Activity # 6

I am off schedule, but slowly working my way through these activities. I am thrilled to learn how to make trading cards. I want to make a set for each of my daughters. As my husband and I prepare to become "empty nesters," I would like to have a token for them to keep.

I also had such an amazing week at nccat. I think I may play around with creating a set of cards for my colleagues that include some of the activites we enjoyed. The only drawback is that I didn't document all of our sessions. Sometimes it's hard to start for fear of leaving something out.

I chose this picture from Flickr because I imagine this might be what the early settlers to Manteo saw as they approached. I am going to an NCCAT seminar next week, Aboard the Elizabeth II, at Manteo. I've never been to the Outer Banks and enjoyed looking at the posted pictures. I will be sure to bring my camera to document the things that we will be doing. I hope singing talent isn't required because two nights involve learning sea chanteys and Elizabethan dances. This could be interesting.

Habits

I finally got past the avatar issue. I still can't see the buttons but was able to upload the avatar by clicking on the suggestion screens on the avatar home page. One day I was "playing" with it hoping for inspiration and an item about what to do with your avatar was available. I still wish I could figure out why the whole page doesn't load, but at least I am not stalled with the assignment. Now to catch up on some other assignment issues:

The easiest of the habits for me is confidence. I owe it to my dad. He always said I could do anything if I tried hard enough. I believed him, and although I struggle with technology sometimes, I know I can figure it out eventually. Since I grew up in the '50s and '60s, I appreciate that my dad encouraged me to do things. Many of my peers were programmed to just be mothers. While that is still the best thing I have ever done, I am fortunate to be able to help support them and encourage them in the same way.

The hardest habit for me is to remind myself that problems need to be viewed as a challenge, not a dead end. It is so frustrating to want everything to be "right" the first time that sometimes the inertia to try something even if I do it the hard way is still a learning experience.

6/18/2007

I am frustrated with the avatar. I don't know what I am doing wrong and the help screens don't seem to answer my problem. I have created the avatar but on my home computer the buttons to export it to the blog are missing. I can see the page when I'm at work, but I'm not at school this summer and enjoy the time I have at home to do these activities. But I've spent hours searching for the answer to my problem and am going nowhere. I figure it must be some setting on my home computer that doesn't allow all of the Yahoo page to load, but I can't find out what to change to make it work.

First Try- Lesson 2 6/13/2007

This is my first attempt at "blogging" and I'm very nervous about all of this. I am glad to have the opportunity to learn a little about the web's power at my own pace this summer when I have time to experiment. As my kids need our computer during the school year, this format will be easier on both of our learning needs. Over the course of these lessons, I hope my blog entries will become more substantive, but I am happy to have learned this much so far.