Protest!

I took a short video of the Proposition 8 protest in San Francisco. The energy was palpable in the air...though it may not come through so well in the video.

RSS Feeders

I'm using Google Reader to gather the blogs I like all in one place. Actually, I thought that I had posted this alreadfy, but apparently I dreamed it :)

One of the drawbacks of using RSS is that I forget to check the reader, so I get behind on the blogs anyway! But it does help me find my favorite blogs faster than trolling through my bookmarks :-D

Social Media - Dogs Are Social, right?

Our discovery exrecise included surfing YouTube and finding a video we like to post to our blog. I know it has nothing to do with education per se, but I really liked this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG77nCxfzr0


And then we were to add voice to our blogs. I used vozMe and chose the female voice. Kinda freaky... (to hear it, click the link that says ((•))Hear just below this post.

Social Networking

Ha! I've got this one down pat. I've already got a Facebook page, so this module was a breeze. I love using Facebook to keep tabs on folks' lives. It's easier than email and the photos can be sent to multiple recipients so much faster because they're posted, not mailed.

Although I can see some use for professional instructors, right now I use it to communicate with my college-age son :-)

Social Bookmarking

Wow. I really had a tough time with this module. I understand the concept and it seems like it should be a useful tool for instruction (particularly in lesson-planning). However, I attempted the optional activity on del.i.cious and got all tangled up. I still haven't figured out how to cateorize my bookmarks correctly.

And then a funny thing happened...I realized that I do not WANT my bookmark list to be public. The more I perused my favorites list (and granted, a majority are work-related or on the internal network), the more I felt like it was a step that was just over the line of comfort for me.
Not sure what that says about me, but I did give up on Del.i.cious.

Catchy Phrase

The name of my blog is a play on words using my last name, of course. Today I see that the AKC has the same idea...only their pictures are WAY cuter :-)

http://www.holidaycardcenter.org/akc/product/1169/403

Web 2.0

I'm baaack! Taking a class on Web 2.0 and this session is about blogs. So I'm resurrecting this litany of random subjects to add to.

By the way, since I last posted I graduated (Master's Degree). Yee-haw! Now all my classes are for "personal growth"...

Other things I'm working on:
• Learning Flash (just the animation so far, not programming ActionScript 3.0 yet).
• Reading all the books I couldn't while in school
• Getting back into some creative endeavor away from the computer...although the Wacom tablet is pretty awesome!
• Possibly introducing my elderly parents (80s) to the computer/email