I forgot to blog about the wiki exercise that we did a few sessions back. I made a post about a Trinidadian Dinner Party that I'll be attending. For those of you who have access to the RULA2.0 wiki,
you'll find the posting here:
http://rula20.pbwiki.com/Trinidadian-Dinner-Party
Thanks to Lei and Helene for commenting. I've added a comment of my own.
mmm, can taste the seafood already.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Social Bookmarking with Delicious
One of the hassles with this RULA2.0 web2.0 learning program is that it requires so many new online registrations and passwords. For someone who can barely remember his phone number on a good day, this is all TOO much.
However, I did find that setting up the account and downloading the bookmarklet tool was quite easy. The features are fairly intuitive. Finally an e-tool designer that actually gets it! It wasn't too challenging to figure out how to get into and edit my bookmarks' tags. As for tagging, I think this is greatly over-rated. If it works well for you, power to you, but it cannot replace other metadata tools, and dare I say, controlled vocabularies that I like to use. Sometimes a single word just doesn't capture the essence that I'm looking for, and it isn't practical to hyphenate or otherwise conjoin words because of the design of the tagging tool.
I could write a booklet, but don't have time to fool around any more tonight.
Here's a link to my bookmark page:
http://delicious.com/vlem
ciao
However, I did find that setting up the account and downloading the bookmarklet tool was quite easy. The features are fairly intuitive. Finally an e-tool designer that actually gets it! It wasn't too challenging to figure out how to get into and edit my bookmarks' tags. As for tagging, I think this is greatly over-rated. If it works well for you, power to you, but it cannot replace other metadata tools, and dare I say, controlled vocabularies that I like to use. Sometimes a single word just doesn't capture the essence that I'm looking for, and it isn't practical to hyphenate or otherwise conjoin words because of the design of the tagging tool.
I could write a booklet, but don't have time to fool around any more tonight.
Here's a link to my bookmark page:
http://delicious.com/vlem
ciao
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Flickr account now live
I didn't get around to creating my Flickr account on Friday afternoon--the time when I seem to get around to doing the weekely RULA2.0 tasks. Last week was the Wiki exercise and I haven't been back to check out all of the recipes.
I uploaded a couple of photos of some elderly friends that I took last fall, and a couple of photos that my friend Pascal in Marseilles, France sent to me the first week of January 2009 following a big snowstorm. I'll try to upload a couple of photos of his garden in the spring of 2008 for comparison purposes.
To visit my Flickr site, try this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35267005@N08/
I uploaded a couple of photos of some elderly friends that I took last fall, and a couple of photos that my friend Pascal in Marseilles, France sent to me the first week of January 2009 following a big snowstorm. I'll try to upload a couple of photos of his garden in the spring of 2008 for comparison purposes.
To visit my Flickr site, try this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35267005@N08/
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