GATHERING QI Thing 14 has given me food for thought. I started with wikipedia Library 2.0 I visited the Orange County Library System and built a snowman. The snowman then led you to books on Snow families, Yeti and other things. Seemed very friendly and interesting way to present a book theme. This was imbedded [...]
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LIBRARY 2.0
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Technorati Blogs Buttons and Tags
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag, isolated, library on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m connected to yet another site with another username and password. Claimed a couple of blogs as favorites but was unable to tag them. I searched “library 2.0″ under general search and had 20,000 plus hits. Refined it under blog posts and had 486 and 754 under blogs. Could not search under tags… it went [...]
DELICIOUS
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I took the delicious tour http://delicious.com/ and visited some of the sites. I felt overwhelmed with information. I would have to spend longer than the 90 minutes that I did to sift through the info and relate to my life in some way. I did open an account with delicious. However I can’t seem to find [...]
Virtual Library
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I took the Librarything Tour http://www.librarything.com/tags/Exlibris330 and opened an account. Seems like an overwhelming amount of information is thrown at you. You can visit libraries that others have started, join groups that have similar interests, join talks. One thought that I have is that all of this technology, although it connects you to others virtually, it moves [...]
FEEL THE QI
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged qigong on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to make sure that I remembered how to add a photo to my blog. I was also able to capture one from the internet and not just a personal photo from my computer. It feels good to use this information and not just “learn it for the test” and then forget it. It [...]
#10 GENERATORS
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not a very fruitful foray into the generating world. At ALA my photo kept loading and loading and loading. I gave up after 3 minutes. I checked out the other sites and saw some interesting items to make. Explored the web for free image generators and stumbled onto a text generator that I liked http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/303054/blogged. [...]
FINDING A KINDRED SPIRIT
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Completing Thing #9 was painless. TOPIX made it easy to find news items on a specific local area. I checked on Downingtown and Malvern. Also used the “yellow pages” to locate specific businesses. I especially like the “Offbeat News Stories”, always someone caught doing something funny. TECHNORATI is easy to navigate and gives clear choices. [...]
RSS NOT SO SIMPLE
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thing Number 8 was not simple. I never was able to get a verification email from Bloglines. While wandering around on my Google page I found Reader and that is where I was able to create the required RSS list. It was very simple to do from Google. I see the value of the quick connection [...]
ELECTION NIGHT TECHNOLOGY
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Flipping through the cable news stations on the most historic election night I foundthat CNN had the most gizmos to show what was happening. The Magic Screen, a touch screen computer, was pretty amazing. States would shrink or expand to show what the counties were doing. At the touch of a button the screen would show [...]
CREATING A TRADING CARD
Posted in Uncategorized on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have come to realize that each activity builds on the knowledge gained from the previous activity. It is still taking me at least an hour or two to complete an activity. A mere 90 minutes went into the card. I would like to have it off to the side of my blog but haven’t [...]
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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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