Wiki Wacky

I'm wandering the web.... it's so easy to get sidetracked; I set up my wiki but spent so much time reading help pages, best practices, etc. that I haven't done much with it yet. I hope it will provide organization for next year's TV Tune Out Week, plus a place to organize resources, track planning, etc. We'll see! For now, I've finished today's root beer float, and my garden is calling its siren song. Have a great weekend!

Caught like a bug in the web

Actually, it's pretty funny - here's the notice I just got:
This email was sent by riverforestlibrary.org to
notify you that we have temporarily prevented access to your account.

We have reasons to believe that your account may have been accessed by someone else. Please run attached file and follow instructions.

C'mon - I'm having enough trouble! ;)

what's linking where?

OK, I think part of my frustration is that when I'm working on my mac at home, it automatically links some things to others based on which gmail I have open (or maybe it's just capricious...)
I have a Google account with a Yahoo address, a personal gmail, and a work gmail - and the work gmail doesn't support all of the apps. So I get utterly confused trying to figure out why Blogger gives me messages like "You are not an author on any blogs" - from my own blog - or why when I click on something in Google Reader it changes the options in other windows I have open. I'm trying to decide if I should try to figure it out (again) or just go with the current approach - blinders, and the same password for everything.

Why I haven't tried Social Mention or Addictomatic

It's very simple, really. I ran out of root beer for my root beer float. I started with Google alerts, set up 3 alerts, and messed around with some other stuff - reading comments, changing blogs I'm following, putting stuff in folders on Google Reader. By the time I was down to the last slurp, I figured I NEEDED a root beer float in hand to work on 21 Things. I know I'm behind (still finishing Thing 6!) but I think I only have one root beer float worth of tech concentration in me, at least when I'm doing this in the evening. And with the speed-freak summer reading atmosphere @ work, evening is the only time I can manage!

Summer reading is great fun, but I will be relieved when we're done. By next summer I plan to clone myself. Either that or learn to set more realistic goals - hmmm, cloning's probably a more realistic goal than me being realistic...

more "what was i thinking?!!"

OK, summer reading WILL end at some point (actually fairly soon; our wrap-up party is Friday - YAY!)and I might actually catch up - right now I've just been browsing other "21 travelers" blogs & enjoying those & the comments. Thanks Kelley for your feedback! I haven't finished last week's "things", but I already use Firefox, so I'm looking forward to exploring that more. As far as wikis, we use one for our library staff and I've found that very helpful. We just had our first meeting for next April's TV Tune Out week today, so I may use that for my wiki.

delicious

I imported my browser bookmarks, which included one for Library 2.0 in 15 Min. a day. I'd added that in 2007. Hmmm....

delicious

importing now...
We use a delicious account for some reference sites, and I like having that available; hoping delicious will help me keep MY stuff in a more organized manner. Love that I can search bookmarks!

that's why it's called the web...

...because it's connected in so many ways, and I am the poor bug trapped in the web, waiting to be devoured! I subscribed to Google Reader, and then a coworker told me about igoogle, which I really like, but in the process of creating blogs and subscribing and posting I have gotten utterly confused about what goes with what account, AND what the passwords are - I have reset a couple of them more than once, to the PW I had written down, but the next time I try to post a comment or switch to google reader, I have to sign in again (in a new window) and it says that PW is not correct.
I am confused :(

passwords

If there's a max on # of times you can reset your password, I'm getting there - and I swear I keep setting it to the same thing. It seems like every time I click on a link in blogger it asks me to sign in AGAIN, and then tells me my password is incorrect - the PW I typed in 10 minutes ago, and wrote down on the pad of paper near my computer...

I finally got back to this blog, and am relieved I'm not the only one who hasn't posted recently. I did subscribe to Google reader - clearly I need to be more selective about WHAT I read online, or I'll have no time for books!

Making a Splash - or drowning!

I'm probably not the only one saying "what was I thinking?!!" as I race through "Make a Splash" summer reading projects & programs, manage all the usual stuff, AND do 21 Things!
I'm feeling a little overwhelmed, but then that's why I signed up in the first place. :)I'm hoping this will help me get a handle on some of what's out there, and find the tools that will help me be efficient & effective. Right now I feel like I'm drinking from a fire hose!

School Gardens Can Improve Literacy, Numeracy, Study Says

Not tech-related, but something I thought was very cool & plan to share with the local schools that have gardens!
School Gardens Can Improve Literacy, Numeracy, Study Says

I'm a digital immigrant

If you haven't read Born Digital by John Palfrey, you might want to pick it up. He refers to the generation born after 1980 as digital natives, and suggests that they think, learn, and use technology differently than us older folks. For some of us, us, learning new technologies is like learning a new language - we can do it, but the neurological wiring isn't there, so we need to create it. One of my struggles with technology is wanting to understand the "whole picture", or the complete operating manual, before I start. I think it's just not possible anymore to grasp even where the borders are of the huge amount of information on any subject.

My kids & those digital natives who are kind enough to help me with tech stuff say I need to learn to pay selective attention - in "my way" of learning, I want to grasp the whole and then focus on the specifics. The whole is now far too huge - and I start feeling lost. I'm hoping this project will help me keep my bearings!

Here's a link about the book:
http://borndigitalbook.com/

I'm sure there's a way to insert that as a hyperlink, but I'm out of time!

starting out....

I'm looking forward to this - and I'm happy I've at least started the blog. I use a PC at work and a Mac at home, so it will be interesting to see what the differences are for blogging. I've done a lot more with pics @ work than I have at home, so my tech project here is 21 Things, and at home it's organizing my photos. Of the two, I'm guessing this might be easier - just based on the boxes of photos @ home!