Weeks 3 & 4-Explore Flickr

#5. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.
# 1.What Flickr is?
Flickr-is photo - sharing website that lets you upload photos and make them interesting to the audience by adding comments , descriptions.
#2. What can you do with Flickr?
You can - Upload pictures from your desktop , send by mail or use your cameraphone.
- Organize your photos using collection(grouping of sets) ,sets (grouping photos
that you can organize around a certain theme ex. Places from Romania) ,
tags (keywords or labels that you add to a photo to make it easier to find later
ex. adinaromanina)

- Share - use groups and privacy control to share your photo.
- Maps - share were your photos were taken and see photos taken nera to you.
- Make stuff -sexy cards , photo books ,frame prints.
- Keep in touch -get updates from your family and friends.

#3.How to become a Flickr's member?

Sign in at http://www.flickr.com/( if you have a yahoo email address you can use it -Flickr is owned by Yahoo). Once you sign in you'll get an option to change your screen name on Flickr and your screen name can be different from your yahoo login"http://www.flickr.com/photos/" URL.
ex.www.flickr.com/photos/adina-romania.Your alias cannot contain any spaces, and may contain alphabet letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens--normally a combination of these works well too.
Once you have created an alias, you can send your Flickr web address to anyone--and people can see your public photos even if they are not Flickr members.

#4. How do I post photos to my blog?

There are 2ways to do that:
A.
First you'll have to configure an external blog. You'll be guided through the set-up process, and at the end you can try a test post to make sure everything works.
When that's done, you can blog any public photo you see on Flickr. When you're looking at a single photo, for example, http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=23754, you'll see a "Blog This" button above it.
Note: If you don't see the "Blog This" button, you probably need to make the photo public (click "edit" next to the privacy indicator under "Additional Information" on the photo's page).
Click the "Blog This" button for the photo you want to post. If you've set up your blog, you can post immediately by adding a title and body for the post. There's a link to your blog as well so you can check that the entry looks OK.
You can set up as many blogs as you like.
You can also create your own Flickr moblog. When you upload a photo to Flickr via email, and you have at least one blog set up in Flickr, we can post your photo to your blog automatically.


B.
You can now upload photos using Blogger Images — the image icon in the post editor's toolbar lets you upload images to your blog(s):
When you click this icon, you'll get a window that allows you to select an image or multiple images from your computer. Just click the "Browse" button to locate the ones you want. Alternatively, you can enter the URL of an image that is already online and have it inserted into your post.
If you click on the link for choosing a layout, you can customize the way your images will appear in your post:
The left, center and right options will determine how the text of your post flows around the pictures. This size option lets you scale the pictures to different sizes within this posting area. Note that the picture will still be uploaded in its full size; this option just determines how it is scaled within the content of your post.

My first blog...my first experience with online learning

Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process

#2. 7 1/2 Habits of highly successful lifelong learners

Lifelong learning

-never too soon or too late

-takes place at all levels and in all formats,formal,non-formal,informal

-is attitudinal

7 1/2 Habits

1-determine your goal

2-obstacles-that may impact achieving your goal

3-every obstacle=learning opportunity

4-have confidence

5-tools =that are useful to lifelong learners-ex:books,technologies,classes,web pages,mentors

6-use technology to your advantage

7-teach-the best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else

8-play

I believe that the easiest habit is the first one,it is so easy to set a goal,but it is so difficult to accomplish,to bring it to an end. The hardest one is the second one,the obstacles.

The best example that I can think of is our life style.

To eat well and exercise are divine but there is no surprise that many of us end up fooling ourselves.

Eat right and stay fit is so easy to say and nearly impossible to accomplish.

Weeks 1 & 2

Weeks 1 & 2

#1. Read this blog and find out more about the program
#2.Set up your own blog add your first post

-23 Things helps library staff to learn about new technologies,how to set up and maintain their own blog,what flickr and mash-ups are,and also to become familiar with podcasting,online applications,video and image hosting site
-What is a blog and how can be created?
A blog is your easy -to-use web site where you can post things that you find interesting,,links to websites you want to remeber....a learning contract....

A blog can be created in 3 easy steps.
A.-create an account -use Blogger- http://www.blogger.com/ -a popular free online blog hosting service that is extremly easy to use
B.-name your blog
c.-choose a template

Once you’ve created your blog you can add posts and edit http://www.blogger.com/ and can view your blog-http://(xxxx).blogspot.com

Blogging is about connecting with and hearing from anyone who reads your work and cares to respond and you can choose weather you allow or delete any comments you would like.
-You can design your blog by using Templates,Custom Colors and Fonts or you may drag ,drop page elements,post photos.

23 things - My learning contract

1 Read this blog & find out about the program
2 Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process.
3 Set up your own blog & add your first post.
4 Register your blog and Track your progress to journey into Learning 2.0 together.
5 Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.
6 Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites
7 Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week.
8 Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Bloglines newsreader account.
9 Locate a few useful library related-blogs and/or news feeds.
10 Play around with an online image generator.
11 Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
12 Roll your own search tool with Rollyo.
13 Learn about tagging and discover a Del.icio.us (a social bookmaking site)
14 Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
15 Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.
16 Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
17 Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.
18 Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.
19 Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and write a blog post about your findings.
20 Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
21 Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.
22 Take a look at the titles available on Overdrive or NetLibrary or Project Gutenburg and learn about downloadable audiobooks.
23 Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog and learn about where to go from here.