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Monday, August 31, 2009
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.
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