Podcasting...recast

you learn something new every day. Today i learnt that I need an mp3 player! Not only can I podcast (download to my pc) and listen live but I can save the podcast to listen to later. Doh! I knew this but had not actualy successfully done this. Now I need it to be portable, so off to purchase an mp3 player.

Skyped!

I've been to Skypeland but didn't find anyone I know. But now I know what it is about and when the occaision arises and I have someone overseas I'll know what to do. A number of the CALD community organisations I am working with are using Skype to connect up with family and friends around the world.

Almost there....

I have been Facebooking with Melanie (Lexulus or scrabble), my younger family members and some friends. I talked to my niece and nephew about being on facebook and they sought me out. Interesting to find new way to communicate with the younger generation. I don't feel I am totaly successful as I don't stay on Facebook all of the time but dip in and out.

Have signed up for Second LIFE but struggling to find how to get started. If you are there look for me, now known as Lulu Grantly, whatever.....

Will perservere with this but in the meantime I am going to have a look at Skype.

Kerri and Old Faithful

Hello Kerri!
this is the first time that I have looked at a webcam and seen someone that I know. Kerri is off in the wilds of America (Yellowstone National Park) and the wonders of technology have brought her directly into our lives (in the office).

The Old Geiser with Kerri is not her husband but the geiser (puff of smoke) in the background, her husband is standing beside her.

The added picture is the Old Geiser going off!

Pay for news online says Rupert

My journey into the future using web 2.0 technologies and the thought of web 3.0, has led to interesting discussions with colleagues and friends. The other day after attending the web 2.0 discussion here at SLV, I mentioned the idea that newspapers as they exist today may not be here in 20 years time to the horror and downright dismissal of the idea by some friends.

The next day on the radio, I heard the comment that Rupert Murdock wanted to charge people to read news online from his companies. Interesting idea I thought but no thanks I'll go elsewhere for my news.

Here is an article from the guardina on what he said.... Rupert Murdoch's online folly

Guess who has their own Myspace page?

Phryne Fisher, well known gal about town (in the 1920's in St Kilda).

Well actually, Phryne is the main character in a series of books by local Melbourne writer Kerrie Greenwood.

check out Phryne's Myspace page...

Myspace

Well, I am surprised by Myspace. I have been exploring the many things availabile on Myspace and love the music, arts and film stuff I have been finding. Not sure that I would join up at this stage but love the ability of artists to have a creative web presence.
The son (17 yo) of one of my friends is is a band in WA and he has a music clip on Myspace, and it is on some list of newcomers or some such thing on jjj.
Anyway I can see myself visiting Myspace a bit from now on.

RSS Feeds

had a play around yesterday and joined a reader, uploaded blogs and newsfeeds but then struck a rock! Could not link the reader to my blog. Today approached it from the other direction - went to the ABC and joined their RSS Feed area and success! Now have latest news items appearing on the right top of my blog. Phew.....!

exploring Mind Map

Tried to sort out my week on a mind map............

Cannot work out how to link the b#&*$****! mind map, HELP!

Newsletters

had a play around with this, quite handy. Joined up and waiting for email advising this has gone through. Bit frustrating waiting as have desinged a newsletter but waiting to insert picture. Can see that this might be good for some of the community groups we work with.

Poor memory

thought I would have another go at adding a picture, I find that when i go back to try something I have done before, I can't always rememebr, can't spelll either....

More Food blogs

another couple of food blogs....

Butter Flour Sugar

Nourish Me

Vanilla Slice

A Goddess in the Kitchen

one little detail

Food......

Websites to look at later following a food theme
yummmm............
Slow Food Australia
Research Centre for Food and Drink
Barbara Massad Blog
The Australian Index - Food Blogs

Google Maps featured in the Age 27/4/09

Did you read the Age newspaper on 27th April and see the article about the ...Melbourne man has completed a six-month-long quest to turn topography into typography.....

