NOTE:
Added an entry and messed a little with the
format of the 23 Things Wiki. Simple and
straight forward if you have ever used a
word processing program.
Finally found the history pages
for edits in the 23 Wiki.
You can view them from this link!
Today I found and registered to have
an OCLC link right on this blog. It is a really
cool thing to have on a library blog.
It is prominently displayed below
Ms. Avatar over to the right in her
"READ" tee shirt.
Get your own here.
Monday, March 31, 2008
THING 9
Tried my hand at very shyly editing the
Declaration of Independence. It takes
some courage to dive right in and edit
something as important as the Declaration!
I had heard of a film producer,
Patrick Nelson from MN,
using this sort of collaboration
to produce the story-line for a movie
called Arnold's Park .
Declaration of Independence. It takes
some courage to dive right in and edit
something as important as the Declaration!
I had heard of a film producer,
Patrick Nelson from MN,
using this sort of collaboration
to produce the story-line for a movie
called Arnold's Park .
Friday, March 28, 2008
THING(s) 8
Well, I guess my efforts were lost on the RSS
button! Accidentally deleted? Me?
Maybe I will try again. If a person wanted
to create something online for a library, checking
and re-checking the site WITHOUT destroying
previous efforts would be mandatory.
Now HERE's a little something created with the
help of a web site called picturetrail. Click
on the button below to make one yourself.
Click here to see my HUGE (not) 2-slide powerpoint
presentation made with the help of Thumbstacks.
Note there is a hyper link in each jump you take.
The one above goes to Thumbstacks. The one on
the powerpoint presentation goes to Flickr!
I wonder if we can make the links
go on into infinitum like the
mirror image in the mirror?
(Maybe this sort of thing would work for teaching
research skills to children?
One could create a sort of scavenger hunt and link to
library catalogs or subscribed data base
services to hunt for answers!)
I spent 3 hours learning some
animation with an old image
editing program on my computer
with the desire to post it in this blog.
This required uploading
the image to googlevideo.
The animation upload "failed" with
web browser method, so then I downloaded
google's desktop uploader. (Upstairs/Downstairs)
When successful I will put it here...
button! Accidentally deleted? Me?
Maybe I will try again. If a person wanted
to create something online for a library, checking
and re-checking the site WITHOUT destroying
previous efforts would be mandatory.
Now HERE's a little something created with the
help of a web site called picturetrail. Click
on the button below to make one yourself.
Click here to see my HUGE (not) 2-slide powerpoint
presentation made with the help of Thumbstacks.
Note there is a hyper link in each jump you take.
The one above goes to Thumbstacks. The one on
the powerpoint presentation goes to Flickr!
I wonder if we can make the links
go on into infinitum like the
mirror image in the mirror?
(Maybe this sort of thing would work for teaching
research skills to children?
One could create a sort of scavenger hunt and link to
library catalogs or subscribed data base
services to hunt for answers!)
I spent 3 hours learning some
animation with an old image
editing program on my computer
with the desire to post it in this blog.
This required uploading
the image to googlevideo.
The animation upload "failed" with
web browser method, so then I downloaded
google's desktop uploader. (Upstairs/Downstairs)
When successful I will put it here...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
THING 7
E-mail is only for OLD PEOPLE?!
Yesterday, I heard something at a pre-conference workshop "Beginner's Guide to Serving Teens" (PLA national conference in MN).
According to Amy Alessio, teen coordinator at Schaumburg Township District Library and Nick Buron, coordinator of YA Services for the Queens Library in NYC, IM (instant messaging) and text messaging have usurped e-mail.
Apparently, e-mail is not dynamic enough for young people. IM and text messaging (and cell phones, for that matter) seem sort of disruptive and distracting to me. I like quiet contemplation....without all that chitter/chatter.
SMELL the ROSES and the like.
Of course, if the IM use isn't all chitter/chatter, then it's ok by me. My best friend uses MSN IM to communicate with her colleagues in her city.
I talk to her that way sometimes too.
I like the idea of using software like SourceForge's "GAIM" that allow different IM services to be used from one window.
I think being a reference librarian who uses IM would be demanding. On the other hand, learning IM shorthand might be fun.
I have seen a few books of fiction that were written in IM and text messaging short hand. "LOL" seems pervasive and is probably being entered into dictionaries.
I don't know if all this fast communication will make us more or less literate. Getting information faster might help us make better decisions, but it might also be more time consuming because those of us who are bargain-hunters will spend so much time gathering evidence.
E-mail still has value because folks can communicate and respond at their own convenience. It works well for paperless documents and other business exchanges. It can be encrypted so it's more secure than IM.
I like e-mail for communicating with our library system's IT staff and to query other public librarians.
SKYPE seems like another kind of IM. It is a little more than IM, but a little less than video conferencing. I was at a meeting recently where someone in Canada was participating and listening to a meeting taking place in Central America! Very interesting.
