Wikis

Previous to this weekly exercise in wikis I was familiar with wikipeadia but that was the full extent of my knowledge. Now I realise that wikis can have a multitude of uses, appeal to many types of personalities and people. Although I can not see a use for wikis for me personally I do use wikipeadia regularly.

I did join wetpaint to practise the exercise but I would never use it personally. In regards to work there may be a niche for it but I feel that would be in the future as it comes more popular.

RSS Aggregators/ feeds

I've always wondered what the rss feeds icon meant. Well now I have a good idea. I do think that we would find it hard to find enough time in our busy lives time to look at these feeds daily even if the news was coming to us instead of us having to look for it.

I chose to include a couple of newspapers, a blog or two and a financial feed. And of course the suggested library link and the training Learning 2.0 feed. No doubt as I get more familiar with all of these new techniques and am able to employ them on a daily basis it should become second nature. Hopefully anyway!

Flickr

Today we have the new challenge of Flickr. I have decided to search for a photo on hot air ballooning. 

This is something I have wanted to do for a long time and amazingly I will get my wish in a month or so. As a special treat for my upcoming 50th birthday my husband is treating my family and me to hot air ballooning in the Avon Valley. I can't wait. This is a photo of what is to come. For me anyhow!!

Hopefully this will be me and my family in May