Saturday, October 17, 2009

Week 10: F-U-N

Wordle is super fun and super cute. Now I just need access to a color printer and WHAMMY! Instant Christmas presents! haha.

I also love making my own Jackson Pollocks at jacksonpollock.org

I am also a big fan of 'generators' such as the Dan Brown Plot Generator.

This will also conclude my Aur Things. Thank you all. I grade myself at a B-, but I had fun and learned a lot. Thanks guys!

Week 9: Skillsoft

I think it is fantastic that the University has an online way to track our training and to give opportuniies to take classes that we can fit in to our schedule and use remotely. This is especially nice for those of us who are not able to attend classes or training at any other time. Yay for Skillsoft.

Week 8: Search Plug-Ins

omg omg omg!!! I love it. I already had the Google search and I just added Skyline, Target and Amazon. Now, the trick will be remembering to actually use it.
In the Target search I entered "kitchen" and wow! The best kitchen in the world came up! See for yourself!


Also, I now have a customized iGoogle page, it seems cute and fun, I chose the crazy frog for my theme. I also selected to get updates about Art and entertainment. The first story to come up has a picture of George Clooney. Not bad at all!

Week 7: LibraryThing and Delicious

I created my LibraryThing account. I played around for a while with it, but I have to say, I prefer GoodReads for my purposes. Plus, most of my frienda and co-workers are already on Good Reads. The issues I have with LibraryThing is that I don't find navigating and changing info etc very user friendly. Where as Good Reads is crazy easy. This means I will be deleting my LibraryThing account and sticking to Good Reads. Join me my friends! Come to the darkside!


As for Delicious, I have an account that we used when my computer was replaced at work. I think the idea of being able to access your favorites away from your home computer or office computer is great, I just never remember to use it. There are so many amazing services on the interwebs, I just can not remember to use all of the various resources. Not to mention, if I am away from my home computer and need to find a fave site and don't know the url, I just use Google. I LOVE GOOGLE.