Final Thoughts

My experience with AurThings was very
positive. I am very glad to have some
additional tools to explore and use in
a variety of applications:)

Week 10 - Play

I enjoyed a couple of these fun sites,
Jackson Pollock is particularly good
for relieving stress:)

Week 9 - Electronic Access

I set up an account on Netlibrary and
found an ebook that I would like to
read. After browing my training page,
I took a look at the courses offered
in SkillPort.

Week 8 - Custom Desktop

I already have an Igoogle account,
so I enhanced my home page with some
virtual pets:) I setup a Firefox
account so that I have another search
engine option in case I need it.
Search Plug-ins may save a keystroke
or two, we will see if this is helpful
in the future.

Week 7 - Tagging

I have found that tagging in Shelfari is very
useful... added tags to my Blogger Posts too.
I came across a 'stories' bookmark after
creating my Delicious account, this will be
interesting to explore. I think Library Thing
will be very helpful in finding suggestions of
books I like to read.

Week 6 - Podcasts & Video

This week was very interesting and fun.
I added a couple of funny YouTube videos
to my blog. I made a Screencast of an
Animated Avatar that I had fun making,
this wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.
I also found a Podcast of Classical Music
from the Education Podcast Network that
will be very interesting to follow:)

Week 5 - Social Networking

There were some new things to try in this
week's Things. I found a couple of book
sites in Facebook that I liked and added to
my blog. I was familiar with IM through
Facebook, and added Meebo and Twitter to my
blog also.

Week 4 - RSS Feeds

I found three RSS Feeds that interested me:
--Library FYI
--The Writing Tutor
--Turning the Page
then, added these to my Google Reader.
I also added followers to my Blog Dashboard.

Week 3 - My Wiki Page

I created a Wiki Page with my favorite
Historical Fiction authors. It will be
interesting to share authors and find
new books to read.
http://intranet.auraria.edu/wiki/index.php/User:Ptawnell

Week 2 - Flickr Fun

I had fun adding several slideshows and Spell
from Flickr to my Blog. The slideshows are very
easy:) Go to Customize at top right of Blog, Add
A Gadget, Slideshow, Select Flickr from dropdown
box, put in a Keyword like Flowers, Save and your
done:) The Spell with Flickr at the bottom of my
blog was fun too... with this one you go to HTML
selection after Add A Gadget, copy the HTML code
from the Spell page and voila:)

Week 1 - New AUR Blog is registered

I was notified that my AUR Blog is registered.
I have read the FAQ and Tips pages on the Aur
Things Blog.

Week 2 - New AUR Blog with Avatar

I set up my AUR blog and created an Avatar in Yahoo.
This is fun:) I'm looking forward to designing my blog.