Thing 23 !!!!!!!!!!!

I would participate in another discovery program. I love learning new things!

I only work ten hours a week. I wasn't able to send as much time as I would have liked on each exercise. It was also hard to concentrate going back and forth between patrons and the exercises.

I will continue to use bloglines and Book Thing. I have been asking patrons if they have heard of Technorati, Rollyo or Flickr. YouTube and wikis seem to be alot more popular.

I am glad to be done!!!!!

Thing 22 of 23 Things

Nothing can take the place of sitting in a comfortable chair and reading a good book. I don't think I could get as comfortable with my computer in my lap. Plus I don't think it is as friendly on the eyes. I have had a couple of patrons ask about down loading books from our catolog. So the interest is there.

Thing 21 of 23 Things

I tried using Yahoo Podcast but I couldn't get it to my bloglines account. Podcast Alley was very easy to use. It went to my bloglines the first time.

I enjoyed watching the Harry Potter podcast. Podcasting did a great job promoting the new book.

Thing 20 of 23 Things

I watched a couple of the videos from YouTube. Some of them were really funny! I think adding the videos to library websites would really appeal to some people. I think they would need to be really short ones though. Otherwise no one may take the time to watch them. Some of the videos were really long and inappropiate.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-R9_va1AK8

Thing 19 of 23 Things

I explored www.yelp.com. It is a site that finds, reviews and talks about what is good and bad in cities all over the country. I learned quite alot about Annapolis, MD.

It looked like there were alot of interesting sites listed in the Web 2.0 awards. I think some of our patrons would be interested in exploring some of these sites.

Thing 18 of 23 Things

I played around with Zoho Writer. I think it will be a very useful tool for making signs about events in our library.

Thing 17 of 23 Things

I added my blog and created a new page about my favorite thing. Rug Hooking!! It was very easy to do!

Thing 16 of 23 Things

I have occasional used Wikipedia at work. I use it as a quick reference and a jump start to a topic. I always check with another source.

I think wiki is a great way for librarians to share information or as a Reader's Advisory . It certainly is easy to use. The site would need to be monitored frequently to make sure appropriate and reliable information is being added.

Thing 15 of 23 Things

I read the five perspectives on Library 2.0. I agreed with Dr. Wendy Schultz. I hope that there will always be a place in our communities for libraries with books and librarians. Why can't we have the library "come to us" and be able to go to the library?

Thing 14 of 23 Things

I did a search for Learning 2.0 in Technorati. I found 27,610 blog posts. In the tag search, I found both blogs and visual media. In the blog directory, I found 527 messages.

I think that people who do alot of blogging are into gadets, technology, and Johanna Cardona.

Thing 13 of 23 Things

I wasn't able to access the 12 minute Delicious tutorial or Tinyurl.com at my work computer. So it took awhile for me to understand what Delicious is all about. I found a blog that was very helpful. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2006/05/tag_youre_delicious.html I can see that tagging could be very useful. I searched for rug hooking and found 118 sites that were saved. If I were an internet junky it would be great to take all my favorite websites to any computer that I was using.

Thing 12 of 23 Things

http://www.rollyo.com/sharpworkspace/rug_hooking/



I can see that grouping websites together could be useful. It took awhile for me to realize how to link to my web sites.

Thing 11

Link to Librarything

What a great way to keep a reading log. I think I will use the suggestions for future readings.

Thing 10 of 23 Things

Week 4 Thing 8 and Thing 9

The following are some of the feeds that I subscribed to:

Bloglines | News
Brooklyn Book Talk
Folk 'n' Fiber
ice floes
its all good
Keedysville, MD (65..89F)
merlin - Maryland's Essential Resource for Library Information N
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
NYT > Home Page
ricklibrarian
Tammy's Terrific Blog
Tiny Little Reading Room
Wool Blog

It will be great to get all that information in one site!!

I really thought Technorati was easy to use and read. I typed in rug hooking and found out there are 800 + blogs!!

My favorite library related blog is Tiny Little Reading Room.

Thing 7 of 23 Things

My family were in Epcot a couple of weeks ago. Quite a few people were zipping around on the Segways. My nephew learned to drive one. Pretty cool!!

Thing 6 of 23 Things

I loved Flickr Color Pickr. Especially the flower color wheel!!

Thing 5 of 23 Things

What a beautiful sunset!!!!!

Photo by:Flickr artist Matt Phillips

Thing 2 0f 23 Things

I think the most difficult habit for me would be to view problems as challenges. It is very easy to become frustrated and focus on the negative. I hate not finishing things though. When I have completed something then I can focus on what I have learned.

The easiest is to teach. I love to share things with others.