Week 3 Thing 7

I am in the process of figuring out how to e-mail photos from my phone through Shozu so they can be sent to Flickr. Or just how to e-mail Flickr directly. I did find out today that my phone is not set up to take a memory card that I could download pictures to, but that I'd need some kind of cable that connected my phone directly to the computer. Best Buy didn't have any, guess I'll run by ATT one day this week and get one. May be they will also tell me what I have to do to access e-mail by phone. I know I have internet access. Wish me luck.

Week 3 Thing 6

Evidently mashups use bits and pieces from several sites to create something new. It's suppose to be easy, but keep in mind that technology is not my forte and mashups are mind boggling for me. (I had to get my 24 year old son to hook up my new surround sound today!)

I did take a look at some of the 3rd party sites and opened an account with Shozu that I hope to understand better how to use with my daughter's help this weekend.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Holiday link

Here is a great site for Christmas material for ESL students.

http://esl.about.com/b/2007/12/14/christmas-readings.htm?nl=1

Would probably be good for anyone.

Week Three, Thing 5 Explore Flickr

Pyre.
Originally uploaded by vectorsnob

This was titled "Pyre" on Flickr and noone can seem to agree on what it is. I tend to side with the person who commented that it looked like a dalek. I'm a little partial to watching "Dr. Who" on the scifi and BBC channel and this does somewhat resemble the shape.

This week I am exploring Flickr and have learned how to upload to my blog. I understand that a tag is a way to categorize photos and that groups can either be public or private, open, or by invitation only. Groups are ways to communicate and share photos between people of like interests. Maybe I'll actually have time to do that this summer.

Loki

Loki
Originally uploaded by petsnooksbooks

Loki is my youngest "baby". Although my human children are all away at college, Loki is a constant source of entertainment and companionship. In fact, he is "helping" me compose this blog by sitting on the keyboard and pushing at my mouse hand.

Week 2, Thing 3 - Creating Blog

This was actually fun, once my daughter told me to try doing it in Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. I was having all kinds of difficulties trying to make IE happy enough to let me use blogger. Firefox was much easier.

Week 1, Thing 2 - Life Long Learning

Using technology to my advantage will be the most difficult of these habits to get used to. I am comfortable now with using Discovery streaming videos in my lessons, so I imagine I'll become more adept at using the new things I'm going to learn about in this course.

Being disciplined about getting the work done will be the easiest habit.

Week 1, Thing 1 About Learning Community Web 2.0

Discovering aspects of this course was very interesting. It will be a very challenging course for me as I tend to freak out over new technology things and will need a lot of encouragement and advice.