Week 9 Thing 23

Although this learning experience has been frustrating at times, I'm glad I did it because I think that I am now more aware if what is available out there. Some of these things, like Web Apps, Library Thing, RSS feeds, wikis, audio books - I think could be very useful to me and to the library. And then other things seemed fairly useless to me - although I'm sure not everyone would feel that way. I would probably participate in another discovery program like this because I think I learned things here that otherwise I would not have learned on my own.

Week 9 Thing 22

Browsed through Overdrive - was already familiar with it and had previously checked out an audio book from there. Good easy way to access audio books.

Week 9 Thing 21

I looked into Yahoo Podcasts and suscribed to one, so it is now on my bloglines account. Once again, so much information out there and it's all overwhelmiing to me. I looked up book review podcasts - came up with 117 of them - a lot of them had 3 or fewer subscribers, so I'm thinking that they might not be worth my time to look at. I guess once you spend the time looking through all the podcasts and subscribing to the ones you are interested in, then the information would be conveniently available. Just a lot of start up time, and then of course, there will always be new ones out there.

Prangstgrup Library Musical - Reading on a Dream PRANK!!

Spent some time looking around YouTube - so many videos! I got a little lost, there is just so much material there to wade through. I did enjoy this library musical.

Week 8 Thing 19

Explored a couple of sites on the Web 2.0 Awards List. One sentence was interesting. Checked out some of the games and city guides (yelp). Some of these sites would be helpful for giving information to patrons (not the games or one sentence, but perhaps the yelp or medstory).

Week 8 Thing 18

Explored Google Docs, create a document and emailed it someone. Wow. This is very handy. I like that I can save it online and then access it from anywhere. Also, that it is so easy to email or share in other ways with people (posting to the blog, making a webpage etc.) I'm impressed.

Week 7 Thing 17

Explored Maryland Libraries Sandbox, created a log in account and added my blog to the favorite blogs page. While I think that wikis can definitely be useful, I'm not sure of the value of this one. I guess it's just sort of for looking around at different blogs and reading random comments from people.

Week 7 Thing 16

Wikis can certainly be a useful tool for libraries -as CCPL has already found out. I like the idea of adding wiki functionality to the catalog so that patrons could give reviews and synopses about books they've read. Also, the idea of a community wiki, where patrons could post information that would be helpful to others in the community sounds great. I looked at several wikis and really liked the book lovers wiki - I love reading others' reviews of books and getting ideas of books I might enjoy.

Week 6 Thing 15

I read several of the perspectives on the notion of Library 2.o and found Dr. Wendy Schultz's "To a temporary place in time" interesting. I liked the way she showed how the library can evolve with new technologies. Looking back at what libraries used to and forward to a vision of what they can become was eye-opening and thought-provoking.

Week 6 Thing 14

Explored Technorati. I guess some people find this interesting. Or helpful.

Week 6 Thing 13

Spent some time exploring del.icio.us - watched the tutorial, read us.ef.ul and several habits of . . . and looked at the del.icio.us. Looks very useful for research. I believe you could get lost for days looking at all the related tags, tags of people who have tags related to your tags, etc!

Week 5 Thing 12

Checked out Rollyo - the quick quote one seemed like it could be helpful. The free photo one mostly just went to Flickr, which I could do on my own. Created a recipe search - http://rollyo.com/libblopi/lotsa_recipes/. I can see where this might be a helpful tool - searching just sites you trust instead of the whole web. However, I find that the Research Resources on our library home page pretty much take care of that for me.

Week 5 Thing 11

Looked around LibraryThing and found it very interesting and useful. I actually know someone who has a large personal libary and asked me about cataloging it - now I can suggest that she check out this site. Quickly made my own library http://www.librarything.com/catalog/libblopi but plan to add more to it and use it to find suggestions of books I might like to read.

Week 5 Thing 10 Part 2

Ha! Got my avatar on my blog.

Week 5 Thing 10

Played with generators and managed to upload this image after failing with several others. Found LetterJames frustrating - no instructions on what's available or how to use it - I need that! This came from generator blog. http://yourgen.com/handwriting/sketch

Week 4 Thing 9

Checked out Merlin today - found several interesting links (made an avatar) and subscribed to the RSS feed. Also looked through the search tools for RSS feeds and am still trying to figure out how this would be useful to me. Hopefully, now that I am aware of these search engines I will come across ways that they will be helpful to me. I have been checking my blogline account regularly and finding it quite convenient to have those feeds readily available.

Week 4 Thing 8

I learned all about RSS today, opened my bloglines account and subscribed to 10 different feeds. I'm looking forward to checking by blogline account and seeing how easy/convenient it will be to keep up on all that information out there.

Week 3 Thing 7

I'm participating in 23 things because I don't think I'm a very tech savvy person. However I do find myself increasingly dependent on the internet for homework help, recipes, and now that it is summer, trip planning. All things I used to depend on the library for - now available in my home.

Week 3 Thing 6

Spent some more time in Flickr today and learned how to set aside photos (in my "favorites") so that I can easily find them again! Also explored some of the mashups - especially Flickr Color Pickr. This is very interesting - not sure how you would use it but it's neat to see the pictures sorted by color. I like the way you can make the colors brighter or darker and just seeing the different kinds of pictures that fall under one color.

Week 3 Thing 5

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Originally uploaded by nichali

Spent some time exploring Flickr and felt a little like this cat looks. Found a photo yesterday on Flickr that I was going to post to my blog, but I ran out of time and decided to go back today and do it. I guess I should have flagged it or something, because it is now impossible to find (so many pictures to choose from!). I need to learn more about navigating Flickr and setting aside those photos I am interested in.

Week 2 Thing 4

Time to register my blog. I actually set it up a couple of weeks ago and had some trouble finding it again. But, I found it and hopefully will not lose it again!

Week 2 Thing 3

Set up my blog, although the process was a little intimidating for me. Fortunately, my co-worker had already set hers up and was able to answer some of my questions. (part of my "toolbox.")

Week 1 Thing 2

Read through the tutorial about Lifelong Learners. Easiest and hardest of the 7 1/2 Habits for me is recorded in my Test Post.

Week 1 Thing 1

Read and learned about what to expect from this program.

Test Post

Easiest: Setting up the learning toolbox. Working at the library has opened my eyes to all the resources available out there to learn about new things.

Hardest: Setting definite goals. I'd rather leave things open-ended and enjoy what I am learning. If I set a definite goal, I will stress over getting that specific thing done instead of enjoying the learning process.