Thing 12--Rollyo

This is interesting. Since you need to already know the websites you want to use, it may take me a while to create a useful search roll, but I definitely see a use to this. I started a search roll about homeschooling/unschooling, which I plan to do/am doing with my son. Not 100% clear on how it works & have to get back to (real) work, so no link for now.....

Thing 11--Web 2.0 Award Winners

I chose last.fm to explore. http://www.last.fm/dashboard/ I don't totally get how this works yet, but I enjoyed it so far. Users can "create streaming radio stations" and listen to those others have created. Once again, I'm not hip to the lingo which is probably contributing to my non-understanding of how this site is supposed to work. But I like that I can listen to all kinds of music & see what other people like that like what I like. (Does that make any sense?) This has obvoius (to me anyway) application in libraries to assist patrons in getting music they want but can't request & discovering something new.

Thing 10 - Image Generators

Mmmmmm......

I saw a "___ for Dummies" book cover generator that looked like fun, but my ideas for it couldn't be called tasteful.

the links: http://www.cybercones.com/ http://www.signgenerator.org/books/dummies/

Thing 9--Locate a few news feeds

Enough already! This is too time consuming. Thing 8 asked me to find ten feeds I probably won't use, so why do more? I looked at Technorati, Feedster and Syndic8. I get the idea. I don't have hobbies that make this relevant and I'm really not interested in reading other people's blogs (I saw one in Technorati that was full of woe is me I should end it now--tagged as health & wellness--so I had to end it now). I'm moving on to Thing 10.

Thing 8, Part 2

After I went home the day I completed Thing 8, I was thinking about the lesson and I realized that RSS is much simpler than the exercise made it seem. Maybe it's my learning style, but all the "overviews" with their technical lingo were difficult for me to focus on (it sounded way too abstract), but once I started doing it I found it was really quite easy. I learn better by being shown & then doing, so it might be me. At any rate I feel alot of time was wasted on this exercise.

Thing 8 - RSS feeds & Bloglines

I did the various RSS discovery exercises and created a Bloglines account. I don't have 10 feeds yet, but I'm working on it. The truth is I wouldn't be using this in my "real life" so I don't have loads of ideas. It's a very useful thing to know, tho, and I'm sure someday I will need this.
Here is my public URL to share:
but I'm not sure if this is right. Let's test it out...
It wasn't right, but now it is:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/squeakycheese
The share button was not where the learning 2.0 blog indicated but I did find it. However it was not mentioned that I would have to specifically set up my account to be publicly viewed, which was why it didn't work at first.
Slow going sometimes, but I'm glad I'm doing this.
And now...
the bookdrop!

Thing 7 - Something technology related

Ummm....
I'm not much for technology (this isn't really true, its more that I use what I already know and need on a regular basis and don't bother with the rest). I like it, but learning new tech things takes too much time so I often don't bother. I'm having fun with the 2.0 stuff, tho. It's making me want to buy a digital camera. I will soon. I haven't started a flickr account but I definitely plan to. I don't have much to say on this topic (yet...16 more "things" will surely give me something else to say)

Thing 6: mashup discovery exercise

This is fun. I especially liked Flickr chia pet http://www.krazydad.com/defacement/. On this site you can "plant" chia seeds on pictures of people's bald heads (or ???) and watch them grow. Mappr looks interesting, but I couldn't quite figure out how it works. I will definitely want to spend some more time with it. It's neat to be able to see what other people think is worthwhile about a particular place, and puts more of a "face" on all those maps I've spent so much time gazing at. I enjoyed the "signs" tag on mappr; I have a thing for signage, especially historic or antique.

thing 5- flickr discovery exercizes

This was pretty easy & looks like fun. I've been wanting to learn how to use a photo sharing service, but haven't had time to look into it. Nice to be able to learn this at work. I will be setting up an account sometime soon. I read over the Mediamazine tutorial and the Flickr learn more tour, looks like I can handle it (I'm not at all familiar with this type of stuff) Here's a photo I enjoyed. It was interesting to see because I visited Galway, Ireland in the summer of 2005. If this shot is what (where) I think it is, this area was under major construction while I was there. It's neat to see what it finally turned into.



I just accidentally erased the link to the other photo I really liked while trying to paste it in here (going too fast & not paying attention). Found it again. this is just so beautiful & tranquil, I love it. I wish I could visit this spot, but I won't be back in Ireland for a long time.

thing 3 & 4 (create & register blog)

were pretty easy, except for having lost the draft of the first post (thing 2). don't know why i didn't just publish it in the first place. maybe didn't realize i could edit? can't remember, a week is a long time...

thing 1, introduction

was boring. this lady talks too slow. i had to turn off the sound & just read it in order to pay attention. her voice made me zone out.

lost posting

what happened to my last posting? i can't find it
found it!! i had saved it as a draft, which i suspected i did but couldn't figure out how to get back to it.

thing 2, 7 1/2 habits

easy habits:
take responsibility for my own learning
have confidence in self as competent learner
view problems as challenges

not so easy habits:
set goal--i usually don't know what i want
use technology--i don't usually care enough to bother to learn it, so i dont know it
view problems as challenges (but i will learn from them anyway, whether i plan to or not)
play--the hardest of all