Week 5

Online Image Generators
I looked at several online image generators, and I went ahead and created my very own Simpsons Avatar, Suzie Q. I also used the Gnome Name Generator, a text generator, to nimbly name my gnarly gnome. The links to these are: http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html and http://www.chimpage.com/gnome.html.

LibraryThing
It was exciting to create a LibraryThing account and start adding books, but since the free version ony holds 200 books, it will soon be overflowing. Maybe I should get the paid account...

Rollyo
I explored Rollyo, created an account, and rolled up some search tools. This could be useful in reference searches, for health news, for travel, and for other things as well.

Week 4

For this week, I set up a Bloglines newsreader account, read about RSS feeds, and added some library news feeds (such as Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week and Library Journal - Tennant: digital Libraries) and regular news feeds (such as BBC News and CNN.com) to my blogline account.

I liked Bloglines' simple setup to search for feeds. The clear organization of Topix.net and Feedster were useful, also.

Week 3

Having some Flickr fun, I discovered so many useful features, and I especially liked all of the organizing and limiting features.

Who said that mashups were just for potatoes? The Pixels to Penguins is an interesting site, but the music is just plain wierd!

Some of the coolest technologies out there, not really related to Flickr, but definitely related to images, are the mapping technologies. I love the ease with which we can now plan automobile trips using mapquest. Really fascinating are the sattelite maps found on various sites (mapquest, google, yahoo, etc.), and the options for street map/sattelite map hybrids. Checking out our library, we could see each individual car parked in the lot!

Week 2

Setting up a blog was amazingly easy! Now that I have one, it will be interesting to find out all the things that one can do with it. Since Barb left me a comment, I checked out her blog, and it is so complex and fantastic! Go Barb!

Lifelong learning is not a foreign concept to me. I have gone back to school several times after earning my bachelor's degree for formal learning, but my informal learning continues all the time as I read, travel, discuss, and explore new things and ideas.

Of the 7 1/2 habits of highly successful lifelong learners, I don't know which would be the hardest, but the easiest would have to be playing! Of course, it is frustrating when the computer suddenly freezes up while you are trying something or when it takes three tries to make it do what you want, but usually, experimenting with new things is fun.

Week 1

This new program, Learning 2.0, sounds like it will be a lot of fun and a painless education in new uses of the computer.

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