Hello, fellow Project Players! I am so happy to be back exploring Web 2.0! :-) Since the end of first semester I have created a family website with a "Thanks for the Memories" wiki. We are having so much fun as a family! Everyone is adding their favorite family memories. The interaction has been wonderful and often hilarious. My four children are scattered across the nation, so this has been especially nice. It's fascinating to see what they remember about past holidays, vacations, pets, etc. So, even if I don't learn another thing from Project Play, I will be a happy woman because of my introduction to wikis!!
But the great thing is: I am learning more things! I have tried IM in the past, but I am now researching the Meebo thing. I am the teen specialist here, and I have found that email is "so 2006"! Teens want more instant communication, so I want to set up a Meebo widget on the library website. I will work on that later this week.
(And I LOVED being able to communicate with my son through IM while he was in Japan for two months. I am old enough to still be in awe of modern communication tools! My baby sister was born in 1965. My dad needed to contact my grandparents who were living in Australia. I remember him placing a call with an international phone operator. About 15 minutes later, the operator called back to tell my dad she had made the connection to Australia. I quietly listened on the extension phone as my dad carried on a very scratchy phone conversation with my grandmother. I wonder how much that phone bill was!! )
