La Grand Bouffe (Task # 13)

Ok, ok, I am now convinced. Del.icio.us is truly a feast for an academic, student, lifelong learner or internet junkie. Here is my bookmark page.
I remember Mary Allen Bates going on and on about this. but I guess I never really saw the potential for it until now.

The Searchers (Task #12)

I found this to be a very interesting tool. Great for huge subjects like health or business where you might type in something and end up with too many hits and too many bodgy sites. Students and doctors and just about anyone could use this to ensure that they only get information from sites that they trust. I based my search roll on a rare pregnancy disease (a little problem that I myself had to contend with a couple of times) that is difficult to find reliable and up to date information on. So try the itchy pregnancy search!

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Task #11)

OK, I found it. I looked at it. And yes, it's a useful tool. Great for keeping a catalogue of your books and for sharing it with others. All bookworms would love the Librarything!
Check out my catalogue
here

Lust for life (Task #10)

Always loved Peanuts. Yes well I found a Peanuts Image generator . All a bit of fun really.

Newsfront (Tasks #8 & #9)

Well, I ventured into the world of RSS today. Very useful tool. Anything that helps a person SAVE TIME on the internet has to be a good thing. There is information overload out there, so this is is a way of honing down the information you wade through down to what you are actually interested in without having to visit each blog/ home page/ news page etc.
Anyhow have a look at my subscriptions.
Found a terrfic site about urban legends. The site sets out all the urban myths that are circulating and have circulated (on the 'net, verbally etc) and lets you know whether they are true or false. It's kind of like mythbusters on the internet.
See ya

Star Trek: The Next Generation (Task #7)

Didn't take me long to find an emerging technology that I found to be intriguing. the hoo-ha has been started by one Prof. William Crossman and his book about VIVOs (Voice In/Voice Out) Technologies. According to Prof. Crossman, the future of the written and read word is nigh or as some people have called it - the end of literacy as we know it! Crossman points out his theory that voice recognition technology is becoming so "intelligent" that electronically literate societies will be using an 'oral culture' by 2050. Yes! Just like in Star Trek when the characters talk to the computer to find out information. There will be no need to read or write anything, it will all be based on the spoken word. Wow, there's something in this!!!

Desk Set ( Task #6)

My creation, originally uploaded by nonfyction.

Well, I had a little play with all these mish mash mash up programs. Sorry, but some of them are downright anal! I mean some of these people creating these things need to get a life!
There's a lot of living to do, do you really want to spend so many of your limited hours in this life creating a program that tries to place the images from flickr on to a map?
Anyhow, I did have a bit of a bash at making a trading card. A bit of fun but still, I can't say that any of these little add-on programs actually intrigued me. A cute kind of diversion perhaps.

Eyes of Laura Mars (#5)

My Classroom, I, originally uploaded by Robert Pollack.

Honestly, if someone from one hundred years ago was reading this stuff, it would make no sense at all and they would despair of the english language. Blog this and blog that...
Well, I did it, foud a photo on flickr that I thought appropriate to illustrate learning...
And yes, have learned to 'blog a photo' WOW it's all becoming clear!

To Sir with Love (Tasks #1- #4)

Well, I underwent the first tutorial on Lifelong Learning. Of course I was quite pleased with myself as I think I would easily classify myself as a lifelong learner. Information is one of my favourite activities, borne out by the fact that I am a librarian!
Let's see, what habit do I find to be the hardest?? Well, I guess number 4, having confidence in myself as a competent and effective learner. It's not always easy when the going gets a bit tough, to actually persevere and believe in myself!
The easiest for me is viewing problems as a challenge. I kind of think of myself as a warrior against problems. I firmly believe that there must be a solution to everything - usually many more than one solution can be found to almost any other problem!
So there ya go!