LIFELONG LEARNING: March 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009

THING #15 Web 2.0

"It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" – Charles Darwin

What is Web 2.0? It's communicating, information sharing and collaborating on the world wide web. How? Through social network sites, video shares, wikis and blogs. Wow! All the wonderful things we're learning about... as Darwin claims, "we should survive" right?

THING #14 Technorati

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. It's main competitors are Google and Yahoo. Enjoyed looking at Technorati and did a keyword search for "Learning 2.0". Checked out the blog posts, tags and blog directories. It seems a little scary to be able to have our blogs listed on a search engine. Guess I need to step out and join the party!

THING #13 Social Bookmarking

Learned all about social bookmarking... chose not to create my own account but checked out Del.icio.us. Amazing and potentially so helpful, a way to save all of your bookmarks (web sites), share them with others and also check out other peoples bookmarks. Enjoyed checking out the most popular bookmarks on Del.icio.us. Not too surprised... there were a lot of twitter bookmarks. Learned you can tag not only pictures but bookmarks. Now, I just need to find the time to get started!

Monday, March 23, 2009

THING #12 Search Engines

What a great on line tool for grouping our websites! I created my own search engine using Rollyo. I've been researching Hawaii travel and wish I had discovered Rollyo earlier. It saves so.... much time going through a search engine.

Check it out!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

THING #11 Library Thing

I really don't want to create another account at this time, but I did check out Library Thing, a wonderful on-line service to catalog our books. It's like joining the world's largest book club. How amazing! Check it out... http://www.librarything.com/

THING #10 It's Play Time!

I went to The Generator Blog and designed a custom eye chart, check it out at http://www.eyechartmaker.com/index.php. How fun!! Also, enjoyed the Williams Words generator. It was fun having a silly poem created with the word I provided. Check out http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ and create your own custom motivational poster.

Monday, March 2, 2009

THING #9 Finding Feeds

There are endless search tools out there to help locate recent newsfeed items of your choice. I thought Topix.net was way cool as you could type in Fort Collins and get all the local news (beats The Coloradoan)!

THING #8 RSS & Newsreaders

THING #8 RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. I set up my newsreader account through Google Reader subscribing to my chosen newsfeeds. This should allow me to stay informed with news from the sites that I'm interested in. Will see??