"The Humanitarian Librarian" which I hope will live on beyond this online course... :)
http://humanitarianlibrarian
I found setting up the blog rather simple, but got too emotionally involved, in a negative way, with trying to set up my avatar from the suggested Yahoo web site.
http://avatars.yahoo.com/
I was continually frustrated that one had few choices and age ranges of avatars. Since I am a woman in her early 40's who feels young at heart I had difficulty choosing a "hype-looking young chick" for my avatar -- I'm not sure if this has to do with my feminist leanings, my varied lifetime experiences, and/or my concern as a mother that the media messages we continue to send continually perpetuate the myth that younger is better -- and then I lament why am I wasting so much time thinking about this?
In doing a quick search I saw other types of avatars, so perhaps during a "lull" in our course work I will continue to look for the avatar that feels right for me -- of course, as I am continually learning in our technological/literate worlds finishing a task may never happen because you can constantly add, refine, update, and/or change your assignment, homework, etc.
2 comments:
I think that many of us had trouble designing our avatars. We're not afraid of reality, but we weren't given the option of making the avatars look like us. Perhaps we don't really get the concept of what an avatar is supposed to be. It was fun anyway.
Hi Lisa,
This is Heather, your cheerleader. Sorry you haven't heard from me until now, but I've had difficult accessing the blogs from school, among other difficulties.
Your blog looks great! I love the color scheme, the weblinks are terrific, and the avatar is great. I'll be checking in again on Friday to see how everything is going, but if you need help or have questions you can reach me at
macphersonh@wrentham.k12.ma.us (during the day)
heathermacph@gmail.com (at night- the better of the two.)
Keep up the good work!
-Heather
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