Further along the track

I do like the potential of Wiki, such fun to co-work with others and not be overrun with emails! What a great way to pull everything together and get to the final product without sweat on your brow.

No more printing out of emails, finding misplaced pieces of paper (I only just put it down and now its gone walkabout) and storing papers in a pile until you can create the finished product. Keeping people who are out of the building in the loop for meeting dates and input to documents at the blink of an eye – waaaay to go.

Along the track

Just feeling my way - I don't operate very well in total confusion. I want to see in front of me behind me, to the left and right - I approached my first step with such confidence, ha ha, I couldn't get in the door, window or keyhole. Called for help and that was given gracefully. Hooray, with a change of password I was IN again. (I think the trick is never to get out!) OK along I go, following the track, played with Flickr. Very impressed with some of the photos of the SL, particularly the ones that you would never recognise as the SL! Wow, the photographers are so creative. I'll try to put my favourite shot in my blog.

Success, with a bit of hit and miss I've attached one of my favourites. Must be the palm trees and coloured banners which give our SL a lovely tropical feel.

For reasonably familiar users 15 minutes a day might be a target but when you are unfamiliar 15 minutes is an under statement.

Before I start

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.~ William Faulkner

Hey, what a better place to “read” although to indulge, a public library can throw open its doors and I can actually take books home and they are mine all mine for 3 weeks.

I don’t think I could exist without a book to lose myself in. I can travel the world, sit in on a murder, be privileged to the most inner thoughts of the characters, shed a tear and laugh myself silly in a quite corner or on the train. The latter guarantees a seat all by yourself! Unless of course, there is another avid reader who just wants to connect with your private world – and chatter. Then one has to drag oneself up to a conscious state to answer questions like “have you read...”? Don’t ever think I’ll cuddle up in bed or in a comfy chair with a “good computer”.

But enough ...

Now let’s see how I connect with Learning 2.0 – no wa hoos or yahoos yet.