Thing #23

Okay, At first I was not at all happy about having to complete these 23 Things and I had a very difficult time getting started. Poor Mary, navigating ‘the web’ is not intuitive for me and she must have been awash with a sense of dread every time I walked through the library door. “Mary, do you have time to help me? Mary, I don’t understand this… Mary, how do you do that…?” I felt silly having to ask for help and frustrated by the amount of time I put in to completing the simplest of tasks when I didn’t ask for help. Having said that, practice, well, it may not have made me perfect in this case but I’m beginning to ‘get it’ and frankly, I feel really good about that. I know that I’ll never be a true techie, but I’m not scared anymore. I’ve started my BOS blog for 7th grade humanities and am making plans for the various ways I can use it to keep my students and their parents informed regarding the goings on in and out of class. I am glad that it is so easy to download photos into a blog – parents love to see pics of their kid(s) in action – I know – I’m a parent and I looked forward to opening the blog David started this summer while teaching his cooking class. I have to own up to the fact that my primary interest in reading it everyday was to see if Emma was pictured in it. So, if putting kid’s pics into my humanities blog gets parents to check it and by doing so they keep up with what is going on in the classroom, it is a win – win.

Thing 22 – the ebook and more…

Didn’t downlead anything but the Gutenburg site was interesting – found a real page turner from the early 1900’s… ‘The Four Epochs of Woman’s Life; a study in hygiene’ by Anna M. Galbraith?
Hmmmmmmmm

Podcasts and Thing #21

Who said chivalry was dead?Who said chivalry was dead?

I’ve tried to insert a podcast on chivalry several times but…. hey wait a minute, I just figured it out. All you have to do is click on – Who said chivalry was dead? – and presto, there is my podcast on chivalry.

Back to Thing #11

I spent a great deal of time exploring some of the CNET Award Winning sites. Although I use many of these sites regularly, I appreciated being exposed to new sites and liked the, seemingly, objective bit of information CNET gives you right up front about each one. I of course spent oodles of time looking at the handcrafted merchandise on Etsey (an old favorite) and enjoyed playing around with some photos in Picasa (a new site for me).

I think this is Thing #19 – LibraryThing

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My Library at LibraryThing“>

That was easy…
I added my first link.

Okay – Thing #18 – writin’ in Zoho

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Okay, I am trying this for the third time (posting directly to my blog). Third time is the charm, right?

Trying it again…

DId it again. Maybe this always happens when you upload from You Tube???

Wow – I think I jumped to Thing #20?

Okay, so now I know how to insert a video but I unintentionally inserted a way to view many different, but similar, films from one link??? I have to go back to the drawing board, or keyboard in this case.

ImageChef.com I Am Awesome

I unploaded a great set of images here yesterday (today is Wed. the 18th or is it the 19th) but they disappeared after 24hrs.???