week 10 #23 the end

I've really enjoyed this. My favorite things were blogging, flicker, wikis, and digital media. I think this has given me more confidence in trying new things on the web, and I think I have a better attitude towards learning about these things. I was surprised at how much of this I could use in my personal life. I'm thinking about creating a personal blog, and looking forward to doing more with photos online, and hoping to do more downloading of music and books.
Here at HCPL, I think we could do more with wikis, flicker, and maybe we could explore some of the things libraries are doing with social networks like Second Life.
I'd like to learn something basic which is how to burn CDs. Also what exactly is Flash?

week 9 #22

Found LibriVox pretty limited, due to their public domain catalog. Wowio had some pretty neat stuff. All in all, I thought our digital catalog was pretty impressive. I found independent music from India (Spirit of India) that looked interesting. And I thought it was neat that we had a Bill Engvall video that could be downloaded. And I found a cookbook called Dream Dinners that looked interesting.

week 9 #21

Went to yahoo, but had trouble finding anything interesting about libraries. When I did find something, the recording didn't make sense as it refered to a picture, so I still had to go to the accompanying print article to see the picture. So I wound up reading the info anyway. then I went to podcastalley.com which was more user friendly that yahoo's audio selections, and I did find some library podcasts. Did an RSS feed through bloglines to "uncontrolled vocabulary" which seems to be a weekly call in show on library topics. Have to say, it was pretty boring and I was most unimpressed. Can see using this for training purposes, like attending a podcast for a conference that I can't attend in person.

week 9 #20

I like youtube because it's fun, and I like the way they organize the videos. I looked at videos on how to do push-ups, as I was pretty sure that I was not doing them correctly in my home workouts. Found a couple that were helpful. In library web-sites, videos could be used to publicize events, and programs, to catch people's interest, but of course, the problem of bandwidth is always there.

week 9 #19

Sample doc: Thanksgiving: wet and rainy, moving day for my daughter, dust & pet hair, family aggravations, good food, being together, good friends, too much cigarette smoke!

Thoughts: can see some uses for this, like the alternative to microsoft office.

week 8 #18

poked around in myspace, and facebook. My space does have more entertainment stuff but my daughter has a facebook account. If I was to do anything with this, I'd probably get on yahoo 360 as I already have a yahoo account. Still prefer face to face.

week 7 #17

There's a lot of things I love about technology: being able to call for help on my cell phone when I have car trouble., being able to instant message my daughter, e-mail. I think we have to watch out for getting too much technology, like when I had a answering machine, a voice mail account, etc. and I had three things to check whenever I wanted to see if someone was trying to reach me. We have to make sure the technology works for us, and doesn't create more work for us.