I went on my first 5K run this past
weekend! (evidenced in 17th picture down.)
Actually, my best friend, her daughter and I
walked and jogged, finishing without too much pain!
At the chili dinner following our run,
my best friend, her daughter, two college
students and our host talked a little bit
about Facebook, which led to a small discussion
about 23 Things on a Stick and librarians!
In this party of people, I was the only one
who thought we ought to celebrate or toot
our horns about our 5k run by posting
to FACEBOOK!
Perhaps I have been brainwashed by my
23 Things on a Stick experience?
NAW, my advice to you is if YOU are
interested in learning WEB 2.0 skills:
JUST DO IT!
Showing posts with label 23 things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 23 things. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
THING 22
Now this thing I can do!
I PLEDGE TO KEEP WRITING
AND KEEP HONING THE SKILLS
LEARNED IN 23 Things on a Stick!
I am off to add more resources
to my RSS aggregator.
WOO HOO!
I PLEDGE TO KEEP WRITING
AND KEEP HONING THE SKILLS
LEARNED IN 23 Things on a Stick!
I am off to add more resources
to my RSS aggregator.
WOO HOO!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
BETWEEN Things
See that Big Beautiful RSS button (Really Simple Syndication)
in the right-hand column? That happened with
the son's help. (digital age: 16 years)
How? NOW GET THIS: Instructions, teenage style:
"Mom, go to Google. Type: 'HTML' in search box."
Well, "DAAH" or "D'OH!" per Homer Simpson.
(It's the mimic/copy, trial & error method!
Digital beings do it ALL the time.)
We simply copied an example HTML text from this
tutorial and grabbed the RSS picture from another spot.
SHAKE & BAKE.
(Do copyright laws apply here in the learning-to-blog world?
Answer: Mom, the copyright police can't look through everything!)
"Son, what happens to that RSS button if the website
we got it from is deleted?" Response,"There will just
be an X in the corner of an empty square."
I think the same thing will happen on this blog if I
deleted my avatar on Yahoo.
Note that I figured out how to edit the italicized font.
Son helped me with that too. As I suspected, I had
inadvertently made italicized font part of the template.
On to THING 5.
See the "GAMES" link to Becky's Flickr
image-Sudoku in the right-hand column?
That's my first attempt to do THING 5!
Can you figure out how to play?
p.s. The word "PREFECTIONIST" above Ms. Avatar (who I moved because she was lost on the bottom of the page) was done on purpose to remind me not to get so serious or be too much of a perfectionist!
in the right-hand column? That happened with
the son's help. (digital age: 16 years)
How? NOW GET THIS: Instructions, teenage style:
"Mom, go to Google. Type: 'HTML' in search box."
Well, "DAAH" or "D'OH!" per Homer Simpson.
(It's the mimic/copy, trial & error method!
Digital beings do it ALL the time.)
We simply copied an example HTML text from this
tutorial and grabbed the RSS picture from another spot.
SHAKE & BAKE.
(Do copyright laws apply here in the learning-to-blog world?
Answer: Mom, the copyright police can't look through everything!)
"Son, what happens to that RSS button if the website
we got it from is deleted?" Response,"There will just
be an X in the corner of an empty square."
I think the same thing will happen on this blog if I
deleted my avatar on Yahoo.
Note that I figured out how to edit the italicized font.
Son helped me with that too. As I suspected, I had
inadvertently made italicized font part of the template.
On to THING 5.
See the "GAMES" link to Becky's Flickr
image-Sudoku in the right-hand column?
That's my first attempt to do THING 5!
Can you figure out how to play?
p.s. The word "PREFECTIONIST" above Ms. Avatar (who I moved because she was lost on the bottom of the page) was done on purpose to remind me not to get so serious or be too much of a perfectionist!
Saturday, March 22, 2008
THING 4
Having a Flickr account happened for me by default when my pics were migrated from Yahoo to Flickr last year. I had actually used the Yahoo site to share documents with members of a scholarship committee. Some members were in another part of the USA and some where in South America. Everyone could access the docs anytime and anywhere there was Internet. It worked great for the semi-collaborative activity of reviewing applications!
Friday, March 21, 2008
THING 3
About a year ago I downloaded an aggregator that
would collect new podcasts. I still don't understand
how to really make that work. My dial-up service
at home isn't conducive for stuff like that, BUT
RSS is not quite so power hungry and I think I
can do this! Here goes>>>>>>
would collect new podcasts. I still don't understand
how to really make that work. My dial-up service
at home isn't conducive for stuff like that, BUT
RSS is not quite so power hungry and I think I
can do this! Here goes>>>>>>
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
THING 2
Didn't Dr. Seuss write about Thing 1 and Thing 2
in the Cat in the Hat? They were mischief-makers
weren't they? Hmmm...
In Stephen Abram's interview he remarked that
one can always find the time to do what we want,
like smoking, but he didn't say how hard it can
be to create new habits, new ways to think.
One needs both the time (21 days to a habit)
and the desire to change.
Abram also said to look for the unintended
consequences of learning 23 Things on a Stick.
Like my mind wandering to the possible
applications of some of these things
in reaching out to one's community?
On the Internet our chimp-like fingers and
trapeze hands catch stuff mostly by
accident.
I must say, this 23 thing stuff has inspired me
to try my hand at creating a presentation
(Powerpoint? YouTube?) about how to
order books from our online library catalog.
I think the powerpoint idea is a direct
result of working through these 23
things!
On to Thing 3.
in the Cat in the Hat? They were mischief-makers
weren't they? Hmmm...
In Stephen Abram's interview he remarked that
one can always find the time to do what we want,
like smoking, but he didn't say how hard it can
be to create new habits, new ways to think.
One needs both the time (21 days to a habit)
and the desire to change.
Abram also said to look for the unintended
consequences of learning 23 Things on a Stick.
Like my mind wandering to the possible
applications of some of these things
in reaching out to one's community?
On the Internet our chimp-like fingers and
trapeze hands catch stuff mostly by
accident.
I must say, this 23 thing stuff has inspired me
to try my hand at creating a presentation
(Powerpoint? YouTube?) about how to
order books from our online library catalog.
I think the powerpoint idea is a direct
result of working through these 23
things!
On to Thing 3.
Monday, February 4, 2008
Scratch-paper notes, THING 1
Oooooo-eeeeeee!
Q How many open windows did it take for me to play 23 things on a stick?
A Four: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and Library Learning 2.0!
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