Snow Drops

springflowers
Originally uploaded by mrbuffra.

Week 6

Thought I'd practice what I learned last week. Let's see if a photo shows up. Yes it did! I think you can tell I love spring flowers.

I also played around and figured out how to put a picture on the side bar of my blog and on my computer desktop.

I now know how to search my own favourites on del.icio.us.

I have found that none of these technologies are hard to use once you know what you are doing. I feel that a lot of time was wasted because the instructions were poor or non-existent.

Its just a Daffodil

Its just a Daffodil
Originally uploaded by sierradelta74.

I Love Spring

Week 5

I decided to compare del.ico.us and Google searching knee replacements (yes, I need a full knee replacement and am trying to get as much info as I can on the topic). I found great sites on both but I feel that del.ico.us had a better "selection". I then set up an account on del.ico.us and put the buttons on my browser toolbar. I added a few websites and tags. It's been fun "playing " with del.ico.us and I know it will become an important search tool.

I am now "playing" around with Flickr and have not had any success so far adding a link to my blog of a photo. Let's see if this worked.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77908616@N00/422264872/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommok/422181547/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42885082@N00/423051810/

Wetpaint

I found the instructions for adding pages and links, editing, etc. easier to follow when using this wiki. Perhaps the experience trying to figure out using PBWiki made it easier. Once you have figured out how things work, things fall into place. I can definitely see the use for wikis in an academic environment when a collaborative effort is needed.

PBWiki

Finally! With the help of my colleagues I've completed the first part of Activity #1. I found the instructions didn't work and we had to play around in order to add a link of a new page to the side bar. This is what we did: creat a page, click on side bar (top), type or paste page title, highlight, click on Link(top of page), click on OK, click on save. I hope this helps anyone who is having trouble. (we also edited the Home page with these instructions). Two days to go to complete Week 4!

Week 4

I'm still reading through all the links and getting a handle on wikis. I've made up a list of some of my favourite books and will get to work soon completing this weeks assignment.