Week 10: #23 Is this really the end? Or Just the beginning..

This has been a great learning experience! I found the information about web-based applications most helpful to me personally and also love the Library Elf. For our customers, I like Library Thing and Image Generators. For general information, Feeds and RSS are fun. Bloglines are the coolest! The staff has helped each other with this training session and that has been the best part!

Week 9: #22 Downloadable Media

LibriVox is having issues but I browsed Wowio and found some older books and some self published. HCPL has more popular material available. Go HCPL!

Week 9: #21 Podcasts, Smodcasts!

Today I added a podcast to my Bloglines account...All Ears! Audiobooks for Family Listening..for listeners and librarians with weekly postings which feature a variety of award winning audio books. I am a children's librarian and will find this useful as well as entertaining.

Week 9: #20 Discover YouTube and other video sharing sites

I absolutely loved the librarian career video from 1946. Imagine stamping the books and writing in the due dates! And the card filing! We've come a long way! And wearing suits and high heels to work...wouldn't that be something! I can see using parts of this video to spice up any library website.

Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops

This is the coolest of all! I can see this saving us lots of money on our home PC! Thanks iHCPL!

Week 8: #18 Social Networking: Making friends in the comfort of your own home

I found "Rate My Space" fun because I love decorating but I still have reservations about communicating in an open forum. I LOVE email but hate it when I get junk from people I don't know. I don't think this form is right for me.

Week 7: #17 Blog about Technology

Since Horizon has been down for a day and a half, I think this is a good time to talk about what our particular technology means to us at HCPL. We all take this wonderful tool for granted, using it like our third hand. When it goes down, which isn't often, we come squarely up against the way we USED to do things...slowly and laboriously.

The other major point is that it is our tech staff who makes this possible. We tend to think of our computers as entities but humans make them go. Thanks to all who got little sleep last night so that we could serve our customers today. We appreciate you!

Week 7: #16 So what's in a wiki?

I created a login account for myself on the iHCPL wiki and added by blog to the favorites blog page.

M. Franklin did a wiki for the Summer Reading Program. It's purpose was to assist new children's librarians. Since our branches are so diverse, this was an excellent way to compile lots of information which reflected all our branches.

Week 6: #15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

I wish I could look fifty years into the future. I'm sure the services offered by our libraries will be unimaginable.

Library 2.0 speaks of a modernization of libraries but I wonder if that is not what we are experiencing right now. Technological change is a part of our lives. Service to our patrons is the keystone of our lives as librarians. We change our services to serve. Technology naturally follows us. This is a George Orwell moment.

Week 6: #14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

Taking a look at Technorati. Did advanced search by typing "Learning 2.0" as keywork search in Blog posts. Got 'No posts in English with some authority containing Learning 2.0 in blogs tagged Blog posts." Tried in 'tags' and got 666 posts tagged Learning 2.0 and tried the Blog Directory and got 705 blogs about Learning 2.0. Explored Popular blogs. Amazing amount of information on diverse subjects.

Week 6: #13 Tagging makes the web 2.0 world go round

Registered with Del.icio.us. Tried tutorial but it was too fuzzy. Explored the 'del.icio.us' tag which was saved by 16310 other people and saw comments, some pro-some con. It would be an interesting tool for research and a good way to create bookmarks I can access from home.

Week 5: #12 The Library Elf will remind you!

The Elf is down and I am sad! Reminding is a good thing! I will come back to visit when he is ready to play!

Week 5: #11 A Thing about Library Thing

What a fast and easy way to pull up a favorite author's books! Library Thing is just the tool for me!

Week 5: #10 Play around with Image Generators

This stamp Framer is from Big Huge Labs. The Pirates are back!

Week 4: #9 Finding Feeds

Bloglines is certainly friendlier than Feedster, Topix and Syndic8 although Feedster's Widget looks like fun. Technorati seems the most complicated to me. I did enjoy Topix People Reading, Talking, Editing. CNN and Reuters also look promising.

Week 4: #8 Make Life Really Simple- RSS and Newsreader

Wow! I can spend the day reading about animals and art and health and gardening and on and on! This is so much fun!

Spring Flowers

More Flickr Fun

A friend took a trip to Venice and used Flickr as a photo site. We were all able to
be a part of her adventure. So cool!

yellow_submarine

yellow_submarine
Originally uploaded by dcrawfor95

Could it be that we really do live in a yellow submarine?

Internet safety

I'm very cautious about sharing information online but what a wonderful world of information we have at our disposal!

Learning goals

I'm going to read Getting Things Done by David Allen. Sounds interesting!

Blog day!

I'm in and ready to go! My first blog--too cool!