Thing 23 Reflections

Signing up for this exercise was completely out of character for me. The past is what interests this history major. The past for me includes old buildings, genealogy, heritage vegetables, historic sites, heritage crafts etc. I will be able to use some of what I've learned to follow these interests through the internet. And best of all my daughter "commented" that she's proud of me.

I cannot end without adding that doing the Tracking Form made me finally learn how to copy a URL and paste it into a document!

Thing 7 Technology Talk

After my grandson was born, I, of course, needed a digital camera. I like being able to take many shots of the same event and being able to erase those I don't want. I also have started to photograph the best flowers in my garden. For this project, I signed up for Flickr and have used it for some "things". I have been using Snapfish for a year to share my photos and see those taken by other family members. It is a great way of having a backup place to store favorite photos which are accessible from any computer.

Google Doc is something I hadn't heard of till about 10 days ago when I did thing 18. Since then I read about it in the Sun paper and my sister told me she had just learned about it from our brother. She has a laptop without Office and will find Google Doc a valuable service. I will use it with my family also.

Thing 22 Downloadable Books

Someday I will use this, and soon, I hope. I created an account and watched the tutorial on netlibrary only to find out that HCPL will be dropping this subscription. So I turned to Overdrive where I searched for some titles I would like to hear. Suite Francaise and Water for Elephants were checked out and required holds. Browsing the lists of topics would not work for me as the lists are not tailored to my taste.

Thing 21 Podcasts

For this exercise I tried the podcast directories and found that I would rather simply go to a show that I like such as Prairie Home Companion and get the podcast from there. The explanation and directions for signing up were very brief and clear on this site also. I also tried NPR and explored podcasts through it. In the directories I found that using a tag such as books led me to many podcasts that were out of date or of no interest to me. I did not sign up for anything and do not have accounts in itunes etc. Reading about activex stopped me! At this point they would be of little use to me without a good computer at home or an ipod, mp3 player etc.