Finished 23ThingsOna Stick

I finished the 23 Things On a Stick!!! It has been very educational and at times frustrating.

I have learned more than I expected to and did enjoy it. I know I will make use of the
sites and the knowledge of the Internet.
I have already found some good books to read through the goodread site.

I will work on blogging and some of these social sites.

Thanks to you who put this together and to the ones who read through all of the blogs.

20-Facebook and MySpace

Which groups did I join? American library association members and Libraries using Facebook.
tried to join one other and it was taking so long to open I could not. try later.
Facebook seems to very aware that not everyone is a high school or college student.
Offers lots of features and growing. Once you understand it. Handy tool all your social information in one place.

Libraries are using MySpace to communicate with patrons let them know what events are coming up. Talk about books. Let people and teens express themselves.

Both Sites work well for commutation and media in a two-way not just one.
can keep up with people with out e-mailing each one.

I think some of the Minnesota high school student have showed us the reason to be careful
what we put on our accounts. I like the way the articleput it. "Don't add anything to your profile you wouldn't display for your supervisors, co-workers and clients..."

19 Podcast

The podcast I listen to were: The media specialists interview. what they learned at a conference and how they use podcast at their school. It turned out the one specialist is at the school my
grandchildren attend.

New media update- Olympics fans frustrated by NBC'S online coverage.

Some of the Funny Babies videos.
On the Road with Minitex- information and history about Minnesota libraries I would have a hard
time getting so fast and easy. seeing libraries pictures of libraries I would never see.

Podcastally.com would be very help full to find the podcast you are looking for.

I checked out Podcast.com,Podcast.net,Poscastally.com, yahoo podcast. (also like yahoo's).

Has inspired me but I do not see me doing a podcast at this time.


I think libraries should use the podcast of authors talking about their new books.

18 videos and podcast

What did I dislike about the sites? To many questionable videos. to many things I would not have any interest in.
Yahoo's video of extreme Ironing was great fun.
Thought the library video was good, show how things change yet stay the same.
a fun play on books and computers.
Barack-Roll- funny and gets a message across too.

Robot with Rats brain was interesting, yet scary to think about what science can do.
also watched Human Robots 101.
I thought about it. I use video all the time may sister and some of my friends sen me short
videos that are funny of heart warming and it is fun, or a great pick-me-up.

I could not add a video it kept going in and out so it was hard to follow the directions.

Thing 17 ELM

The Elm site is a great tool for information. We had people look up information from a illness
to school reports, both children and adults.

We we were to work on collection information. we could let each other know what and where
we found the infomation.

Library Thing I was able to get further on the site today and a great site.
I signed up for Goodreads. I added some of the books I have read and will add more as I read
them. This will be a useful site to pass on to some of the patrons, the ones that are Internet
usurers.

The Libraries Games would not download on to my computer. I will try at the Library.
I look at the site and read what I could. I have very little interest in the games.

Looked at the RPC and assignment calculator. This would be most helpful at our library
for the middle school students and high school students. We also have a local Tec. school
and student come in to study or do research. I suggested this site to my daughter who
is in college.

We use ELM already and have set people up with the site to use at home.

Productivity tool

Online productivity tool is very helpful. It will take a bit to learn it all and get use to using it.
It reminds me of a Franklin planner online.

Library Thing We could add it to our site it would add some features to our site. like access
to book reviews and reviews by other people in their area.

I could not sigh up at this time I will go back and try again.

IM: instant messages helpful if the person is online and you need to get questions and answers back and forth fast. It truly is like a conversation on the phone. This is the way a lot of people.

Today I learned was we can help people find recent newspaper articles in a few minutes.



I chose the gogle start page. No I will not make it a permanent home page at this time.



Taging : Yes, we can do the research a head of time then when we have time help the patron

to learn how to get to the sights. The list is public so others can easil get to them once we make

them. I like the organiaing or information and catergortiaing resources with ease.

I like the idea of notices on their cell phones. Then if their out and about they can stop by the
library for their books. etc.

We use Minitex: Elm is the most use site at our library we help patron set up accounts for Elm
about once a week.

Setting up a collaboration tool would be useful for board members working on a draft of something with input from everyone and not have to meet in the same place.

I spent a lot of time online on saturday the comment that you could get caught-up in the internet and all the information at your access is dangerous.

Wiki-The fact that anyone can change or add to information is strange for me. I think the the
wikipeda is a good place to look at but not for final accurate information.

Flicker and beyond

I set up a flickr account. Whow! this could be fun. this can also help a person be creative.

I was a litte confussing at times, but will get easy with use.

Today was learing what RSS is Really Simple Syndication. I set myself up with some sites.
This will be a great way to keep up with what is happeing on the web.

I just got back to working on the program today. the video was short and easy to understand.
I am using time on a day off.
I hope to learn how to use the internet more. feel comfortable with the access to information.

Welcome to my Blog

I am new to this thing called Blogging. Think I will like it.