New Deadline

I'm a little disappointed in the new deadline. I was racing to get this all done before I leave town on May 18th, and now I don't have to race. That probably means in one month I'll be racing again because I will have put it off till the deadline loomed once again. I understand the rationale in moving the deadline, but still it's a frustrating thing to have deadlines that aren't! I am however, truly enjoying More Things on a Stick! I'm learning so much and really having a fun time doing it.

Thing 42: Music 2.0

I use Pandora all the time and have a couple of stations there. It's a little frustrating because they put on music that they think I'll like when what I really want is music that I know I'll like, but it's not too bad. Better than using a radio, especially out here in the boonies where we live! I love being able to listen to the rest of an NPR broadcast when I hear part of one when I'm up in town shopping. My kids use a lot more music options on the internet than I ever will, so it's good to come up to speed on some of the choices out there. We are a family who loves music!

Thing 41: Mashup Your Life

I signed up for LifeStream and that looks like a fun site. I am using "Feed My Inbox" but it's not very timely. We'll see if LifeStream is any more prompt! It does get to be a little time consuming to be checking all the different urls and sites that I like to check on - when I remember. Maybe this will make things more concise. I have to add friends though, which I am loathe to do!

Thing 40: Mashup the Web

For this Thing I looked at the mashups that I have explored a little bit before and watched a few videos about mashups. Something I need to explore a little more I guess, before I figure out exactly what I would use most of them for. BigHugeLabs is pretty fun. And I did do the Pipes, and made a Libraries Pipe with Flikr and Google. That was interesting. (It's over on the left.)

Thing 39: Digital Storytelling

Thing 38: Screencasting

I downloaded both Skitch and Jing. I haven't figured Skitch out yet, but Jing is a lot of fun and I used it on my other blog - for my Mother's Day post. This is what I did with Jing...

And down below is what I did with ScreenCast - once I figured it out, it was fun!







The end.

Thing 37: Photo Tales

I played around with a slide show maker and that was kind of fun. It's down on the bottom of the page called the Thompson Bridge. I will be trying a few more of these websites out too, down the road a bit. Right now I have to get moving on my More Things because I'll be in AR visiting my parents during the end deadline!