Google Maps

wiki schmiki

I like the democracy of wikis but may be today is not the right day for me to be looking at wikis. Although one of my projects has a wiki and I love it. I get an email to alert me to new posts and in my own time I go and have a look. I have found it a great way to keep up to date with what they are doing in the project. Also there are some great resouirces which I have found really useful. I need to do a search and find some wikis on topics I am interested in - that is really the key to all of this!

Facebook, Spacebook, My Face.....

I have jumped a section to go and have a look at Facebook, after a request from one of the CALD SS groups enquiry for help. i keep getting the names wrong and cobbling them together hence spacebook and my face.

At this point in the journey I am feeling old....what is this facebook thing...so much personal information...I feel like a voyeur! It really is a different way to communicate and reach out to others. I will keep on going and learning but may hold back a bit on some info on my life.

Linda

Ongoings

I am pushing ahead with the program but depending on what I am looking at, I am not spending much time on the learning then and there. What I am finding is that I keep finding great stuff after the fact. Here are a couple of, I think interesting, fun things.

Scared Wird Little Guys football song featured on the ABC. Click on the audio link with the article Lindy writes.... scardies.

Happy April Fools Day

Google Books and Newspapers and Magazines

another useful tool but not for today. I can see how I will use Google books but not now. A friend who is a lecturer in creative writing uses Google books quite a lot for finding those excerpts or quotes in books. Fantastic for sourcing quotes etc. I can see that I will come back to this in time.

Adel showed me the Google newspapers and magazines link. Useful and easy to get lost here. This is not just Goolge News but has archives of articles as well. Very useful.
News archives
Google News

Google docs and other things

found this interesting and easy to use but struggled with renaming docs as it picked up the first string of text for the name, so if anyone else has done this...HELP!

A couple of weeks ago, Colleen, Gabriel and I went to a forum hosted by RMIT for disability support officers in tertiary institutions. It was very interesting with some great guest speakers....you will here more about this soon. But one thing which links to Google docs is 'Access Apps'

Access Apps has been developed by Regional Support Centre Scotland and North East.
It consists of over 50 open source and freeware assistive technology applications which can be entirely used from a USB stick on a Windows computer.
check it out

Google Maps

I am a user of Google maps and street view. Last Friday I drove to Morwell and visited one of the community orgs in my disability project. I printed out a Google map page to take with me.

I have found my house and thought, my goodness I need to clean up the verandah!

iGoogle

I have decided to dedicate some time this week to catch up on my learnings and my blog. So onward to iGoogle. I actually set up mu iGoogle account a oouple of weeks ago. One of the things I have started to do is explore web sites rather that drop in, grab the thing I want and then move on. So I explored Google and set up my iGoogle account but found that I was still just using the main google home page. So now I will go to my iGoogle page and check out my weather feed, my news feed, my buudist quote feed, and the cheapest petrol feed and see how I go. Maybe too much extra bits on my iGoogle page, hmmmm we will see.


BUT I vote that in this remodeling phase of Vicnet that we consider taking on some of the perks that Google staff have.

Linda

Searching for a Blog

Did you know that Google has a Google Blog Search page?

Google Blog Search page

A Learning Outcome

As I go on this journey, I find that not only am I learning while following the curriculum, but I am taking the time (when available) to explore other options on websites that I visit. I am a user of Google for searching and now calendar and lately (I am sure as a result of this course) that I am exploring other areas of the website. So I have skipped ahead of the Web 2.0 curriculum without knowing it and have an iGoogle account, an email and have been exploring accessibility options.

So one of my learnings is to take the time and look around.

Another is this is not a linear journey. I move on to a new topic and then find that something triggers off a revisit to a previous topic and I learn something else.

EBooks

Before I knew it I was off to ebooks. As previously noted, I follwed Michael's link to YRPL library and have now become a member. Also have become a member at the World Public Library for a small fee. I can see that I am going to need to get an mp3 player as I like the idea of both pod casting and ebooks and want to download onto something I can take with me. This one is a keeper for me!

World Library

Yarra Plenty Library

Project Gutenberg

Gutenberg Australia

Jig saw

Another jig saw, for cat lovers.

