Exercise 12

As I am home today (heavy head cold) and I can nearly think, decided to look at Rollyo and have created my search roll. It was quite easy for me to think about which sites to add to my Rollyo as I am interested in gardening, crafts and watch mainly the ABC and SBS. Rollyo was launched on 28 September 2005. I have only heard about it through Learning 2.0. I have so much to learn and not enough time.

Exercise 11

All about LibraryThing

Have enjoyed reading what other people are reading, but when I went to use LibraryThing, I found that it sadly lacked Australian content! (But, I am not surprised). Tried to input so many Australian books that I have read and it had no idea what they were. I should have said on my profile that half my reading is Australian books, mainly non-fiction. Hence, when you look into my LibraryThing, it will not show a true indication of the books I read. But, besides that, I am enjoying this blogging. And thanks to people like Space Cadet Beta, I actually know what I am doing! or nearly know what I am doing!

Anyway, here is my LibraryThing:

Flickr Toys - Framing

My creation
Originally uploaded by smileyblogger

Exercise 10

Well I have been having a lot of fun. The first generator I tried was Letter James and this is what I achieved. It has taken me three hours to get to this point, as I first looked at ERLC blogs then thought I would look at Goulburn Valley blogs as I have a few acquaintances and wanted to see their efforts. Then proceeded looking through my bloglines and added a few more. Letter James is one of the free image generators that I could manager easily! (especially as I am working on dial-up!). Anyway, It is the top image and called French Sign.


Still trying to work out how to put some of these images onto this blog and have wasted 20 minutes. Looking at Generator Blog at the moment and found that quite a few generators do not work or should I say, I cannot get them to work. Should I phone someone to help me as it is now 2.40am? I guess Space Cadet Beta would be sleeping and would not appreciate a call at this particular moment. Guess I better go back and try, try again! The second image is from Flickr Toys - Alphabet Soup Word Generator. And the third image is from Cool Text Graphics Generator, but it looked better on the web.


As I think that i might be here for a little while longer, in fact, this could take me till Christmas to complete, decided to try Flickr Toys Framer and produced a great framed picture of Suds the Cat and the 2006 Christmas Bear.

I will now finally be able to look at the entire post and retire to bed!

Exercises 6,7,8 & 9

Yesterday was a very busy day for me on my blog. I have just about caught up with all the exercises and really enjoyed the whole learning curve. I must thank my partner, Lance, for helping me with the graphics on my blog title. I wanted to continue my love of gardening and found a tile on www.squidfingers.com/patterns/ that I liked and he was able to use Corel Photo Paint X3 to expand the tile to fit the header section. My one and only son came to our place for dinner and became interested in what I was trying to achieve. I said that I would like a pattern in the background of my blog but couldn't find where I could edit. Of course, he, being a HTML expert, said, just watch and off he went. I ,of course, supplied dinner - that was easy!!! Yes, I have had help, but the content is mine. But I have learnt so much. Now, have I caught up?

My original heading was going to be for this blog

MODERN TECHNOLOGY IS GREAT
but I love my partner, children, food, wine and friends more!

My library card

Hi, will try again. Forgot to write about how I did this, etc. The instructions for making this Flickr card was easy to follow. The actual posting onto the blog site was easy but you have to real ALL the instructions. Now I must start last week's module - RSS and newreaders.


My creation
Originally uploaded by smileyblogger

Week 3 Photos and Images

I am really enjoying the flickr section. Today took my camera to work (like most days) and I was able to take a few more photographs to finish my collection for the flickr badge. When talking to one of my frequent borrowers today, we discussed how much technology has changed and how libraries have changed since we were children. I remember riding my bicycle four miles to my nearest library when I was ten and thinking how wonderful it was to be able to have the choice of books I had. Now, I look at the choice of books that our younger readers have and wish I too was only just starting to read.

However, these children know so much more than I do about computers and technology. They are not afraid to push any buttons, to try this and that and see what happens. I am thankful to have this opportunity to look at various aspects of technology that I would never have thought that I could achieve success and even understand. Not that I really do understand how on earth flickr works and the background programme that must be there so that everything works correctly. I remember the old punch cards that I used in a finance company years ago in a Honeywell computer, and I thought that that was so futuristic!

Well, hope my flickr bage works. I have had fun looking at the websites and working out what I would like on my blog. I think that the younger staff at ERLC are absolutely wonderful with their innovative blog sites (sorry if I have offended anyone slightly older!). But for me, I like my traditional green site, I feel happy and safe.

Wednesday, 3rd October

Thanks to my workmates I have now been able to change the time settings for my blog site. When I first put a posting onto my blog, I didn't realise that the time would not be Australian Eastern Standard Time. This has now been rectified.

This morning, I attended a Home Services meeting and have a few hours before I am due back at work so thought that I would look at a flickr badge. I have nearly all the photographs required and will slowly work my way through this. Really enjoy taking photographs of our YSL activities, provide plenty of scope for great images. Thanks team, I know that you will appreciate some of your photographs on my blog site!! Once again, have talked to a few people about the badge and hope to have it on my blog soon.

Will let you know how I go!