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.