Do I still know how to do this?

It's been a long time since I have blogged. Was wondering if I still new how! 23 things is starting again, so I thought I would refesh my memory

WRAP-UP

I am glad I signed up for this. I did learn somethings. Some of the things I don't think I will ever use, but some I will. Some I had never heard of and others I had already been using. I think that it was good to learn of these things. I know you hear about some of them and some you don't. And who knows, maybe in the future they might be something I will use and then I will have at least seen them and tried them. Since starting this program I now use Igoogle, Google docs, and I even made a map for my up coming trip using Community Walk.

FUN THINGS - Week 13

Wordle
It was kind of neat, but I don't really think this is something that I would use. When using the print button, it wouldn't print. If you used the print icon on your internet page it would print, but would cut it off. I guess that is something that a person would have to play with.

LibraryThing
Now this is something I could use. I am an avid reader and sometimes forget what I haven read, or I like to keep track of what is coming out. I read many by author. If they publish something I read it. I like the suggestions, because sometimes I am out of books or just want to try something different.

Smilebox
I looked at this, but again I don't think this is something that I would use.

ONLINE MAPPING & GIS - Week 12, Thing 19 & 20

I have never used community walk before. It was kind of neat, I could see it being useful if you were going on a trip and wanted to map things near to where you were staying. I have never used google maps before, but I have used mapquest. Mapquest is great if you want step by step directions. I found google maps I couldn't put in my address to get directions (then my street is not even listed on the map). Here is a map of my town.

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WIDGETS - Week 11 Thing 18

Widgets or gadgets. I added a countdown to my igoogle. I have already added a few, so I think this is something that I would use.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING - Week 11 Thing 17

Diigo. Well I looked at Diigo and made an account. I can't really see myself ever using this. I think it would be good for a student who is studying from the internet. I bookmarked a couple of things, but because you can't download the tool bar onto a work computer, I didn't see how the highlighing or the sticky notes worked. I couldn't figure out how to do it otherwise, though I know the video said something about another form of tool bar in diigo for work computers. I just didn't get it.

TWITTER - Week 10 thing 16

Twitter. I have never used twitter, and I don't think it is something that I would personally use to post things. I did set up my account and am now following some of my favourite authors. Hopefully a way to know when they have a new book coming out.
One thing I found about it, if you don't check it all the time you could really miss things. I couldn't believe the number of posts that came up. but I just don't see myself checking it that often.