I MADE IT!!!!!!!!!

And let me tell you there were a couple'a rough parts there. OK. in summary, I did enjoy most of the things we did (if you check my blogs, I mostly ranted on the bad ones)and I love my blog very much. So much that I feel like scrapping it and starting over now that I know how to do it. I've followed some people and wished mine looked like theirs. Ronda says I can change it, but I am leaning toward a fresh start.
The best thing to come out of this is a noticable lessening of fear of technology in myself. I actually tried some new things on my own on my home computer and I learned how to download pictures from our branch digital camera. I had to learn how to use the camera too rather than just asking someone, "What button do I push?"
We have wikis popping up left and right here at Hilliard and I started a blog with my sunday school class. This is a life changing event, this Learn&Play and I have been changed. Would I do it again? Yes. I am always ready to learn something new. I used to look at computers and say, there's probably a lot I can learn, I just don't know where to start. Thanks for laying it all out in easy steps. And before I fade into the sunset a big thank you to my guru Ronda.

MOLDI

I actually did find something I might want to download. Unfortunately I'm not going to do it at work because its over two hours of listening. See how many things I've got to do "at home" for this learn and play. I was really bogged down by their quick tour. Quick is not a word I would use to describe it. I about fell asleep trying to make my way through all the downloading free softwares and authorizing same software.

Thank you Ronda

This is what I was trying so hard to do at work. Thank you, thank you for your help.

#21

Popcasts. Cool name. Not so cool trying to FIND one. I looked around all three directories and at least found the one I liked. Using it was another thing. Actually it was youtube all over again, except I gave up quicker. I can't justify that much off desk time going to learn and play when teacher collections are piling up, I'm behind on weeding and being slammed by programming just now. I tried. I couldn't connect the podcast to my bloglines account. I did update the account though, for what that was worth. I need a picture in my blog in the worst way. I may put one in just to vent.

youtube is a failure

I tried three times to do this entry. I had fun initially finding videos, but no one could help me embed one to this post. None of the experts ( and I asked more than one) here at the branch could help. The blog on learn & play was straightforword but when I did it the way the blog said to it didn't work either. ( I know it doesn't sound like it but I did try that first.) I find myself so frustrated that I couldn't do one of these things that I really wanted to do. I've spent too much time trying to figure it out. ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See how mad I am. What a total waste of time this was. My good mood at finding something fun couldn't sustain me through repeated failure. I sure hope podcasts don't make me this upset.

Tooling Around CML

It was easy. I found my way to the blog from the page and tried out a couple of tools. I got confident so I posted a comment but signed in using the wrong blog. Have I got too many accounts and passwords? I do believe my head is buzzing. Maybe I better eat lunch.

I did the tango with Zango

O.K. now there's too much fun. I thought everyone would do a web 2.0 on books, so I wanted to do something different. Organization, no - too necessary. I might never come out of a site. Music, no - too scary. O.K. Games? Yes. I just want to say, I was lucky to get out of there alive! Ask Linda, she kept hearing some weird sounds from over here at my computer. Zango is super!!! Maybe if they didn't have a filtered site it would be a great one to introduce to the kids. Maybe not, no one would want to get off the computers. Maybe adults could become addicted to this. I sure could. I like the awards site almost better. I have at least 15 people to show it to.