Week #30-Spring Cleaning-Take a Load Off Our Drives

I read the lesson, created a file on the S/drive and deleted it. Then went to the P/drive and cleaned out all my files and then checked out the Z/drive. I don't think I will have an occassion to use the S/drive but I do use the P/drive quite a bit. Never used the Z/drive or even knew it existed, so I will probably never use it either.

Week #29 - Spring Cleaning-Email

I read the lesson and created a few new folders. I had already cleaned up my Email account a couple of weeks ago. Now it is down to a manageable amount, which I plan to keep up with it daily.
My address book is at a minimum anyway, so no need to clean it out

Week 28-Don't Clutter-up Expensive Cyber Space

I've read about GTD and it sounds really great. I can't wait to apply it to my everyday life. I think it will be a great help to me since I have a hard time getting organized at home. I started my Google Calendar, but right now I couldn't think of anything to plan except working in my yard.

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.