tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37758085965290969612023-06-20T21:46:30.179-07:00Back to the GrindHere's where my journey begins on learning all sorts of new technology. First the blog, then who knows what?! So many possibilities.klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-25077756124916785112008-01-30T19:27:00.000-08:002008-01-30T19:34:36.834-08:00One More Note on ZOHO<span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff6600;"><strong>I'm such a stubborn girl and that led me to playing with the funky posting. FYI: when I edited within Blogger it no longer recognized the picture that had come across with the orignal post. I <em>did</em> find in ZOHO where you can click on Update Post which will send the corrected version into Blogger. All good. Must stop playing and go pay bills now. Gosh darn responsibility!</strong></span>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-81099882844598021172008-01-30T19:13:00.000-08:002008-01-30T19:23:45.473-08:00More testing to go<span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">I just saw a couple of mistakes in the posting I did through ZOHO. Time to see if the changes made in ZOHO carry over into my blog. Back in a moment....please hold.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000066;">Nope. I changed the title and one of the words in the post itself. Although the changes took hold in ZOHO, they didn't transfer into Blogger. SO, I suppose the options are to update the info in Blogger 'Edit Posts' OR delete the post in Blogger and resend the corrected version from ZOHO. Whatever! I'm liking ZOHO.</span><br /><span style="color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">I've been sitting here for at least 45 minutes and am really getting carried away learning about ZOHO Writer. That's just <u>one</u> of many possibilites to choose from. I'm really excited about the '<a title="Sites 4 Students" href="http://krl2pt0.wordpress.com/w14-sites-for-students/" rel="bookmark">Sites 4 Students</a>' assignment because I finally see options that are useful (no offense to the Twitter fans!). At least half of the sites listed in the assignment sound interesting to me so I'll be checking those out next. So much information to absorb. =)</span>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-19280538316734662142008-01-30T19:11:00.001-08:002008-01-30T19:27:03.953-08:00Sites 4 Students trial run<p zid="2"><br zid="1"><font face="comic sans ms,cursive" zid="3">Well, let's see how ZOHO works. I'm currently in 'ZOHO Writer' and am going to attempt to post whatever I write here into my blog. According to what I read, there are many more options than writing from withing Blogger itself. As usual I have to find out for myself. Curiosity killed the cat you know.</font></p><p zid="4"><font face="Comic Sans MS" zid="5"></font></p><p zid="6"><font face="Comic Sans MS" zid="7">ok, i just found where to change the font and i'm liking not capitalizing show let's go with that feel for a bit. what next? i already tried spell-check. how about some sort of smiley? let's see what they've got. <img alt="undecided" border="0" src="http://writer.zoho.com/wo/images/smiley-undecided.gif" zid="8"> hmmmm, a tad skimpy in that area. onward to.......somehow i'm supposed to be able to do all kinds of cool page set ups. i'm gonna save this first and then search more.</font></p><p zid="14"><font face="Comic Sans MS" zid="15"></font> </p><p zid="16"><font face="Comic Sans MS" zid="9">that was interesting. i messed with the page setup and found where you can add all kinds of things as headers and footers. unfortunately it's not turning out quite as planned SO i will now attempt to insert a photo directly into the document. here gos nothin'.</font></p><p zid="17">yet again, not as planned. the image ended up in its own document. must keep searching...</p><p zid="10"><img align="baseline" alt="" border="0" hspace="0" shrink="true" src="http://writer.zoho.com:80/ImageDisplay.im?name=373899000000002021/1201748935876_smaller feet.jpg&accId=373899000000002007" zid="11"> <strong zid="12">BINGO!!</strong></p><p zid="13"><strong zid="18"></strong> </p><p zid="19">now to attempt putting it in my blog. if you're reading this i've succeeded.