Sunday, February 22, 2009

Digital Pioneer - That's me!

Kathy Schrock posted this video on Facebook the other day and no their is a new Ning Group for Digital Pioneers. Are you a DP too?


Digital Pioneer: The Movie from Kathy Schrock on Vimeo.

Thing 25

Hmmm,
I guess I jumped the gun for thing 25 with the snowfall and blogcasting (see Gabcasting below). Oh well. The widget vidoes were well done and provided a good basic introduction to widgets. I had not been to Technorati before and enjoyed browsing there.

I have played quite a bit with widgets, but truthfully, I see most of them as a waste of time.
I have used the US map of places I've traveled and places my travel bug (with geocaching.com) has traveled. For this blog, the snow was fun, but I'm about done with it. I like having the Youtube videos based on my interests, but I don't care to advertise my music choices, countdown to anything, or play games via my blog, so am passing on most of the thousands (yes, really) og Blidgets, widgets, and gadgets.

I have used Animoto in a Powerpoint presentation and it worked well, but I'm not sure that it was worth the amount of time I put into it. It is doubtful that I will use it again because I am looking for things that do not add significantly to the time I put into a presentation.

I may add a comment box or a "Star" tool. I've looked at shout-out boxes, but the ones I seen are too big and gaudy. I guess I'll just keep looking.