Hi
Mindful of the pwc report on security, I made sure to upload an innocuous review of a conference on this offsite storage site. It was fun to use Zoho again and I had to smile at the evocative picnic imagery displayed while the picnik editor was loading - I was in the moment with the warm breeze, blossoming flora, chardonnay and pate(I added this one!)...
While, for security reasons, we should avoid using this service, it was easy to use and it could come in handy some time down the track.
Here's the image that I uploaded to Box.net: http://www.box.net/shared/zooi3jx4ck
Looking forward to the next Learning 2.1 activity.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Thing 31: Plaxo
Hi
I set up a calendar on Plaxo and played around with the entries. I tried setting up a schedule for Australian soccer and the tv program, Lost (although the last episode will be screening next week and I am so looking forward to having all the gaps in the story filled but I suspect that that this won't happen!); unfortunately, Plaxo kept reporting errors with finding the calendars on ical.com. I wondered whether the fact that they were created on a mac had anything to do with this. The calendar on Outlook is sufficient for my work needs so, most likely, I won't be using Plaxo for this purpose. Even so, it's a neat tool - very easy to use.
I also set up a list of tasks - I made them all work-related. I'm a big fan of To Do lists - I get a lot of satisfaction out of crossing tasks off the lists as I complete them. Plaxo would enable our library team to set up group/individual lists that we could share. We could have short term (weekly) and longer term (monthly) lists. However, with such a small team, we rely more on verbal communication and email and paper and pen work well for us.
Off to tackle the next thing...
I set up a calendar on Plaxo and played around with the entries. I tried setting up a schedule for Australian soccer and the tv program, Lost (although the last episode will be screening next week and I am so looking forward to having all the gaps in the story filled but I suspect that that this won't happen!); unfortunately, Plaxo kept reporting errors with finding the calendars on ical.com. I wondered whether the fact that they were created on a mac had anything to do with this. The calendar on Outlook is sufficient for my work needs so, most likely, I won't be using Plaxo for this purpose. Even so, it's a neat tool - very easy to use.
I also set up a list of tasks - I made them all work-related. I'm a big fan of To Do lists - I get a lot of satisfaction out of crossing tasks off the lists as I complete them. Plaxo would enable our library team to set up group/individual lists that we could share. We could have short term (weekly) and longer term (monthly) lists. However, with such a small team, we rely more on verbal communication and email and paper and pen work well for us.
Off to tackle the next thing...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Thing 29: Scrapblogging
Hi
I had a fair bit of fun with this thing. However, I spent some time trying to upload the Photobucket album into my scrapblog and couldn't get this to happen over the desktop or using the standalone. I was able to authorise the use of Photobucket but didn't get to the point where I could upload the actual photos that I'd saved. In the end, I saved the Photobucket photos to My Pictures and then uploaded them to Scrapblog.
I created a scrapblog for Stephen King's Duma Key, his latest release. It's more of a blurb than anything else. I enjoyed creating the page, finding stickers, adding text, playing around with the positioning of the photos, adding tags etc. You can view the Scrapblog at http://www.scrapblog.com/f4df922600/5F799237-381B
That brings me up to date with my Learning 2.1. Whoo hoo!
I had a fair bit of fun with this thing. However, I spent some time trying to upload the Photobucket album into my scrapblog and couldn't get this to happen over the desktop or using the standalone. I was able to authorise the use of Photobucket but didn't get to the point where I could upload the actual photos that I'd saved. In the end, I saved the Photobucket photos to My Pictures and then uploaded them to Scrapblog.
I created a scrapblog for Stephen King's Duma Key, his latest release. It's more of a blurb than anything else. I enjoyed creating the page, finding stickers, adding text, playing around with the positioning of the photos, adding tags etc. You can view the Scrapblog at http://www.scrapblog.com/f4df922600/5F799237-381B
That brings me up to date with my Learning 2.1. Whoo hoo!
Thing 27 - Photobucket
Photobucket was very straight forward. There are clearly millions of images on this site as I searched for some very obscure photos to add to my album! After pondering for some time over the matter of my favourite book, I decided to collect images relating to the book that I am reading at the moment - Stephen King's Duma Key (yes, I have a weakness for horror/thriller). I found images for sunsets on the Florida Keys which is where the book is set, green rowing boats, twin girls (actually, I uploaded the twin girls from the Shining movie - it's not the first time that Stephen King has used ghostly twin girls), roses on water, etc. It was all entirely painless but I must make a mental note to be circumspect about the keywords that I use to search for images as the terms, "China dolls" and "twin girls" brought up some risque photos that I wasn't expecting!
Still having fun.
Still having fun.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Thing #26 Widgets
Hi
This afternoon, I played with some widgets - I liked the To Do list one as I'm forever writing to do lists on scraps of paper! Some of the widgets had definite work application while others were more fun than anything - couldn't resist adding my favourite Dixie Chicks album cover to my testpad tab. To see my widgets at Yourminis follow this link (I'll type it in as my links often go astray!)
http://www.yourminis.com/yourminis/AmandaKaczmarek/testpad
As the Countdown Widget indicates, it's time for me to go home so it's good night from me...
This afternoon, I played with some widgets - I liked the To Do list one as I'm forever writing to do lists on scraps of paper! Some of the widgets had definite work application while others were more fun than anything - couldn't resist adding my favourite Dixie Chicks album cover to my testpad tab. To see my widgets at Yourminis follow this link (I'll type it in as my links often go astray!)
http://www.yourminis.com/yourminis/AmandaKaczmarek/testpad
As the Countdown Widget indicates, it's time for me to go home so it's good night from me...
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