</p><p zid="20"><img alt="smile" border="0" src="http://writer.zoho.com/wo/images/smiley-smile.gif" zid="21"></p>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-35451948110185856512008-01-29T19:35:00.000-08:002008-01-29T19:38:30.341-08:00TwitterHmmm. I logged into Twitter and so far don't see the advantages. It just seems like email. It was nice to find "udweller" though....always a pleasant surprise. Part 2 of the assignment is to create an account. At this point I'm considering whether to skip that.klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-16155912309476669552008-01-28T19:24:00.000-08:002008-01-28T19:32:22.054-08:00FacebookThe mad rush is almost over as I'm nearly caught up on the assignments. Here's what is listed as the homework for this week's assignment:<br /><ol><li>Go to <a title="Facebook" href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank" modo="false">Facebook</a> and take the site tour (click on “Tour” in the upper right hand corner, then, click on each of the links under “Site Tour” in the right sidebar) </li><li>Read this post by Meredith Farkas on <a title="Social networking in libraries" href="http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/05/10/libraries-in-social-networking-software/" target="_blank" modo="false">Social Networking in Libraries </a></li><li>Write a blog post on your thoughts about the utility of social networking in libraries </li></ol><p>Task 1: DONE<br />Task 2: DONE<br />Task 3: You're looking at it</p><p>I don't have many thoughts on this subject yet since I haven't actually looked around Facebook (other than the 'tour') and don't have a MySpace account either. My plan is to sign up for Facebook once I post this. Ta-ta.</p>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-24277155771030913932008-01-28T17:38:00.000-08:002008-01-28T17:43:35.874-08:00WWW of W pt.II<span style="color:#993300;">Week 2 of the Wiki is upon me. I just played around in the KRL wiki which was kinda fun and will be even more interesting once more people add content. My department's page is very empty...only my entry so far. Where are you???....echo...echo...echo.<br /><br />Not much to say since I pretty much said it in the last post. I'm very curious to get to Facebook so that's where I'm headed now.<br /><br />Peace out.</span>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-70291767903092664312008-01-27T20:04:00.001-08:002008-01-27T20:16:49.200-08:00Wild Wild World of WikiIt's week one of Wiki learning. I watched the tutorials, viewed suggested wikis, and am left with mixed feelings. The Stevens County Wiki Project started to get me inspired because of their link to community activities. I'm always looking for new things to try within the county. How fun that it's all together at a click away for them. I'd love it if that was included in our wiki.<br /><br />I find myself coming back to the same thought on most of these assignments though. Who the heck has the time to maintain, say their blog, let alone signing up for 10 different sites???? Sorry, but I can't even keep up with the 4 email addresses I have and that's without adding in all these extra activities! Yes, many of the sites are cool but I don't see how it's possible to work full-time, do the daily stuff you <strong>gotta do</strong> and still have time to sit in front of your computer to mess with all the new stuff that pops up week to week.....well, unless you've got an IV coffee drip and NEVER sleep! On that note, I must go onto the rest of the assignment and check out the krl2pt0 wiki.klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-81986895971768457262008-01-23T19:13:00.000-08:002008-01-23T19:29:14.360-08:00You Tube<span style="color:#330033;">Still zipping away trying to catch up on the assignments...just got to You Tube. I'd never actually gone to the site before until 15 minutes ago. Sure, people have sent me links to certain videos but that's as close to You Tube as I'd ever been. AND I finally saw <strong>'Fish Story'</strong> which I've been hearing about for months now.<br /><br />Thoughts.....<br />It looks like I could get lost in there forever with so much to seek & find. After 'Fish Story' ended I scanned the page to see what else was up and there was a <strong>Tori Amos</strong> clip so You Tube is cool in my book! NO, there was no pun intended.<br /><br />Onto the next assignment.....must hurry.</span><br /><span style="color:#330033;"></span><br /><span style="color:#330033;">10 minutes have passed. I <strong>had </strong>to watch the Tori clip which has now inspired me to attempt embedding the clip. fingers crossed.........go, Pip, go!</span><br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IYtwTMIzFx8&rel=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=0"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IYtwTMIzFx8&rel=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-88032821187659029602008-01-23T09:03:00.001-08:002008-02-09T18:17:55.185-08:00Library ThingI'm attempting to speed through the assignments and catch up before the deadline. Because of the 'speed' factor I'm unable to spend as much time investigating each subject which means my knowledge is pretty limited on 'Library Thing'. BUT I definitely plan on going back to check it out more since it looks like something I'd actually get into. Considering I'm trying to keep track of all the books I'm reading this is perfect!<br /><br />If all goes well, the HTML code I paste in after this will show some of the titles from 'my library'....crossing fingers.........<br />DARN IT!!!!!!!! I pasted the code but came up with an error when I clicked on 'Publish Post'. Here's the first part of the error. Any thoughts?????? I'm probably missing something obvious.