Yesterday, I heard something at a pre-conference workshop "Beginner's Guide to Serving Teens" (PLA national conference in MN).
According to Amy Alessio, teen coordinator at Schaumburg Township District Library and Nick Buron, coordinator of YA Services for the Queens Library in NYC, IM (instant messaging) and text messaging have usurped e-mail.
Apparently, e-mail is not dynamic enough for young people. IM and text messaging (and cell phones, for that matter) seem sort of disruptive and distracting to me. I like quiet contemplation....without all that chitter/chatter.
SMELL the ROSES and the like.
Of course, if the IM use isn't all chitter/chatter, then it's ok by me. My best friend uses MSN IM to communicate with her colleagues in her city.
I talk to her that way sometimes too.
I like the idea of using software like SourceForge's "GAIM" that allow different IM services to be used from one window.
I think being a reference librarian who uses IM would be demanding. On the other hand, learning IM shorthand might be fun.
I have seen a few books of fiction that were written in IM and text messaging short hand. "LOL" seems pervasive and is probably being entered into dictionaries.
I don't know if all this fast communication will make us more or less literate. Getting information faster might help us make better decisions, but it might also be more time consuming because those of us who are bargain-hunters will spend so much time gathering evidence.
E-mail still has value because folks can communicate and respond at their own convenience. It works well for paperless documents and other business exchanges. It can be encrypted so it's more secure than IM.
I like e-mail for communicating with our library system's IT staff and to query other public librarians.
SKYPE seems like another kind of IM. It is a little more than IM, but a little less than video conferencing. I was at a meeting recently where someone in Canada was participating and listening to a meeting taking place in Central America! Very interesting.
Monday, March 24, 2008
THING 6
Grab the bar and slide it over to read.
Toondoo was used to make the cartoons above and below.
The bear is a metaphor for how elegant I feel using each new Web 2.0 skill.
We have a few animal patrons at our library.
Toondoo was used to make the cartoons above and below.
We have a few animal patrons at our library.
This patron has his very own trading card.
My clumsy attempt with the image
generator at Big Huge Labs really worked!
We could use this generator to make
story-hour themed trading cards, bingo
sheets, playing cards and bookmarks!
My clumsy attempt with the image
generator at Big Huge Labs really worked!
We could use this generator to make
story-hour themed trading cards, bingo
sheets, playing cards and bookmarks!
Sunday, March 23, 2008
THING 5
How
is this?
Using Flickr images for making posters is quite obvious.
Our library hours sign tends to fade in the
glass of the outside door so we frequently
make a new one. Using Flickr letter images might just
make folks do a double-take and notice our hours anew!
I guess I would only make certain photos
or images public on Flickr; to protect the innocent
(just kidding). It seems prudent to ask the permission
of folks to publish their images, because the pictures
become property of the public domain.
Photography is a fave of mine. I will have to spend
more time in my Flickr account.
is this?
Using Flickr images for making posters is quite obvious.
Our library hours sign tends to fade in the
glass of the outside door so we frequently
make a new one. Using Flickr letter images might just
make folks do a double-take and notice our hours anew!
I guess I would only make certain photos
or images public on Flickr; to protect the innocent
(just kidding). It seems prudent to ask the permission
of folks to publish their images, because the pictures
become property of the public domain.
Photography is a fave of mine. I will have to spend
more time in my Flickr account.
BETWEEN Things
See that Big Beautiful RSS button (Really Simple Syndication)
in the right-hand column? That happened with
the son's help. (digital age: 16 years)
How? NOW GET THIS: Instructions, teenage style:
"Mom, go to Google. Type: 'HTML' in search box."
Well, "DAAH" or "D'OH!" per Homer Simpson.
(It's the mimic/copy, trial & error method!
Digital beings do it ALL the time.)
We simply copied an example HTML text from this
tutorial and grabbed the RSS picture from another spot.
SHAKE & BAKE.
(Do copyright laws apply here in the learning-to-blog world?
Answer: Mom, the copyright police can't look through everything!)
"Son, what happens to that RSS button if the website
we got it from is deleted?" Response,"There will just
be an X in the corner of an empty square."
I think the same thing will happen on this blog if I
deleted my avatar on Yahoo.
Note that I figured out how to edit the italicized font.
Son helped me with that too. As I suspected, I had
inadvertently made italicized font part of the template.
On to THING 5.
See the "GAMES" link to Becky's Flickr
image-Sudoku in the right-hand column?
That's my first attempt to do THING 5!
Can you figure out how to play?
p.s. The word "PREFECTIONIST" above Ms. Avatar (who I moved because she was lost on the bottom of the page) was done on purpose to remind me not to get so serious or be too much of a perfectionist!
in the right-hand column? That happened with
the son's help. (digital age: 16 years)
How? NOW GET THIS: Instructions, teenage style:
"Mom, go to Google. Type: 'HTML' in search box."
