Simply Adding to the 2.0 Hysteria

Our assignment this week, should we decided to accept it (before we self-destruct):  Produce a mind-map of your own learning environment.

With our professor’s fine direction, I am actually quite proud (IMHO) of my following his suggestion and checking out Gliffy and using my SnagIt to produce the following 7:33-minute attachment.

I have to make note of the exact length due to the fact that I recorded this multiple times and didn’t seem to be able to break the 12-minute mark.  It was soon thereafter, that I experienced experiential learning in a very heuristic fashion – likely par for the course for a few of us.

“Why,” you may ask (and you MAY ask) , “did you feel you had to reduce your video from 12ish down to 7:33?”

“Well,” I respond, “it’s because I learned though this exercise that with YouTube you are limited to 10 minutes and 1024MB and with (free) Photobucket you are limited to 5 minutes and 100MB. In addition, in WordPress, I am limited to 20MB if loading directly to the blog.”

So, here you will now find a link to the Gliffy-hosted mind-map and a link to YouTube for your fully-narrated pleasure.

I hope you enjoy!

The present course of instruction has partially served to further overwhelm me with the potential for analysis paralysis. I won’t even mention the recent article in PCWorld magazine listing over 100 free apps. Okay, maybe I will.

I have come to conclude: Stick with what you know, until convinced clearly otherwise.

A “for-instance” – somehow (?) when I now launch Google, iGoogle pops up. How’d that happen? Well, I’m sure it wasn’t a bot or other alien influence, but instead, “yes,” I must be guilty. In one of my recent, “Hey, that’s cool, another free download!” all-nighters I must have hit <enter> and now I have an app that I haven’t done much with, but it does appear it could be very functional. For a while, I had the weather from Colorado Springs staring at me each time it launched.

Now I learn there’s MORE aggregators vying for my vote!

Hence, why, for my Personal Learning Environment to fulfill the final project requirements for EDIT 772, I have decided to stick with my trusty WordPress. Reasons being: it continues to expand capability, provides a safe enough environment for me to explore playing with code, and offers opportunities for comment from both Committee members and the Web at large.

Check it out here, it’s where I’m planning everything to come together. Stay tuned!

Well, here we go again with more opportunities for carpel tunnel.

This actually may have more current posts that what I am trying to manage on my Portfolio (although I’ve REALLY got some great ideas I need to write on), my main personal page, or the non-profit which I preside over.

Reason? This is to explore the 2.0 hype (?) as a part of my studies at George Mason University.

Stay tuned!