Week 4 Thing 9

Yeah! Finally back after vacation and other hot July slowdowns. Still viewing my RSS feeds through my bloglines account and trying to add more newsfeeds. I have now added MERLIN RSS feed and have enjoyed viewing this site, although I feel that I have to do a lot more in order to be comfortable with it.

I have enjoyed learning about feeds and liked finding out about Technorati, Feedster, etc. I mostly used URL's to obtain feeds. I like Technorati the best at this point but we are on a big learning curve here....thanks for getting us to do these exercises!

Week 4 Thing 8

Yeah! I have some experience with the first thing I had actually not heard of in this tutorial--RSS. It took me a few tries and watching those great videos and now I have a site.

I like the idea of RSS and feel like I need to read it every day for awhile to actually understand it's full potential. I like being able to go to one site rather than my Favorites list when I want to check out what's new, and actually seeing only what's new is probably the best part. My question remains--can I just get say "travelling to Montreal" off of the travel sites instead of everything that's new? It seems like I should be able to but I have yet to discover it. However, I still love it and plan to persue the whole thing.

I am so glad that I have found out how this works as I can see it being in the next generation of web users--people like my kids will be using it without thinking it's a big deal. I think that RSS has a lot of uses in the library--from me reading book reviews to the whole library setting up trainings or information settings this way. Thanks! The tools we were given to use this were phenomenal!

Okay, so now I can't put my bloglines thing here...will keep working on it.

Week 3 Thing 7

I have to admit, learning Flickr, seeing the interaction between Yahoo, Google, blogspot, Flickr, etc. has helped me to see a somewhat bigger picture. I like Flickr, and am also looking at Ritzpix.com to try to figure out where to archive my family photos. We have a digital camera, and it appears the next step is to become organized about the whole process including having the pictures printed for my photo albums. Do I archive them just on my computer? Do I send them online through Ritz to be printed? Do I just do it myself-- although so far the time and machine costs of that seem great--I am afraid that we will just keep putting it off and never doing it regularly. Am I standing in both worlds here--is that technologically competent?

mdlearning2

mdlearning2,
originally uploaded by dcgphotos.

Following through with Week 3, Thing 5--here is another uploaded picture to Flickr that I have place on my blog.

Week 3 Thing 5

cherry blossoms2,
originally uploaded by dcgphotos.

Okay, Okay, I think I may have figured it out. It does take awhile, I do think that instructions could be clearer, either here or on the Flickr site.

Week 2 Thing 3 Set up your own blog and Week 2 Thing 4 Register your blog

I have succesfully created this blog! Ye-hah! I loved watching the 7 1/2 minutes video. The one I can most relate to is beginning with an end in mind (library school anyone?) and the hardest for me is to play! Somehow I have taught myself not to and I have to get back at it!

This is being edited in September. I remember the piece about e-mailing myself from Week 2 Thing 4 but now can't find it. I have been registered with BCPL.

Week 1 Thing 2 Pointers from lifelong learners

Pointers from lifelong learners: I consider myself one but loved the inspiration!