<br />"ERROR<br />Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tags cannot enclose tags script language="javascript"<br /><br />one more try....<br />YES! It was something simple. I was pasting the code into my post while in 'Compose' instead of the tab 'Edit Html'.<br /><br /><script language="javascript" src="http://www.librarything.com/jswidget.php?reporton=frogfairie&show=random&header=1&num=5&covers=small&text=all&tag=alltags&css=1&style=1&charset=&version=1" type="text/javascript"><br /></script>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-78171738434910381852008-01-22T18:48:00.000-08:002008-01-22T19:05:44.488-08:00How AppropoIn my last post title I included the word 'roadblock' and it ended up being quite accurate. That was November 12, 2007 and I'm just getting back to this more than a month later.....oh crud...make that more than 2 months later!<br /><br />Anyhoo, this week's assignment <em>(well, the assignment from many weeks ago that I'm just getting</em> <em>to now)</em> is to check out Flickr. As usual, I couldn't just follow the instructions. That would be easy, eh? Actually I decided it would be easier to sign up for Picasa because that would mean one less set of user id & password to remember. I'm really not lazy (at least not all of the time) but come on! How many sites do we need to sign up for? SO, thanks to Bob for bringing up the option of signing up through Google.<br /><br /><em>As far as my opinion on the whole online picture sharing thing:</em><br /><span style="color:#006600;">In general it seems like a cool idea to connect with friends & family.<br /></span><span style="color:#6600cc;">I like that pictures can be kept to a small group of people instead of for the whole world to see.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Tell me this though. Are the pictures really available for Google to do whatever they want once they've been uploaded into Picasa????????? That was the basic jist I got from skimming all the terms & conditions. Out of paranoia I only brought 4 pictures from my computer into Picasa.</span>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-31694008701100768262007-11-12T20:12:00.000-08:002007-11-12T20:25:15.062-08:00RSS RoadblockSO, I was ahead of the game until I got to the RSS assignment. It went swimmingly enough until near the end and then I got stuck. The assignment said <em>"4. Add a subscription to one or more of</em> <em>the library blogs listed with </em><a title="Matt's Presentation" href="http://krl2pt0.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/matts-presentation/" target="_blank"><em>Matt’s presentation</em></a><em>."</em> Hmmmm...I tried 3 sites and none of them let me subscribe. <strong>3 strikes, I was out.</strong><br /><br />Here I was thinking I was doing something wrong when in fact, I found out today that not all of the sites listed under that link are available to subscribe to. Well, unless you use the handy-dandy site that <a href="http://plentyofperseverance.blogspot.com/">http://plentyofperseverance.blogspot.com/</a> writes about. Thanks by the way. I wanted to get hooked up to The Stranger homepage and now I can! My only issue with RSS Feeds now is that even though I've only subscribed to 5 sites I'm already overwhelmed with new material to check out. <strong>Ugh</strong>.<br /><br />I stumbled a bit, have picked myself back up, wiped the dirt off my bum and am ready to move onto Flickr. Maybe I'm being too optimistic?klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-918700486781818852007-11-09T20:38:00.000-08:002007-11-25T17:40:26.858-08:00Copy-cat blog.......Books I've Read<em><span style="font-family:arial;">I've decided to steal from my other blog to add as a post here. Although I'll probably only keep the other blog up-to-date it seemed fun to share. I know, the beginning of the list is not very diverse. Oh well!<br /><br /></span></em>Honestly, when you work at a library it's a blessing and a curse to those of us who love to learn. On the plus side you are drowning in information from all sides in all formats.....heaven. On the other hand, there's only so much time in each day and it's impossible to read everything I check out from the library....hell.<br /><br />During recent training for the library it was suggested that we track what we read. The speaker had been doing it for years and had pages upon pages of books listed. It seems like an interesting idea. Imagine being able to look back and see what I was reading 10 years ago. I was going to buy a journal and start tracking but then realized it would probably end up with all the other lists I make.........lost. As an alternative I'm gonna try tracking them in my blog. The idea is to update this post with each thing I read (or at least thoroughly skim) along with the month and year. Let's see how long I stick with it.