#14 Technorati

have just had a look at Technorati and searched for Learning 2.0 as suggested. Of course every Blog with the word Learning came up! It was amazing to see how many and varied the Blogs were, I tried a couple of other searches and became completely sidetracked...

#11 trying to work our Rollyo!!

I have studied the guff on Rollyo and systematically gone through the steps but still can't figure our what it all means, I've tried.....

Select Search Engine...alittlebitofrockabillySearch The Web

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#18 Online applications and tools

have just had a quick play with Zoho Writer and sent the bit of writing to my Blog, I can see the merit in such applications and tools as this in creating web sites etc.

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this is being written in Zoho writer and I hope to transfer it to my blog. I am viewing a screen with so many tools at the top it would take ages to find out what each of them do.
 This will be me if it works!

#17 Playing around with PBWiki

Who on earth invents the names for all these weird things on the Internet?? Anyway I have had a 'play' with the PBWiki thing and added my favourite websites and pastimes, it was rather easy really, although I didn't have any favourite web sites, but I found a couple to add anyway.

#16 Wikis

Wow! This was a great eye opener to me, the practical use of Wikis is amazing. What I found the most informative was the Youtube demonstration of what a Wiki is, it made absolute sense to a techno-boob such as I.
A Wiki is just the thing in a Library situation where Book Reviews, Local and Family History, School project material and numerous other things could be collated by either the Library staff or our users. I took a look at some of the examples, all American of course but nontheless interesting and informative. Although I have been aware of Wikipedia for ages I really didn't know Wikis were an interactive thing where folk could add there little bit of info.

#13. tagging and all that stuff

Well we are really getting into the hard stuff here! I have had a browse through 'tagging' and 'del.ici.ous' or whatever it is and find it all wild and wonderful. I can see the benefit of using these resources to keep favourite sites within easy reach although having the time to peruse them all would be great.

Week 5 #11. Library thing

had a look at Library thing and selected a few of my favourite books, which I reviewed and rated. Found it a bit daunting http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php I found it didn't recognise some of the Australian books I tried to find, which was rather frustrating.....

photo fun

#4 relatively simple syndication

http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs this is the site I went into to set up my account, I don't know who thought of the acronym RSS but the simple bit is a bit of a misnomer! I have found some favourite subjects and will check out some of the Libary related sites to save

#RSS

I have set up my RSS account but have not yet had time to play around with what it actually does.

#3 Technology

My first introduction to computers was when I went back to High School in 1995 at the ripe old age of 39, to do my VCE. I was one of those at the tail end of The Baby Boomer years who left school at 15 and sailed straight into a job. When my children were all at school I felt it was time to finish my schooling so I jumped in before I thought too much about it. Not only did I go back to school in our small town I also joined the ranks of the 17 to 18 year olds who hung around the Common Room! One thing I didn't think through was my great lack of computer knowledge, in fact I had never touched one in my life! All of a sudden here I was expected to do all my work on this machine that I didn't even know how to turn on. My saving grace was the wonderful help and support of my fellow students who thought me a great lark and were all too ready to lead me through the process as though I was a 2 year old. A great advantage that I had was the skill of touch typing that all girls learnt in the 60's/'70's when I was at school, for some reason this is no longer taught, so my slowness at how to use the computer was made up the speed at which I put the info. into it. I messed up and lost my work a few times but soon got the hang of the new technology. Now I work in a library and techonology changes are part of everyday, I am just so glad I was thrown in at the deep end or I may never have ventured in to the wonderful world of computers.

a good one for mythbusters

My husband is like a cat but instead of 9 lives I think he must have used up about 20! Yesterday while using his electric cross-cut saw to make a new cupboard for our kitchen sink, he cut straight through the power cord! He thought he had hit a nail as there was a grinding sound and a puff of black smoke, he didn't even realise he's done it until he went to cut the next piece of wood and found the saw wouldn't go, low and behold there was the cord cut clean through! Amazingly he didn't even get any sort of shock.
Ther you go another one for the Mythbusters