Week 6 RSS feeds

With lots of help from the very patient Anie, I have successfully installed two RSS feeds.

Week 3 Apostle birds work as a team

Apostle birds working as a team are an inspiration.

I have been stuck on Week 3, Flickr, as it all seemed too complex to set up another account (on Yahoo) after lots of trouble setting up gmail, trying to find user names and passwords that hadn't been already taken.

On the advice of one of my "local learning advocates" I have temporarily skipped Week 3 and gone on to Week 4, Wikis.

The short video at the beginning was most enlightening: I finally understand the difference between a website and a wiki. Never will I forget to "edit", "save" and "link". So simple and so clever.

I had a look at some of the library related wikis. Very interesting indeed. To my surprise I found myself printing out a book list posted by Kim B from a wiki set up by a county library somewhere in America. The list will go with me next time I am visiting my local public library, as any list which puts "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe as No. 1 is a list I want to read more from. I tried adding a comment on Kim B's page, but didn't see it appear afterwards. Not sure then if I actually added my comment or not. I will give this another go when I have time.

I am feeling rather behind with Learning 2.0, but will continue to plug along, finding time to catch up when I can. Back to the mountains of work on my desk now.

Have just quickly signed on to my blog before I go home, in order to check I remember how to get to it and leave a posting. Work has been very busy this week, so I haven't yet managed to get to Week 3 work on Flickr. I am getting a bit behind with 2.0 but will make an effort to catch up at the end of the week (after a lovely bushwalk on my flex on Thursday).

Summer skies

I have finally, belatedly, got started on Learning 2.0. I know I will learn lots over the next 12 weeks.

It took me a long time to enjoy using computers when I first encountered them in approximately 1990, but as my confidence and knowledge increased, I, along with everyone else, wondered how we ever coped without them. I am expecting to further increase my knowledge and confidence about blogs, RSS feeds etc during the 2.0 learning process. At the moment I would say I know nothing!

Perhaps by the end of the course, I will even consider buying a computer for home. I have resisted this, as I cannot imagine how I would find time at home to make use of a computer. I did own one a decade ago, a lovely little Mac Classic, but I put it out on the footpath as soon as my degree, and its related essay writing, was finished. A passerby took it within a very short time, in the time honoured tradition of the inner west.

At this point I don't see how I will be using the Learning 2.0 knowledge in my work here at the library. I will wait and see.