The End? # 23

Well, there we go, all 22 tasks accomplished.
This was a great learning experience, in spite the occasional teeth gnashing: "How do you make this work???? oh, I see, never mind".
Before I started this training the most adventurous thing I did online was email, well, ok, and an occasional online order. Now I'm staying in the loop with bloglines; I've enhanced my crafting with flickr; have new and wonderful ways to entertain myself with Youtube and podcasts. I've also developed a better understanding and greater appreciation for blogs and wikis (the world doesn't start and end with wikipedia).
So Yay! Learning 2.0, and thank you for broadening my horizons...
...and yes, I would certainly take part in other LCPL learning adventures!

E-Audiobooks #22

I love Netlibrary. The ebooks have so often come to my rescue when there is nothing on our shelves and the patron needs something *Now*. The audiobooks offer a nice variety of titles. There are several teen titles that I'll probably explore once I have my player...ah! the end is near!

Podcasting # 21

Well, this was enlightening. Who knew there would be so many podcasts by library teens?
Here's one of many that are out there:
Teen Talk

YouTube #20

I like the way YouTube is organized in useful categories. I naturaly spent most of my time in the comedy section. The following educational video ties in nicely with everything we've been learning. What is podcasting?
Ask A Ninja

Thing 19

I spent way too much time playing with all the web 2.0 tools. ColorBlender was particularly fun, especially since I've got a room that needs painting.
Check it out: http://colorblender.com/

Thing 17

Played with the PB wiki: so many ideas, so much to do, so much to see!
left my footprint on the favorite blogs page:
http://plcmclearning.pbwiki.com/Favorite%20Blogs

zoho experiment - #18

A Zoho doc experiment.OOOhhh! background color and it stops when you ask it to...

Lovely colored letters. Axxx! Exει kaι Eλληνικà!!!

What else? Fonts Bold, italicized and underlined with strike through!

1. centered with bullets
2. justify left
   
3. justify right
4. justify full and all this without losing the bullets...yay Zoho

This was lovely, and it published to my blog, I'm feeling very competent at the moment, I'll resist the urge to add another smiley face to this post...there can be too much of a good thing.

Play with zoho: http://zoho.com/

Thing #16

Wow! the world of wikis!
I loved St. Joseph County's wiki: what a wonderful way to incorporate the library's resources: both their materials and staff knowledge. What a great way to interact with the community, by connecting to local business and organizations. How neat that they find ways to keep their wiki informal (check out their cooking section, with the highlighted recipes!) ... I'm inspired!
http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page

Princeton's Book lover wiki with its sharper focus feels like a more reachable goal. I loved that it was in color!
http://booklovers.pbwiki.com/Princeton%20Public%20Library

Thing #15

"Away from the Icebergs" by Rick Anderson highlights 3 points of caution for libraries heading into the 2.0 world. Anderson admonishes librarians to reconsider their print collections, and to start including electronic formats to enhance patron access. Anderson also believes the ideas of "user education" and the library as a physical location should be reexamined. http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/2.htm
LCPL is already taking steps to address Anderson's first point: the electronic books and databases we offer expand our patrons' ability to access information.
The idea of simplifying accessibility is enchanting, and probably a goal we should constantly keep in mind as we reevaluate our collection, and how we offer access to it. Can we look forward to a day when there is a single search point for all library resources? Something like an Amazon search, that allows you to search the entire site or select specifics: just books, or dvds. For us, it could be a search that incorporated all our databases, our catalog, and selected websites, perhaps even blogs. But: how would we present this information so as not to confuse out patrons? How much extra staff time would be required to maintain it?
Anderson's third idea cautions us not to assume that patrons will always come to us for their information needs. I find it interesting that he includes the library's virtual presence in this caution. Why would anyone visit a library webpage when they could get information elsewhere? Are we going to reach a point where inputting a library card number to access online information is considered too much of a bother? Will libraries start investing in market research to help them promote their virtual presences?
When I started in this profession, a mere 10 years ago, I was helping to update a card catalog...how far have we come!

