This is definitely something I will come back to. I added two of my favorite novels
Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt and Cold Lake by Mary Lawson. Delicate Storm was already in there and Cold Lake wasn't. When I've got more time I will explore more with tagging & commenting & such.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Week 5 image generators
I didn't spend too much time on this one but had fun checking out a couple of image generators. One converted any word you supplied into nightengale song. Another translated into Parseltongue. Would you believe there is one that creates a Dublin Core record for something you supply? I checked out some totems too. The magazine covers looked a little too daring for me--maybe next week.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Searching for new feeds
I tried the Blogline search and found one on Shelties. Postings included how to get them to stop barking...good luck with that. Maybe I'll get a few (nonlethal) tips.
Blogline
OK, after 4 weeks of procrastination, I got Week 4 taken care of. I already subscribed to some RSS feeds, mostly news, Jenny Levine, Michael Stevens, and some other stuff. Susan had told me about using Bloglines and it looked like a neat way to organize them.
I'm a trial and error type, to put it mildly. Remember your teacher telling you to read the instructions all the way through before starting on the test? Nah. So I spent an inordinate amount of time laboriously adding blogs from fellow NLC folks. Then I read down a line in the Learning 2.0 instructions and there it was-- "Do you want to subscribe to all of your co-works' feeds? There is an easy way to do this. See the Extra Stuff section below to learn how."
I also managed to name my blog Beth's Blog instead of what I really wanted to call it--Albertarose to match my Flickr name. I was convinced you can't change the name and even went so far as to set up another blog to use after Learning 2.0 is over. And there is was again--in the settings. Yes you CAN change the name of your blog.
Ah well...it's a learning exercise, right? And will this stop me from doing the trial and error thing? Nah.
I've got around 20 feeds now. I really like Bloglines being able to organize them in folders (does this sound like a librarian or what?). And helpful Susan again came to the rescue and figured out how to edit blog names. I probably won't get to them all every day, much less every week. But it's great fun to learn how to do new things, and this one was really fun!
I'm a trial and error type, to put it mildly. Remember your teacher telling you to read the instructions all the way through before starting on the test? Nah. So I spent an inordinate amount of time laboriously adding blogs from fellow NLC folks. Then I read down a line in the Learning 2.0 instructions and there it was-- "Do you want to subscribe to all of your co-works' feeds? There is an easy way to do this. See the Extra Stuff section below to learn how."
I also managed to name my blog Beth's Blog instead of what I really wanted to call it--Albertarose to match my Flickr name. I was convinced you can't change the name and even went so far as to set up another blog to use after Learning 2.0 is over. And there is was again--in the settings. Yes you CAN change the name of your blog.
Ah well...it's a learning exercise, right? And will this stop me from doing the trial and error thing? Nah.
I've got around 20 feeds now. I really like Bloglines being able to organize them in folders (does this sound like a librarian or what?). And helpful Susan again came to the rescue and figured out how to edit blog names. I probably won't get to them all every day, much less every week. But it's great fun to learn how to do new things, and this one was really fun!
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