The End or Is it the Beginning?

Well, here I am on the final item and I must say this has been a fun and interesting journey. I've learned all sorts of things and now some of this technology stuff doesn't seem half so scary. There have been a few things along the way that I will probably never use (twitter, facebook) but that doesn't mean that I can't appreciate them... well, maybe not twitter...And then there are some items like the RSS feeds that I love and could not do without.

Thanks for a great program and I hope that we can do some more training along these lines!

Alternative Blogging

Well, I've looked at Twitter and I just don't think this is for me...
I think I'd rather pick up the phone and call my friends or e-mail my colleagues. When I went to check-out Steven M Cohen's blog there was a notice that he is going to quit twittering due to some offense taken by someone and....it just seems like a waste of time...Guess I'm too old for this one!

Tumblr seems like a kinda interesting sort of blog alternative -- I like the links to sites right there...Nice...maybe for the more visual person?

Videos

Wow, you can get very addicted to internet video sites and sucked into wasting a lot of time. I did find some interesting videos on YouTube and MetaCafe. They are posted below -- might make for some interesting programs in the future. I can see why these videos would be helpful especially in the case of the Kirigami clip -- It all makes so much more sense when you can see someone put it together in front of you!

I checked out Sciencehack's site for some ideas for an upcoming science program for kids but decided that the library would probably not want us using liquid nitrogen so I'll leave that site to the real scientists!

Future Pop-up Program?

Thought this was kinda cool and maybe good for a future library program... Enjoy!!




Seven Flowers. Awesome Pop Up. - The best free videos are right here

How to make Hot Ice

Dolly Dessert...for monkeys?...

Stuart and I were able to attend the Ridgefield Library's 11th annual Dolly Dessert. He brought his favorite monkey-pal, Cheeky Charlie, and a great time was had by all! His favorite part was winning a prize book all about Smurfs!

First Mike

we had a visit from Mike Gregoire, the Governors husband, during one of my Preschool Storytimes. He read an Easter book to the group and then presented a great Washington alphabet book to the library -- "E is for Evergreen"

Here comes Spring!

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

Podcasting

I looked at some of the podcast sites listed on the library blog and many of them need special software. So that's inconvenient considering you can't download to the machines at work. I found this item in our entire 2.0 journey the most frustrating, perhaps there is some library relevance but I can't see it. For now I will use podcasting at home to catch-up on missed NPR shows.

Audio/Video Adventure

I visited all of the audio sites listed; Last.fm, Pandora, and IMEEM and the only one I was somewhat impressed with was the Pandora site. It was user friendly and I found what I was looking for immediately. I could see using this if you want some music in the background while working on the computer or perhaps trying to put together a CD of certain songs for storytime.

I thought the Gutenberg Project was very interesting -- I was able to take a look at some old Charlie Chapman films that you never see these days -- kinda fun and it makes you wonder what sort of things we will be archiving 50 years from now. They also had the complete Da Vinci Notebooks to download. This would have been useful to know a few weeks ago when a patron was looking for some of the drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci's inventions -- would have been nice to tell them about another option. Also the Universal Library was fascinating. I perused some of the Sherman Campaign writings -- this would be a great source for someone doing research because you have access to some great collections worldwide.

My Favorite Truck-Driver!

Here is a new picture of Stuart with some cool trucks from cousin Zoe!

GoogleDocs

I really like Google Docs -- It seems like a pretty neat tool. You can upload documents share them with others revise add info and then publish them as a website, blog, or just email on to others. I can see this being a great tool in one of my distance classes. For an assignment we are suppose to design a website as a group and then do a presentation about our design. This will be easy with Google Docs. The professor can see exactly who added what and then we can publish as a website direct from Google Docs and even do the presentation from here. I can also see its possible use in evaluating an employee who has two supervisors in different locations. The supervisors could collaborate on a joint document. So the possibilities seem endless!