Fresh perspective

Well, I'm back after being off for almost a week for an unexpected funeral for a family friend and then to recover from a bad cold. I was a bit panicked last week from the idea of having to take time off from work that I hadn't planned on because my to do list is long, but there's nothing like a sudden loss to give you a fresh perspective on life. Too bad I needed that kind of reminder to realize what's truly important in life and that I've been wasting way too much energy worrying about things that just don't matter. It's time to be thankful for what I have, what I've accomplished, and whose love I'm surrounded with right now, in this moment, and I am truly blessed.

I hope your Thanksgiving celebrations were a balm for your soul and that returning to work this week has been smooth and easy. There are still two weeks to finish up Semester 1 of Project Play! Be sure to let me know if you need any help.

Wonderful wikis

I love pbwiki! It's so easy to use, especially when you want to add media like videos or images. Whenever I set up a new wiki, they send me an incredibly friendly email message sharing tips on how to use the wiki and links to help files on the web. Great customer service!

At a Come & Play day in the computer lab this week, a Project Player added a link to their library's web site in Wikipedia. It was so fun to see the excitement when they saw how easy it was to do! Like a breath of fresh air surrounded them and filled them up. Very cool.

Delectably del.icio.us

It took me a while to warm up to del.icio.us, but I'm not sure why. I'm sort of a control freak, so maybe it was that I couldn't style the page the way I want to. Or maybe it was simply having to get used to tags. I don't know. At any rate, I LOVE social bookmarking now and am slowly growing my list of links. Feel free to visit my account at http://del.icio.us/owlsbeth to see what I'm tagging lately.

I also LOVE that you can subscribe to people's lists of links! It's a great way to discover new sites and super easy since they're fed right into my Google Reader. I'm planning on playing around with their link rolls and tag rolls features - my head is swimming with loads of ideas for how they could be used. I just have to find more time to play!

What's your favorite thing about del.icio.us? Or what holds you back from using it?