Instant Messaging - Week 9

Looked at IM today. I feel like I'm on overload as far as all the different accounts I'm creating and trying to keep straight with user names and passwords. I created a Meebo account, or at least the start of one. I have already used Google Talk and tried to add that to my Meebo account but realized that I had set Google Talk up on my home computer and needed to download a component to my school computer (as I'm still at school). When I tried to do that I got the message that the "Video-chat" plug-in won't work with Power PC Macs so I couldn't add Google Talk to my Meebo account. That seems to be my fate with so many things on the computer. I can't complete this project here at school and the time I will be on my computer available for IM will be almost non-existent. Guess I'll be moving on to Week 10 and see what I can learn from that. I have used some other IM services with my automation system tech support and with others here in the district so I do have a little experience.

Cloud Computing and Battle of the Books

I set up a Google Doc today so that Lou Brewer and I can work together on a single document creating the questions we will use in next year's Battle of the Books. Previously we each wrote questions for half the books and then had to combine the questions. Now we can create one document and add to it as we get time. Much of the work will be done this coming summer from our own homes as we read some of the books and review others. I added a table which we can use to quickly see which books we still have to write questions for and which ones we have done. I'm eager to see how this will work.

Catching up Week 6 and 7

Didn't realize it had been more than a month since my last post. In the meantime I spent a week in Washington D.C. with my Coldwater High School teacher daughter and fourteen kids during their spring break and then tried to get things caught up at home during my spring break as well as shopping for a mother of the groom dress. Obviously this was not one of those things I got caught up on. I have finished my HPL 2010 Project so maybe I can concentrate on this now. In the past Delicious was blocked at school so I was dragging my feet on that. I was pleasantly surprised to find I was able to make an account so I have done that and will be adding my new bookmarks to that and starting the tagging process. I also had a Plurk account but have not really got into using it. I'm not sure I'm really into the "tweeting" that I am seeing. I don't really care that a stranger is going to bed or that he had a pizza for supper. I need to speak with a friend of mine who is on Plurk and gets good advice from tech people and find out how to get connected with them. I don't really see myself spending a lot of time posting. I think I'm on my computer too much as it is.