebook. Will I continue to keep that account? Do I want to continue my social networking? I don't know. The teen tech did show me I could cancel it. That makes me feel better knowing that is an option. I never conquered Rollyo. I tried several times and was defeated by that search engine activity.
I now have some new words to add to my vobulary list thanks to this technology workout:
tags URL, HTML, XTL(?) Del.icio.us
authority RSS Technorati
blogshpere WIKI feeds
blog LibraryThing
Each word has taken on new meaning since completing this technology workout. There is an ad on TV for medical care for the elderly. At the end of the ad the people say, "I'm old, I'm bold, Get used to it." That's me. "I'm old but wiser. I'm bold and smarter. I'm a technological wizard." What will I do now? No mail from Maura. No lessons to complete. I'll live. It's holiday time. Thanks Maura and Learning 2.0. I had a great time.
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