Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Thing #7--continued

I forgot to say that TODAY I did a webinar. We are looking into adding BookLetters to our library page and they did a training session over the phone & my computer. It was fun and easy. I have done a few others and think they, like all long-distance learning tools are FABULOUS!
I haven't looked ahead to see how far down the number it is, but Linda set up a WIKI for us so we can discuss long moving and shifting projects. I set one up for the Fine Art's Commission a few months ago.
Library 2.0 R Us
Blue

Thing #7 2.0 communications

Seriously, I have a cell phone that I rarely use, and can't imagine sending a text msg. I resisted the cell phone for ages until one snowy day...and...anyway, in 15 months I have used it 5 or 6 times.
But, I do use email, and I remember how frustrated I was when trying to learn how and what it was. Linda & I went to a branch out session and we couldn't get anyone to explain to us how to use email. He know SELCO had it but they were not offering training at the time, but the funny thing is, we couldn't communicate that what we were asking was how do we set up our account! Gads, remember the "envelope" and SMTP? After reading the info in Thing7, I went trough and cleaned out my mailboxes, reorganized and promised to only check my mail 3 or 4 times a day.
Now the IM. I took all of that off my home computer. I just don't want to be that available to anyone. (Why I resisted the cell phone) but I think IM for reference would be a great idea and I would like to see it implemented in our library. If there is no one at the desk, set it to offline!
The SMS, seem like a cross between texting and email. The thought of condensing words and using tons o abbreviations seems like it promotes both sloppy writing and quick thinking. ha ha. I like the idea of saying your piece in 25 words or less. My son is a master of that! He was way ahead of the curve on that one.
The thought of text msg a reference librarian really expands the power of information. You could be sitting at the beach and want to know if the creature you just stepped on is poisonous, so take a picture and send it with your question to a librarian. Or if you need to know the names of all 8 reindeer while at a Christmas program, text a librarian. It could also be great for Trivial Pursuit. Okay, okay, I know kids are welded to their phones and they would use it. Which means no cell phone in class? I know if they were sitting across the room from a librarian, they would probably ask her via email, IM or text msg before walking over there.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Image Chef doesn't work




Well, I had to right click on my image, save it to the computer, and then upload it to blogger to get Image Chef to work. I finally got it up but wholly mohlly it took me forever. I must be missing something simple. I will keep going back until I figure it out!
frazzled blue cat

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Thing#6 Image generator

in the morning, in the evening, ain't we got fun?
I am going to concentrate on getting around, and just exploring all 23 sticky things for now, and THEN I will do that assimilation thing, where I internalize and figure out how to apply the knowledge. Yes, I am a liberal arts grad :)
Blue
ps. I went to the random image generator Image Chef, and created a cool visual poetry but it wouldn't show up in the blog. All I would get was the little box with that annoying red "x" in it(on my blog) with the text IMAGE CHEF. I tried it 3 times too. However, I did learn how to delete a post!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Thing #5--Flikr

Great news, I think we are up to 3 in the building working on the sticky 23! Plus Gretchen from the SELCO advisory board stopped in to say she is doing the sticky 23 too. Love the excitment this is generating. I am just dying to make a mash-up but don't know if I can do it without serious hand-holding and step by step instructions. I will try tho.
I did a letter generater, so let us see if this works!
B L Vintage LEGO Letter U E C_McElman_070716_2420 a T
YEAH BABY it worked!
C

Thing#4-Flikr

Hey Hey! Last night I downloaded pictures to Flikr, and I took the tour and did some reading. I think it will be tons o fun and plan to spend more time learning my way around. Now I want to figure out how to make one of those rotating picture cubes (if I can figure our what it is called) and post it to the library web site. I have already talked it over with other staff members and we are going to create a library Flikr site. How cool is that?
c

Friday, February 1, 2008

Thing#3 RSS Reader

I have one! I first set up a blog reader in Google, but I have to admit I use Yahoo more so unless I was going to google, or logged in I was sort of stuffed on getting the feeds read. Now today I set one up in Blogspot and I was still trying to figure out how to KNOW I had something new to read. Well, I continued reading and installed the (duh!) NOTIFIER! So now I have a cool little icon in my tray that sits there happily and notifies me if something new comes in. Then I just click on it and the browser opens and I read it!
Nifty. I subscribed to SHIFTED LIBRARIAN, Dilbert, & Salon Magazine. I have a few of the 23bloggers on my GOOGLE READER and will check those too.

Now to figure out how to create the RSS ( an RSS Sender??)on my website. I mean, the little symbol, and have people subscribe to things like the library newsletter. That means more reading, right! Bring it on, baby!
c