#12 Rollyo

I have been exploring Rollyo and have found it very interesting. It seems such a simple idea. Of course I've used Google to search specific sites before, but need to enter them in each time, so I can really see a great use for Rollyo. I've set up a very "vanilla" Australian News searchroll http://rollyo.com/pontipines/australian_news/. Just the basics, but I can come back to it at another time.
I like the tag at the end of the Learning 2.0 entry on Rollyo. "Rollyo - You just never know when this little tool might come in handy". So true! I'm thinking of getting a trampoline for the kids for Christmas - might set up a searchroll for ebay, trading post etc... so I can quickly check them for tramps!

#11 Library Thing

Library Thing is great. I think I will be checking here regularly for member reviews etc... before any more purchases! One criticism - it took me a while to work out that I had to edit the books to include a review (or review when adding the book). I love being able to see other members with similar libraries to my own.

#10 Image Generators

I've had lots of fun playing around with various image generators. This one is from http://www.imagechef.com/ic/make.jsp?tid=Newspaper+Headline. I used the Auto Posting tool to add the image to my blog.
There are a lot of fun image generators out there. I discovered my husband and my celebrity couple name is jojoe thanks to http://www.namemasher.com/. And thans to the good folk at http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/10619 I, strangely, found that my Harry Potter name is Harry Potter - I still don't fully understand that one!
I could go on for hours, but will force myself to stop here. Cheers, until next time.

#8 RSS

Wow, it's been a long time since my last post, but I've been so busy that Learning 2.0 has been a little neglected. Now that we're coming into the quiet time of year, I hope to do a big catch up!

I've been using a bloglines account that someone else had set up for an eAlert for a while now, but it was great to set one up from scratch. I think the hardest thing is to be selective. I can imagine that I might end up adding so many feeds that the information overload will get worse rather than better. I couldn't resist adding the Daily Dilbert cartoon!

Bloglines has already helped me in my work with the eAlerts. It's funny, but I can't imagine having to routinely check all of those websites individually, but that is exactly what we used to do. Maybe one man's lazy, is another's efficient!

Thing #5 Discover Flickr

17072007089, originally uploaded by barrybell.

Well, if this works it will be my first post using Flickr! I've got to say, ATOnet does not make it easy to be a Web 2.0 aficionado! I've been going around in circles trying to do this.

These are the Pontipines - curious little people who love to explore and find new things!

Thing #3

My very first post! Feeling very 21st Century! Setting up this Blog was a lot easier than I expected - I can't wait to start playing around with it.

As for the 7 1/2 habits - I thought the hardest for me would be Habit 4 "Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner", as I was feeling a bit out of my depth with the whole Web 2.0 caper. But seeing how easy this task was, I might have to re-evaluate that. But perhaps I'm getting a bit ahead of myself - I am only up to Thing #3!

The easiest habit for me is a toss-up between Habit 7 "Teach/Mentor others" and 7 1/2 "Play". Habit 7 because I've always loved passing on new and exciting discoveries to others, and Habit 7 1/2 because, well, who doesn't love to play!

More soon...