Summarizing my Learning 2.0 Thoughts

I'm yearning for more!  Give me more to learn!  I had a fabulously fun time learning all this new technology.  I'm leaving this experience with much more Web confidence and am wide open to exploring any new technology that falls in my computer path.  

I'm taking with me some technologies that I'll continue to use: LibraryThing, Opera Web Browser, Flickr, Bloglines... Well, I'm not going to list them all out here because it's a majority of them! Looking back at the exercises, I feel that I didn't give MySpace a fair shot, so will take it upon myself to trudge through the accounts until I find something meaningful.

All in all,  a very cherished experience!  Thanks, Rasmuson, for making me more technologically advanced.  It's just what I needed.

Bye bye!

Try a New Web Browser

I've been hearing about Opera and Firefox for so long now, it's a relief to finally use these web browsers and be in the know. Too easy importing my IE bookmarks into both.

My favorite feature in Opera is Speed Dial, allowing me to open multiple websites as tabs within the browser. Makes for quick and easy access with one click away.

Grokker Search Engine

Grokker is such a friendly search engine. Grokker offers to save my searches in a working list, and it also allows me to bookmark and to email and to post my findings to my del.icio.us account. It's super easy to save or share information found through this search engine. Love this!

I performed a "Ted Stevens investigation" search and came up with these quirky results in my outline:

• Cause me some Trouble -- A quote from Stevens on his worry that a corruption investigation could "cause me some trouble" in running for reelecion. Well, yeah, let's hope so. Anyway, thought this was a funny and invaluable way to index some of the articles written about this fiasco.
  
• Story -- Yeah, I know! This doesn't refine or improve my investigating too much.

But I did find other outline terms very helpful which allowed me to quickly access articles containing information I wanted to read. And I found the map view hard on the eyes. It was trickier to scan through this view quickly to find exactly what I wanted, so prefer the outline view.

All in all, am impressed with Grokker, but I find I'm quite devoted to Google. At least I know Grokker exists and will probably use it from time to time.