Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Thing 23 : Final Thoughts

If you were to offer another program like this again I would differently do it again. I learned alot about the different things of he web that I always heard about but didn't have an idea about. Now I at leas know what people are talking about. I 've heard alot of things about mySpace and facebook some good and not so good but I think using it in a library setting would be great.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Thing 22: What Did I Learn Today

I really enjoyed doing this. Some of the things I learned can take alot of time if you let it. I hope to take some webinars and keep checking into the new sites that I learned about. I'am going to try to spend at least 15 minutes a day adding to my blog and checking my rss reader. Also I plan to use my igoogle more to keep track of things going on.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Thing21: Beyond MySpace: Other Social Networks

I liked the sites that reviewed books; book.gather.com, mnlife.gather.com, I add these as a rss feed. Joined Webjuction. Also checked out bakespace and shelfari which I might keep checking out. But these all are time comsuming to check.

Friday, April 11, 2008


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Thing 20: Libraries and Social Networks

I signed up for facebook account and added the groups that 23 things had listed and also checked them out. I didn't spend alot of time in myspace but I went to the libraries that were listed on myspace and I thought they were wonderful. What a great way to get the teen interested in the library. I think if I were to create an account for the library I would also make to geared toward the teens.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Thing 19: Podcasts

I tired alot of different podcasts I went to podcastally.com, Minnesota Public Radio podcast and Yahoo podcast. I found a book review http://recordingstalkshoe.com/rss17371.xml . I like podcastally the best. As of being inspired to do a podcast I don't think Iam ready for that yet but many sometime in the future.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Thing 18: YouTube & Other Online Video

You sure can spend alot of time looking at videos and really and get sidetracked from what you might be looking for.

I chose this video because if showed how to use ProQuest which would be useful if someone didn't know how to use that database.

Some of these video could be very useful on a library website, advertising programs that might be coming up in the library, showing how to use databases, showing things that are available at your library.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Thing 17: ELM Productivity Tools

These tools are very handy when your a doing research . And you can get the information even when you are not at the library. When you find a article you want to share you can email it to a colleague. This is a wonderful service for library patrons

Thing 16: Student 2.0 Tools

I looked at both Assignment Calculator and Research Project Calculator. Both look like they would be easy to use. I wish I had them when I was doing a research paper. They might have kept me on course.

The handout in Research Project Calculator are wonderful for the student and librarians in doing a research paper.

Thing 15: Online Games & Libraries

Tired Puzzle Pirates I did the bilfing. I wasn't to good. interacting with the other pirates was different. I think if I spent more time with it I could get the hang of it.

I watched the video for Second Life. I really like the idea of having a virtual library. I can see where kids like to play interactive games.

Our library has an x-box and a wii system for our preteens. It is very popular.

Thing 14: Library Thing

Library thing is really neat. It can be really useful for libraries to put on their blogs so patrons can see what the library has and what other books are similar.

Thing 13: Online Productivity Tools

I tried to do the countdown but I couldn't get it to countdown don't know what I missed. I will try later to see if I can get it to countdown. Iam using igoogle for my calendar and and list and reminders. It was a lot of fun picking out gadgets for igoogle . I think this will be real useful when I get in the practice of adding things here instead of notes all over my desk.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Thing 12: Do You Digg

I found that all these were fun to look at and that you could spend alot of time just browsing through them. You definitely can spend more time than you expect to spend looking at them. I though Stumbleupon was really neat Different photos and videos. In all of these sites the articles are pick according to popularity.