Week 8 - 'Bout time I get caught up

Just in time for next week's posting.

Gotta make sure I get all this done. Just joined the gym - see previous post, and I can see use of that new MP3 player, as I don't have one.

Need to try one of those playaways now, after I buy some earbuds.

OK - Week 8. I'm being a loner with this course. I enjoy web-based learning. The self-paced aspect is great - especially since we all have certain times of day where we absorb learning better. I have discussed the course with other staff members during the course of my training weeks in other departments, but I haven't actually helped anyone with it up to this point. Many discussions regarding blogs and privacy in general, but we haven't worked on the actual coursework together. It would've been fun as a team, but my schedule at this point in time really doesn't allow for it. Maybe the next round, when my schedule is more evened out.

On to week 9...tomorrow!

Week 7 - Again

So, I got sucked into getting a membership at LAFitness at the OCLS Health Fair. Went today for my training session - what does this have to do with Web 2.0? Nothing.... Actually, I came back today and signed up for traineo.com -- not that I'll ever remember my login or password, but, I can still play with it. Check it out - wend_n.traineo.com


Speaking of that? With all of these applications going on and introduced in the Learn 2.0 - how on earth does everyone keep track of all these logins and passwords?

Week 7 - Learn 2.0

Haven't listened to the podcast yet, but I did the Adventure.

I researched Web 2.0 applications for scrapbooking but didn't find anything that really made sense. So, then I searched for decorating. Ran across this mashable.com site that lists news. There was an article talking about an upcoming, not yet released site called mydeco.com. So, I looked at another decorating site called curbly.com - it looks like it has some neat stuff in there. I can see a lot of use for the 2.0 with decorating. Tips and ideas, a good way to share crafts. Somewhere in that mashable site, I then got a link to cricket social networks, so I looked at one called crictv.com to pass on to my husband.

In an unrelated move, I played with the gardening construct on the Virtual Gallery, too cute. I was working in IS when they were discussing the idea, and it came out really good.

Now, someone needs to teach me how to get those 2.0 applications to do the actual decorating work for me..... sure beats standing at the paint counter at Home Depot for 15 minutes and not having a single staff member bother to come see what I needed. Guess I'll buy paint at Lowe's. But it's so easy to paint online.... wish it were that easy IRL.

Meez

I finally found a computer that worked to create a Meez. So, here she is. I picked the cricket bat because my husband plays cricket every weekend, the dance studio because that's where I spent the first half of my life. I wanted to pick the children animation, but couldn't as they only had one child and I have two. I also wanted to have her dancing, several really fun ones, but decided to go with the bat. How fun. Too bad it eats up bandwith and knocks out computers.

Week 5

ARGH. For not having an assignment, I'm having a difficult time. OH well. This computer doesn't have the most up to date Flash player, so nothing will play. And the sound won't work, and I can't find headphones.

Guess I'll try later....

Anyone planning anything cool for Memorial Day?

Week 4

I love that video! It's thought provoking. I looked at the 2.0 award winners, checked out the personal organizing winners and found that one of them has a demo calendar to look at that shows URLs links that are completely inappropriate. What's up with that? It's an award winning site that's trying to get business.

Learn 2.0 - Week 3

Signed up for some RSS feeds - had a hard time finding any. Just used the listing on the bloglines site and picked some random blogs plus the Library Leader. Attempted to look up some using the search sites - just can't handle looking through all those results for something interesting - it appears to be worse than searching for interesting Yahoo Groups. Picked some about parenting, home organization, money management.

I am a visual learner, very movement oriented. My recall is tied to colors and recall of visual surroundings - how the words look on the printed page, where they were written on the chalkboard, etc.

Other than that, recorded my voice for the sitepal on the Learn a Language Virtual Gallery today at work - how cool!