week 9 thing 23

1. My favorite exercises were flicker, generators and avatars, and utube.
2. This program made me relize how much I need to expand my scope of technology.
3. I was amazed at how many cool things are out there in cyberspace.
4. I think the program would be better if it was presented in a smaller form. Say 10 things at a time insead of 23. Smaller bites are easier to chew. Also podcasts with instructions would be great. So many of the instructions on the sites were not geared to non computer people. So it became frustrating.
5. I would do another session if it was offered.
6. It was very cool and a great experience. I found out just how much I didn't know.

week 9 thing 22

I have downloaded from the earth to the moon by j verne from the gutenburg site. I didn't find either the audio book or the text version satisfying. I guess I'm just old fashion. I like to hold a real book. Put it down when I want and come back later and pick it up. The possibilities are great for others. I just don't like it for myself.

week9 thing 21

Well I have been to podcastalley, podcast.net and yahoo podcasts and played around. I am sure these are great as training tools when used for that purpose. I don't think many do use this technology for training though. It seems its used for stating opinion. And very boring ones at that. The Merlin link was interesting, Recorded storytimes, and pods to teach new concepts would be great.I did add the RSS feed to my bloglines account.

Week 9 thing 20

posting stuff from other places is difficult. Lots of steps and not always in the same order or places.

week 8 thing 19

I have looked at a few of the sites and I am un impressed. Most of these sites I would never use. The application sites are useful, the wiki sites I can see use possiblities but the rest, not intrested. I tried B-Green and itwas mostly a way to sell trees. Pandora was OK. Its a free music site.

Week 8 Thing 18

Hi All,

This looks like a very cool set of applications that would be perfect for library users. They could use them, open them, and send them from anywhere without saving them to our computers. That is a constant problem for us and this solves it nicely. They look and perform just like the high priced spread too. A win win deal for all.

Week 7 Thing 16 & 17

WIKI this, WIKI that, WIKI WIKI goes my cat.
I can see the pracital uses for WIKIs in library structure. Committees and departments and work groups could all participate and work together this way with never having to travel. I would like to set one up for the branch. As for the community, I think that might be just a little complicated. It would be great to hear from our customer base but I'm a control freak and I see constant ways this could get out of control.
I had to get help from Bryan McDonald to post anything to the Sandbox wiki. Thank goodness he was here I was going crazy trying to figure it out.

Rosedale is under construction so I dress like this

Week 6 Thing 13, 14, 15

I have tagged alot and can see its usefullness, however not practical uses for myself. Maybe some will present itself in the future.
The artical of the future of librarian and libraries was very interesting. We see it everyday. The need to be able to better educate our customers on how to access info for themselves, is a huge issue. How do you reach that large a group and effictivly teach. Tutorials that are pre-programed into our computers would work. Anyway it opened up a new way to look at the next 12 years.

Thing 12

Well thing 12 has been time consuming. This whole trip has taken more time than expected. I find it all interesting but the descriptions of what to do and how to do it are not very helpful. A lot of expermenting is necessary. I used searchbox to add my rolls to my blog but it worked the other way and added my blog to the roll. Oh well I will have to visit North Point and get help.

thing 12

Well I have now made another roll, this time about quilting, but I have not been able to link them yet. You notice I say YET. I will get it sooner or later. Connie

week 5 thing 12

I have made a cooking roll and here is the link.http://rollyo.com/cknecht/plain_cooking/

thing 11

Well I've tried Library thing and I hope I can make it link to my blog.

week 5 thing 10

I have been playing around with some generators and found that my goth name for Constance is (sedated) however when I'm Connie I'm (beautifully chaotic). Who knew!! I have also made a romance book cover called Lightning Love. Of course I haven't written it yet so don't search the shelves for it yet.

week 4 thing 8 & 9

I have set up my bloglines account, and added 39 feeds. My intrests besides books are dogs, gardening. vegan cuisine, fishing, and art.
Today I have explored Librarians Internet Index, a useful reference site.

technology Week 3 thing 7

I have always thought of myself as fairly up to speed as far as new technology goes, only to learn that somewhere along the trip I have been left way behind. Most of these 23 things, I have only vaguely heard about. I certainly have never tried them. So it has been wonderful to be encourged to try out new stuff. I have enjoyed flickr. So many pictures to share and use.

Week3 thing 5&6

Well I found time to work on Flicker. It was more complicated than expected. However I did not give up and now have posted a picture on my blog. Connie

My 1st Blog Week 1&2 thing 1,2,3&4

WOW!!! this was really easy. I was somewhat worried that I would get stuck and not be able to do this. Now I'm feeling very confident. (made my 1st blog today) Next time on I will figure out how to customize it.
Prior to today I read about the program and listened to the life long learner podcast. My drawback to the process is always making enough time to sit and just do it. Connie