Flickr has taught me many things. I learned to use a digital camera. My husband took me through a two hour tutorial and I have a page of notes with drawings to refer to when I want to capture that special Hallmark moment. I took advantage of an unusually quiet time at the library to [...]
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TAMING MY FRIEND FLIKR
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Downingtown Library Photo Tour
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, library on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Welcome to the Downingtown Library and select a new bestseller.
MY FRIEND FLICKR
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
in the garden I’ve taken the tour of Flickr and opened an account. I’m not the one who takes the photos in this house so that will be my next adventure, mastering the digital camera. I can see how Flickr would be a valuable tool to share photos with family and friends or to just [...]
FINDING MY INNER URL
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have no idea what URL stands for or where I find it. I looked on WordPress.com for the spot that was indicated in the #4 thing but didn’t find it. I’ve sent a question to WordPress and am awaiting an answer. It seems to be an address that starts with h. Maybe I’ve just [...]
DOWNINGTOWN LIBRARY
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ghosts, library on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Learning 23 Things
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CCLS Learning 23 Things Today I have accomplished #3… I have started a blog. The assignment is to leave a blog about one of the 71/2 habits that is most difficult to accomplish. Since I’ve been working on setting up a blog for over an hour and it should take minutes, I would have to [...]
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23 Things- #23 Is this really the end? Or just the beginning … January 7, 2009Wow! Congratulations! You’ve reached the 23rd thing. Be sure to give yourself a pat on the back for completing the program. Your reward for completing this journey by the Jan 16, 2009 deadline is an MP3 player. For your last and final exercise for this program, please reflect on your learning journey and post a few [...]ccls23things
- #22 E-Audiobooks (or “The end is in sight “) January 5, 2009With your new MP3 player right around the corner, it’s time to take a look at OverDrive and downloadable eAudiobooks. Downloadable eAudiobooks is a service provided by CCLS which is available through the system’s subscription to OverDrive. For this discovery exercise, you need to download any eAudiobook from the CCLS OverDrive eAudiobooks site. T […]ccls23things
- #21 Podcasts! December 17, 2008The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. Unlike streaming audio or video, podcasts can be distributed automatically. Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minute commentaries to much longer in-person interviews or panel group discussions. There is a podcast out there for just [...] […]ccls23things
- A little housekeeping December 15, 2008Greetings all! We’ve decided to divide week 9 into two weeks, 9 and 10. There will be two Things (#20 & 21) posted this week. We will add a couple of catch-up weeks due to the holidays. The last two Things (#22 & 23) will be posted the first week in January. This will still [...]ccls23things
- #20 You too can YouTube December 15, 2008YouTube is one of the most popular video hosting sites, allowing users to upload their own video content and embed clips into their own sites. Do some searching around YouTube and see what the site has to offer. You’ll find everything from 1970s TV commercials to library dominoes. Of course, like any free site, you’ll [...]ccls23things
- #19 Social Networking Tools December 12, 2008You may have been hearing a lot about social networking tools in conjunction with Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. What exactly is social networking? Well, you can read about it on Wikipedia or you can watch this Common Craft video: For thing 19, we will take a look at social networking and libraries. There are [...]ccls23things
- #18 Discovering Web 2.0 tools December 10, 2008Throughout the course of this Discovery 2.0 program, we’ve explored just a small sampling of the new internet technologies and websites that are empowering users with the ability to create and share content. There are many more we could explore. Only time will tell which of these new tools will remain on top, but it [...]ccls23things
- #17 Web-based Apps: They’re not just for desktops December 8, 2008The availability and use of online productivity web-based applications (think word processing and spreadsheets) has exploded over the past two years, and for good reasons! These powerful applications provide users with the ability to create and share documents over the internet without needing to install desktop applications. Some experts speculate that this […]ccls23things
- #16 Playing around with PBWiki December 3, 2008“Sandbox” is the term that wikis often use to describe the area of the website that should be used for pure play. For this discovery and exploration exercise, we’ve set up a CCLS 23 Things wiki* for you to practice using a wiki. For this “explore-and-play-with-wikis” exercise, you are asked to add an entry or [...]ccls23things
- #15 So what’s in a wiki? December 1, 2008A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that easily allows users to add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide, the use and popularity of these tools is exploding. Some of [...]ccls23things
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