Thing # 3 (I think) continued

I haven't been working on my Blog for several weeks now. But that doesn't mean I haven't been learning. I set my Blog aside when I tried to find the citation information for my hammock photos. I tried going back to find them again, but it was too time consuming. I know I should take them off if I'm not going to cite them, but it's so time consuming to relocate the necessary information. Good teachable moment to myself to cite on the spot from now on.

Meanwhile, I've been trying to teach myself how to put my booktalks on to my library's home page using voicethread.com. As usual, with me anyway, it's a real time consuming experience. I showed the site to someone else at my school who is tech saavy and she got it right away, and I'm still struggling with it. Mind you, it was the typical thing that always happens to me: the photo that I wanted to download for some reason wouldn't, so my sample never looked like the model. It didn't occur to me that something was wrong with the photo I was trying to download. I kept thinking it was me doing something wrong. When, after hours, I gave up on my photo and tried another, it started working. It's the story of my life: the tech people who help me are always saying, "Gee, I don't know why that's happening. I've never seen it do THAT before." Anyway, the point of this is that I never would have even attempted booktalks on voice thread if I hadn't started with this Web 2.0. Having you gently begin me gave me courage to explore a little on my own. Here's my underconstruction voicethread: http://voicethread.com/#u31870.b37054.i194263. I'm not sure if it will open because I had to type it in and not copy and past it. It wouldn't copy and paste and I couldn't remember how to get to the place where it says want to embed this.

Anyway, I'm going to be playing with my voice thread now for a while (not right now, but in the coming weeks, so I might not get back to Flick and Web2.0 for a while.