julz social computing log

My first steps in my social computing journey started with the blogosphere. I fell in love with blogger because I could easily edit the template and add widgets for what was for me, cool personalization. I'm not a techie, but this little editing ability made me feel quite techie.

Over the last couple of years, I created many blogs. It was so easy and I didn't realize how it would have probably been better to just have one blog and use categories.

Podcasting totally caught my eye, so of course, I had to have a blog about it.

I created this blog for a class, but I didn't get a very good grade for it. I think my dabbling was not quite what my teacher was looking for, she wanted much more in-depth stuff, and I'm more of a "hit and run" kinda gal...

gaming was a fun class topic, and of course, I had to have a blog.

had to have a blog for recipes, though I'm not sure why, I don't cook much...you know a viddler for recipes would be cool...

haha, I forgot about this one. this was my dream blog blog.

my friend tina and I tried to keep a grants resource blog going...

Favorite blog! This was my favorite blog for a long time. I used go.blogger to send pics directly from my cell phone camera to this blog, thus moblogging. I've given it up for a while but I'll take it up again when I have a phone with camera again.

I know, I know, it's like the Weird Al video, I have a webpage (blog) for my dog...

As if first life isn't hard enough, I had to get a second life. And of course, I had to have a blog for it.

I'm still trekking through my blogger blogs, but I have two blogs for my OTLO stuff (OTLO = online teaching and learning opportunities, it's a grant project with teachers in NM)

I needed a place to keep resources that I was using for NMSU faculty workshops in technology. Of course, a blog always worked for me.

my dissertation therapy group needed a blog, of course!

then I decided I needed a blog that anticipates the day when I have a life again and that would be post-dissertation life...

I had to find out how wordpress works, mostly for podcasting (blogger got behind on being on this) and categories are a great feature in wordpress. also, being able to create more pages is pretty cool. my juliaparra site is sort of reflected here for now, thus the screenshot from my site at the top, which is my SL avatar....

I've had a myspace for a long time. I was curious, I thought it was important to know what my son could be doing down the road and I wanted him to be an informed user, some of my BFFs are here, the music scene is cool, and I remain because it continues to evolve in interesting ways. Also, I was talking to some friends and well, MySpace did it first, when we were homeless on the web, MySpace gave us our first fully furnished homes first. We have our summer villas in facebook, linkedin, and virb; we have some fab furniture with our youtube, blogs and wikis, and myriad of cool tools, and though MySpace has some basic furniture, it's open and lets us bring our own furniture and decorations...So what is it about MySpace that brings YOU back?

My Virb

My bebo, i really like beebo, but my friends aren't here and I think we're all just really cozy in MySpace...

Twittering is an odd phenomena...I guess I'm odd.

The Sugar sites are ridiculously sweet! Go TeamSugar! My faves are popsugar.com and geeksugar.com, though sometimes I visit them all.

Near-Time kept me occupied for a long time. I still pay the $10 a month for it, but I will probably let it go soon...

I really wanted a wiki so I started testing various wikis, I didn't want to download wiki software.

I used my digital divide account for one of my classes.

I haven't been in my TIG recently, but it's looking pretty awesome.

I have an account with teachade, but because I am not a K12 teacher, it has not really appealed to me; I do check in to see the changes. There's been a major upgrade this year.

I love Slacker, it's great if I need to change up my music and there are some interesting gadgets coming out for this service.

In case you didn't know, I'm a mac girl. I have a 17" imac with isight at work, a sony laptop pc on my right, at home I have the slightly older 20" imac and my black macbook. Of course, I have some iPods - pink mini, pink nano, black video. sigh, that iPhone is looking at me kinda flirty...

For mama's day, I got this very cool gadget, the Flip Video. I am not much of creator of media, maybe this will help change that.

When I started my delicious, I really didn't have an understanding of categories and tags. Then of course, I didn't read the directions and I would put commas after my tags until I realized that's not how we do things in delicious. So I have lots of double tag issues. I still use it though...

For some reason, Stickam really caught my attention but for the longest time I couldn't use it on my mac. Then Voki came along...

Like most people on the planet, I have a flickr account.

I will be doing a workshop with RETAzens on how to contribute to their blog and hopefully get them started on some blogs of their own.

BubbleGuru is a really fun video tool, I added it to my blog and my WebCT courses.

I LOVE Voki. There's just something a bit freeing about using an avatar to speak for you. I added to my blog and to my WebCT course. I think that I will continue to use Voki or Voki-like avatar tools for my public sites and Flixn for my course intros.

Speaking of avatars, I like the Yahoo Avatar site for creating still avatars.

my yahoo avatars

gmail is my primary webmail account

I joined Classroom 2.0, I like how it works...

I joined the Learning Consortium, I can already tell that I wouldn't spend much time with this for social networking/social computing; Classroom 2.0 is the better site, IMHO.