Well, "DAAH" or "D'OH!" per Homer Simpson.
(It's the mimic/copy, trial & error method!
Digital beings do it ALL the time.)
We simply copied an example HTML text from this
tutorial and grabbed the RSS picture from another spot.
SHAKE & BAKE.
(Do copyright laws apply here in the learning-to-blog world?
Answer: Mom, the copyright police can't look through everything!)
"Son, what happens to that RSS button if the website
we got it from is deleted?" Response,"There will just
be an X in the corner of an empty square."
I think the same thing will happen on this blog if I
deleted my avatar on Yahoo.
Note that I figured out how to edit the italicized font.
Son helped me with that too. As I suspected, I had
inadvertently made italicized font part of the template.
On to THING 5.
See the "GAMES" link to Becky's Flickr
image-Sudoku in the right-hand column?
That's my first attempt to do THING 5!
Can you figure out how to play?
p.s. The word "PREFECTIONIST" above Ms. Avatar (who I moved because she was lost on the bottom of the page) was done on purpose to remind me not to get so serious or be too much of a perfectionist!
Saturday, March 22, 2008
THING 4
Having a Flickr account happened for me by default when my pics were migrated from Yahoo to Flickr last year. I had actually used the Yahoo site to share documents with members of a scholarship committee. Some members were in another part of the USA and some where in South America. Everyone could access the docs anytime and anywhere there was Internet. It worked great for the semi-collaborative activity of reviewing applications!
Friday, March 21, 2008
THING 3, Continued
Ok, I figured out how to add the RSS feeds for my blog,
two other librarian blogs (1 and 2) and our official blog
23 things on a stick to my Google aggregator.
WOO HOO!
I am going to try to figure out how to get that
orange RSS icon on my blog. Everyone should
have one of those...the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)"
thing is not very user friendly, especially for the
more visual-object orientated folks, which is...like
everyone who uses a computer!
(and when I get time, I am going to figure out
why all my posts are in italic, presumably something
about the way I set up this blog.)
two other librarian blogs (1 and 2) and our official blog
23 things on a stick to my Google aggregator.
WOO HOO!
I am going to try to figure out how to get that
orange RSS icon on my blog. Everyone should
have one of those...the "Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)"
thing is not very user friendly, especially for the
more visual-object orientated folks, which is...like
everyone who uses a computer!
(and when I get time, I am going to figure out
why all my posts are in italic, presumably something
about the way I set up this blog.)
THING 3
About a year ago I downloaded an aggregator that
would collect new podcasts. I still don't understand
how to really make that work. My dial-up service
at home isn't conducive for stuff like that, BUT
RSS is not quite so power hungry and I think I
can do this! Here goes>>>>>>
would collect new podcasts. I still don't understand
how to really make that work. My dial-up service
at home isn't conducive for stuff like that, BUT
RSS is not quite so power hungry and I think I
can do this! Here goes>>>>>>
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
THING 2
Didn't Dr. Seuss write about Thing 1 and Thing 2
in the Cat in the Hat? They were mischief-makers
weren't they? Hmmm...
In Stephen Abram's interview he remarked that
one can always find the time to do what we want,
like smoking, but he didn't say how hard it can
be to create new habits, new ways to think.
One needs both the time (21 days to a habit)
and the desire to change.
Abram also said to look for the unintended
consequences of learning 23 Things on a Stick.
Like my mind wandering to the possible
applications of some of these things
in reaching out to one's community?
On the Internet our chimp-like fingers and
trapeze hands catch stuff mostly by
accident.
I must say, this 23 thing stuff has inspired me
to try my hand at creating a presentation
(Powerpoint? YouTube?) about how to
order books from our online library catalog.
I think the powerpoint idea is a direct
result of working through these 23
things!
On to Thing 3.
in the Cat in the Hat? They were mischief-makers
weren't they? Hmmm...
In Stephen Abram's interview he remarked that
one can always find the time to do what we want,
like smoking, but he didn't say how hard it can
be to create new habits, new ways to think.
One needs both the time (21 days to a habit)
and the desire to change.
Abram also said to look for the unintended
consequences of learning 23 Things on a Stick.
Like my mind wandering to the possible
applications of some of these things
in reaching out to one's community?
On the Internet our chimp-like fingers and
trapeze hands catch stuff mostly by
accident.
I must say, this 23 thing stuff has inspired me
to try my hand at creating a presentation
(Powerpoint? YouTube?) about how to
order books from our online library catalog.
I think the powerpoint idea is a direct
result of working through these 23
things!
On to Thing 3.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Lost and Found
My previous blog entry was hidden
for a while.
Guess I had to push the "publish"
button. The post came out of hiding
by publishing so I suppose I must
carry on with it all.
for a while.
Guess I had to push the "publish"
button. The post came out of hiding
by publishing so I suppose I must
carry on with it all.
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