Thing #23

I have made it pretty plain about which sites I liked. On the whole 23 Things has been a positive experience. I have been reading additional articles from Library Journal. One was from 9/15/07 on DEL.ICIO.US. The second was in 11/1/07. It was on using Web 2.0 to help with readers' advisory. LibraryThing, and Goodreads , and the Ann Arbor District Library Catalog were listed as good places to get RA help. I thought this aspect of Web 2.0 was a great library use. I have been and always will be into life long learning, and will probably try more online in the future. I am looking forward to my MP3 player so that I can download from the internet which I have not done-to-date. Being unable to download software so that programs work effectively and efficiently is frustrating. If I was here I would do it again.

Thing #22

I added an audio podcast called Driven to quilt with 13 episodes to my Bloglines account. I believe that I would enjoy listening to all these episodes. The podcast originates in Germany and may have some interesting cultural perspectives.
On Podcat.net the category library had 39 entries. I tried the author interview of Pope Brock by the Kankakee Public Library. Podcasts look like an interesting way to hear interesting speeches and interviews. Much more useful that the music sites.

Thing #21

Online video looks like it could be fun to both create and watch. I chose the following video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe01HWWTO5w. Chose the video because of my quilting theme. I thought the site was easy to search and view things. I think videos like this on our public computers could help our public navigate better with less questions to the staff.

Thing #20

Yes I think the video was created for the public. All the concepts about linking, editing and people connecting are here now. Does it mean we need to think about family, privacy and a lot of other concepts the answer is yes. The question about what is relevant in education is very crucial. The students who blog through class and say their classes are no relevant, what do they know about history and what they will really need in the future to survive. This technology makes for a very "me" generation which we already know is a problem.

Thing #19

You have just hit a zero interest area. I only listen to the radio for weather in the morning when I get up for work. I never listen to music unless forced too, someone else is driving and is controlling the radio. I am looking forward to my MP3 player so that I can download books and will never have to listen to the radio (silence is better). I looked at the AARP suggestion but have no interest in dowdloading music or organizing my non-existent CD collection or anyone else's collection.

Thing #18

I have been reading MySpace Unraveled: a Parent's Guide to Teen Social Networking. It has been very interesting and presents both the teens and the parents views of social networking on the internet.

I can see that social networking for the professional (suggested article) can be very helpful. I would think for small libraries it would be a godsend. For professionals and for people with specific hobbies it would be great. For teens and younger, I am still out. Does it really help them improve their social skills and does it allow them to really manage better in the real world is the sixty-four dollar question. If counting the number of friends you have, or blathering with older guys is the main content, then no. If you are hiding in your room on the computer everyday than definitly NO. The book I am reading talks about the dangers of exposing personal information in social networking. For example, sexual preference that can come back to haunt you when job interviewing.

Thing #17

The Wikipedia entry is interesting because of the links that you can add link to KDL's home page. How much duplication is necessary when you can easily get to our home page through Google? I am finding the internet to uncontrolled with too many ways to do the same thing.

The ALA wiki for New Orleans was interesting. I can see its use because ALA at ... is a one time conference and it is nice to have everything about the conference and New Orleans at your finger tips.

SJCPL was fun because they defined their subject catagories and Book Lovers wiki was nice because it linked directly to the book's status in the catalog. All the suggested sites provided in teresting library usage.

Thing #16

I enjoyed using Technorati. When I searched, today 10/26/07, for Learning 2.0 in Tag search, I got 675 hits, in Blog directory 837 hits and Blog post exact phrase 457. A quick view showed unique posts in all searches. I do not plan to spend a lot of time searching for favorite blogs and then reading them on a regular basis ( if not regularly why have them) but I will try to get an out of town friend to blog with me. Maybe we can expand our discussions by viewing some blogs and commenting on our findings. I sure like this program a whole lot more than del.icio.us.

When I was searching Learning 2.0, I chose a library site and completed a survey asking how middle management was supporting their staff in the goal of educating themselves in Learning 2.0.

Thing #15

This is the account I created in dei.icio.us. http://del.icio.us/travellingquilter. It has nothing in it. I have no bookmarks to import. I did a search on quilting but got many of the same sights that I created in my RSS feeds. If you had a lot of bookmarks this would make it easy to access them when you weren't on your home computer but no bookmarks so I reserve judgement on it's usefulness. I feel that there is a lot of duplication going on. For someone who isn't going to be on a computer every day or even once a week, this may be nice to know but no exactly high priority. http://del.icio.us/subscriptions/travellingquilter is where I have subscribed to several quilting sites. This is not easy software to us. At the moment it is my least favorite.

