Facebook and Linkedin

I have a Facebook account and will visit there several times a week, mostly to keep current with my family on Prince Edward Island and in Boston. I really enjoy looking at their photo albums. I think for the most part I must be an old fart, because I don't get the logging on and telling people what I am doing or how I am feeling; but to each his own.
I have never used Linkedin, but will give it a try. Who knows, it might be worthwile in the long run.
Later...

2.5 and away we go...

O.K. so here's the thing. I, like Tom, am not a SL citizen and can not imagine myself spending any time "exploring" at home. However, as a grandmother of a 9 year old who plays in virtual worlds, I can understand the value in libraries having a presence "in world." I can imagine a time when I will be using this technology as a function of my profession, but in no way will I patricipate in therse activities once I home. I do not consider myself a gamer and prefer more tactile activities such as spinning and knitting. But, I can appreciate how some people are naturally drawn to this type of world.

Where's my mouse?

O.K. This type of thinking is right up my alley. Here are my thoughts: My mother (78) can not sit in any room of our house without the television on. My granddaughter is being homeschooled, so the television is not turned on in the living room at all during the day and only on certain nights (The Office, ER, Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted). Therefore, my mother is "forced" to perch on the corner of her bed watching a small screen most of the day. It would never occur to her, or others of her generation for that matter, to engage in another form of activity. I can remember a time (when I was in high school ,a century ago) that only hippie households were without television and we would make fun of them. I am thankful that we can now pull away from the idiot box for some part of the day and engage in more stimulating activities. I enjoy the challenge of devising educational and exciting uses for the cognitive surplus we now find at our homestead. So, here's to turning off the television and turning on!

Help!!

I have somehow lost the Easter Eggs and don't know where to find them. I tried to leave them alone, but they did not come home. Help me, I falling and I can't get up.

Sir Ken Robinson

If you have an extra 20 minutes, you must watch the YouTube video (on the left) of his address at the TED conference February 2006. I was completely blown away. Homeschooling rocks!

Changes

After reading the DaVinci article, I can see we have on fingers on the pulse of the future. With the exception of the "creative spaces" (which I am hoping we are looking into-as these ideas rock) we seem to be getting it correct. Surverys, focus groups, new technology, and Orlando Memory. Go Us!!

Ubuntu

Let's just say that I am almost done with Windows at the McSween house. After our last purchase of a Mac, I am over the Windows World. We are stuck with two laptops with Vista loaded on them and what a nightmare that has turned out to be. We almost exclusively use the Mac now. I am dumping the hard drive on the old desk top and loading Ubuntu onto it so perhaps it will perform to full potential. Read my lips, no new Windows- EVER.