Saturday, April 12, 2008

Slideshow Experiment--California Coast Trip


I decided that I could teach myself to insert a slideshow into my blog--but it turned out to be extraordinarily time-consuming and difficult. I don't know exactly why, but I just couldn't get Flickr and Blogspot to cooperate, so if you click on the little red x above, you will see a presentation of our photos in random order. Thank you, and if anybody out there wants to give me a personal one-on-one tutorial on how to accomplish this, I'd be thrilled to learn!

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Computer Use Is Fun!

If anyone is still reading these--I particularly wanted to emphasize how much I enjoy reading my colleagues' blogs that you have all done for this Learning 2.0 tutorial. They are by turns funny (yeah!), thought-provoking, beautiful, encouraging, and helpful--plus they give an insight into people that I've not had before, or provide a way to get to know some staff members I'm not well acquainted with. Sometimes when I read things I comment, but most of the time I just enjoy the blog without commenting. But even if you never see any remarks from me, for sure I have read your blog and got a kick out of it!

Cool picture of my home computer from the following link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonirvine/414517495/

Friday, April 4, 2008

Blogging Benefits

I can never resist something funny! But what I really want to say is that creating a blog is actually the Learning 2.0 lesson I enjoyed the most. I kind of said these things before, but I feel it bears repeating. When I first finished, I thought maybe it was using Flickr, or something like that. But my blog incorporates elements of almost everything I learned, and it is what I plan to keep working on, as time permits. One other thought I'd like to add about our Learning 2.0 experience is that I am already seeing benefits. The main benefit (other than having my blog as an outlet) is the rise in my self-confidence in regard to technology, which of course bleeds over in to other areas also. I have also been able to help several people, like my supervisor, for instance, so that I do keep using what I've learned--and that's great! One of the reasons that I want to keep working on my blog is so that I won't lose what I've learned through inactivity.