I've had a flickr account for quite some time. It's been a good way to share photos with my long distance family without overwhelming their email inbox. I'd like to find time to upload more photos and do more tagging, sticky-noting, commenting, and other fun stuff. Someday I'd even like to upgrade to a pro account, but I need to make sure I can get my money's worth first.
At first I found flickr a little difficult to navigate. Especially before I figured out the difference between a set, collection and photostream. Now that I've played around with it a bunch, it's easy to use, and I love that it's searchable and connects me with other great people and photos.
I'm so pleased that ACPL has a flickr site up and running. What a great way to share our photos with the community. I contributed by posting photos of the Time 2 Chime holiday concert. It was fun to email all the students and give them the link to their performance on the web. (You can also see video clips of their performance on the ACPL Kids Blog.)
Thursday, December 27, 2007
The Wonderful World of Google
Early on in Learning 2.0, a co-worker let me in on the wonders of iGoogle and suggested I create my own iGoogle page before tackling the other "things." I followed her advice and have been loving iGoogle ever since. It's great to have a home page that is customizable and puts all my most-used web tools at my fingertips on any computer. While in Michigan for the holidays, I checked my rss reader, gmail, and calendar - and only had to use one log in and one webpage - wonderful!
My iGoogle page is fairly "boring" - calendar, rss reader, to do list, bookmarks, etc. One of these days I'll get around to adding a tab for fun stuff (cartoons and photos of the day, a spider that randomly walks across the screen), but for now I'm sticking to the basics. I especially appreciate Google Calendar and the ease with which I can add and color-code events. I've abandoned all my paper calendars and even the planner I used to keep in my purse in favor of updating my life online. Since I'm almost always near a computer, it's easier to log on and check my Google Calendar than it would be to hope that my hard copies are all up to date.
I haven't fallen quite as quickly for other Google features. I'm sure they're great, but I just haven't had a use for them yet. I think I would enjoy using gmail, but I've been using Outlook for so long, and I'm just not ready to make the switch. I attempted to house my Mock Sibert booklist in Google Docs, but found it to be slow and unfamiliar. At this point, the time it would take to get used to a new interface just isn't worth the convenience of having the list online. Maybe next year.
My iGoogle page is fairly "boring" - calendar, rss reader, to do list, bookmarks, etc. One of these days I'll get around to adding a tab for fun stuff (cartoons and photos of the day, a spider that randomly walks across the screen), but for now I'm sticking to the basics. I especially appreciate Google Calendar and the ease with which I can add and color-code events. I've abandoned all my paper calendars and even the planner I used to keep in my purse in favor of updating my life online. Since I'm almost always near a computer, it's easier to log on and check my Google Calendar than it would be to hope that my hard copies are all up to date.
I haven't fallen quite as quickly for other Google features. I'm sure they're great, but I just haven't had a use for them yet. I think I would enjoy using gmail, but I've been using Outlook for so long, and I'm just not ready to make the switch. I attempted to house my Mock Sibert booklist in Google Docs, but found it to be slow and unfamiliar. At this point, the time it would take to get used to a new interface just isn't worth the convenience of having the list online. Maybe next year.
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