Technocrati #14

I'm following orders on this one: I searched for Learning 2.0 and then for "Learning 2.0", in blog posts, tags and the blog directory. The thousands of hits I got in the blog posts were reduced considerably in the tags, and even more so in the blog directory. The relevance of the content improved as well. Using quotations further refined the quality of the search.
I explored popular blogs, searches and tags and was impressed by the fact that this is still a world for those technologically inclined, with most of the popular blogs focusing on some aspect of technology and how to use it.
I was also amused to run into the notice that the Technocrati demon had escaped, on several occasions...but that happened just on one out of the several days that I visited the site.

Del.icio.us #13

As I work my way through the 23 things, I find I'm positively delighted by some of them: the Library Thing claimed my allegiance in an instant, Rollyo was easy to use and has a wealth of possibilities to offer, and I loved playing with the image generators. But some of the other Things we've been exploring leave me mildly peeved. Thing #13 is one of them. Perhaps because I'm spoiled and want something more visually attractive. Or because I've not spent enough time with it, and still feel I get better results with Google.

Rollyo!

Cooking was the subject of this particular searchroll...
It made me soooo hungry!!!!
Check out Cooking Spree , and if it makes you creative, culinarily speaking, Share! :)

Library Thing #11

Of all the interesting things I've explored so far, this one has a special place in my heart, I love it!

Thing 10 - again..

This was way too fun to stop with just one, so I'll inflict one more on you :)




this and the previous post were generated with the help of Spell with Flickr

Thing 10

just because the sun finally came out and there is hope for spring...

Thing #9

After exploring some of the suggested feed search tools, I settled on Feedster as the one I was most comfortable with.

Bloglines - The Eighth Thing

This was interesting. I'm looking forward to a daily dose of Dilbert :)
Here's a link to my ever changing list of feeds

Technological thoughts

Technology - Thing 7
What a subject...where to start?
I'm feeling fickle, so I'll skip the great picture and zero in on a relatively new devise that I'm enamored with: play-aways (yes, I'm a geek)
I've always enjoyed the concept of audio books, but I never got around to buying a portable cd player, my car has a tape deck, and let's face it: I'm just not organized enough to keep track of multiple components when it comes to my world of reading. I can handle a book, don't ask me to keep track of tapes...which one was I listening to? where did I leave it?
...so, play-aways, what an invention! ...the all in one concept: yes! ...light weight, attachable to me, with a memory, it knows where I stopped...and I love being able to speed up the narrator's voice :)

Just for fun

Working on Thing 6 here...
there are many fun and useful things out there, but who cares? The 5 year-old in me was immensely pleased with Matchr ...
a game that asks you to figure out which two of a selection of 16 pictures share the same tag. Need a break from working hard? this might do the trick...then again, if you're prone to talking to your computer you might want to watch it..."what do you mean that's tagged DC?!?! it's a LEAF!!!"...anyway, have fun!

Tinos

Tinos 2 032
Originally uploaded by artlifesociety.

This is the village my father's family is from. I've spent a lot of summers running up and down the hills in this picture! Way in the distance, on the mountain ridge line are wind mill ruins. That was one of our favorite walks.
As a librarian and former cataloger, I'm cringing at the lack of authority records here...:)
The appropriate spelling for this particular village is Pyrgos, though you'll also get some good Flickr pictures by searching for Pirgos, it's all the same, located on the Greek island of Tinos, in the Aegean sea.

7.5 Learning Habits

Since we're invited to state which of the 7.5 learning habits is easiest and which is hardest, I must admit, I've had a life-long problem with setting goals: "what do you want to be when you grow up?" "....oh, i don't know..." I knew better, even at a very young age, than to admit I wanted to be a mermaid...and please, don't tell me that's a goal!
I think habit 7.5 is the easiest: Play!, oh, I can do that! it appeals to the explorer in me: what new thing can I investigate today? I think that's why I'm an avid, yet fickle crafter: scrapbooking, crochet, painting, jewelry making, chocolate making...the list goes on, I've done it all...have I done it well? seriously now! I'm just playing!

Frazzle's first post

Well, it has taken me forever, but I'm finally starting this Learning 2.0 thing.
I'm looking forward to catching up with the rest of you!