Week 3 Thing 7

Since beginning the 23 Things I have become more aware of articles and news items on web 2.0 technologies. This week I have seen several news items relating to some of the new technologies that we are exploring: the Democratic canidates debate and You Tube, a new feature called Street Views in Google Maps and a column on Photo Sharing Sites. I found Mike Himowitz's "Plugged In" column in the Baltimore Sun on July 26th to be particularly noteworthy as I was finishing Week 3 on Photos & Images. The column related the writer's experiences with posting his photo collection on a photo sharing website. One day the site he had stored his photos on just disappeared from the Internet. This illustrated how sites can come and go without notice to the users. Users need to be prepared in case this happens to them. It is important to keep another copy of your photos elsewhere besides online storage. The writer suggests taking advantage of the photo sharing sites offers to put your digital images on CD for a small fee. I went back to Flickr to see if they offered anything like that. You can upgrade your account which would give you permanent archiving. But I could not find on their site what permanent archiving includes. This is certainly something to keep in mind when using the photo sharing websites.

Week 3 Thing 5 & 6

I have been exploring Flickr and having lots of fun with it. I finally got a picture of my dog, Montego, that I could post in my blog. It took some time to figure out how to do get it into my blog but I finally got it to work. I also got it to upload onto Flickr! My next step was to find a piciutre on Flickr and to post it to my blog. I was able to do that too! Ellen's tip on how to link your blog with your Flickr account (from her e-mail onWeek 3: Photos and images) was a big help. It is so easy to take a picture from Flickr and post to your blog. I found the mashups to be interesting. I especially liked color pickr. It is neat to search for photos by colors. In browsing through the 3rd party applications, I found a Postcard Browser. This was exciting for me since I had at one time collected antique postcards. So I searched to see if there were any postcards similar to the ones I had collected. I did find some antique postcards on it; but, it was not easy. I guess I was not searching with the correct tags. When I have more time I will do more exploring on the Postcard Browser.

pink dahlia

pink dahlia
Originally uploaded by bigmagpie

What a beautiful photo.

Week 2 Thing 4

My blog is set up and registered.

Week 1 Thing 1 & 2

Week 1 Thing 1 -
Began the journey in Learning 2.0 . Read the blog and learned all about the program.

Week 1 thing 2 -
Learned about the 7 1/2 Habits of Highly successful Lifelong Learners.
The hardest of the 7 1/2 habits for me would be to view problems as challenges and not to view them as crises. The easiest part would be to play. I think it will be fun to play with some of the new technologies and to be learning about them at the same time.

Week 2 Thing 3

Wow! It wasn't as hard to set up a blog as I anticipated. The hardest part and most time consuming part was finding a name to use. I really am on my way to learning about emerging technologies on the web.