Week 10: #23: The end or the beginning

My favorite discovery of this entire exercise was the avatar. That was really fun and creative. I don't believe that this program has assisted or affected my lifelong learning goals because I probably will not personally use any of the exercises very much. It was a good learning experience, however, and it will help me to see what our patrons are using. The time that it took to do these exercises was longer than I expected, but it was good to to be exposed to all areas of these new technologies because I believe that HCPL will need to continue to have new technologies and challenges to keep up with the fast changing world of the web. I can see how someone who really uses the web would love all of these exercises. They could get their news, blog with other patrons or interested parties, and create an avatar to enhance what they are advertising or creating. I probably will not use these technologies very much myself, however, because I personally do not feel that the need will arise. I have come away with a very positive attitude, however. It is good to be exposed to what the future will hold, and I am sure that this is only the beginning!

Week 9: Lesson 22: Downloadable Media

I can see how this site would be very entertaining and useful to many patrons. If you use and are on the internet a lot and would rather do things from the comfort of your home, then it is probably a gold mine. It offers many books and audio media that patrons would be very interested in viewing and downloading. It opens a whole new world for them. With the cost of everything going up and gasoline skyrocketing, it will be a blessing to many patrons. I personally, do not spend time outside of work on the internet so I would probably not use this site. But I did find many titles of interest to me that were offered. A few of them were: "Marley and Me," "Parish Priest," "All Creatures Great and Small," "Symptoms of withdrawal," and "365 Easy One-dish Meals" to name just a few. The selection is very good. I don't know how to compare the library site with a free site because I have never been on a free site. But I would think it would be very comparable and user friendly.

Week 9: Podcast

Zoho and Ning were wanting to watch a tutorial on podcastalley. The itunes wasn't working, however, and they couldn't get any sound. Then the Youtube was mashed up, and they couldn't even get a picture. So they gave up and wandered into Myspace where they met up with Animoto and Odeo, and they just cruised in their facebook for awhile!

Week 9: Podcast

I just created my feed on podcast. I do feel, however, that I will not ever use this in my everyday life. I am sure others will, and this makes it useful. It does take a lot of time if you don't use these services on a regular basis, and it takes your co-workers time to help you. At least it is establishing a team spirit.

Week 9: YouTube exercise

I really liked the "Dog Ball" video. The little boy in the video had an infectious laugh, and you couldn't help but laugh and enjoy the video. It's fun to explore several of the videos. I don't know that I would use this for a practical purpose, but you never know. It is very entertaining and relaxing so I'm sure that it will be very popular.

Week 8: #19: web-based apps

I just created my zoho account, and created my Blue Moon Zoho document. I haven't the faintest idea what this document is about Blue Moon zoho sounds like a place that an alien would like to visit before he returns in his spaceship to Roswell, New Mexico!

Week 8: #18: Social networking

I, personally, would not have use for myspace as a social network. I do not like the idea of sharing personal information with people I don't know. That may be narrow-minded, but I am a very private person. The cats and dogs in ning, catster and dogster and the wag network were very cute and the stories were interesting and sometimes sad. They were fun sites, but, I don't have the extra time right now to enjoy them. I am sure that they are a way for many people to communicate, but I still like my cell phone.

Week &: #17: technology

I myself am not a computer technology person. I don't feel that I have the time to explore everything that is available such as blogging and avatars. Perhaps, someday I will be able to use these technologies for fun and not just for work. I see their place in the library, however. We must keep up with the future or we will be left behind. I also firmly believe that our future world will be built almost completely on this technology. So I am all for it! After all, where would we be without the Wright Brothers or the space movement. So, I strongly support the libraries movements in this direction, and I hope that in the future, I will understand it better and use it more frequently.

Weei 7; wikki

I can see how this would be very useful to patrons who really liked to blog. They can share their favorite restuarants and animals with others, and they can learn additional contacts for these subjects while blogging.

Week 6: exercise #15

Library elf and widget took a walk one day. They were on their way to the icebergs when they got hungry and decided to stop for a bite to eat. They went into the feedster to get a hamburger, but the bloglines were long and they had to leave. So they decided to go back to their safe haven library thing and look on their virtual shelf. Much to their surprise there were FD toys for them to paly with and they forgot they were hungry!

Week #15: library 2.0 & web 2.0

I fully understand that libraries want to be part of a vital future. That is the reason for things like librarianship and icebergs. It is a wonderful thing to be able to offer information to patrons online and give them an open catalog to anywhere in the world. But, we must also not loose sight of the fact that there are some patrons that still remember the "old card catalog." These patrons will undoubtedly be intimidated by this library of the future. The challenge is to satisfy both our patrons that want almost complete internet service for information, and to still be able to help those that want a more "hands on" library service.

Week 6: tagging and del.icio.us

I think that tagging could be very useful in placing a comment with a picture. These techniques could be very helpful also if you used a lot of bookmarks.

Week 6: tagging

I have tagged cats and kittens to my account. They are two of my favorite things.

Weej 6L del.icio.us

I believe I have successfully posted to this account. I am going to now try tagging.

Week 5; Elf exercise Post 12

I did manage to complete this exercise a little more successfully, but I still had to have help getting into my account. I continue to trudge on until I can do a whole exercise by myself!

Thoughts for the day on the "23 things"

Princess Meez and Prince Avatar hopped into their generator and headed for the land of Pixer. They were trying to use their triggermap to get there. Along the way they used their snipshots to record the trip. When they arrived, however, their flickr had gone out of their blogline. So they had to use the RSS feed to fix it. They thought they were all set when their wicki went wacki, and they had to return to the land of google docs!

week 5 : number 11

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/fred3347 I have not yet been able to start and finish my exercise for any of the weeks for 23 things. That is very discouraging to me. I would like to be able to figure just one of them out by myself.

week 5: #10

I helped my friend and co-worker learn how to do this exercise. She learned how to do the exercise by showing me how to do this. Hooray!

week 5: #10

Week 4: subscribing to other ihcpl participants.

I am still having difficulty understanding how and what to do on our exercises. I have had to have help from my fellow workers, but it has been a bonding experience.

I enjoyed Week 4: #9 Finding Feeds. It was very informative. I enjoyed "topix" the most because it gave a lot of good news events. I did not particularly enjoy "technorati" because I am not an avid blogger.

iHCPL a Learning Experience: Week 4: #8 Make life "really simple" with RSS and a newsreader

iHCPL a Learning Experience: Week 4: #8 Make life "really simple" with RSS and a newsreader I am really trying to understand how to do the RSS, but I am having trouble getting into my accounts. I will keep pluuging along!

week three: number 7

balloons
Originally uploaded by fred33347

See the beautiful pixrer balloons I created. I am very proud of myself.

I enjoyed the colorpickr flickr of week 3. The colors are very vivid and beautiful, and could be very useful in creating many compositions.

Blue hills

Blue hills
Originally uploaded by fred33347

This has been a very interesting experience, but it has very frustrating and difficult and fred is tired!

Plugging away!

I am trying to master my exercises. I feel confident I will.

Week 2 blog

I have not had good luck in getting into my blog account. Maybe things will get easier. I hope so! I respect internet safety, and I will be very careful about what I post because there have so many problems about theft of identity.

This is my second entry to this blog. I have complete reading about blog safety.

This is my second day of using my blog, and I hope to be adding new things each week.

fred the cat

fred is my cat. he is very smart, he loves the computer and cell phone. he makes life very interesting.