Week #3 - Thing #5 & 6 Flickr

I never knew sites like Flickr existed. Most of the technology that I am learning about recently is coming from CSLA. Thanks for the opportunity to increase my knowledge. I spent many hours exploring Flickr. I learned about tags and groups and how to share pictures. I uploaded some of my pictures to the site and had fun messing with them. Being on this site movtivated me to go back to my Shutterfly account and make some albums from pictures taken on vacation two years ago. I used the picture I took of the Statue of Liberty and placed it on Mappr and made a jigsaw puzzle out of it using FD Toys.

Statue of Liberty,
originally uploaded by Paperback Princess.

Jigsaw puzzle using fd's Flickr Toys
I uploaded this puzzle using Flickr's blogging tools.

Map of my photo of the Statue of Liberty

Week #1, Things #1 & 2 - Life Long Leaner

I had intended to sign-up for Web 2.0 when it was first offered in late spring. However, I moved to a new house in late May and it took me all summer to unpack. When I went to the Ontario convention in November, I went to every technology workshop I could hoping to get caught up with the latest educational technology. I was so excited to learn that Web 2.0 was being offered again in the winter. When I got back to work, I watched the video on Lifelong Learning, created my avatar and my blog and then waited for Dec. 2nd to come so that I could register with the class and get going. Meanwhile, I talked two teachers into setting up a blog for their classes (which took some work since none of us had done it before) and pretty soon it was winter break and I never started the Web 2.0 class. So I would say that as far as lifelong learning is concerned that the hardest thing for me to do is to "begin with the end in mind." I need to set goals, both long term and short. My goal for today is to post for week#1 & 2 and get started on 3! The easiest for me to do is to "accept responsibility for my own learning." I am an active participant in classes, search for ways to increase my knowledge and read "how-t0" books.

Week #2 Things #3 & 4 - Setting Up the Blog

Fortunately, I started out with blogger.com which seems to be the easiest blog to use for beginners. It is very user friendly and didn't take me long to get it the way I wanted. The avatar took about two days to complete because I couldn't decide what to wear! It is supposed to be an animated avatar and I can't figure out how come my crown doesn't sparkle like it does on Yahoo.