Exercise #17

For this adventure I went to the shortlist of the winning websites in the Web 2.0 Awards. Under the Education category I chose Mango Languages, which gained second place. Here is the link: www.mangolanguages.com
This is a very good place to go to learn a foreign language at your own pace and in a fun and interactive way. At present 12 languages are available using a combination of written text and audio clips. The lessons are presented in a series of slides, which you control, so for example, if you need to hear a word or phrase spoken again you just click the back arrow.
You can view the first lesson without logging in, but to use the whole course you do need to
register. This is very quick and easy, and free too.
I think this site would be a valuable online learning resource for travellers and would grow in popularity and usefulness as it expands and adds more languages. Great fun!

Exercise #16

Zoho Writer
This online word processor would be very useful, once I've tried more documents to really understand all the features it offers. One thing I couldn't for the life of me figure out was how to make a landscape document. After trying every button I gave up and had to do a portrait. The same thing happened with Google Docs, it was very frustrating. If anyone knows the trick, please let me know! Anyway I created this poster and found it easy to publish to my blog. Somewhere in cyberspace on its way to the blog the word- spacing went a bit wonky and bits and pieces re-arranged themselves so I must have gone a bit wrong somewhere, but I'm quite pleased with the result.

NZ Book Month

                           DISCOVER

                       NEW ZEALAND

                            WRITING
                                                             
                                                         NZ BOOK MONTH
              
                   SEPTEMBER
                          2008   

                               

Exercise #15

Well, I don't know that I like this Rollyo place. It seems a more roundabout way of getting to where you want to go. I suppose people who do a lot of internet searching would use it, but I can't see it being of any use to me. It's a bit confusing, but maybe I've missed the point altogether!
Here is the link to my searchroll: http://rollyo.com/gdine55/

In the past two weeks the winter flu bugs and tummy bugs have hit our netball girls hard. The previous two games were played with only 5 players - they lost both games. There are only 3 more games to be played so here's hoping the team is at full strength again and ready to play, maybe for a win.

Exercise #14

Library Thing is like a great big library book club. You can keep a reading history, connect with others who have read your books, read reviews and write your own, join a group and search other members' libraries. Also other members recommend books to you based on the titles in your library, which is wonderful. You can be connected to local bookstores, libraries and book festivals and take advantage of the author visits that they host.
The website is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. Here is the link to my page:
http://www.librarything.com/profile/gdine55

Exercise #13

I created this word cloud at wordle, which I found quite easy to use. The tricky thing was copying and pasting to my blog. I found it very frustrating and time-consuming, but after trying every way I knew it suddenly worked. I don't know how I did it! Here is the link: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/131203/garden