23 Things

So here we are, the end of the road. It's been quite an interesting journey, with lots of things learnt.

Thing 23, StumbleUpon, was quite pleasant to use. I suspect that it will become a first rate time-user-upper, much like Facebook, ICanHasCheezburger, and other news aggregate and picture posting sites.  It was fairly easy to figure out, although the picture posted on the 23Things blog did not match up with the website's setup on my web browser. I'm not sure if that's an upgrade of the site or just a difference in web browsers, but I eventually figured it out where the settings was.

I have to say, I was surprised to find that my favourite part of this whole process is this blog. I was dragged into it kicking and screaming, but once I got started (after deleting 3/4 of what I wrote for my first post before publishing it), I found it surprisingly easy to write. There is something liberating about putting your words in writing, and being able to speak without being interrupted!

The most useful of the things we learnt about for me is Pinterest, simply because of the wealth of ideas I can find for displays and children's programming, and even ideas of books to read!

I was surprised at how difficult it was to navigate the Creative Commons images, as I hadn't realised how different rules for images from different countries are.

As for how I plan on using what I've learnt, I will probably continue on with this blog and use it to post book and movie reviews, as that seems to be what I enjoy using it for the most. Perhaps I'll expand that further in the future to write about other things that interest me. I will continue on with Pinterest, as it is something I was already using for work, though less so for home use. I don't know if I will keep up with Scoop.it or StumbleUpon, though they seem interesting they do take a lot of time to browse through, and that's something that must be used judiciously when at work. I may just migrate them to home use instead... Wordle was OK to use, but I remember seeing a different word cloud generator previous to the training that seemed like it had more versatility. I may try to find it again to use in some display ideas in the future. Vision is something I use already, so that has not changed, though I may look into GoodReads more in the future. I don't know that I will use podcasts much in the future, and I probably won't be posting many youtube videos, although you never know! I can't say much about Apps at the moment, since I don't have an app enabled device, but if I do in the future I will revisit that. As for Twitter, although it was easier than I thought to use, it's format and uses don't really fit in with my lifestyle at the moment. I will have to revisit that in the future as well.

All in all, exploring these different facets of the web was enlightening, and wasn't as hard as I though. I am hoping that this will make me more open to trying new things in the future, though I know that I will probably remain more of a real world girl than a virtual world one. But at least now I know what people are talking about when they mention Scoop.it or Twitter!