Thing 5: I signed in to Flickr and read the security notice. I also had success uploading a picture of the view from my house into my photos on Flickr. I learned about sets versus collections and I used “home” as my tag to help organize my photos in Flickr. Tags can be compared to keywords to help you look photos up in the future.
Thing 6: Just reading the words/phrases “mashups” and “3rd party tools” were new vocabulary for me! That was cleared up by the definition provided in the Wikipedia link. Amazing! Overwhelming! These two words are constantly on the tip of my tongue. I explored some fo the mashups and applications that have been created, looking at the top 5. If they didn’t provide an immediate impression, I didn’t linger on them for too long. Some were easier to figure out than others. The mosaic took a long time to load. The one containing the details about the photos was interesting. Just reading about all the things you could do with your photos was amazing. My daughter just spent $5 on a photo block when shopping with her friend. They could have created their own right here. Obviously, you can tell that my vocabulary is not quite up to par here as I remember what the applications did, but not what they were called.
I really liked the spelling one on Flickr. I still need to figure out how to copy it so that I can put it on my blog. The piece I really liked about it was that you could change the random generation of letters that were produced and make a word of letters more to your liking. They were right though, they do look like kidnappers’ ransom notes.
Okay, I have come to the conclusion, after much trial and tribulation, that I cannot copy what I have written on Spell with Flickr to my blog because I have done my blog with WebPress. It looks like I could have done this if I created my blog with Blogger which appears to be connected with Google….did I read this somewhere earlier in this course????
Thing 7: Anything technology related that interests me this week? Wow, I am interested by all this web 2.0 stuff! It is just so overwhelming and amazing at the same time. I wish I had started this class when it began so that I could maybe have done all of this in much smaller increments….but, in saying that, it is better late than never, because I would have been super sorry to have missed all this exposure!! It will be great background knowledge to have this background in order to help patrons.
So, what interests me? I would say I am interested in knowing the place for a lot of this stuff in our daily lives. The amount of things this technology has to offer is quite extensive and how much time do people spend on the computer to do this? A basic book outlining what is available to do what and how to access it would be helpful…ahhh, there I go, back to a book!
Who is reading all of our blogging here anyway?
