The loneliness of the long-distance blogger....

Frustration has driven me to write here tonight, as I have spent the last 4 hours (at least) attempting to get my brain wrapped around more e learning tools - not a pleasant experience as I struggled to create a Wiki and also research some of the finer points of how others have used Skype in the classroom.  Nothing wrong with that, I hear you say.....and I agree with my readers, of course, except that all this stuff is great - if it works and runs smoothly!  Due to some dormant gremlin awakening in my machine this evening, I have experienced a series of 'glitches' with saving information and visiting links - the page containing all the links looked fantastic (looks, of course, aren't everything, as I was about to find out!) but very few of them actually worked.  If they did work, they weren't all they said they were........or weren't worth visiting!!  Hmmph!! Grrr!

And we won't even contemplate exploring Twitter right now, lest those cute little tweeting blue birds decide to poop on my picnic, as it were...(you're right - that's why I have a plastic shopping bag on my head!!)  I have decided to call it a day for it's getting late - the birds must wait for another day, if, indeed, I choose to commune with them at all in the future.

In the meantime, I will persevere with my Wiki, explore the myriad of ways I can use Skype by talking to other people (as opposed to clicking on broken links!) and dream of the days when all one had to learn in order to harness technology was how to control an electronic typewriter keyboard or drive a wordprocessor!  Night all........... :-)