Getting Started

Well, I finally got this thing set up, which was no easy task, despite Blogger's claim that they've made it as easy as possible. Managing a Flickr account with Yahoo and a Blogger account with Gmail + school and personal email accounts ends up being too many usernames for me to keep track of. But here I am. A blog. About how I am managing and learning to use the various technologies that are part of Web 2.0. Time seems to be the biggest constraint for me, since I sort of know how to use them, but don't know them well enough yet to really make them work efficiently. So far I have posted some pictures of our school library to Flickr and have explored other people's pics of their libraries. If anyone had told me that at age 35 I would enjoy looking at pics of libraries on the Internet, let alone touring libraries on my vacation, I would have said they were crazy. And yet, it has become a pasttime, one most of the people in my life don't understand. Sometimes I am skeptic about this whole Flickr thing, though, in my current capacity in a high school library--I mean, who really will be interested in my photos of various displays around the library. I haven't been doing much programming (that is a goal for year 2-3) and we can't put pictures of kids up without a media release (aka a lot of hassle), so what is the point? It's like the tree falling in the forest with noone to hear it-- of course, my pics and these words mean something to me, but should they be seen and read by others? Does that change what I write here if I think others will read it? I guess I should stop thinking and just experience this whole thing to see where it takes me.