Very cool! I'm certified.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
Thoughts...
By way of wrapping up Learning 2.0, here are some thoughts:
My favourite technologies/tools/activities are Facebook, del.icio.us and blogging. My not-so-favourite was gaming, but hey, you never know, it might grab me one of these days.
Learning 2.0 @ Mac has certainly helped me get comfortable with emerging technologies, but more than that, it has introduced so many things to me that I just would never have known about. Most of the technologies were not difficult to learn and to understand, and the ETG blog plus the drop-in sessions really helped to clarify things.
If the ETG group offered another programme like this one in the future, I would most definitely participate. I think that now that we've started, we need to stay current. A programme such as Learning 2.0 is an excellent way to do that because we are all working on more or less the same things, we can share information about the technologies by working together, and we are exposed to many relevant technologies that we may otherwise never know about.
Maybe over the summer a review session could take place highlighting some of the things we've done.
What a great programme this has been!
My favourite technologies/tools/activities are Facebook, del.icio.us and blogging. My not-so-favourite was gaming, but hey, you never know, it might grab me one of these days.
Learning 2.0 @ Mac has certainly helped me get comfortable with emerging technologies, but more than that, it has introduced so many things to me that I just would never have known about. Most of the technologies were not difficult to learn and to understand, and the ETG blog plus the drop-in sessions really helped to clarify things.
If the ETG group offered another programme like this one in the future, I would most definitely participate. I think that now that we've started, we need to stay current. A programme such as Learning 2.0 is an excellent way to do that because we are all working on more or less the same things, we can share information about the technologies by working together, and we are exposed to many relevant technologies that we may otherwise never know about.
Maybe over the summer a review session could take place highlighting some of the things we've done.
What a great programme this has been!
Thursday, May 3, 2007
I forgot to say...
Sorry, I forgot to say that I tried the bookmarklet for Morris title keyword, and I copied and pasted the text from the Amazon.com site for a book I was interested in, and voila, it searched Morris for me. Unfortunately, we don't own the book, but it was pretty cool.
Wrap Up
Phew!!! That was fun. Like most people, I wish I had more time to spend on the weekly activities, but even though I raced through a couple of weeks, I still learned A LOT!!! I don't feel like I'm from the Stone Age anymore.
When I think about how far we've come in the last 20 or so years, well it's quite mind-boggling! Why, only yesterday (or so it seems), I was just mastering the IBM Selectric typewriter. Then, I was deeply immersed in my 8-week full-time word processing course on the NBI dedicated word processing system with the HUGE floppy disks as storage devices!
OK, then there were the "dumb" terminals where we input and edited MARC records for the McMaster microfiche catalogue. Our first PC had that orange glow. And seriously, it really wasn't all that long ago.
I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to do all of these activities because I figure I probably wouldn't have pursued learning about many of these applications on my own without some direction, help, and information. So THANKS to the ETG group. I feel like I'm a bitmore in the know now, and to be honest, I'm much more interested in learning (and understanding!) more. And much more confident too.
I plan to follow up by creating another blog, maybe with Wordpress, by staying in touch with people through Facebook, and by exploring more websites. I want to try this Stumble Upon that everyone is talking about! As a (former) cataloguer, I'm really interested in the tagging and folksonomies, so I'd like to explore and play here a bit more.
So thanks to ETG and thanks to my group leader Alex.
When I think about how far we've come in the last 20 or so years, well it's quite mind-boggling! Why, only yesterday (or so it seems), I was just mastering the IBM Selectric typewriter. Then, I was deeply immersed in my 8-week full-time word processing course on the NBI dedicated word processing system with the HUGE floppy disks as storage devices!
OK, then there were the "dumb" terminals where we input and edited MARC records for the McMaster microfiche catalogue. Our first PC had that orange glow. And seriously, it really wasn't all that long ago.
I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to do all of these activities because I figure I probably wouldn't have pursued learning about many of these applications on my own without some direction, help, and information. So THANKS to the ETG group. I feel like I'm a bitmore in the know now, and to be honest, I'm much more interested in learning (and understanding!) more. And much more confident too.
I plan to follow up by creating another blog, maybe with Wordpress, by staying in touch with people through Facebook, and by exploring more websites. I want to try this Stumble Upon that everyone is talking about! As a (former) cataloguer, I'm really interested in the tagging and folksonomies, so I'd like to explore and play here a bit more.
So thanks to ETG and thanks to my group leader Alex.
Firefox
I have used Firefox in the past and I find I like it. I downloaded it to the PC I am using at the moment, which is signed on with a generic ID, but I'm not sure where it went. I downloaded it to the Desktop, but I don't see it. I will play around with it a bit more and see what's what. I also downloaded the extension for the weather, again to the desktop, so I have to look for that as well.
I am going to download Firefox and some extensions at home because I think I will be able to play around with them at home a bit more.
OK.... so does that mean I'm certifiable?? Alex, are you there?? If you are, just want to say thanks for all your help and your comments and stuff. You're the best!
I am going to download Firefox and some extensions at home because I think I will be able to play around with them at home a bit more.
OK.... so does that mean I'm certifiable?? Alex, are you there?? If you are, just want to say thanks for all your help and your comments and stuff. You're the best!
Gaming
I am not so much a fan of the gaming... but I tried Slingo which is a variation on Bingo. I do love Bingo, I have to admit, but I love the old-fashioned kind, where you sit on uncomfortable wooden chairs in a Bingo Hall with quite a few oldsters who take their Bingo VERY seriously. Now THAT'S excitement! I could see sitting and playing all kinds of the games that were listed on the activities, but as I'm sure others are saying... who has that kind of time?
So I tried it, but it's just not my cup of tea. Even when I was a youth and I had a Coleco vision gaming system, I just didn't get into it. Guess I'm just far too social and prefer interaction with real, live people.
So I tried it, but it's just not my cup of tea. Even when I was a youth and I had a Coleco vision gaming system, I just didn't get into it. Guess I'm just far too social and prefer interaction with real, live people.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Week 9 - Facebook
Well this week was pretty good. I already had a Facebook account (which I'm very addicted to, by the way). So I played around a bit on there. I had already joined the group Learning 2.0 too (maybe it's time I actually read some posts for the group). That's on my to do list.
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