http://yvettearts.com/blog "Words count. Content matters." Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:09:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My grandma used to tell us that she would hear helicopters approaching her occasionally as she drove along the road between our two small towns. We wondered what she meant because we knew that the road wasn’t patrolled from the air, and we never would see any helicopters when ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=61 Within my circle of friends and acquaintances in the past couple of days, I have learned about two fun widgets. I installed one in the side panel of this blog. It is called MEEBO and it is a simple code that embeds a chat window wherever you want on your ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=59 Whitney and I worked together to research and write on the class topic of SHARING. You can find our learnings in a blog post on Whitney's site. Within that post we mention my love of beetles and a book I have about beetles. I thought to put in some further ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=58 To fulfill the class assignment on Social Networks, I read quite a bit of Danah Boyd’s material about social network sites (as opposed to social networking). She is cutting down on her blogging at the moment to finish her dissertation. She mentioned in one of her blogs that she is/will ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=57 The next topic in the social media class is SOCIAL OBJECTS. Kevin Anderson, in one of our readings, said “the sites that work are built around social objects.” I would agree with that statement. One item now being used as a social object that hasn’t really been discussed on the commercial ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=56 Does anyone really ask that question anymore, or does everyone just go straight to Google, no questions asked? In the instance of the class assignment to find educational use of wikis, I decided to Wikipedia instead of Google. (Yep. I'm using nouns as verbs here.) At the bottom of the article ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=55 Yep. Just when I thought that there was a safe haven for the preservation of content, I learned that "safe haven" means keeping things constantly in flux while retaining the journey in logs. As per our assignment in my social media class, I went to Wikipedia article about the The Church ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=54 Another assignment for the class I mentioned in the previous post, is to find a blog that talks about using blogs in education. I found a blog that suggestions how to NOT use blogs in an educational setting. The value of this blog post is in the comment section below ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=53 As an assignment for a new class at BYU, students were asked by the instructor to start a blog and share a few thoughts on why they (the students) were interested in the class. This blog post is written to fulfill that assignment. The instructor is Dr. David Wiley. I am ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=52 I have been inspired to write again. How did this happen? Well, two of my friends have very prolific blogs and I find myself so delighted by their words that I want to tell everyone about their blogs. My friend, Sarah, writes the first blog I want to mention. When I ... http://yvettearts.com/blog/?p=51