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Week 5, Thing 12: Roll your own search tool with Rollyo.

2007-07-14T09:34:00.000-07:00

Yet another thing that I personally will not be using. It certainly was easy enough to create (once I thought up some websites to put in there). I suppose that this could be useful for someone who does frequent searches in a very narrow field.

Week 5, Thing 11: Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books

2007-07-10T13:45:00.000-07:00

Hmmm . . . Library Thing is kind of neat. I don't think I would use it for my personal library (I keep trying to pare that down), but I might use it for my church's library since it's easy to use and can be linked to from our website.

Week 4, Thing 10: Play around with an online image generator

2007-07-10T09:36:00.000-07:00

I played with a few of these -- pretty fun, and a great way to waste a lot of time. This is one from FD Toys' Captioner.

Week 4, Thing 9: Explore MERLIN and a few useful library related-blogs and/or news feeds

2007-07-10T09:13:00.000-07:00

I did subscribe to MERLIN (which I'll never read -- even if there were any posts in there), and a local news feed for Crofton which I found easily using topix.net.

I have to admit I'm not terribly enthusiastic about this exercise. I'm glad to know that all that information is floating around out there somewhere and that I can corral it into my own little "feed world" if I want to -- I just don't want to.

Hopefully, on to something more interesting next time!

Week 4, Thing 8: RSS & Newsreaders

2007-06-28T12:04:00.000-07:00

RSS is a nice way to keep up with news, blogs, etc. I've just never had the interest in doing that! I wish I had the time to read everyone's latest -- maybe when I retire! : )

Week 3, Thing 7: Create a Blog Post About Anything Technology-Related

2007-06-13T12:30:00.000-07:00

My favorite technology things are my flash drive and my iPod -- love creating those playlists!

Also, I've been working part-time at IT during NC's renovation and have learned quite a lot about podcasting, audio files, etc. while researching something for Karl.

I hope we'll be able to have some sound -- and maybe even video -- files on our website and Intranet soon; these could be great training tools for staff, or just fun stuff for the public like storytelling, promotions, etc.

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

2007-06-13T12:05:00.000-07:00

In fd's flickr toys, I used an app called the "Warholizer" which is inspired by the Warhol multiple color photos of Marilyn Monroe. I created a very nifty pic with it -- that was fun!

Week 3, Thing 5: Explore Flickr

2007-06-08T12:09:00.001-07:00

I have used flickr before, but only to view other people's wedding or party pictures -- I had no idea there were so many interesting photos there.

This photo is amazing -- probably the most dramatic thing I've ever seen; I wonder how long the photographer waited for this . . .

I haven't been able to get the photo to actually appear in my blog using Blogger's photo upload tool; when you click on the white space above the blog text, it links to the picture on Flickr.

Week 2, Thing 4: Register Your Blog & Track Your Progress

2007-06-08T10:52:00.000-07:00

Another quickie!

Week 2, Thing 3: Set Up Your Own Blog

2007-06-08T08:54:00.001-07:00

Pretty simple -- the most traumatic issue was thinking up a name for my blog. As you see, I got really creative!

Week 1, Thing 2: Pointers from Lifelong Learners

2007-06-08T08:52:00.001-07:00

7 1/2 lifelong learning habits

The hardest habit for me would have to be #3 - view problems as challenges. I can get bogged down in the details sometimes.

The easiest (actually there are 1 and 1/2) are #4 - have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner; and #7 1/2 - play. Playing I can do!

Week 1, Thing 1: About This Program

2007-06-08T08:51:00.000-07:00

I don't really remember this -- I started the program about 3 weeks ago!

7 1/2 lifelong learning habits

2007-06-08T08:44:00.000-07:00