<br /><br />(Nov 07) <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters</span> <em>by </em></strong><strong><em>Peter Vronsky</em></strong><strong><br /></strong>(Nov 07) <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 2)</span></strong> <strong><em>by Laurell K. Hamilton</em></strong><br />(Nov 07) <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">300 Frogs: A Visual Reference to Frogs and Toads from Around the World</span> <em>by Chris Mattison<br /></em></strong>(Nov 07) <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Boners: Seriously Misguided Facts- According to Schoolkids.</span> <em>by Alexander Abingdon, Dr. Seuss (Illustrator) </em></strong><br />(Nov 07) <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1)</span> <em>by Laurell K.</em> <em>Hamilton</em></strong> {It's fun to finally have started this series. I'm looking forward to reading the rest}<br />(Nov 07) <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">A Lick of Frost (Meredith Gentry, Book 6)</span> <em>by Laurell K. Hamilton</em></strong><br />(Oct 07) <strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a </span></strong><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_V1dRkhvoqHY/RzU1O_WYIWI/AAAAAAAAABg/0WOjqYUjetE/s1600-h/Heroin+Diaries.jpg"></a><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Shattered </span></strong><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V1dRkhvoqHY/RzUzVPWYIVI/AAAAAAAAABY/kQJu8NLRjUU/s1600-h/Heroin+Diaries.jpg"></a><strong><span style="color:#3333ff;">Rock Star</span> <em>by Nikki</em> <em><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V1dRkhvoqHY/RzU2rfWYIXI/AAAAAAAAABo/MQAnVI2lJ5g/s1600-h/Heroin+Diaries.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131067471236178290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 130px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 176px" height="189" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V1dRkhvoqHY/RzU2rfWYIXI/AAAAAAAAABo/MQAnVI2lJ5g/s320/Heroin+Diaries.jpg" width="151" border="0" /></a>Sixx</em></strong> {I love this book! I've been a fan of Motley Crue since 'Shout at the Devil' came out...I was 11 or 12. Nikki Sixx was always my favorite because he did the main songwriting. Of course at the time I was too young to realize what a maniac he was. I was crushed when I wasn't able to make it to his recent book-signing =( }klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-19238032226838437912007-10-31T16:20:00.000-07:002007-10-31T16:38:03.336-07:00Chocolate Helps Prevent Cavities!!!!That's right, folks. It's Halloween and I've noticed the news on tv & radio is obsessed with 2 things in particular: Parents letting their kids dress like skanks & Massive quanitites of candy rotting our teeth away. I don't want to digress too much so here's a quick note on the 'skank' issue. One news show had the author Celia Rivenbark on their program to discuss her book 'Stop dressing your six-year old like a skank : and other words of delicate Southern wisdom". We currently have 2 copies in our library and I plan on checking one out. Interesting topic.<br /><br />Now, back to the chocolate!<br />On the news this morning they were discussing all the Halloween candy and some dental person actually said if you're gonna let your kids have candy, make it chocolate. I of course had to investigate this so started Googling right away. Here's a snippet of what I found........<br /><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>September 24, 2007<br /></em></span><a href="http://www.drsamsavar.com/blog/?p=411" rel="bookmark"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Chocolate helps prevent cavities </em></span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Posted under: </em></span><a title="View all posts in Articles" href="http://www.drsamsavar.com/blog/?cat=52" rel="category tag"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Articles</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>— Aalam Samsavar @ 10:04 am<br />Chocolate could leave you cavity free!<br />This is due to the benefits of tannic acid or tannins found in a variety of food like chocolate. Tannins are naturally occurring Polyphenols and prevent cavities. Polyphenols are what make wine and many other fruits astringent and make variety of flowers and autumn leaves colorful. Polyphenols also cause precipitation of proteins. What that means is that it prevents bacteria from sticking to the teeth. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em><a href="http://www.drsamsavar.com/blog/?p=411">http://www.drsamsavar.com/blog/?p=411</a><br /></p></em></span></blockquote><br />Yes!!! Bring on the chocolate!<br />=)klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-20745529275925556602007-10-24T22:24:00.001-07:002007-10-24T22:29:08.142-07:0030 Days of Night<a href="http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/30daysofnight/" target="_blank">http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/30daysofnight/</a><br /><br />i rarely go to the movie theater but this movie seemed promising enough that we shelled out the dough. we just got back an hour ago. it was dark out already and i walked very briskly to the house waiting for the hubster to open the door so i could rush in. i've finally shaken off the heeby-jeebies. i say that now but will probably be looking over my shoulder, under the bed, and on rooftops for at least a month!