Thing # 9...at long last!

Creating a wiki page was a very stressful experience for me. My fear of hitting the wrong button really came into play. Then after I recovered and started working on my page, it got better until I tried to link it to the group page listing and I did hit the wrong button and lost my whole page!!! There probably was some way to recover it, but I just redid the whole thing. Grrrrrr! I left it for a few days and moved on to other Things. When I came back, I found it much easier to work on. I still struggled to add my wiki to the list....it turned out to be so simple, I felt idiotic. I guess I was just looking for it to be very complicated. Once I got it added to the list, I even put a link in and a photograph. It really was fun once I got the hang of it! Now, I want to see what else I can do with it. It really is simple to do. I need to keep repeating...it's not that scary. But on this assignment I really was The Terrifed Traveler!

Thing #10

I enjoyed the videos explaining the differences between Big C and little cc. I have been held hostage by Big C for a long time as I try to write curriculum and share wonderful ideas with teachers. Sometimes I have even avoided using ideas that I have seen in dozens of places because I've been afraid of the copyright police. So, the idea of places where people actually encourage the sharing of ideas is quite intriguing. I had never noticed the CC and have looked for it on several sites. I actually haven't found it too often, but maybe that's because I mostly frequent copyrighted sites!I did explore the OER Commons site and was blown away by all the stuff we could actually use for free and not get into trouble. Gator Girl challenged the content coordinators to go there and I went, though hesitantly. But I really found some top notch material. I will be using many of the ideas and images I have seen. It's really kind of freeing! I'm excited about the opportunites ahead!!