Week 8 Thing 19

The Web2.0 Awards list is amazing. I look at the games category and choose two different games form two different sites. the #1 game site is Arcaplay.com. This was an easy to use website and I enjoyed playing a few games of Sudoku. the other site was Games2Web.com. I played volleyball and I WAS TERRIBLE. I can't wait to go back to find some other great games.
I noticed that many of the sites we have been looking at are on the different lists, like Technorati and Bloglines.

Week 8 Thing 18

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know!

How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Emily Dickinson

I imported this poem I typed from Google Docs. It was the first poem I ever memorized and I loved the mental picture of all these frogs with peoples faces swimming around a swamp.

I am really excited to learn about these online productivity tools. It opens a whold new world of possiblities for me. I will be able to write a letter, save it and send it even when I forget my thumb drive and I don't have to worry about different versions of software.

Week 7 Thing 17

Well I had a problem figuring out how to add my blog to the sandbox. It seems someone messed up the home page. I will try again later.

It is later and Heather helped me figure out how to add my blog. It really isn't hard since they fixed the page.

Week 7 thing 16

I found the different wikis very educational. I was intrigued by The SJCPL subject guides and lost myself navigating around interesting subject areas. I also would like to spend some more time in the Library Success wiki. I was doubtful about wikis before I started looking at the ones on the list. I do not like the idea that anyone can add, edit or delete information made me dubious about the reliability of that information. However, I am beginning to see that just because of that reason most of the information is correct. I would like to see my Library start a wiki available to the public. I would be interested in what the public thinks of our Library and what they would like to see us do in the future. A subject guide index like SJCPl's would be a great start. We could include programs we provide along with books and helpful websites.

Week 6 thing 15

Wikipedia has a very clear description of Library 2.0 . I think that one of the most important of the key principles they listed is that "Beta is forever". As a Library we should always try new things and be open to new ways of bringing information to our communities.

Rick Anderson's article "Away from Icebergs" also made me think about the way we are doing things in the Library and what we need to do to keep up with technologyand the world. These are not always comfortable changes to think about.

Week 6 Thing 14

I spent quite a long time looking around Technorati. Each time I went in I looked for Blogs, Blog pPosts and tags on Learning 2.0 and every day I got different numbers of results. I did try to find my blog and came up with one of my postings. When I have more time I would like to spend more time on this site
One thing I did enjoy was the variety of topics that are covered in the different categories and I had real fun clicking on different words in the tag clouds. I fel like I have a bad case of information overload.

Week 6 thing 13

The 12 minute Del.icio.us tutorial was not available today, so I went to the Del.icio.us website and read through their "about" section. I felt that it explained thoroughly what the website was about. They even included tagging with examples and how to. This site might be helpful for use on the info desk. The information staff could mark and tag helpful sites. It could make searches faster and easier.
PLCMCL2's account had a lot of familiar information on it. I went to a few bookmarked spots and enjoyed the comments made by other people who had marked the site. I enjoyed the tag clouds and found myself in some strange places ( I couldn't even read the language)when I clicked on the tags.

Week 5 Thing 12

I feel like I have been rollyoed, but it is linked on the sidebar and anyone with a Health question just check out my search engine What's up, Doc?

Week 5 Thing 11

I thought that listing my favorite Books on LibraryThing would be easy and it was. My biggest problem was remembering the books. I will update it later as I think of the hundreds of books that I love. I had a little difficulty getting my titles to display on a sidebar on my blog, but after a few attempts I succeeded.

Week 5 Thing 10

I did it . I saved a picture of my dog, copied it to the desktop and then uploaded it to dumpr. They changed itinto a pencil sketch and you can see the results. I think the actual picture was better, but this was a lot of fun. I also made another avatar in yahoo.com this time. I wish I had all the options for clothes, hair color and backgrounds that were available there.

Keukagirl Goes Camping