Thing #5

Ciao mi amice! Venezia: mi citta favorita en Italia!

I have explored flickr and what a great site. I can definitely see the benefits of using this with students for a multitude of projects. It's also a great way to enhance presentations for students. I also plan on sharing with my mother. She has gotten into photography and the potential for creating some photo albums and such might be right up her ally. There is a lot here within the site that I plan on exploring further.

I chose pictures of Venice because it was one of my all time favorite cities in Italy. My brother is in the army and was stationed in Italy for 3 years. I, being the loyal sister, went to visit him twice, so that he wouldn't miss family. ;) I am home this weekend visiting and we were discussing our trips there.

Thing #4

I registered by sending an email and am hoping to get a confirmation email as well as added on soon.

Thing #3 Still...

Absolutely amazing what a good night's sleep will do. I can't remember the name of the person who left a comment but you're right. The site was being worked on and I was able to fix it this morning, well actually, looking at the time it's afternoon. :) I actually went to the blogger help as well and learned that I had (unknowingly) changed my template to an old version that did not have "layouts". Blogger has upgraded to this and so, once I changed my template or "upgraded" I got my layouts page back. And wouldn't you know... it was incredibly easy to add my avatar on! So, I'm back to loving being a lifelong learner... :)

Thing #3

FRUSTRATION!!!!!!!!!! Well, I created the avatar, no problem. I understood the directions to put it on my blog however, that's were the problems started. I went to the layout page and there was nothing that said HTML/Javascript or just HTML or anything. I read the help on the 23 things site and I read the help on yahoo and the help on bloggers. I should have been able to push add page element but when I pushed on that nothing happened. I then went to edit HTML and clicked on change to original template or whatever and now I have no layout option anywhere. At this point, I believe I've screwed up my blog page, I don't know but I am done for today. I will try again tomorrow and somehow figure out what happened with my layout page option and the ability to add things...

PS: wish there was a help number to call...

Thing # 2

The easiest thing for me is PLAY! When I am doing something new, I like to jump in and play around with it first, see what I can figure out and what I can't. Directions are to refer to when you can't figure it out. :) While patience wasn't exactly mentioned, I find that a problem at times...I wanted to just read the script on the video instead of listening to the narrator. Of course, patience could be traced back to jumping in and playing which could then be traced back to beginning with the end in mind and sometimes I jump in instead of thinking through so maybe that's my challenge.