Week 4, Thing 9 Explore MERLIN

Week 4, Thing 8 RSS feeds and setup Blogger newsreader

Explored variety of feeds - library, news and book reviews - viewed postings - added Merlin as a post - delighted to learn of service from Maryland.

Feeds offer simple way to stay current in many areas - not sure how to keep with all of them - will review blogs for which I've signed up to monitor which are really of use to me.

Library's have blogs for their public's use - PLCMC's offers Reader's Club for continual up-dates - takes our new "Suggested reads" service a step further - will explore online for other public library blogs.

Week 3, Thing 7 Blog post about anything technology related

Listened to news blurb on NPR - specifically talking about web 2.0 - speaker was discussing pros and cons of this new technology - is it just ego drivel? how much does it reduce WWW as source of meaningful, authoritative materials VS tools for creative exploration - never know what one new concept will lead to -

Week 3, Thing 6 Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites

Kaleidoscope is very cool

- lets you find an image on the web and make an actual changing image - clicked on colorpickr link - in top right hand corner of page that comes up - click on "fun & games" - click on Kaleidoscope image

http://www.krazydad.com/makeyourown/index.php

Week 3, Thing 5, Explore Flicker

Took the tour, explored recent interesting sites & popular tags.

Maps too - how many other people looks at these by person? - OK so, I did BUT...

Great endless daisy vine & MANY sunsets!

Week 2, Thing 4: Register your blog and Track your progress

So - this is getting real - I set up my blog and created listing of first four posts - then I wanted to "go back" and fill in comments. NOT intuitive - with help from other staff members found out how to go back and add comments/edit posts. Still later I came to appreciate that Blogger dashboard is what I need to click on to do this.

One of our staff members didn't realize you could edit (add to a post) once it had been published - now we BOTH know it can be done.

Not easy to tell if registration had gone through.

Week 2, Thing 3: Set up your own blog

Week 1, Thing 2: Pointers from lifelong learners

I want to be able to work with/assist the public - my sense of responsibility is a strength as is my curiousity about what the public and other staff members are talking about!

Hmm - I am so not a "natural" at this kind of task - turning problems into challenges and learning to use technology to my advantage will be areas I need to be mindful of.

Fortunately, I am not alone!

Week 1, Thing 1, About program this program

I read about this program in "Computers in Libraries" and thought it sounded terrific. Im really excited that Maryland DLDS and our library system are encouraging us to try our wings and use these tools

NOT a Thing

A blog I made, who knew I could

I really did and it was good