Persistence and Passwords

Since it was suggested that we reflect in writing on these tools we are using, I’ll continue to try to do that here. I’ve persisted with Netvibes even though I use a different aggregator, and decided that I’d use the Netvibe one to gather the Learning Altogether Blogs of the people who sounded interesting. I’m really enjoying reading people’s posts so I’m glad I stuck with it. 

The other thing that occured to me is the entire issue of logins and passwords! As we use more and more tools, it becomes necessary to have more and more passwords and logins. I keep an addresss book JUST to record all my passwords. I now enter the site title as the last name, and then I record all my information. I know that pundits suggest you not write down passwords etc. but I’m at the age where if I don’t write it all somewhere, I’m not going to remember it later!

Reflection on Netvibes

I’m finding Netvibes a bit overwhelming, and feel like I have a much better understanding of Google Reader, however, to be fair, I think one of the reasons is because when I used Google Reader, I only brought in a few feeds, and on the Net Vibes site, I’m seeing more than 50 peoples blogs. I wanted to be able to read what everyone was saying, but I wasn’t able to do that – there are just too many! I will persist in learning however.

Oh my goodness!

I JUST looked at the clock!!!! It’s 5:22 A.M. I was so engaged in fooling around with a new blog creator (I usually just use  iWeb on my Mac) that I completely lost track of time. Talk about flow… 

There’s almost no point in going to bed now. I have to be up at eight, and 2.5 hours of sleep is almost worse than no sleep at all! Wish I could say this is the first time this has ever happened to me, but it’s not! It has happened LOTS of times. I love summer when we’re supposedly all not doing anything! (“You teachers – having the whole summer off”) Really, it has always been the time that I learn the most! 

Okay – night all… or I guess I should say … morning!

RSS thoughts

I’m not new to RSS; have been using it for a while now, but I really liked the look of Netvibes, and intend to pursue some mastery of it. The main reason I found it attractive is because I subscribe to several different kinds of feeds; librarian stuff, leadership stuff, book advisory stuff, etc. and I liked the suggestion that I could set up tabs to sort the feeds. Initially I used Google Reader, but then when I got my new computer the RSS feeds were set up within the mail program, and I’ve been using that instead of Google reader.

If at first you don’t succeed…

I was having trouble getting my blog to show up, so I decided to try creating one using WordPress to see if that worked more easily. 

I‘m a late joiner to this Learning Web 2.0 Together group, but I’m still excited to be here. The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know which sounds depressing, but isn’t meant to be! Looking forward to learning! 

Ciao