Flickr Thing

I wish I'd taken this picture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/missmerv/2588683993/in/pool-denaliphotos

(unfortunately copyright protected so I can't upload)


Instead of this one

but at least I know I saw a bear in there!

Flickr's great and one day (probably yet another retirement project) I'm sure I'll spend many hours in there. There are some fabulous photos!!

Delicious and Technorati

I'm now a Del.icio.us fan! I've been meaning to look into this site for ages and have now imported all my favourites from Internet Explorer into Del.icio.us. It should be a great tool for us all.
Technorati I'm not so sure about. I searched in the posts for “Learning 2.0” and got only 14 hits - none in the blogs or tags but heaps from the directory. Obviously their search function isn't too great.
Hopefully I'll have a little more time now to forge ahead with the rest of the 23 things but every time I look at my RSS feeds I find some really interesting stuff that I just HAVE to look at and there goes another 20 minutes!
e.g
Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide
http://www.lisnews.org/node/30372

Google Earth Maps Walt Disney World Resort in 3D
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080605-100557

Things 11 and 12

I really haven't been inspired enough by these to persevere much. Tried to create something with the image generator but I kept getting messages that the jpeg file I wanted to import didn't exist so gave up, as it was all taking up too much time that I didn't have. Hopefully I'll have better luck with the next "things".

Things 9 and 10

Finally! I've had a look at a few wikis and am still getting my head around it all. After not having touched any of this for a while I'm finding that it all runs away from you if you don't keep your skills up. I've just spent about half and hour trying to remember my password!!
Wikis might be a good way for us all to keep "in the loop" with what's going on - perhaps the weekly diary could come out in this form rather than an email?
I've added a page to the wiki - with Jason's help to add the link so that you could actually see the new page - Favourite Places - and put in a couple of photos. Hope you like them. Someone's written a tantalising story about the Daintree. Who are you???

Falling behind............

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm starting to fall way behind with my "things". I started to look at the wikis, couldn't get into the site and then other tasks took over. I've been to a whole day seminar in the city on "Second Life" and had 2 trips to Bass Coast in the last 2 weeks.
The "Second Life" day was run by Kathryn Greenhill from Murdoch University . You may have seen some of her stuff on the Librarians Matter blog.
I wanted to find out if we could have a "Second Life" presence but I've come to the conclusion that it would have to be a whole of TAFE sector project - not just VATL but a bit like the TAFEVC. So far I can't even log in at Chisholm - I believe that we don't have sufficiently high end video cards in our PCs.
It was a very interesting day even if the system did keep dropping out until we cut the bandwidth back significantly - it requires lots to run at full strength. another reason why we couldn't use it here at the moment.

dig

I've now signed up for the "dig" podcast from the ABC. figured I might as well listen to something different - we'll see how it goes.
http://www.abc.net.au/dig/podcast/dig_rss.xml

I'm trying to keep up with all the information (well a little bit of it) that comes into my Bloglines feeds - some really interesting and some just to zip past. It's amazing how you can spend 10 minutes scrolling through stuff only to find new feeds there when you're ready to log out!!

Top 10 Tools for Learning 2008

Top 10 Tools for Learning 2008