Facebook and Second Life

I played with both sites tonight and during break time at work today. I showed Second Life to Marilee. I am amazed at the time people must spend participating in Second Life. Marilee and I looked at the events list. There was a yard sale going on, Christmas parties being organized etc. I watched CSI NY a few weeks ago and their show was based on a murder that used Second Life. Luckily one of the detectives knew about Second Life and was able to get involved and the murder was solved. Wonderful television story. That show did make me curious about virtual life. This Learning 2.0 discovery provided the opportunity to learn a little more. I know I will never do anything more with Second Life, but it was intertesting to navigate the site.

I volunteered today at the school where I taught before retirment and was I telling the people in their library about Second Life. They were fastinated. The librarian told me about her son playing the virtual games. Another worker mentioned seeing the CSI NY show and that got her interested in Second Life. She did get on their site and checked it out but didn't do anything more than that. Learning 2.0 has opened up a lot of conversations with people I may never have talked to about technology.

Facebook is a little more my speed. I have two friends now; Marilee and Maura. I added a fluff friend thanks to Marilee. The teen tech taught me now to superpoke a friend. TodayI superpoked my two new friends. I can handle Facebook.

Second Life

This one is beyond me. I looked at several videso/slideshows. They are interesting but I am not interested in anything like Second Life. I can see where teens would really be taken with the Second Life teen site. Libraries could find the vitural world helpful. They could present many services via the virtual world. I can see where Second Life could create interesting jobs for the library, Don't ask me to apply for this job.

Facebook

That was a fun and easy discovery. I looked up Marilee on Facebook and found her. I also poked her--whatever that means. Marilee told me she found the email I had sent. Yea. It went through. We are trying to figure out what poking is/means/ She will let me know when she finds out on her Facebook page. I don't think this is something I will keep up. I don't know anyone, other than Marilee, that is on Facebook. It seems to me that the "younger" generation is into this kind of thing. I did look at LinkIn but found it too professional for me at this stage in my career. If I were in business and trying to network, it would be part of this site.

Avator

I edited my avatar that Maura helped me begin. I don't know how I got the new me into my blog. I copied but never pasted the URL into my blog. All of a sudden, there I was--the new me with long black pants instead of blue shorts, so not me. Another learning success. I am getting good.

The Winners

I just looked at several Winners: Fun Stuff--One Sentence
MedStory--asked a question about the shingles shot
Yahoo Local--investigated this one
I noticed several sites that we have already visited through our discoveries--Flickr, Technorati etc.

I liked Yahoo Local. It was easy to use because of the category listings to browse. One feature I found intriguing was the ratings and reviews of not only restaurants but services and businesses. There was a posting about an electrician and one about Sports Authority. It also listed the most popular searches for this week. It looked to me like they were "tagged". Whoa, that is a new word in my technology vocabulary due to Learning 2.0. Yahoo locals is in My Favorites. I did added a feed to Bloglines--Most Recent Say-So. Looked like a fun feed.

Once again, I liked this discovery. I discovered A LOT.

Fun Quotes

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -Helen Hayes (at 73)-

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt-

I got these quotes, along with several other, in an email. I liked most of them but thought these two were worth putting in my blog.

Web-Based Productivity Applications

This was an easy lesson and fun too. I looked at several of the applications. GoogleDocs was one I tried out. After writing a few sentences I tried changing font, font size, etc. It was easy because it was so much like Microsoft.

Because of Learning 2.0, I learned about these web based applications that I would never have found on my own. The word document applications are ones I will use. I also found a calendar on 30Days that I will use when preparing the pages schedules. Thanks for this easy and useful discovery.