Image Generators

This site has tons of stuff - http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/ not all of it useful, many of the generators are time-wasters and others appear to be fronts for 'sign up to our site' ads. Had fun with the Dylan message generator. I went through the procedure to copy the Dylan message into my blog which involved copying the background code and inserting it into the Blog's Source - but that hasn't worked out. Any Dylan messages sent to DETA emails are blocked as well.

Why?

Why is it that when I open a second Internet site sometimes the first one closes? Why can't I keep multiple sites open at the samr time? I can't keep Bloglines open while I search for feeds, which means I have to sign in over @ over, which wastes my time!

RSS Feeds are rather cool

One of the tasks given was to subscribe to some feeds from a list including 'Readers Club new review feeds'. I tried going to the site and then clicking on 'Sub with Bloglines' in My Favourites only to be told ' No feeds were found'. Then I tried copying the URL into 'Subscribe to URL' in Bloglines - same message.

I'm spending a lot of time looking...

9/10 - Ok getting the hang of adding feeds - but how is all this different to my favourites?

Tanya says: If you bookmark a site in your favourites you would have to go in and manually check to see if anything was new or changed. With RSS feeds you only have to go to one place to receive all the new information from the sites you are interested in.

Ok now I get it the numbers in brackets after the Feed title are the unread updates - cool! Thanks Tanya.

Gizmo

I've created the Gizmo Lets view it again (I've just been through all this and the Gizmoz link went into Lorraine's Blog Instead!)

http://www.gizmoz.com//video/2702335_dr_spankenflog

Adding this picture to the Trading Card...

Easy as falling off a Blog

LEARNING IS EASY because the mind is always receptive to new experience. When the gate is opened the little lamb will jump for joy.

The easiest of the 71/2 habits for me is Play. My inner curiousity is in direct proportion to my inner curiousness. That may be irrelevant. Or not, if my aim is to describe my personal traits in order to contact like-minded souls through Chats and the like.

The hardest habit would probably be 'seeing problems as challenges'. When I find a problem in my path - usually technological - I get annoyed that someone else hasn't fixed it. It's always someone else's fault, never mine of course, how could it be? An example: at the beginning of this learning venture I was instructed to listen to a podcast by clicking on an icon. The thing played for a few words and then went silent for a number of seconds, and continuing on in the same way. How annoying is that? Unlistenable. Not my fault I'm sure. Couldn't they even get that right? - - That's how I react - it's hard to see these kinds of design faults as challenges.

Take a deep breath...

Blogalong

My aim is to learn to use social networking technologies that will enable me to assist library users.

How do we make contact and interact with others who are on similar or related paths of learning? I have heard of Forums, Blogs, Chats, Discussion groups, and online social networks, and I am hoping to learn more about their use.