Week 10 !!!! L E S S O N 23 !!!! Y E A!!!!

I finally reached the end.

I enjoyed most of the lessons, such as: creating my blog, Flickr, Picnic-photo editing, creating my avatar, Library Elf, social networking, tagging, You Tube, & Overdrive. The ones that didn't appeal to me at all were the technical ones, such as: RSS, Library Thing, Technorati, Wiki, Web based apps, and podcasts. I did not do the two optional lessons, but heard they were fun and I will go back and play with them sometimes in the near future.

I had no idea half this stuff even existed on the web, there is no telling what else is out there that I don't know about. I just know I will be taking advantage of the ones I enjoyed, especially picture editing, You Tube and Overdrive.

The more I learn about computers and the web, the more comfortable and confident I am about helping customers with computer problems.

Week 9 Lesson 22 - Overdrive

I was real excited about this when we first got it, but I had a hard time downloading audiobooks on my computer at home (too slow). I did download several books and really enjoyed them. I will definately get back into this one since I have a better understanding about how to use it.

Week 9 Lesson 21 - Podcasts

This is another one that I really have no interest in, I think there are other ways to find information.
I did add a podcast on photography to my blog and I might use it at sometime or other.

Week 9 Lesson 20 - You Tube

This was a fun lesson that you could spend hours on. I was not able to explore a lot of videos (because I'm at work). I could see using you tube for training purposes or for promoting the library.

I chose this video because it was one of my favorite songs back in the late 80's, we played it at a very special occassion.

Week 8 Lesson 19 - On Line Apps

I am so frustrated... I signed up on Zoho and had a very hard time just creating a document, then when I finally did, I could not get it to publish to my blog. So I am giving up. I will just use microsoft word when needed.

Week 8 Lesson 18 - Social Networking

I already had a myspace acct. I set it up to keep track and in touch w/my grandson. I did go through all the other sites. The ones that I joined were RatemySpace and linkedin and I will go back and join Threadless. I am very excited about Ratemyspace, did not know it existed and I will be using that one a lot more than any of the others & Threadless looks very interesting, but linkedin I will probably never use.

Week 7 Lesson 17-Something Technical

I have already stated in previous blogs that anything to do with picture editing I really enjoy and will continue to use, the rest of the stuff I have learned about so far is not very interesting to me, especially wiki's.

Week 7 Lesson 16-Wikis

I thought Wikipedia was just like an encyclopedia, everything in it is factual, but now I know it's not true and I will not be using it again. My understanding is anyone can write anything they want, so how could you ever trust whatever you read in any wiki.

Week 6 Lesson 15 - Libraries 2.0

I read all five of the perspectives, the main thing I got from them is thank God I will be retiring in the near future because it sounds like most library employees will no longer be needed.

Week 6 Lesson 14 Technorati

I claimed my blog and pulled it up by using a tag, that was ok. I am getting way too many usernames and passwords to keep up w/everything.
I think there are other ways to get info, this was just a little to complicated for me to get into it.

Week 6 Lesson 13 Tagging

I had a hard time getting through this one, I kept ending up at photo sites (mainly picnik & flickr) and wanted to play around w/them. I am using tagging now on my pictures and that helps.
I watched the Del.icio.us tutorial but I need to watch it again, I kept getting interrupted at work and my computer at home is too slow to watch it. I agree it was very fuzzy and I couldn't see the examples.
I'm sure, like the previous lessons, I will come back to this at a later date and discover that it is very useful.

Week 5 Lesson 12 con't

I just read my email from the Library Elf and it was very informative, much more so than the notice I get from Harris Co. I guess I will continue to subscribe to it.

Week 5 Lesson 12-Library Elf

I registered w/Library Elf, My only thought was I already have this service through Harris Co., so I don't really need it again.

Week 5 Lesson 11-Library Thing

I played around w/Library Thing and I have my account on my sidebar. It was ok I don't think I will be using this very much.

Week 5 Lesson 10-Image Generators

I finally got my avatar posted thanks to Shana. I played around a little with the other image generators and I can't wait to get back to some of them, especially the ones that deal w/photographs.