Wednesday, July 23, 2008

I have been remiss about blogging and so it would seem I have not been keeping up with the weekly activities. Let me remedy that misapprehension.

week 2
Karen helped me set up my RSS feeds. One of the feeds I enjoy most--and usually check daily--is the NY Times feed--I missed it when myOakton swtiched to NPR.
The Common Craft mini-videos must have been designed for people like me--seems like they're the online equivalent of ...for Dummies !

week 3
Have to say I'm not overly wild about Wikipedia--but I also have to say that its accuracy has improved in the last few years. I forget why I originally consulted it (at my children's suggestion) but I was less than happy with the quality of its information. That has changed--perhaps because people can go onto it and edit the bad stuff into oblivion. I do find it a helpful, bottom-line basic resource, a starting point.

week 4
I tooled around on YouTube and Flickr. I'm guessing that these were the same tools used to produce a slide presentation of a friend's granddaughter detailing the last year of her life--and I found that presentation well done and touching.