Week 5: #10 Play around with Image Generators

This is my Yahoo Messenger Avatar. I already use it on a somewhat regular basis. I don't log onto Messenger as often anymore but when I do, it's entertaining to see what new outfits they have available. The last time I logged on there, I was surprised to see Vietnamese fashions. That was a shocker, but it made me smile.


----

I tried to use Meez... it was a bit frustrating after a while. when I finally got one done, I accidentally closed out the window and of course lost what I did. Guess I should remember to save more often. grrrr.

Week 4: #9 Finding Feeds

I did the same search on each of the search tools but I found the one provided by Bloglines was the most useful to my type of searches. I found more relevant feeds and was able to find one that caught my interest. I suppose if I were to read more on the web, I would use bloglines to find relevant feeds.

When I was an avid Xanga blogger (back when I was part time employee and full time student), I used a subsciption service very similar to RSS feeds but it was only readily available with that one website. With RSS feeds I find that I can find what I want all in the same place, I dont have to jump back and forth from one webpage and navigate through links galore...

I am going to be using RSS for mainly news, I don't ge to watch the news often, so I either listen to the radio or read it online from different sources.

as of right now, my feeds are:

BBC News News Front Page World Edition
Bloglines News
iTunes Top 25 Songs
Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week
Stars and Stripes <-- military newspaper, it lets me know whats going on that may affect the soldiers.

I just subscribed to the generator blog
I love it!!!! I just found so many cool image generators.... Can't wait until I have more time to explore them all!!!

Week 4: #8 RSS

RSS seems to be for people who read their news and get their information from the net regularly. I have a few blogs that I visit but I am not a reader who visits everyday, however my accounts have subscription options and that usually puts all of my reading interests in one place. I can see how helpful the RSS feature can be... I usually use it just to simplify the format of certain web pages so as to find info faster but I rarely would use it.

I spend majority of my time on a computer already so I try to get what I need done and leave the computer....

Week 3: #7 Photo Editing Tools

This is a picture I took on a trip to Europe. This is one of the cafe's lining the streets of Maastricht.


Original



Edited version using Pixer.us service.
I used the oil painting option...
... it really does look like a painting. :)

Week 3: #6 More Flickr Fun

Learning Style

I'm pretty sure I was supposed to blog about my learning styles. I'm an interactive learner if you will. If the lecturer is interacting with me then I am more engaged in the subject matter and thus more likely to retain any information presented to me. I am one of those people who can read and remember certain things, only if its interesting. But if it is a boring subject, then I have to write notes down and then review them. If it doesn't seem to be soaking in like it should then I usually read the textbook and rewrite key terms and concepts and reorganize everything so it is grouped by subject matter. Being in college, I use this method pretty often. So I suppose you can say I am an interactive learner.

Discover Flickr (Week 3 #5 )

I must admit I was apprehensive of trying flickr but I am never one shy away from something new. Change is inevitable - you have to adapt, you can't always resist it. I'm going to have to find some pictures to upload. Sandra showed us a flickr mashup that I really want to try out.

---

I tried it out, it was pretty interesting.... i liked how each one kind of bubbled up with different types of images.

----

So I uploaded some pictures and.....

Amber Scism, the ILL chick at Aldine once told me that my dog, Snowball looks like the luck dragon from the NeverEnding Story. What do you think?