What I have gained from this programme so far
Rejuvenation and extension of the things I learned last year: new widgets to fit to my blog & Twitter feed, knowledge of what one actually does with a Creative Commons licence, tricks for editing screenshots.
Opportunity to measure, and reflect on, my changing way of using Delicious and bit.ly . My subjective perception had been that I was now using bit.ly in preference to Delicious. But, after counting posts from equivalent months in 2010 and 2011, I came to see that my ratio of Delicious use to bit.ly use had been roughly equal in both years, and that my use of both had declined to roughly equal degrees. A valuable corrective, as statistics often are.
The question those figures can't answer by themselves is "Why?" Yes, I know. On that I am still thinking, and maybe I'll find some hypothesis that can have statistics thrown at it.
Which thing I particularly liked or disliked
Oh I did enjoy showing off what I had found about Google Calendar! Almost as much as if I had invented it myself. And demonstrating it with LightShot & all.
Which of the forthcoming things I really can't wait to try
QR codes. I have been using them increasingly at the Haddon, picking up scraps of technique as I go along, and I look forward to reading how to handle them properly.
I'm writing the QR code instruction post, so the pressure's on now! I better make sure it's coherent!
ReplyDeleteLove the poem, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sarah. In fact I am even at this moment gathering together a bundle of recent poems for a magazine submission -- very glad to get such encouragement.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks, Annie, too. I look forward to getting to grips w. these things!