Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Ravelry Site

So I was discussing some how far technology has come with Cathy Williams while in the branch today and she happened to mention one of the online communities she belongs to called Ravelry.com. The more she told me about this site the more intrigued I was to learn that it was a site for people who knit! It's a place where you can share what you're working on, what you've done, even what kind of yarn you're using! I was so amazed by all this and still am excited that the web has been expanded to groups such as these. It really made me think of all the possibilities that are out there! That's it for my short post on how the internet continues to amaze me:-)

Monday, August 25, 2008

Flickr Experience

Ok, so the next task in this Learn & Play journey involved becoming familiar with a site called Flickr. This is one site that I have very surprisingly never used or even heard of before! I was even more amazed of my ignorance when I began exploring the site and learning just how useful and cool everything it offers can be.
I started by just taking the tour and seeing what it had to offer. After I finished that I was very interested in seeing if it all was as easy as the site made it sound. So I signed up for an account myself and uploaded one of the pictures from a recent trip that I happened to have in my e-mail. The upload went incredibly smooth and so did the editing and making a description of it. You can see the finished product here (original on top, edited on bottom).




















As you can see, the edited picture looks much more colorful. I'd have to say it's the most photo editing i've ever done, and it's not half bad if I do say so myself, lol.
While on my Flickr exploration I also took a look at some popular pictures that were randomly brought up. Here are a couple of my favorites:

Well, that's it for this blog but I have a strong feeling my time with Flickr has only just begun!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Blog

Lifelong Learning & Me

Listening to the presentation on lifelong learning after what seems like a lifetime worth of learning already behind me was a pretty cool experience. Each of these habits are intuitive and subtle but each plays an instrumental part in allowing those who are passionate about expanding their minds and and abilities to as close to their fullest potential as possible.

I'd have to say the one that I find most difficult to practice successfully is to "accept resposiblility for your own learning". Though it may seem a simple thing, it is all too often in the workplace that we get stuck telling ourselves that we know everything we need to in order to do our job successfully. And no matter how true that may be, though it is sometimes hard, we must realize that there are many things that if we made the effort to learn, would take our successful work skills and carry them infinitely on toward perfection. And it is this perfection, that we must make a conscious decision to strive for. That is the essence, I believe, of lifelong learning and the reason I believe it is one of the hardest habits to master.