Well, I didn't know anything about mashups until this assignment #5 so I guess I'm a Learning 2.0 success story. :) I thought the Zazzle postage stamps were pretty darn cool and am surprised I haven't seen any instances of people using a tool like this. I would imagine it really being useful for things like wedding announcements or thank you notes, Christmas cards, and business logos.
I learned yesterday that while caribou antlers are usually asymmetrical, they grow back the same way every year. Honestly, I have never noticed that antlers are usually asymmetrical and I don't know whether this is the same for all antlered animals or just caribou. Interesting!
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Corderoy
I was pleasantly surprised to find these pictures from Flikr's Neighbor Dave of eastern Oregon, near Pendleton, where I grew up. God's country! One of the posters desribed it as epic country...I like that too. I always find in novels set in the West that the horizon figures prominently....characters are always looking at it...almost as if it's another character.
This is the reason why.
This is the reason why.
Monday, June 25, 2007
June 25th, Part II
Oh yeah, the assignment.....
let's see, the easiest is Habit 2. Hardest is Habit 3.
let's see, the easiest is Habit 2. Hardest is Habit 3.
First Post, June 25
OK, so I'm a little behind the eight ball as I think I'm one of the last Rasmuson persons to get started on this 2.0 thing. But I thought I'd dive into the whole Up with Learning atmosphere by actually using this blog to record something new I've learned each day....I'm actually curious myself. But first two questions spring to mind:
1. why is it called Learning 2.0?? Did we skip 1.0?? Maybe the committee thought we were all advanced enough to skip ahead a level. What would Learning 1.0 have consisted of? Starting an email account, making a Word document?? I confess I only skimmed Karen J.'s initial email so she very well could have explained all this.
and
2. Where does the phrase "behind the eight ball" come from?? And honestly what does it mean?? Maybe when I have a slow morning, I'll look into this.
But the thing I learned in the last 24 hours is from Terrence Cole's walking guide of downtown which I was doing with some of my family who are visiting. We are good talkers and eaters so we only made it down 1st avenue yesterday, but I had no idea that the News Miner offices used to be in the old Masonic lodge and no clue that the Rebecah lodge building on the corner of 1st and Cowles (now the site of Candy Waugaman's new museum) was once a bathhouse in the 1920s or thereabouts. And I knew about water wagons in early Fairbanks times, but I didn't know that when people wanted some water, they put a piece of paper in their window indicating how many buckets they wanted so the water wagon knew to stop. Sort of like the UPS system businesses use today.
And you heard it here first, Candy's museum is fabulous and absolutely worth a visit!
1. why is it called Learning 2.0?? Did we skip 1.0?? Maybe the committee thought we were all advanced enough to skip ahead a level. What would Learning 1.0 have consisted of? Starting an email account, making a Word document?? I confess I only skimmed Karen J.'s initial email so she very well could have explained all this.
and
2. Where does the phrase "behind the eight ball" come from?? And honestly what does it mean?? Maybe when I have a slow morning, I'll look into this.
But the thing I learned in the last 24 hours is from Terrence Cole's walking guide of downtown which I was doing with some of my family who are visiting. We are good talkers and eaters so we only made it down 1st avenue yesterday, but I had no idea that the News Miner offices used to be in the old Masonic lodge and no clue that the Rebecah lodge building on the corner of 1st and Cowles (now the site of Candy Waugaman's new museum) was once a bathhouse in the 1920s or thereabouts. And I knew about water wagons in early Fairbanks times, but I didn't know that when people wanted some water, they put a piece of paper in their window indicating how many buckets they wanted so the water wagon knew to stop. Sort of like the UPS system businesses use today.
And you heard it here first, Candy's museum is fabulous and absolutely worth a visit!
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