<br /><br />i've been so let down by vampire movies for quite a while now and this one was worth the money to go see. of course no movie is perfect and we all have different tastes but this movie worked for me. we were both creeped out during the movie, jumped many times, gasped, and i even pointed at the screen at one moment cuz one of the freaky vampires was sneaking into view. there were awesome shots that gave such a desolated feeling and overall sense of helplessness.<br /><br />the basic jist of the movie is this......small town in middle of nowhere alaska, no sun for 30 days, all communication & means of escape have been disabled, vampires come to town & the massacre begins......<br /><br />more info?? they weren't the pretty romantic vampires (don't get me wrong, they have their place in movies, books, etc) but the straight on monster vampires which at one point you realize actually have some intelligence behind their plans. that usually creeps me out more. anyhoo, if you're like me and have been disappointed in vampire movies for a long time go check this one out!!!!!!!!! i'd love to hear what others think about it.klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-42127965074975314492007-10-23T19:50:00.000-07:002007-10-23T20:23:40.176-07:00Week 3: Tagging: Friend or Foe?<span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;">Well, this has been an interesting assignment. If nothing else, I found out how out of control my 'Favorites' had become on my computer.<br /><br />After setting up my del.icio.us account I chose the option of transferring the list of favorites from my computer into my del.icio.us account. It seemed like it was taking awhile. When it finally completed the task I saw that over time I'd collected 348 favorites onto my computer. <span style="color:#cc0000;">OH MY!</span> What was even scarier was seeing some of the sites I'd marked. Sure the sites themselves were fine (well, most of 'em) but I realized that in at least one way <span style="color:#ff0000;">I've become my mother!</span> I spent my childhood picking on her about her obsession with shoes. What happened to me??? Is it hereditary??<br /><br />Sorry, I digress. Anyway.............<br />I'm kinda having fun going through all my old favorites and giving them tags. I really think it will make it easier to search through them all. It was always a bit difficult to figure out which folder to put a site into when it seemed to fall under various categories. For instance: do I put the 30 different candy sites under BUY or CANDY or FOOD? Yes, I have all those folders. As time went on I started putting folders in folders in folders....confusing and time-consuming to track things down again.<br /><br />There's still too much information to digest for me to come up with useful ideas on implementing this at work. It will be fun to look at other's blogs to see what they say.<br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Question for ya</span> concerning the assignment for this week. Here's a quote from the training about tagging:<br /></span><em><blockquote><em><span style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;">"As you save sites into your account, notice who else has saved them and the<br />tags they use. Remember you can use their tags or create your own. You can also<br />explore their sites to see what else you have in common. "</span></em></em></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:#333333;"><strong>SO</strong> this is how I was doing it. Let me know if it's correct or if there's an easier way.<br /><em>Click</em> on the drop arrow next to the del.icio.us button on the toolbar<br /><em>Choose</em> 'more about this page'<br /><em>Click</em> on one of the entries in the 'common tags' section to view similar sites<br /><br />Time for sleep. I must get nestled, all snug in my bed, while visions of tags dance through my head</span>.</span>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-31830242107586056832007-10-16T20:15:00.000-07:002007-10-16T20:23:00.692-07:00What is the point?Really, I wanna know. I'm totally willing to learn new stuff and even enjoy it but sometimes my brain can't grasp certain things that seem like they should be easy. What the heck <strong><em>is</em></strong> the point of a blog? Is it really what I hinted at in my first posting? Is it really just a way to tell the world "Here I am!"?<br /><br />I can understand keeping a journal of your thoughts...ok keep a journal. I can understand email...keeping connected by easier means than snail mail or even the phone sounds good to me. I can even understand setting up something in MySpace to try and meet up with long lost friends. <br /><br />What the heck am I missing here??