“simply blog about anything technology-related – anything at all to do with technology. Just share a few thoughts.”
share the url of your blog post with the rest of the team (in comments here or by email)
and “add at least one comment to another participant’s blog. That’s what online communities are all about – connecting and communication. :)”
If you don’t have a blog yet — or don’t have one you’re comfortable sharing ๐ — then just make a new one: see the instructions at 23 Things part 3″. Remember it only takes a couple of minutes!
And you thought you were off the hook just because I’m on leave – foiled again: I’ve cunningly queued this blog post to be sent at a specified time in my future. (Cue Tardis music.)
Never fear, the task this fortnight is to play!
One of the cool things about web 2.0 is mashups. A mashup is when a website takes data from two or more other places and mashes it together seamlessly to create something new. Like real estate agents plotting open homes on Google Maps. Or Mappr which placed Flickr images on a map.
There are a lot of Flickr mashups out there. So this fortnight choose just three to look at quickly, and then come to our next meeting (on the 5th December) ready to tell us about one of them.
Ten Best Flickr Mashups (learning 2.0 hint: don’t actually read the text unless you’re really interested, just skim until you find a link you can click; in this case on page 2)
The latest Thing is to Discover Flickr – a site where you can store and share the digital photos you take.
Start out at the Flickr home page and either “Take the Tour” or click some other link: eg see what photos have been uploaded in the last minute.
Create an account (tip: use the same username and password as your blog to make it easier to remember).
When you’re logged in, find a photo you like. Right above the photo should be three buttons – click “Blog this” and follow the instructions. Once you’ve told it which blog to use and granted access so Flickr and Blogger can communicate (should only take a minute!) you’ll probably need to come back to the photo and click “Blog this” a second time. Then just fill out your title, any words you want to go with it, and click “post”.
Hey presto – a blog post with a photo embedded in it! (For bonus points, Flickr automatically makes sure it comes complete with appropriate citation of the photo’s title, author and url. ๐ )
Many students have complained that when swiping their card in the Eft-pos machine they are not recognised by name but by a very long casual card number. Copy centre have been contacted and will look at it tomorrow.
The original library doing this had their own tracking system, but then they were giving away mp3 players to people who completed the programme successfully – we only get the joy of new knowledge etc. ๐ So they suggest using 43 Things to keep track of your own progress.
43 Things is a social networking site where you can set yourself goals and either keep them private or share them and find out who else is doing the same thing – then you can chat with them about challenges and successes etc.
(2 minutes) Create an account at 43 Things (yes, this means yet more passwords – I divide my passwords by level of security, so one I use only for my bank, and a couple I use for things I want to be pretty secure, and one I use for any old website – that’s the one I use for 43 Things)
click on the green “I want to do this!” button near the top right
click your browser’s “back” button
(2+ minutes, depending how much you explore) Click on the “Your 23 Things” button (third link in the blue bar at the top) to see your own list. Then
click on a Thing you’ve already done
click the brown “I’ve done this!” box
(optional) in the yellow box, select whether it was worth doing / not worth it, and save
(optional) write an entry – this is like a blog entry. By default it’ll just be on the 43 Things website, but if you also want to post it to your own blog ask me and I can help set that up for you
click again on “Your 22 Things” and see how on the right there’s a heading: “[Your username] has done 1 thing”
(just for fun) add your own personal goals to 43 Things as well. ๐
(5 minutes) write a blog post about your experience on 43 Things (if you haven’t created a blog yet, go back to these instructions
A lecturer has corrected an error in a calculation given in this RL text on page 209:
Renewable Energy Power for a Sustainable Future
Godfrey BOYLE
TJ 163.2.R411
I will print out a copy of the page and place it in the front of the book as an unpublished erratum so that student attention is drawn to it. There is also a message on Cog ‘n Blog.
The sliding door to the only women’s and disabled toilet in the Engineering Library is not running well on its rails and won’t close. BIEMS request for urgent fix put in.
Our main entrance doors can be locked open or closed but will not automatically sense anyone trying to get in (thus stay closed, which is very unfriendly). Locked them open and put in a BIEMS request.
