Lesson 5 #12 Rollyo

I thought I was doing this correctly, but none of my search engines were saved. I'll have to play around with this some more in the future. I can see how this would be useful, to always search the more reliable sites and weed out some that aren't as good.

Lesson 5- #11 - Explored Voo2do site

This is actually a pretty cool site, for people who want to become more organized. You can set up different things you want to keep track of and it even has a note feature, where you can add more detailed information. I'm going to share this with my son, who is an endless list maker. This might make his life easier and eliminate the many paper lists he's got in his room!

The URL is http://voo2do.com

Registration is free too and that's a plus!

Lesson 5 - Play Week

I used comicstripgenerator.com and created a preset comic. It was pretty easy changing the text, but trying to center it in the bubble, proved a little complicated. I wished I could just have it in a text box and move it as I needed to.

Woo Hoo, this actually uploaded!!!!!! My first attempt at a picture had come up as that nasty box with a little X. If you clicked on it, it did take you the picture, but this is MUCH better.

Lesson 4 RSS & Newsreaders

I created my Blogline account and added several different sites to it. One was a SJ Mercury News site. I also added weather updates for SJ, as well as one from a SJ Librarian. It was a little confusing trying to figure out exactly what I was signing up for, but very simple to do.

www.bloglines.com

Lesson 3 Photos and Images

Here is a picture of a Bichon Frise dog. We recently lost our dog of 16 years and miss her terribly! These are a wonderful dog, especially for families with small children. They love and crave LOTS of attention!

I was able to find this link on the Flickr page, using the search field and typing in "bichon frise". First I copied the URL address of the picture and added it to my blog post, but the picture didn't load correctly. I then went back and saved it to my desktop and inserted it that way. Pretty simple really.

Lesson 2 - Flickr

I played around in Flickr, but didn't quite understand how to download/upload a picture. Some of the calendar photos were awesome. I did read that I didn't need to create an account, so I'll spend more time on this and see if I can make it work.

http://www.flickr.com/

UPDATE: Here is the real photo of our dog.

Lesson 1.

Well, after many weeks, I've finally got started doing the Library 2.0. The Seven & 1/2 habits of lifelong learners was very interesting. I feel that I possess most of these qualities already, but I guess my biggest obstacle is available time. I've decided to start this from home, where I do have more peace and quiet (at least while my sons and husband are at work!). I also couldn't believe that my very first blog name was accepted!!