Daytona 500 Sunday

Took yesterday off from working on class stuff. I cannot get into the week 6 assignment yet, had to wait for access to the Wiki site. Requested that this morning before going to church.

Friday my brother in law and I took our wives out for supper and then to the Home and Gardens show in Lincoln. We do this every year. The ladies birthdays are the previous week and Valentine's is today so it all kind of works out to their benefit.

I have watched some of the video's that were recommended prior to starting your first Wiki experience and found them interesting. The thing I am wondering about is if our IT folks would allow our office staff to have a Wiki just to share information among ourselves. Knowing our IT folks, it will probably be a "security issue" it usually is.

I am going to head back to the blackboard site to see if I can get on to the next step.

Later

Did not get on to the Wiki Site until Monday. It was a holiday for State Employees, so I had the day off. My wife and oldest daughter went shopping in Lincoln so I had the place to myself.

Spent the morning looking at a variety of tools from the Site and decided on one that said it would convert PDFs which I use a lot of at work and know that teachers in the local system reference and copy them a lot, so it sounded like a great tool to use. There are a number of them available. Goofed around looking at several, one that really looked attractive had some pretty poor reviews on the internet, but I tried it any way. It took over one hour of uploading time for a 1 page document. I decided that I could re type or dictate faster than that.

Decided to change gears and went with a program to do time lines with. It looks very appropriate for a world history class. Did not see any adult only signs, which I did see on the French site that I was looking at for converting documents to Word.

I have to go back to work tonight to do some investigative interviews and need to be back there by 5 in the morning to do more.

Closing for now. Hope the rest of the class has more time to work on academic subjects this week than I do. I do not have the heart to tell the grand kids that they can't go with grandpa to Grand Island this weekend. May be I should take a class in scheduling.

Lorin