Sunday, August 12, 2007

Week 9 Thing 23: I AM DONE (stick a fork in me)!!!



My picture might be alitte extreme but this is how I felt going into this project (not being able to see) now I can see! I get it! After hours and hours of frustration (and me frustrating the people around me), grumbling, laughing and at one point giving up altogether, I made it! And I'm sorry to see it end.
I worked on this project at home, so my help and support system came from my son ("Think Mother, it's not rocket science"), my daughter ("Oh Mother, you are so cute"), and my husband who had the good sense to play golf every Sunday! Therefore, I dedicate my attempt at 23 Things to them. Thanks for the memories.
I found the statement that the exercises would take 15 to 20 minutes to complete misleading, and I thought the constant signing up for and logging in to different sites tedious and time consuming. Wouldn't it have been simpler for the system to have a universal log-in and sign-up code?

I would participate again, for on a whole, it was a great learning experience (I can do things now, that I couldn't when I started), Like I said on Week 6 Thing 15, it is a Brave New World out there and I'm going to walk forward, with eyes open, learning every step of the way. Thank you

Week 9 Thing 22: Project Gutenberg

I chose to view Project Gutenberg.I thought this was one of the neatest sites I have ever seen. I would like to meet Michael Hart, the founder. After looking through the online catalog I'm sure I will view this site often. I found a book online that gave me some answers to several questions a patron asked me last week and I hadn't been able to find answers. I'm totally excited about calling her this week and letting her know what I found. Positive experience with this web site.

Week 9 Thing 21: Podcasts

Podcasts would be useful for teaching specific information to groups of people, some not in the same locations. Although, I found it disconcerting not to have written words to look at and I also found my concentration waning.

Week 9 Thing 20: You Tube



You Tube was alot of fun. You could spend a lifetime looking at sites, however, you do need to be careful what word you use for your search. I settled on the Lego site, fairly safe, considering what people can do with legos, camera, immagination and patience, enormous amount of creativity out there! I was going to choose Michael Jacksons Thriller but I found Monty Pythons Holy Grail. Well done and really funny.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Week 8 Thing 19: Web 2.0 Awards List

I choose the category fun stuff and then chose One Sentence. I was amazed how much annoymous emotion can be conveyed in one sentence. One sentence stuck out : Every book I have ever read was made up of single sentences.

Week 8 Thing 18: Word Processing Spreadsheets

This seems to be a free web-based microsoft word.

Week 7 Wikis Thing 17: Learning 2.0 Sandbox Wiki

I dreaded this, I thought I would screw this up big time. I was worried I was going to get all kinds of unwanted e-mails. It was not as difficult as I thought and I don't think I'm going to get all kinds of unwanted e-mails.