Week 3 - #7 Technology

Lets see - what interests me? I have a digital camera that I am constantly working with to upload pictures to my computer and touch them up and shrink them so I can email them. I would like to get a webcam for my computer so I can see my grandchildren in VA Beach and Hawaii when I talk to them. This is definitley something I am working on with my children.

Week 3 #6- Flickr Mashups

I went into the Mappr and got the alert that "connection was reset" - if computer is protected by firewall make sure the Firewall is permitted to access Web. So I stopped there. Then I went into Yahoo Travel and pretended to plan a trip to Rome, Italy.

Week 9 Summary

Yeah! I 've finished! It took quite a bit of time but I am happy to have done it. I have to admit there was some frustration involved.
I do feel that I have learned a lot. I did most of the work at home and it took more time than I thought it would. When I got stuck I called or asked someone when I came to work. Again thanks to all who helped.
When I first started Web 2.0 learning I didn't even know much about blogs. Now I have my own blog and I am now familiar with blogs, wikis, googledocs, librarythings, podcasts, youtube, Flickr, RSS feeds, bloglines . Wow!
I do feel it has been a worthwhile experience and am glad I participated!

Week 9 Overdrive or NetLibrary

Yeah! I am at least somewhat familiar with Overdrive and NetLibrary. I went to a workshop when we first started with Overdrive and downloaded an E Book. I haven't downloaded an audiobook yet. I opened an account with NetLibrary when we first got it. May be time for another one!
In the future I am going to try to download an audiobook.
I do get positive response from patrons who are downloading books.

week 9 - Podcasts

Doing web 2.0 learning gave me some exposure to podcasts as we had to listen to them to do our exercises. I went into the 3 different podcasts listed and the one I liked was the yahoo podcasts. The other 2 said I needed to install a missing plugin.. So I stopped there. I looked at the different podcasts in yahoo podcasts . I liked the NPR Books podcast and Tara helped me add it to my bloglines. Thanks, Tara. I'm glad you were working at Walkersville today!!!
I know what I was doing wrong. I was copying the wrong URL. Now I know. Just part of learning!

Week 9 - Youtube-Why gorillas arent allowed in the library

The Sesame Street video didn't play so I am trying another one!

Week 9 -YouTube

I tried to upload this video at home yesterday and couldn't do it. I set up an account with YouTube and added this video to my favorites. That's as far as I got. Marybeth helped me today by showing me how to edit the blog name. Once I did that it was easy to upload to my blog. Thanks, Marybeth.

Week 8 - Web 2.0 Awards

I went into the Web 2.0 awards and of course choose Books as the category I was interested in. I did look at bookmarking, health, video and travel. Lots of information here and certainly worthwhile coming back to. I think this is pretty neat and just being exposed to all of this is helpful. Some I like more than others and will use.
Lulu.com, biblio.com and librarything.com were the top 3 winnersin the book awards category. I really like librarything as I said before I will use this for my bookclubs. Biblio.com is useful for out of print books. Lulu didn't look as easy to use to me as librarything.

Week 8 - Online Productivity Tools

I choose Google docs to create my documents. I like the layout and was able to use my blogger email and password so I don't have to add another email and password to my list. I put my bookclub groups in a document that I can access from home on my PC . I like the idea of being able to have this information from any PC. I like the fact that I don't have to purchase Microsoft Office now and have the availabilty of word processing and spreadsheet on my PC. Will practice with the spreadsheet when I have more time.

Week 7 - Learning 2.0 Sandbox wiki

I went into the Sandbox wiki and added my name under FCPL list.
I think it did it right! It's cool that everyone is adding their blog to the list!

Week 7 - Wikis

I found reading about Wikis interesting. The one I liked and bookmarked on my home computer is Princeton Public Library's Booklovers Wiki. I am always interesred in reading book reviews and what other book lovers are reading. I especially like the index to the Review! I will use this site for sure!

Week 6 Library 2.0, Web 2.0

I found all of this very interesting and over my head. I like the "Check neaby Libraries" feature that was added to the online public access catalog in Santa Monica Public Library.
Check out tips and tricks OCLC.
I find all of this mind boggling but do look forward to the new technology of the future and the training that goes along with it. The reason I am doing "23 things" is to be exposed to some of the new technology.

Week 6 Technorati

I went into Technorati and put in learning 2.0 search and the results were 25,536 blog posts about learning 2.0 Here is my results: technorati.
Looks interesting and I will probably revisit this when I have more time.

Week 6 deli.cio.us

I went into deli.cio.us and didn't sign up for it because right now I am signed up for more than I would ever use. I did look at it and don't think I'd use it.

Week 5 Rollyo

I went into Rollyo and created an account and set up some search rolls- cooking, reading, and news. I can see where this is a good way to organize your most popular sites.

Week 5 LIbrary Thing

I went into librarything.
This is a good tool to keep track of books read. I like the suggestion tab.

Week 5 Online Image generator!

I tried to download the yahoo avatar and didn't have any luck. I played with the Letter James Image Gallery and finally was able to load this image! I'm not sure if I am having fun yet????

Week 4 Merlin

I explored Merlin and even signed up for an account! I looked at the library news blogs and went into Library Journal News. I wasn't aware that Merlin was available and such a good resource. Always learning something new!

Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders

I set up my Boglines account and added 10 feeds. I found an interesting article from National Geographic about Egypt's Female Pharaoh revealed by a chipped tooth. Check out the article at nationalgeographic.

Week 3: Photos & Images

Hawaii
Originally uploaded by book lover2007

It has taken me over an hour or so to figure this out. It looks like it worked! I set up a Flickr account and uploaded this photo to Flickr and then to my blog. This is my technology posting for this week: learning how to use Flickr and then uploading the photo to my Blog!