Playing in the Sandbox

I always loved playing in the sandbox (sandpit?) as a kid - so much fun to be had making sandcastles, playing with my brother's trucks etc - filling them with sand and driving them around, dumping the sand in my brother's shoes.... ah, the joys of childhood.

I also had some fun playing with the Learning 2.0 wiki which was a little challenging. I know I was going on a few posts ago about setting up a wiki for my family and we even used pbwiki to do it but... I have a memory like a sieve and couldn't remember how to do anything so struggled with it. I did, however, manage to put a few things in there, including my sister's Toblerone Cheesecake recipe on a newly-created "Favourite Yummy Things" page. I also added some favourites to the music page (I frequent Myspace quite a lot) and the only sporting activity I've taken any interest in over the past few months is there too on the favourite sports page.

I did have a problem doing the following also:

Add your blog to the Favourite Blogs page. That's how we'll know that you've been there. It’s easy to do if you follow this simple syntax

Example:

[ URL Title of blog]

[ http://stmbtech.pbwiki.com Learning 2.0 ]

With brackets [ ] and just a little typing, you’ve added a link - it’s as easy as that!

Actually, I didn't find it that easy - instead I just clicked on the 'link' button in the toolbar at the top, chose 'link to URL' and typed the address of the blog/myspace page/website in that box. Not sure how the above was suppose to work as I tried it but couldn't do it... perhaps I missed something?

My newest friends are Blog friends!

Ok, so I'm a little 'off task'... again... but I'm up to date with the Learning 2.0 activities (well, almost).

One of the aspects of Facebook that kind of annoys me a little are the applications or at least the number of applications out there. Why? Well, it seems that almost everyone I know on Facebook loves to install a myriad of applications on their profile page, which is great - for them... but they seem to feel the need to 'invite' others (i.e. me) to get these applications too. Now I know there are some fantastic applications there (who doesn't love a good game of scrabble??), some of which I've installed and use quite regularly, but there are others that maybe just harmless fun but to me just seem to be clutter and, logging onto Facebook and seeing about 20 invitations to everything from aquariums to hot potatoes to fish tanks to movie trivia to superlatives (phew!) gets a bit tiresome!
Having said that, I did, however, find one application today that I think is fantastic - blog friends! It allows you to link your own blogs as well as the blogs from your friends (and their friends!) to your Facebook profile. The blogs appear according to your 'interests' that contain a series of keywords. Anyway, I discovered some excellent edubloggers through my newly formed connections and have been enjoying having a read of them. Might have to subscribe to some of their blogs also!
Take a look sometime!
p.s. yes - I did send out invites to some of my friends to join blog friends... but only to people I thought would use it!