<br /><em>Eagerly awaiting enlightenment......................</em>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-21784734150407706032007-10-16T19:02:00.000-07:002007-10-16T20:14:49.814-07:00What about those Articles, Podcasts and Videos<span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">The training has begun for krl2pt0 and so far it hasn't been too painful. Phew!</span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Week One</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Task 1: set up a new email account....done.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Task 2: put my new info in the official 'Tracking Log'...done.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Task 3: check out a couple of the offered links to read and/or watch...done.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#666666;">That brings us to <strong>Week Two</strong>: THE BLOG. <em>(oh, just had one of those ominous announcer voices say it in my head like it was a horror movie. scary.) </em></span></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;"></span></em><br /></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Assignments: I've done them all except talking (writing) about the links that I checked out in Week One.<br />I chose wikipedia article: Library 2.0</span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">, pdf: Do Libraries Matter?, & video podcast: 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners.</span></span><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Thoughts based on the articles</strong>:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">New technology is whirling around us everyday non-stop and there's no way we can know all of it all the time. Thank goodness we're being given the chance to at least learn <em>some</em> of it. The articles were a good way to kick-off this learning since they gave me an overview of what our goals are and what's out there to investigate.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6600cc;">Libraries are awesome and I can see how many people don't grasp their value. It's also very valid that we could lose our important place in the community if we don't keep up with the technology around us. Score one for our library! We're on our way. We do matter.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;">We need to be aware of our surroundings and take the initiative to learn about them.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;"></span>klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775808596529096961.post-21876511202630218742007-10-16T11:14:00.001-07:002007-10-16T16:05:29.294-07:00Starting OverSo, I spent 4 hours working on my first blog and was pretty happy with the results. Unfortunately I'm a bit concerned that my ongoing blog will not fit with what we're supposed to be doing for work. Just to be safe I've started another blog here to make sure I follow all the rules. I've kept the other blog for personal use so I can let the creative juices flow with no barriers. I'll begin this new blog with the first post from my first blog and go from there.........<br />My attitude about learning all this cool stuff:<br />to quote Spongebob "I'm ready!".........<br /><br /><br /><em>"What should I write?" </em><br /><br /><em>"What's the point of doing a blog when there are millions out there? I'll just be another drop in the endless sea, to be lost with all the others." </em><br /><br /><em>"Don't people put themselves on the web just so they can hear (see) themselves talk or perhaps to try and make others listen? Hey, look at me!" </em><br /><br />I asked myself those questions and many others, urging my brain to find a starting point on my new journey. The thought that popped in my noggin most was this..... The deepest part of me is shy and it took years to prod myself into being braver and more comfortably social. Sure, I've become much better at speaking up when needed or talking about nothing during those awkward social gatherings that scream for noise to fill the silence. Regardless, I'm still that shy girl who has to talk herself into going to the gatherings where I won't know everyone. And banish the thought that I would show up late. That would mean walking into a room of unknowns! What this all boils down to is that I have a brain full of thoughts but that doesn't mean that everyone needs to know about them. Just because we have the technology to be connected 24/7 doesn't mean that we should be.<br /><br />My ongoing goal with this new project is to find a balance between being connected and still keeping a part of my being just for myself. The place I work at now has encouraged us to explore a whole list of new technologies including the almighty blog. So, let the adventure begin!klihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02426372461685675934noreply@blogger.com2