Twenty-Three Things Smarter

This has been a learning experience!  While at first I thought I'd be familiar with most of the 23 things, I quickly learned I wasn't.  Sites like StumbleUpon and Scoopit were new to me, and I got back into using my Pinterest account, which had been dormant for awhile.  I would have to say my favourite of the 23 Things was learning how to embed video.  Scrolling through TED talks and finding new podcasts was a lot of fun.  How-To videos are awesome!

Pinterest should be used more at work.  While my gardening theme was fun, I can see the different pinboards being useful for tracking reading lists, advertising new books, etc.  I need to start making sites like Twitter and Pinterest live up to their full potential, rather than just for fun.  Fun is good, but there's a lot they can do besides what's easiest.  The biggest thing I learned was that even though I think I know a fair bit about these internet resources, I've only scratched the surface.  I will continue to dig!  (Gardening references to the very end!)

Stumbling Through the Internet

I thought I was pretty internet-savvy, but I'd never heard of StumbleUpon!  While stumbling through interests in "Books", I found an interesting site called "The Book Seer" which provides recommendations of what to read next.  I can see this being very useful for reader's advisory. 

Stumbling through interests in "Garden" led me to a website on companion planting, which has always intrigued me, even since I first heard about the "Three Sisters" in social studies long ago.  I can see a lot of time disappearing on me, stumbling through StumbleUpon!