Thing #14

I looked at the winning site PEERTRAINER under the catagory Health. I think that it could be very interesting having a small peer group be your support group. When you join PEERTRAINER you need to join one or more support groups. You need to dialog daily about your food intake, exercise habits, etc. This is a great idea and probably works very well but is a very big time commitment in your life to spend the time being a health fitness nut when you hate exercise and love to eat. I would explore this site more in the future when I am willing to make a commitment. You can create your own group so it would be fun to have your peer group made up of work friends. I am sure that the concept of peer groups commumicating on the net can be used at work sites for other areas also. http://www.peertrainer.com/

Thing #13

I created an account in Zoho Writer. I created a document called "first document" and successfully e-mailed to my KDL e-mail. I tired to get into Zoho show 3 times but was not able to get in. I went back into Zoho writer and checked out the template library. I uploaded the petty cash template to my Templates. When I tried to use the petty cash template in a document I recieved an message that the computer had to logoff the internet. I went in again and uploaded the petty cash template. When I tried to use it in a document, I was again logged of the internet. I have sent an hour working on this assignment. Looks like it has possibilities.
The "first document" file worked great.

Thing #12

It was a lot of fun creating my search roll. http://www.rollyo.com/travelling_quilter/ I just picked some quilting sites that looked like fun. It would be very useful to link my travelling to quilt shops, shows, museums, and historic sights in a particular area. I would need to do more searching for URL's that would provide that information.

Thing #11

I found it very easy to use LibraryThing. I added six of my quilt books by putting in the ISBN number and searching Amazon. All the books came rightup. I have about 200 quilt books that I may eventually add when I have time to get tags better organized. I only added two tags to begin. One tag was "quilting" for all the books and the second was the main theme of the book like color or design. I searched Amazon by title and author (novels) but did not add them to my library. Fun. http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=e-quilt&shelf=shelf

Thing #10

I read all five of the articles. In Icebergs, I found that his putting down the "come to us" model of library service does not address the loss of the library as a community and the ability to pass milages. The use of Web 2.0 tools by librarians for the benefit of the user sounds good. We do need the education. Better cooperation as suggested by OCLC resulting in building better data and better user friendly tools are great goals, and better bibliographic systems using "metadata" is great to. But what about all those who haven't the financial where-with-all to effectively learn and use these tools? Is the library with it's limited teaching abilities really helping those in need? Or are we just providing more for those with more (convenience for the haves)?

Thing #9

I searched the topic of quilting on Feedstar.com. I found plenty to look at. It was easy and fun.
It was very easy to get current news topics from Topix.net. I was moved to M-Live and got a list of news briefs and the full news report when I clicked on the brief. Easy.
I did not like Syndic8.com. I was to technical and required a sign-up. Technorati had a moving up-to-date live feed. It was fun to watch and just click on the brief to see more in-depth reports. My personal choice is Feedstar.com.

Thing #8

I created an account in Bloglines and added 10 posts. For me it went very well. I went to this public account http://www.bloglines.com/public/travellingquilter and added her/his Tree Hugger feed to my account.
I also added Unshelved to my account by going to that web site and just clicking on their rss feed symbol. For me this exercise only took 1 and 1/2 hours and wasn't as frustrating as ususal.
Having a feed down load your favorite sites with updates could be useful, that is, if you used your computer to look at such sights.

I have a friend who lives in Mississippi. We were talking on the phone last night about setting up a family blog. Her son will be deployed to Iraq shortly. We will have to see how it goes. She is even more computer illiterate than I am.

Thing #7

I have taken one of my kite photos and used an image generator to enhance it. I could not save it from the image generator to the KDL s: due to restrictions placed on my computer. I sent it to Flickr instead. Now I need to get out of Flickr into my Blog. I used FDSFLICKRTOYS which is the tag in Traveling Quilter Photostream.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/beads.php I tried retreiving the image from the sight where I created it. I now have two empty boxes I have shrunk but don't know how to get rid of. I have now e-mailed my self the image. I have checked my e-mail and did not receive my creation. Add one hour to time wasted getting nowhere. I have now created a blog in Flickr and the test page came but I still don't have my creation.

I decided that I would just start over and use a new generator. This time I used Chalk Board Message Generator. It worked like a charm. See attached picture. The generator saved the the image to S: Erma's stuff in a file called dogtags.jpg.

http://www.glassgiant.com/back_to_school/?l1=Help+me&classtype=chem&size=large

I also learned how to get rid of those empty boxes created by bighuglabs.com.

Thing #6

The mashup I liked best was Trip Planner. I think this would be a great place to create a trip itinerary for when we take a trip with our motor home. We put our pictures on the net for family but having the maps and brochures of places would really round out the pictures nicely.
http://travel.yahoo.com/trip

Thing # 5

I am trying to upload a picture that I saved to Flickr by using the tools provided in Blogger.
Here goes. I got the picture from my computer. I could not make get an image from a URL work.

I did not get this picture from Flickr.

Thing # 1-3

I find this very frustrating. Every time I try to save my work I get a can't find page screen.

After having read the 7 1/2 habits of lifelong learning, I find the easiest to be "Take responsibility" and the hardest to be "Use technology to your advantage. Why would it be to my advantage if all I do is get frustrated?