Reflecting

Creating this blog was a great learning experience for me. As always, the greatest fear is fear of the unknown. NOW I KNOW! Never quit learning, experimenting and, above all, traveling.



Ireland was my last adventure. Newfoundland will be next.

In addition to a great learning experience, this has been a lot of fun. Ms. Dewey is a kick. She has attitude and humor like my daughter, a great combination. Maps and geotagging was probably my favorite exercise. Favorite class in high school: geography. Pandora was great. No song too obscure for her.

I would definitely join in again should we be asked to a similar learning exercise.

Gaming

I confess I LOVE Suduko, Mahjong, Spider Solitaire and the list goes on. So this was fun and a guilty pleasure to know I'm being paid to find a new game to add to my list!

Google Earth

I could spend a lot of time here! I looked at pictures of Cesky Krumlov, a village in the Czech Republic that I visited many years ago. It is still beautiful and hasn't changed much.
Surprising feature: looking up an address in Juneau, AK showed me nearby B&B's. Could be very useful in planning my next trip.

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Online Tools

Google Docs has possibilities. Once again I prefer to keep it simple and not have accounts and passwords for too many various things out there for me to remember. Enjoying the ride however, even if I won't be coming back.

Search Engines

Thanks, Jim, for jogging my memory about a search engine I used to use before GOOGLE kind of took over......it was Metacrawler and it searched the search engines much like Dogpile and Mama. I did the searches for Dublin art galleries in those three and find I still prefer Metacrawler. I will use it again instead of always relying on Google.

Podcasting

http://www.grpl.org/yourlibrary/pods/storytimes.xml

I had trouble with this one--at least with getting the feeds to incorporate into my Google reader. I tried Irish music from "Learn Outloud" and that would not transfer. So then I listened to this children's librarian read a story called "Festival of the Bones" in English and Spanish. Very nice and this will do for my podcasting experience.