Thing #17

Jill set up the pbwiki for oclwebthings for Thing #17 and then I played with it to make it work with the discovery exercise that Sally and I edited. Every couple of days, I revisit the sandbox and marvel at what is happening. I thought people would play a bit with the fonts and colors but its been an explosion of colors and interactivity with one person commenting on a favorite food or book and other people responding. I'm leaving the creativity alone but if you do post your "favorite place to be" under "favorite candy", I'm moving it to the right heading. That is how wikis work.

I wish more people posted their favorite computer tips but I have plans for our own OCL Reference best practices wiki so there will be plenty of chances later. For one of my favorite shortcut hints, check out tinyurl.com. You'll never have to struggle to write down a very long web address for a customer again or even worst try to do it over the phone (tilde, what? its that squiggly thing to the left of the number one, you have to hold down the shift key, help!).

What is really fun is that later in Thing #18, everyone just had to add their name to the shared document in Google docs. There was no requirement to do it in color or play with the fonts but almost everyone did that anyway. Has the web challenge released a dormant font playing instinct? If you really want to play with fonts, try www.dafont.com for some amazing ones.