The Life of CRiley

#12 Explore social networking

2008-03-10T08:04:00.000-07:00

I found MySpace, Facebook, and Ning to be interesting. Due to time constraints I was not able to spend much time with each. I could find no friends on MySpace but I might have been doing something wrong. I found Lyle on Facebook. Didn't have much time for Ning.

I tried working at home on these on my desktop computer because I've had so much trouble with the Mac laptops at school and having to override so much. Unfortunately, all I did was load my computer down with spyware and possibly a virus. So, I wasn't able to get anything done. I have protection on my PC but I guess that I'll have to get in touch with SBC and see if they can help me.

Post message on #10

2008-03-06T13:26:00.000-08:00

On my Dell, all of the options at the top of the message appear unlike any of the Mac notebooks. But I can't get my funny picture of George Bush to link. I'll try to get Lyle to help. Meanwhile, I'm moving on.

My Uncle Grady, who stepped in as a father figure when my father deserted the family, is in the hospital with pneumonia and cancer in his right lung. I really want and need to go see him.

#10 Online Image Generators

2008-03-05T09:24:00.000-08:00

The online image generator is fun. I made an "I finished the TAKS test cartoon" with my student who had finished the TAKS test. I also selected an image with President George Bush carrying his 'favorite' book.

For some reason, when I use my librarian's iMac,my Promethean MacBook, even the computer on wheels the toolbar at the top of the post will not show up.Actually, I can see the ABC for spell check, the picture for Add an image, and the word Preview twice but that is all. I switched to the Dell in my office and I am going to see if I can link with my image. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

P.S. Little things like the absence of the toolbar or whatever it is called are one of the things that has been so frustrating to me. I didn't know that the options were supposed to exist until Lyle told me.

Thanks bunches, Lyle

#11 LibraryThing

2008-03-04T19:10:00.000-08:00

I went and created my Library Thing list. It was E-A-S-Y compared to most other things I have done!

:>)

#9 Adding News or library Related Blogs

2008-03-04T18:35:00.000-08:00

I chose to add some news feeds because I already have a number of library related feeds. I write the news and sports news for our school announcements every day. I have been scouring the Dallas Morning News every day for thirty minutes or more looking for Dallas local and sports news as well as Mesquite & M.I.S.D. news for the students to report. I am hoping this will shorten the time that I have to spend accessing news stories and sports scores!

#8 RSS Feeders

2008-03-04T18:12:00.000-08:00

I had already created an account through bloglines earlier. I think it must have been at another inservice. i have several feeds but will go in an edit it at a later time and add some different sites.

Blog for #7 Cool Tools

2008-03-04T17:56:00.000-08:00

I went to cool tools that Google has and signed up for Google calendar. I haven't set anything up in the calendar yet due to time constraints though. i have to be moving on for now.

Mosaic of Senator Bob Duelle's McWhorter Visit #6

2008-01-17T12:43:00.000-08:00

Flickr Mashups #6

2008-01-17T11:51:00.000-08:00

After many attempts and some very serious frustration levels, I finally managed to create a combination photograph of State Senator Bob Duelle's visit to McWhorter Elementary in December of 2007. Senator Duelle came to school to present every third grade student with their very own dictionary. The dictionaries were a gift from a Republican Women's group. Mr. Duelle spoke to the third graders about getting the best education, going to college, improving their reading, and setting goals. He also held a question and answer session afterwards.

Maybe I'll learn how to post one of the mosaic pictures of his visit soon! To tell you the truth, I was ready to quit after trying to work on #6 at least twice before. I don't handle frustration very well; chalk that up to my ADD. I guess that I like concrete directions as opposed to something that just says explore. I want to begin at START, go to 1,2,3,... to the end. That is the way that I am happiest at.

I know that I probably won't get to #23 by any of the deadlines. It takes me so long to manage even one. I hate to quit. I don't like leaving things unfinished. It seems like I should be able to do something if everyone else can but these exercises have given me real fits!

Thing 4

2007-12-03T15:17:00.000-08:00

I registered my blog, The Life of CRiley, and have posted it. I keep getting a message about my email address but haven't figured out what it means yet. It says something about confirming my email address but when I try to do that I keep getting an error message. I'll keep trying! That's one thing that can be said about me, is that I'm persistent.

You know what? I learn something new every day. I just discovered the ABC check mark over there in the left hand corner near the word Preview. I'm a pretty good speller but not at all good at typing. My errors ususally come from pressing the wrong key. I didn't think that we had spell check but now I know that we do. Yea!

Thing 3 The Life of CRiley

2007-12-03T14:52:00.000-08:00

Leave it to me to post Thing 5, My Friend Flikr, before I posted anything about Thing 3 and Thing 4. In the scheme of things I guess it really doesn't matter that much.

In a world of childrens' books and characters, I feel a lot like Tacky the Penguin marching to the beat of a different drum! He gets where he's going just differently than Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect.

So I've set up my blog, The Life of CRiley, named after the old television, The Life of Riley. Someone else had already taken that name for his/her blog. I added my Thing 1 and Thing 2 posts on that dreary, weathered, Monday inservice day. I created my Avatar as well.

I'd like to say that I would have started my own blog anyway but I'd be telling a story. The good thing about The 23 Things is that it is making me explore and learn new things. It was hard, actually more frustrating than hard, to work on this that Monday. Now that my bone graft is healing and my face isn't swollen, things are going a lot smoother.

My Friend Flickr Thing 5

2007-12-03T08:56:00.000-08:00

Did you get the title play on words? Maybe you have to be age impaired (i.e. older) to understand it. I remember the movie,
My Friend Flicka, from my youth.
I am finally back at work on The 23 Things, hurray! I visited the Flickr web site and took the tour. I like the suggestions that they listed for tagging items. I think that I will try to organize my photos using this setup in the future:

photo-person(s)name or photo-subject

photounclegrady photovacation2007

This way I can go to the photo ________ and see my pictures all in the same place. I have been saving them with the person or activity first so they are all over the place. The new way will make it a lot easier for me!

Thing 2

2007-10-22T10:06:00.000-07:00

The easiest of The 7 and 1/2 Lifelong Learning Habits is #7 1/2, Play! I like to play and it comes very easily to me. I like to learn new things as well but I don't have the confidence to write about it and post where everyone can read it. This leads to the hardest of the 7 1/2 habits for me, have confidence in yourself as a competent effective learner. I think that viewing problems as challenges is also hard for me and that has to do with life experiences more than anything else.

Thing 1

2007-10-22T09:22:00.000-07:00

I want to learn about and experience all of the latest technologies. This promises to be an easy, guided introduction to many new tools that I would otherwise find too intimidating, confusing, and time consuming. I need help when trying to learn something new and I am trying to be more organized.

Today is not one of my better days. My jaw hurts from last Thursday's bone graft and gives the phrase, "Grin and Bear It" a whole new meaning for me. Trying to be creative on a usual day is easy compared to trying to do this today. I will keep trudging along. I find that setting up the blog was a little confusing but not that hard. I wasn't sure what to do, when, but having Alice, Sue, and Judy around really helped. They are far ahead of me because I stopped to go to the doctor's office.