Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Summary
Interesting exercise. Some things weren't new, others really stretched me (RSS is still a challenge). I'm keeping the links to 23 things and will try some of them again. As far as assisting in life long learning, technology is cool and I'm not intimidated by it. Just don't know how blogs fit in to my paradigm.
Overdrive
I tried overdrive, since that's what CCLP subscribes to. I noticed
- Not many current titles
- No indication of how long the wait is for a hold
so
guess I'll stick with books on CD until Overdrive becomes more available
- Not many current titles
- No indication of how long the wait is for a hold
so
guess I'll stick with books on CD until Overdrive becomes more available
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Itunes
I do have iTunes loaded on my pc and I have watched season 3 of Lost - just days after it was broadcast. My computer doesn't have enough memory to keep the movie running, and I have to shut the program down, usually twice, while watching an hour (or 45 minute) broadcast. Next time, we use Scott's computer with more power. We have also been watching Ninja for a while - very clever.
YouTub
A family friend is in 2nd grade and totally engrossed in Pirates of the Caribbean I tried the YouTub search and found several interesting sites. I was VERY glad to see that "Jennifer love haveit sex in forest" required a login - keeping my friend's little eyes from something his parents would probably not want him to see. I also watched 70's commercials and went back in time to a gentler, kinder era of Captain Crunch.
2.0 Awards
Looked at several "award winners". I know that CraigList and similar sites are popular, and have their place, but I haven't found a use for them. I do like Library Thing, which I explored earlier. I have found several authors that I am trying out - may post my opinions later!
google docs
I used Google Docs since I already had a log-in from the blog (sweet)
tried several different features - here is the trial document:
This is a test to see how easy it is to create and change
Lists seem pretty easy
Wonder if they can be stopped without clicking the icon
YUP - just press enter twice. It also doesn't leave a blank line after the list. 2 points
Can add words to the spell checker, now I'll have to create another document to see if it remembers my list. Now I'll spell a word incorrectly to see how that works. Choices were good 2 points.
now, to save and create document number 2...
so - my evaluation is that it is nice to have the online version, but I still prefer doing stuff like this off-line and saving it to my hard drive. Guess I'm old fashioned!
tried several different features - here is the trial document:
This is a test to see how easy it is to create and change
Lists seem pretty easy
Wonder if they can be stopped without clicking the icon
YUP - just press enter twice. It also doesn't leave a blank line after the list. 2 points
Can add words to the spell checker, now I'll have to create another document to see if it remembers my list. Now I'll spell a word incorrectly to see how that works. Choices were good 2 points.
now, to save and create document number 2...
so - my evaluation is that it is nice to have the online version, but I still prefer doing stuff like this off-line and saving it to my hard drive. Guess I'm old fashioned!
Sandbox
I posted my thoughts under
Random Thoughts
On the sandbox web site and linked it to my blog. This was not an easy thing to do - the instructions are VERY vague and it took several people to figure it out. I'm suggesting that this part of the instructions include:
First you name your page and then create the content. Once you have completed the page, you would save it.
Then you go back to "home" - or the FrontPage and at the bottom of the page, click on Edit Page.
Once you are in the edit screen of the page, go to the list of wiki pages and insert (or add to the bottom) a heading or label or whatever you want to call it ... let's say you created a page called Favorite Beaches. On this page, you would type Favorite Beaches, then you would highlight it and click on the little Link icon on the toolbar... a pop-up box will open and you would click on the drop down box that says Link to Wiki Page, your new page should be one of the choices. Select it and you should be good to go.
this was from Irmgard Brown, and was very helpful to me in completing this task
Random Thoughts
On the sandbox web site and linked it to my blog. This was not an easy thing to do - the instructions are VERY vague and it took several people to figure it out. I'm suggesting that this part of the instructions include:
First you name your page and then create the content. Once you have completed the page, you would save it.
Then you go back to "home" - or the FrontPage and at the bottom of the page, click on Edit Page.
Once you are in the edit screen of the page, go to the list of wiki pages and insert (or add to the bottom) a heading or label or whatever you want to call it ... let's say you created a page called Favorite Beaches. On this page, you would type Favorite Beaches, then you would highlight it and click on the little Link icon on the toolbar... a pop-up box will open and you would click on the drop down box that says Link to Wiki Page, your new page should be one of the choices. Select it and you should be good to go.
this was from Irmgard Brown, and was very helpful to me in completing this task
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