Willing to help!

I just wanted to put it out there that if anyone needs help with any of the "things" on Learn & Play, I would be very happy to work on it with you! It can be anything that's giving you trouble, big or small, I'll try my best to answer any questions. So, shoot me an e-mail or vocera me, however u want to do it!:-) Good luck all!

Wrapping up Learn & Play 2008

After so much learning and so much adventure, it is finally time to say goodbye to Learn & Play. It's been fun and I must say, quite an experience becoming familiar with so many new tools on the web. I have no doubt that what I've done will be useful in the future, whether it be for my onw personal use , or if it enables me to help a customer in need.
Of all the things that I will take away from Learn & Play, I think none of them are more important than realizing what you don't know and continuing your journey of lifelong learning through the years:-)

Good to be MOLDI

And so Learn & Play finally gets back into the realm of things that I actually have heard of before:-) I've heard of and looked at the MOLDI page before and though I didn't actually try to download anything previously, I thought it was a great idea and a pretty cool tool to have.
This time around while looking at the site, I did attempt to check out and download 2 audio books. Neither one of them worked however (I suspect because I'm on a staff pc) but I got the gist of how it should work anyways. I suppose I'll give it a try again at home and see how it works out. But, for better or worse, this has been my experience so far;-)

Podcast (or... downloadable youtube?)

There are tons of sites for locating and downloading podcasts out there that I discovered. Some of the ones that I liked included podcastalley, podcast.com, and massively.com. All of which seemed to offer a variety of content to download. I've never been one for watching podcasts, though some of my friends are very avid watchers of some of them. So before now I was aware of them but didn't actually have any personal experience with them. Learning more everyday, geeez, will the journey never end?!;-)

Youtube-in

I love youtube! Though it is not new to me at all, it still continues to amaze me the obscure videos that I can find by searching there. It is especially helpful now during the political season to have a good laugh at some political parodies and pranksters. Another video site that I know of and use every so often is launch.com, which brings music videos to people via yahoo.

Looking into Firefox

Thing #19 I have decided to do on Firefox, the internet browser. I have used Firefox before so it is not something that is new to me in that sense. But it is not a program that I use often, and I will mostly choose Internet Explorer over it when provided with the choice because that's what i'm used to. However... I will without hesitation admit that firefox has some benificial aspects and features that make it superior to I.E. If it weren't for the fact that old habits die hard, i'd probably be a huge user of firefox, and who knows... maybe someday I'll decide to make the switch;-) No telling what the future holds!

Hello everyone!:-)

Hello everyone:-)

Web 2.0 Awards Trial... and eventual success!

After a failed attempt at working with Juicecaster, I decided to go with another tool on the web 2.0 awards list. So, I looked through and the widgets part caught my eye. I've never worked with widgets before but I know that they're a big thing so I said "Hey, I wanna learn to be a widget worker!". And thus, I created an account and "Bravo!!"...

Not the most original of widget I do understand but, it's a place to start;-) How bout this one?!

I think I'll have the hang of this in no time;-)Until next time all, power to the widgets!

PictureMail

Well, this is my pretty sad attempt at using juicecaster... this tool is not all around a simple thing to work with. But, as you can see, I was able to display a picture of Linden's interior by sending in a pic with my cell phone. So I'll leave it up there for now and maybe as our learn and play journey continues, there will be something else I can snag a quick pic or video of a post it. I know you're all giddy with anticipation! ;-) And the suspense builds...

Goggle doc rocks socks!:-)

So I've been a gmail member for about 4 years now I'm very sad to say that only during this excercise have I ever heard of Google Docs! What?!!! :-) Now, granted, I have all the office tools I need on my computer as programs, but how cool is it that I have no need for them with this online greatness?
I had heard of another cool office program that is downloadable and free called Openoffice.org that will let you get actual programs to install on your pc. Could be useful to someone that doesn't have internet at home and wanted to download the program here at the library, flash drive it, then BAM! free word processing and other useful tools on their home computer. That makes for one heck of a happy customer!:-D

Learning 2.0

It's very interesting and exciting to see the way that web 2.0 is revolutionizing the way people look at and use the internet. Even more exciting (personally speaking) is the idea of library 2.0 and how it is making libraries more accessible, user friendly, innovative, and technologically savvy!
There are still some (meaning just about everybody) people I talk to outside of work that when I say, "I work at a library", the first thing that they say is, "Wow, you must read a lot!". It never fails that it's a good reason to "lol" for a moment and then I get to go into letting them know that even though books are a huge part of what we do, there are so many other things that we offer... Library 2.0 speaks to exactly that and how we should be reaching out to everyone we can and inviting them to discover what the library has to offer for their own personal use.