23 Things - Thing 8 (pt 2)

Ok figured it out - nothing like overlooking things.

http://www.bloglines.com/public/Kymirryn

23 Things - Thing 8

RSS Feeds is the focus of this thing, it's supposed to be one of the most difficult exercises but I think the biggest difficulty I had was to find uninterrupted time to explore and play with Bloglines. In fact that's been the most difficult thing so far. As I've mentioned before I don't have internet access at home, and at work there is limited time ( and mental resources) to get involved and interested in all of the things we are asked to do. Anyway back to RSS feeds. I like the idea of it - being able to keep up to date without having to visit masses of site etc. I have mostly book related feed on my bloglines account but that's going to change when I get around to adding my 'keep current with these authors' sites.
I was going to post the url to my bloglines but I can't seem to figure it out and I've run out of time so expect another post about this - I'm not giving up.

23 Things - Thing 7

Ok this one is supposed to be a post about technology. I've been thinking a lot about this recently. Most of my feeling seem to be summed up in two sentences - "I love technology - you can do the most amazing things" and "Now how the hell do I get away from it?".
I've really enjoyed looking at the things we are asked to do for the 23 things, but there are times when I look at what I think I should be doing in my job, what I need to do, what I should be looking for / learning / understanding and the time and resources available and wonder how in heaven's name I'm going to keep up. Things seem to keep moving faster and faster. So I think technology is a wonderful and terrible thing at the same time. It's also forced me to think about things differently and to deliberately choose to take my life in a different direction from what I expected. And don't ask me for details - I'm not going to give any.

23 Things - Thing 6

I've been looking the mashups and 3rd party sites and I think the site I enjoyed the most was the FD Flickr Toys site because there were so many interesting things to do. I loved some of the frames you could put on your photo, the idea of the trading cards (I'm working out what kind I want to create) and I thought that the Bead Art sounded pretty good too. I also intend to make a slide show of the photos of my trip last year and send it to my sister to torture her.

23 Things - Thing 5 (Flickr)

Austria - Day One
Originally uploaded by kymirryn

Yes I'm back - I've been sick and moving workplaces so my blog hasn't been a priority.
Today's image comes to you from Austria courtesy of my trip to Europe. I should mention that I found it really easy to upload, edit tags etc. and post. I love Flickr.

23 Things - Thing 2

Lifelong Learning - The Easiest and the Hardest

Ok, Thing 2 asked us to think about which of the 7 1/2 habits of lifelong learners would be the easiest and hardest for us to do. I've thought about it and I believe that the easiest thing for me to do will be habit 3 [which is View Problems as Challenges] because I try to do this will all the problems I come across. I think that this makes me a happier and more positive person as well as giving me a way to deal with difficult things that happen.

I think that hardest thing to do will be habit 1 [Begin with the end in mind] or habit 5 [Create your own learning toolbox]. Habit 1 because this will require me to think differently about certain things, I have not made a point of thinking where I will need to be or where I would like to be. Habit 5 because I am NOT organised. Sometimes I like living in chaos - it gives me all sorts of ideas [wicked giggle].

Anyway for more info (if you're interested) on the 7 1/2 habits have a look at http://www.plcmc.org/public/learning/player.html

It's also worth figuring out how you learn things ie if you need to write something down for it to stick or if you need to actually do it to. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles if you're curious.

1st post

Hi peoples - welcome to my first post. I've never had a blog before so this is going to be verrry interesting. Although I'm doing this as part of the Canberra Learning 2.0 I do intend to keep posting after the course is finished - provided I still have access to the internet of course. This is a bit of a bugbear for me and I'm sure I'll complain about it later.

Please note: also can't edit well. Thankyou to A for pointing out my error.