I thought I would have another go at posting a jogsaw, could I remember how to do this. Well not really but the ability to copy html code from my previous blog post will hopefully work without too much tinkering. Here goes......

cat in a hammock

Podcasting or time shifting

I am a web 2.0 user! For some time now I have been podcasting and not realized that this means I am au fait with web 2.0. I have been podcasting biography type stuff for some time, and today while exploring the exercises in the podacst section, I got lost with Ramona Koval's Book Show and listened to an interview with Stella Rimmington.
Then I explored a couple of the other sites listed - the Yahoo link doesn't work. So I went to Yahoo and searched but got a bit confused.
Next I was looking at some of the posts from other bloggers, I followed Michael's link to YRPL. Of course i know who they are, and remember hearing about their online books etc but had not been there before. I listened and enjoyed an Amercian Indian meditation, so thanks Michael.
Looking at some of the podcasting sites it all seemed a bit overwhelming in regard to the choices but it comes back to what I am interested in and following that path.

Radio National Book Show

I can see this is going to be a favourite web 2.0 thingy I am going to use more of.

Uni computer lecturer makes YouTube his classroom

Featured in today's (5//3/09) Age newspaper is an article on using YouTube as a method of getting the lecture out there by Senior lecturer Richard Buckland of university of NSW. Uni computer lecturer makes YouTube his classroom

Easier viewing of YouTube

Easier viewing of YouTube for people with disabilities.

In my research for our project: Internet for People with a Disability, I found this website by Christian Heilmann in England (I think). Some people with a disability like to view websites with limited colours or simplified interfaces. So check this out...
easier YouTube

bomb(er)s away!

bomb(er)s away!
Jame Hird Tribute
I must admit this had me bamboozled. i read help to no avail. i consulted with colleagues. i looked at kicking crunchy leaves and saw how it should look. and with the help of my colleague 'I need a cup of tea..." we found the answer, so here goes

library thing browsings

had a quick explore around and set up my account. made one book deposit.

http://www.librarything.com/home/lindawheeler

iME

it is Friday afternoon, and people have been talking about their blogs, IPODS, iPhones and iTunes, so i think i might rename my self as iME. This is getting silly which is appropriate for a Friday afternoon because after all the conversations floating around me I feel the most non IT literate person. i went on to my blog and thought i would catch up on what people are doing and become a follower to each of the blogs but the simplest tasks can sometimes be the hardest. But i pushed through and i have done it! So now i have a met an IT challenge so call me iME.

Join me in a Jigsaw

Garden

Garden
Originally uploaded by linda263

The garden around Christmas 2008. Waiting for friends to join me for lunch.

IMGP0243

IMGP0243
Originally uploaded by linda263

Ruby and Rufus enjoying the garden from the veranda

blurred around the edges

Another go with image generator using FD Flickr toys. Not sure about allowing to upload through Flickr, says it allows others to access my images????

image generator

This is my first attempt at image generating as part of module 2. I have used Image Chef: www.imagechef.com
but had to resize my image first as it was too large.
This is one of the things I have been struggling with but good old google helped out. My search provided this website
Shrink images: www.shrinkpictures.com
Anyway this is Miss Molly in a lovely picture frame

Gadgets

Colleen mentioned gadgets to me. So I have had a look at them and added a couple: Favourites for links and a game. Very simple - hangman, come and visit and go to the end of my blog and have a go.

TwoRs

TwoRs
Originally uploaded by linda263

Moving into Flickr now, I have uploaded Ruby and rufus, and thought why not try putting it in my blog, here goes....

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Adding links to Blog

hi fellow bloggers. How did some of you add links to your blogs? I have seen this on a couple of blogs and would like to learn how

thanks

Linda

A bit of experimentation

a bit of talk around the office about people starting their blogs, so thought i would return for a quick look. Uploaded a pic and filled in some details in myprofile section. And checking on some of the followers??!

Getting Started

Orange team have met and we are on our way.

This is my first Blog.