Learn and Play #23

I think creating the blog is the #1 thing that I have enjoyed doing. My kids have blogs and post pictures and thoughts; and I have loved reading them, but was intimidated by the prospect of starting my own. Now I see how easy it really is...I will continue posting, but now it will be of a more personal nature. I also enjoyed setting up the Delicious account. I have many folders with all sorts of tags and can store so many things, and find it, no matter which computer it is on. This is so great when I work at home because, now I don't have to keep emailing stuff to myself.

I think that these activities have opened up a whole new way of looking at things. I can keep on the cutting edge of technology and teach others to do it, too. I feel very confident because I have gained new skills and am more likely to try other new things.

I think the thing that surprised me the most was...that I kept thinking about all the other ways I could use this technology, besides work. I am in charge of a ladies organization at church and we email each other constantly. I am excited about setting up a Wiki or at the least putting stuff on Google Docs. I am empowered to educate some of the other women on how we can use this technology to make our organization more productive. I think it would also be awesome to have a family wiki. My sister, is a 5th grade teacher in Vermont and needed to make a class webpage. She has a pc, but the school has a Mac, so she wasn't quite sure what to do. I told her about Wikis and then explained to her about Learn and Play. I sent her the link and she is going to do it, too. Even better, she is going to pull out exercises for her 5th graders!

I think the thing I hear most about was the time factor and how long it took for some of the exercises. I liked the fact that I could do exercises at home if I wanted to. I would hope that the blog would stay up in case I need to refresh my memory about some sites. I had to ask for help on the RSS feed exercise, I never was able to embed video from YouTube, even though I copied the info into the window.

Oh pretty please, let's do another program like this! I would love to participate.

RSS Feeds

I have subscribed to several sites through my bloglines account. One of them is Publisher's weekly best sellers list.

Take a look at my book shelf on Shelfari!

As I looked back at my tracking log, I neglected to write a post about Library Thing. That is probably because I already have a Shelfari account and a book shelf on my blog and didn't want to use another database. They work pretty much the same. You can keep track of the books you are reading and also share the titles with friends. Books can be found by title, author, isbn. very nicely. I like Shelfari because it is linked to Amazon.com and many of my library friends are using it too.

MOLDI

Hey, it sounds gross, but it is actually awesome. This connection to digital media has a wonderful interface and tutorial. I have not actually downloaded any media, but was excited by what I saw was available. I didn't realize that there were EFlicks as well as Ebooks, Emusic and Eaudiobooks. My husband will be so excited to know that "The 3 Stooges" have many titles available for download.