Travel Diaries of a Web 2.0 Newbie

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Thing 14 – Weapons of choice

October 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Call me a pessimist, but it had to finally happen. After having had an amazingly glitch-free run using all different sorts of Web2.0 resources, I finally got frustrated during this Thing. Now that pulse rate and blood pressure are back to normal I feel able to share my feelings with the group…
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Thing 12 – Create a Slideshow!

October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I enjoyed this one – I think it appealed to the creative side of me. The biggest challenge was trying to convey meaning simply through visual images i.e. without lots of text to explain. I opted for the Bubbleshare format because the slideshow example looked very bold and uncluttered, but I may also have a [...]

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Thing 11 – Photosharing with Flickr

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

You’re right – Flickr is addictive. I started off looking for some images to do with DNA, which I’ll be teaching again soon. But then I started the lethal, “Oh, what about this?” and the “I wonder if there are any good images about this?” trains of thought and time had soon whizzed by, again.
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