December 26, 2007

Okay, I am no longer new to blogging.  It has been an exciting journey learning more about how to blog and the proper etiquette of blogging.  I have not only built my own blog page but I also started a blog for our school library.  The students are having a lot of fun writing book reviews and posting ideas for the blog.  While learning to blog I have found some fun sites which have helped me with my blogging and blog site.  Here is a list of those sites:

libraryThing.com - A great site to list books you have read, are reading and want to read.  They have great reviews and you can join book chats.  You can also add your books to your blog site with an easy to embed widget.

shelfari.com - Another good site to list books you have read, are reading and want to read.  They also have reviews and book chats.  There widget can be customized and looks a lot nicer on your sidebar.

vizu.com - I use this site to build polls to be embed in my site.  I like to know what my vistors like and don’t like about my blog site.  You can customize a poll on any subject matter

befunky.com - I was introduced to this site by a co-worker.  This is a fun site to customize your avatar.  I use the Uvatar link from this site.  The other links are fun to play with also.

bubleshare.com - This site is easy to use for sharing pictures and embeding your pictures to a website or blog.

delicious.com - A great site for storing bookmarks.  Easy to download and organize your bookmarks.  A co-worker introduced me to this site when she had a computer issue and lost all of her bookmarks.  She was able to recover her bookmarks from her delicious site. 

flickr.com - Another site for downloading your pictures for storing and sharing.

iLike.com - Use this site to set up your personal playlist.  You can then embed the playlist on your blog.  I enjoyed setting up my playlist but had problems when I embedded it onto my blog.  The code was interfering with other widgets.  I am still playing with the code and hope to eliminate the problem. 

polls.zoho.com - Another fun site for customizing polls for your blog or website.

skype.com - I love my Skype.  Again I was introduced to Skype by a co-worker.  It is great.  Our extended family was not able to get together for Christmas this year so we video call each other.  The grandparents loved watching the grandkids open their Christmas presents.  This is a very easy service to use and is not a memory hungry program.

vuvox.com - As the website states “Media Creation Made Easy”.  I have really enjoyed making collages using this site.

blip.tv - This is the easiest site I have found for downloading video and embeding the video on my blog.  Check it out.

magicwidgets.com - This is a great site for personalizing your blog or webpage.  You can get code for fun banners and glitter text.

writeboard.com – A great concept for writing, editing and sharing your ideas.

jigsawpuzzle.com – This site is a lot of fun. 

magneticpoetry.com- I love this site and will be using it alot with my son.

cantwritepoems – This site is fun to get the creative minds moving after the holiday break.

goanimate.com -  We have had a lot of fun with this animation site.  It is great for all ages.

Thank you to all who have help me through the first stage of the blogging learning curve.  Have fun blogging

November 21, 2008

Welcome to my first blog page.  

I have come to realize I am not as technology savvy as I was ten to fifteen years ago.  With technology moving at such a fast pace it has been hard to keep up on the lastest advancements in internet communication. 

I am now realizing the wealth of information available in the blogging community. 

Please be patient and hopefully this will be a fun experience for everyone.