23 Things Task 12

Hi fellows Swinburnies,

I have played around with Google Maps before, but took a more “serious” look today. The various functions are very easy to use, however, if you are the slightest bit paranoid, it certainly smacks of “big brother”. A great set of tools for a burglar. Having said that that, it could be useful as a tool for orientating students who are unfamiliar with a particular area (ie: Internationals), and it could be useful for map reading exercises whilst enhancing IT skills at the same time. From an horticulture & environment (my area) perspective it could be used for such things as providing an aerial view of a site for site analysis purposes (needed in landscape design), providing plan views of a site (again for landscape design), help students to visualise what plants & structures will look like from both an elevation and aerial view, help provide specific site details for biological (e.g. plant) collections, and be useful in mapping out trees for aboriculture assessments.

My house from space!

Street view of my house

23 Things Task 11

Delicious really is delicious! Too often when I have changed computers I have had to transfer my links across which is a pain.  This way I don’t have to worry about that anymore, particularly if my computer crashes. The added advantage is that I can add tags to each link, making searching a lot easier through the more than 400 websites that were in my favourites. That is particularly useful when I know I have added a particular website to my favourites but can’t remember what I named it.  Another advantage with tags is that searches on selected topics show up links I’d forgotten I had added to my favourites.

IainHarry

23 Things Tasks 9 & 10

Hi fellow Swinburne bloggers,

Is anyone out there? No-one seems to want to play any more. Hey chillinchico check your Flickr gallery for comments. Anyhow I have created my own Facebook and Myspace pages. Really easy to create, although the interfaces of both are a little confusing at first, particularly sorting out the advertising content with the bits you can alter. Having observed students in some of my classes madly working away on, particularly their Myspace page, I feel that these types of pages create a lot of interest, particularly their interactivity and opportunities for individualism. It would be interesting once I have played around with customising my pages some more, and once I understand their functionality a lot more, to start putting some content up for some of my students to access.

Ciao

23 Things Activity 8

Hi fellow Swinburne bloggers.

Created my iGoogle page. It is really easy and quick to do. Added the following Google gadgets (because the topics interest me):- sports, books, politics, news, maps, & technology. With the exception of the news & maps gadgets the others were very US focussed. It would be good to see more Oz content available as an option. It would be very easy to spend a lot of time playing around with iGoogle.

Iain's iGoogle page

23 Things Tasks 6 & 7

My first attempt at using an image generator.

23 Things To Do – Activities

For anyone who is interested my Task 5 for the 23 things to do activities (creating a Flickr Gallery) can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/iainharry  I will progressively add Image titles and descriptions as I get time. Totally by chance I uploaded 23 pikkies.

Ciao

Recent trip to Tasmania

Just thought I would show a couple of pictures of my recent “Tassie” trip.

Hello world!

Hi from Iain. This is my first post. Look forward to hearing from you.