Thing 23: Is it the end or the beginning????

I can't believe summer is coming to a close and that all of these Things have been learned! :)

My favorite Thing was probably the Readers or RSS feeds. That is something that I use daily now and I never knew what they were before. I also really loved learning through those Creative Content videos. My least favorite thing was probably Twitter! That is surprising because I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE facebook and Twitter is just another form of social networking but it just seems boring to me. I will probably never log onto it again. I thought LibWorm was disappointing too.

Google Docs was definitely something that I will use again. I thought that I knew what it was but really had no idea. I also learned how to actually use Wikis which is nice to understand.

I will be very interested to see what I can access in my school system because so many things are blocked. I hope that I can continue to use my Reader and would like to show my students about mash ups but I know Flickr is blocked. At least I will know what people are talking about as they throw around the jargon of the new technology.

All good Things must come to an end!! :)

Thing 15 Digg

I was quite unsure about this Digg business when the first story I saw was about Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical appearing naked in some movie. Seriously? Do I care? I do have to give credit that there were absolutely NO Michael Jackson stories on the first page in Entertainment.

I like the fact that there is a link to Facebook (as I am ALL about Facebook)! There are all the RSS feeds in the top right corner in the event I want to add it to my Reader. But, I really don't have time to Digg this up ever. Maybe I just caught it on a slow day. There just wasn't anything that interested me in the most popular stories of the last 24 hours. Although: the link to "If a guys says GO MAKE ME A SANDWICH what's a good comeback?" has potential.

Digging is done.

Ning Thing 10

I did not set up a Ning account due to the controversy associated with it. Plus, I am a loyal Facebook person (see Thing 8 and 9). How many social networking sites can one person keep up with? I know that it is good to have options but I don't want to have to work that hard to keep up with everyone! It is too much to seek some people here and others there. It is like looking people up in a phonebook (remember when you used to use the paper ones?). We have two different versions at my house. One, the companies obviously paid to have their numbers entered, so you could only find particular businesses in there. The other is a collection of all the local businesses. Guess which one I want to use!!

Bottom line: Ning is not for me. Not because of the problems. Call me a loyalist.

Facebook Thing 8

This is one tutorial I do NOT need! I am a facebook fanatic and try converting everyone that is still without facebook friends. I think it is a wonderful social networking opportunity. It is interesting how many people from my past (that I really never thought I would interact with again) I speak to on a regular basis. It is all facebook! It would almost be awkward to see some of these people in the store because we are facebook friends not real face to face friends!