Thursday 7th August 2008

I’ve missed a couple of weeks of the WebQuest owing to lack of time.  However I have now finished my batch of third overdues, caught up with my classifying and cataloguing, finished the notices I’ve been doing for the IT workshop, done the IT workshop petty cash and updated the colour printer spreadsheet! Last week and the week before I also spent quite a lot of time checking off and shelving journals and books.

Yesterday I started going through the WebQuest again to remind myself of what it’s all about.  I went over weeks 1 and 2 and read through the glossary; some of terms are beginning to make more sense.  I had another look at Youtube, Facebook and Flickr.  I still can’t see the point of Facebook; it seems to me to be for rather desperate people!  I received an e-mail on Groupwise shortly after I registered on it from someone who called themselves Bernard Assifuah inviting me to be his “friend”(!)  There was no profile for him and when I looked at his group of “friends” I found a stange looking bunch of oddballs and quickly blocked him from contacting me again.  If the others are real, hopefully I have blocked them too.  I think we should have been warned about this sort of thing, as I suppose there could be a security risk from weirdos such as this.   

I found 3 videos of my neice on YouTube conducting in America.  I suppose YouTube could be quite useful as a promotional tool, but most people who need to promote themselves or their businesses have their own website.  I also watched a couple of funny cat videos on YouTube and a woman who explained the origin and uses of the words arse and ass.  Intriguing.  I checked my pictures of USA and Turkey on Flickr.  I’m looking forward to adding another set from Switzerland!