Monday, February 16, 2009

THING 8

Library staff and administrations will need to remain flexible in order to meet the changing needs of library patrons. We need to be able to get the information to the patron in the format the patron is comfortable with...not necessarily the same ones we are comfortable with. Instant messaging could become a powerful tool in inter-branch and inter-office communications. The concept of a more "feeling" way to express things as well as not having the e-mail paper trail is appealing in that it may allow staff who are hesitant about voicing their concerns a "safe" approach.
We have access to meebo and practiced instant messaging one another.
The OPAL archive had some interesting data. I visited the Teen tech week Gaming and a couple of the book discussions.
I'm off now to set up a FaceBook account. Looking for friends!

Sunday, February 15, 2009

THING 7: Online Image Generators


Okay, I played around with this one for a while. Couldn't really get what I wanted and wasn't able to copy code and get anywherewith it. Will ask some of the workmates who have already completed this how they fared. I think it's got great applications if I could simplify my process. First I tried a "badge" -- It says "Ask--Buy Me". I was unable to edit out the buy me portion. Then I tried creating a post-it that said Nefllin's 23 things Have Fun With It!, but was unsuccessful in uploading it. From there I went to adding captions to pictures, but als and alak the photo file was too large to be uploaded, so no captions for me. I thought this one was cute, so settled for it.

thing 6




Spelling with flickr is fun. Is there a faster way than saving each letter on the desktop and then uploading it onto the blog?

I could see using flickr spell for a scavenger hunt...letters having to be all the same colors, or same style, or only out of bricks etc. It's great for names, too.

THING 5


flickr. Blogging. Uploading photos. Photo Gallery. Did it. Working from home, so I didn't have photos from the library (gee, I still don't know how to download the photo on my phone to the computer...it's a great one of all our carts at BT empty....everything shelved.) This is the photo I tagged for Neflin's 23 things. On to Thing 6!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Thing 4 RSS Feeds

This one is going to be very helpful. Completed all the reading but was not able to watch the "videos"--we are still awaiting the installation of Flash. I may watch the videos at home. The information provided will be great for both home and work use. Am looking forward to adding feeds for a number of subjects. Let's see, created both a yahoo and a google reader account. Added all the BT bloggers to the google reader account and added Neflin's blah blah blog to the links on my own blog.

Thing 3

Thing 3: Blogosphere
Blogosphere. Cool word. It's all out there, isn't it? I wasn't too impressed with using blogs for searching. Went to Technorati and about.com and looked up shih tzu (yep, my Cooper is one). Neither site provided much user-friendly information. It is interesting to note how many folks are actually blogging and the demographics that were provided.