Blogger maneuverability

Am not happy with the utility of this site, compared to wordpress. Can't see how to delete old posts, have to stumble around to find the dashboard, and then don't find the tabs on the dashboard all that helpful. Interested in running ads and making money though---under monetize--though likely to be a year of lots of ads to make a couple of pennies.

New Discoveries and Resultant Musings

Having now explored the online productivity sites, the image generator sites, and the wiki sites, am still trying to settle upon one tool to best use for student web 2.0 engagement to take my classes out of the slow text based land schools still hold on to. Told Darren that he and Mary seem to be the only faculty with actual employment skills for the present and the future, so I am trying to learn a small amount of this new world knowledge.

Philosophically, though, and psychologically, all of this techno toy technique seems like a vast black hole of time eating---not that I would do anything of better meaning if not online playing in the cyber sandbox to borrrow Darren's metaphor. Still, there is some sense of futuristic robot lonely substitute living, as if I were in outer space, sole space survivor, sending out semaphore signals of isolation and fiddling.

When one is young, one thinks that time is plentiful. Older, one wastes time true, but not without a sense of guilty squandering.

Remember the old chestnut about "If you got to do it all over again, would you. . .spend more time at work. . .worry so much about trivial stuff, " etc. etc? Well, 50 years in the future will the current generation be lamenting all the time spent staring at a computer screen and playing on the internet?

Web 2.0

I am considering creating student accounts at edu blog for my campus classes this term to use on the april and may essays---giving them photo and link power to add multi-media to their essays in the form of blog site capabilities

went to the flickr apis and played around with the toys

lots of fun in all of this, but it seems like so much to learn and all invented jargon that is very exclusionary for digital non-natives like me

wondering if education will ever just clear out the ranks of the older generations and let the new young teachers play in cyberland with cybertools with the cybernauts of texting and cell phone addictions

us old word and literate folks will just be sitting in the sun, napping with our out of date paperbacks

sun going down

darkening saturday---living inside the wonderland of web 2.0 bloggerland--cyber chat similar to self chat, though with just the slightest sense of maybe perhaps being read--like message in a bottle, found on wintry ocean shore--tales of lone lorn log lapping at liquid line of sea--just me--and thee---jogging now beachside, wind whipping wind through ear pods of ipod, lullaby journey shuffled with playground kids from brick in wall and cat stevens where do the children play, given by me to daughter and back again--like bilbo baggins' song of there and back again, and nought at home