Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Flickr Frustration

I have just spent an hour trying to figure out how to post the blog title I created on Flickr speller to my blog. I could not fine any directions on the site on how to do this. I fiddled around with every link that I thought plausible, but nothing worked. I am just not very intuitive about this. This is what frustrates me. People say, "Oh, it's so easy..." Well not for me. I'm moving on to something else.

Friday, February 15, 2008

Flickr Education

I just posted my first photo on my blog. Flickr is another application that I have been hearing about for some time now, so, again, I am glad to start to understand how it works. The topic of digital photo managment is a real challenge to me. Maybe this will help.

Ann and Fred

RSS Intro

I just put together an RSS collection on Google Reader. I have been thinking about doing this for at least 18 months, so it feels really good to have accomplished it. I know I could go hog-wild with adding blogs/news to the list, and I probably will not check it as often as I should, but I'm glad I'm on my way.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Lib. 2.0 Musings

I've just read/viewed through the suggested articles/videos for for L2. Maybe it's just today, but the whole thing makes me tired. I agree with it. I think this is the way the world is going, and we libraries and librarians had better get with the program or else, but I'm not convinced that it will improve my personal world all that much. There's nothing right or wrong with L2--it's just the path we are all on. No doubt, those of us who embrace the interactivity that it offers will find many good things about it. It just always comes down to how one wants to spend the time available.

Since I work in a school, I think about this world of social connectivity a lot. It absorbs and attracts so many of our students. And so much of it doesn't really advance their critical thinking skills and their knowledge of the broader world. Granted, it "could" do this, but I haven't seen much evidence.

Maybe I am just in need of a long nap.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Thing 1 Post

Whew!! After about three tries, I have managed to get this blog up and running. Thanks to the excellent help from the staff at Metronet! I can see that I am a good candidate for this project. Onward.....