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Thing 23-Reflection
My favorite things were Facebook, some of the graphics sites and Delicious. I was most excited about Google Reader, Delicious and Google Docs. I am actually using it right now to type my thoughts to later post. Delicious is a great way to consolidate bookmarks from several computers. However, I am having trouble getting it to import bookmarks at work. Digg was challenging and I had trouble with Google Reader, at first. In retrospect, I believe the city email account was blocking an email to validate my account. Once I changed email address, it was fine. I learned a lot; I hope the 23 blog will be up for a while, just so I can go back and spend more time on those Things that I feel I needed more time to learn. If it will be taken down, perhaps a page of links used could be sent to the participants. I will explore using podcasts for baby and toddler storytime activities and possibly information and application of Every Child Ready to Read. I learned a great deal; my only regret is that I didn't have more time: trying to complete this in the midst of Summer Reading Club was difficult. If it is offered again, I would suggest early Winter when there isn't at much going on. Thanks for the opportunity to participate. You guys rock!
Thing 22-Developing your own 23 Things for your library
My thoughts thus far: this would be great to have the staff do this. However, I don't know how to make this happen logistically. For example, would you provide the templates or would I have to create everything from scratch. That would take time I don't have. Is this something that would be easy for an IT department to manage. These are the questions. Also, if we were to do as a staff, winter would be the best time; when there is little programming and things are a little slower. My first stop would be our director who is very much into technology. Ultimately, it would be his decision if this is something he wants us to do. As more and more patrons become familiar with the web tools, we need to be up to date so we can help them.
Thing 21-Podcasts
I listened to several podcasts and the quality and content varied: The Boulder Teen blog page were of good audio quality and gave introductions. I wouldn't subscribe because it wouldn't be something I would follow but I can see where teens in that area would. I like the Booktalks podcast and I actually did subscribe to it. I can see a great application to add these to highlighted books on our children's page or when patrons search for books a link to podcasts with a booktalk for that book.
Thing 20
For some reason, Thing 20 post is not showing on my dashboard. Just in case, I am re-posting here:
I have used You Tube a lot in the past: from instructables, current events, entertainment, etc. I have not uploading anything before. I can now see there are many applications for promotion and communication for libraries. I watched several videos as I searched for: libraries, public libraries, book cart drill team. The book cart competitions were quote entertaining; they were for entertaining and definitely hit their mark. Some videos used reverse psychology to emphasis proper behavior, such as "How to Steal a Library Book." But many were too long or took too long to load. I think many would tune out because of those reasons. I think you need to preview whatever you upload to identify these issues and correct them. A particularly wonderful video was "Discover the New World at the Columbus Public Library." I liked it so much, I posted a comment and then click on the creator's site and sent a message. It was intended to showcase the services available for children and it used multi-media, professional quality with a child giving the info. It definitely accomplished the goal.
I have used You Tube a lot in the past: from instructables, current events, entertainment, etc. I have not uploading anything before. I can now see there are many applications for promotion and communication for libraries. I watched several videos as I searched for: libraries, public libraries, book cart drill team. The book cart competitions were quote entertaining; they were for entertaining and definitely hit their mark. Some videos used reverse psychology to emphasis proper behavior, such as "How to Steal a Library Book." But many were too long or took too long to load. I think many would tune out because of those reasons. I think you need to preview whatever you upload to identify these issues and correct them. A particularly wonderful video was "Discover the New World at the Columbus Public Library." I liked it so much, I posted a comment and then click on the creator's site and sent a message. It was intended to showcase the services available for children and it used multi-media, professional quality with a child giving the info. It definitely accomplished the goal.
Thing 20-You Tube
I have used You Tube a lot in the past: from instructables, current events, entertainment, etc. I have not uploading anything before. I can now see there are many applications for promotion and communication for libraries. I watched several videos as I searched for: libraries, public libraries, book cart drill team. The book cart competitions were quote entertaining; they were for entertaining and definitely hit their mark. Some videos used reverse psychology to emphasis proper behavior, such as "How to Steal a Library Book." But many were too long or took too long to load. I think many would tune out because of those reasons. I think you need to preview whatever you upload to identify these issues and correct them. A particularly wonderful video was "Discover the New World at the Columbus Public Library." I liked it so much, I posted a comment and then click on the creator's site and sent a message. It was intended to showcase the services available for children and it used multi-media, professional quality with a child giving the info. It definitely accomplished the goal.
I have been wanting a PSA and have recently added a budget for this in the last grant request. I definitely will post any video I have on You Tube and other social networking sites.
I have been wanting a PSA and have recently added a budget for this in the last grant request. I definitely will post any video I have on You Tube and other social networking sites.
Thing 19-Google Docs
I plan on using this for our business. We have info that we need to collect from several customers. I plan on using the spreadsheet feature to do this. It will make my second job much easier.
I created a form that I sent to myself and to my husband so he could see how we can collect information from our customers without a separate visit for that purpose. I also created a presentation file, imported a frequently used spreadsheet from work that many times I need at home. Specifically, my mileage and reimbursement form. Now I can enter the information as soon as I get home into GoogleDocs, open it at work and save and print.
One thing I definitely will try is the translation feature; I also like the Countdown feature. This is definitely a cool Thing!
I created a form that I sent to myself and to my husband so he could see how we can collect information from our customers without a separate visit for that purpose. I also created a presentation file, imported a frequently used spreadsheet from work that many times I need at home. Specifically, my mileage and reimbursement form. Now I can enter the information as soon as I get home into GoogleDocs, open it at work and save and print.
One thing I definitely will try is the translation feature; I also like the Countdown feature. This is definitely a cool Thing!
Thing 18-Wikis part2
I created my own Wiki page and 3 subpages: actually 4 because I thought 1 had not been created. The first time I tried to add a page name with one that was already used, it showed the info from someone else's page. So I chose another name. That seemed to work.
Thing 18-Wikis part1
I searched for Early Literacy and the result was Children’s Literature. So the results weren’t what I wanted.
So I tried another subject: Bilingual Story times and there were some on the results that I could use, but not discussion tab. So I clicked on a specific link and when I went to discussion tab, I got this message: This article is part of WikiProject Alabama, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Alabama on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.My third attempt: health care reform in the United States. Finally, I was able to see discussions. What I found here were two that doubted the reliability of the source. Also, most of the changes, as indicated in the History, had been added in the last 2 days.
So I tried another subject: Bilingual Story times and there were some on the results that I could use, but not discussion tab. So I clicked on a specific link and when I went to discussion tab, I got this message: This article is part of WikiProject Alabama, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Alabama on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.My third attempt: health care reform in the United States. Finally, I was able to see discussions. What I found here were two that doubted the reliability of the source. Also, most of the changes, as indicated in the History, had been added in the last 2 days.
Thing 17-LibWorm
I searched for “Early Literacy” which is something I am very passionate about. I found several links and posted it to my Google Reader to follow. I created my own LibWorm account. I used the keyword and phrase options, which I preferred. The categories, subjects and tags did not yield the results I was seeking. With the search, I was able to find what I needed and additionally was able to find an interesting link for Bilingual storytime, which I am also interested. When I searched for my library, I got the message “No Results Found.”
Thing 16-LibraryThing
Addition: found the places to read the assigned reading. Honestly, in my job, I am in charge of programming only and don't do any cataloging so I wasn't very clear on what these were about. However, a coworker came in who does cataloging all the time and when I showed her these applications, she was very excited and explained them to me. I was able to share these with her and she is estactic! I printed out the url for the language search and ISBN lookup. She says they will make her life so much easier.
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