Grandma's Passport Revisted

Here is the photo I originally wanted to post, but adding it now is ok, because it's what's inside the cover of the previous photo. My mother emigrated to the United States under my Grandmother's passport. The little girl in the passport photo next to Grandma Pasqualina Bellapianta Zaza is my mother, Martha Josephine Zaza, who was 3 yrs old when she came over.

With the posting of this photo I've explored several ways to add photos to my blog using Flickr--adding a Flickr photo, adding a photo from my computer and adding a photo from a website. So I think I'm now done with Thing 5?

Grandma's Passport

Still working with Flickr. This time I uploaded some photos from the Internet into My Pictures and tried to post one into my blog. Here's the result--a picture of my grandmother's passport. Not the one I wanted to post, but I'll try again.

Is this the Digital Immigrant Bookwoman?

Victorian style
Originally uploaded by Robert Silverwood

Well, imagine that! As I was exploring Flickr I came across a photo of what could be the Digital Immigrant Bookwoman before she embarked on the Library 2.0 initiative. She's really the g-g-mom of photographer Robert Silverwood, but she is the visual representation of how I feel when changing technology sets my head a-spinning! Will she morph into a different being at the end of the journey? Let's hope so--this lady is far too serious looking, don't you think?

Week 3 Thing 5

Started reading about Flickr...Did the easy online Flickr tutorial and the Mediamazine tutorial....I explored "interestingness" (love doing that as a slideshow) and looked at billions and billions (oops, sorry, that's stars, not pics) more like dozens and dozens of pictures. I created my Flickr account and searched for photos with two themes in mind: I love the wind and love looking at visual representations of it (just for my own fun), and I was searching for a photo that would visually caption my initial blog posting. I found several public photos to represent each, but am stuck figuring out if I have the permission to copy them into my blog. Been reading the "Creative Commons" section, the FAQs and the Help screens, but don't seem to find a clear cut answer. Will have to come back later--right now I must do something old-fashioned like read a chapter from a Victorian mystery, Silent in the Grave!

Backtracking

Wow--did I let a lot of time elapse, or what? August just disappeared off the face of the earth, so I did a little backtracking. Of course I had read the initial introduction, but this time filled in (partially) and signed my my contract. Also listened to the Lifelong Learning Activity again and this time posted my "easiest and hardest." So now I consider myself to have officially completed Things 1-4!

The Habits of Lifelong Learning

I'd have to say that the easiest of the habits for me is Habit 4--having confidence in myself as a competent and effective learner. I know that with perseverance I can learn just about anything. My learning style is a little old-fashioned though. I have to see the big picture; I have to read all about it and then I have to try it--very cautiously! I know, I know--a really plodding way to learn new things, but, hey--that's me. Habit 7 1/2 is my albatross, especially when it comes to work and learning new technologies. While I have a great sense of humor and while I love to laugh my way through the work day, my approach to work is not playful. I am ever conscious of the quantitative and qualitative aspects of work. Undertaking this new learning venture is really going to challenge me!