No time to work on the course last week-end — it was Easter– and no time this week-end as I had to catch up on all the things I couldn’t do last week-end. I did read your comment Debbie, but am not sure how to indicate I have apart from here.
I don’t see how I can finish this course on time with the rest of the group, but I will keep on with it, as time permits.
Progress? Well I guess that is in the eye of the beholder. Two weeks off, but I did not have a moment for this until this Sunday, 1 April, when I have made time for it around laundry, vacuuming, etc. I tried to do the wikki number 2 assignment but it crashed firefox and then a message came from apple that I should download a bunch of new software which I did. That took over an hour because I have only light not high-speed connection.
Moving on. Taking the crash as an omen I decided to move on to week 5, social bookmarking. I can see a very practical purpose for delicious, as I have more than one work station. Thus I can harmonize my two sets of bookmarks on my two computers, but I have to wait until work to do that. I have a limited number of booksmarks on my home computer and see no reason to change that. Flicker holds no interest to me at all; I have no need to share photos — some of my family members don’t even have a computer!!!
I’m unclear about tagging. When you bookmark, you are always given the option to re-write the tag and I always do, making a tag that means something to me. So how it this different?
I notice that some people are blogging in the blog for that week, rather than placing their comments in their own blog. This would appear to be a way to reach a wider audience as we all must read the assignment blog each week. Who, apart from the group leader, is reading the invidual blogs, I wonder?
There has been a number of newspaper articles recently which I have read (shockingly) in hard copy on Second Life, My Space, Facebook, and most importantly privacy, which the author, Ivor Tossell, says is non-existent on the web.
I could find the article on the web and provide a link to it. Perhaps I will. For the moment I will just highlight a few points. “It doesn’t matter if you’re posting under a pseudonym [as I do in this blog]. It most definitely does not matter if the page you’re using assures you it’s private or semi-private, or password-protected.” There is no privacy on the internet. Got it?
Is no one interested in privacy? Is it all social?
I’m doing this entire course on my own time, as I don’t have any time at work to do it. I hoped to get on with wiki assignment 2 this week-end but other things intervened. With the 2 week break ahead I hopefully can get that assignment done and then move on to last week’s assignments. The course so far is well-designed with clear explanations. After my initial problem in setting up the blog for reasons that are still not clear to me, things have gone o.k.
I like the google reader to collect the feeds in one place and the fact that you consult it when you want instead of it intruding on you. Oh hello, email! I found out the gardening feed I subscribed to (my only fun feed) is quite inactive, nothing new since I subscribed, so will look for something different.
I completed Wikis, activity 1, part 1, favourite books. It was very easy to work in. I experimented with a number of different looks. If I didn’t like them, it was easy to change or remove. The link I added was also easy to do. I’m wondering though how a much more complicated or a much larger document (the kind of documents I work with in html) would be to work with — not that I’m asking for such an assignment!!
I’ve used wikipedia extensively in my own research and find it quite reliable, though I have had discussions with those who are not fans of it.
I continue to fall behind and thus look forward to the break week. I had planned on doing more on wikis this week-end but real life intervened in a most pleasant way.
This evening I set up my google reader and subscribed to 3 feeds. One is on gardening, supposed to be Canada, but looking at the content once subscribed it appears to be gardening from around the world. So I’ll see how they work tomorrow and then move on to wickis on the week-end!
Well I’m back on my blog. Week 3 of the course, and I’m still on week 2 assignments. The real world keeps getting in the way, like shovelling snow, which took hours last week. Right now I just tried to set up my account on google reader, but every time I tried, I got the message to check back in 30 seconds.
I’m taking a course on emerging technologies. Writing a blog is the first step. I wrote an entry yesterday and saved it but it has disappeared. I’ve now been told that I had to publish it rather than save it so here goes.
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