A New Begining...

The program is over but the journey has just begun.

I have learned so much from this program and although there were times that I was frustrated beyond belief, but I have learned so much that I will be able to use in the future. I have wet my toes in the pond of technology although I am not quite ready to jump in with yet I have a new base of knowledge to build upon. This program was a great idea and I am so happy that queens has given us this opportunity. Not only can I use all these new tools for my personal benefit but I can better help my customers with this new found knowledge.

My favorite part of the program looking back had to actually be the Flicka, image generators and the Flicka Mashups. I have always loved photographs and it is fun to look thought the ton and tons of pictures on the site and see the endless possibilities of things to do and make with the pictures.

As for things to do differently there honestly isn't much I would change, except it would have been nice to have had a better way to contact people who could help on a topic you got stuck on. RSS gave me a really bad time. I work in a 2 person agency and I called several people, both inside and outside the library, who were not able to help me. It would have been nice to be able to pick up the phone and speak with someone who would have been able to help me. Other then that the program was wonderful!

Wiki Wiki Fun...

I tried editing wikis again and after several more ERROR and you've been blacklisted messages I found an interesting wiki that allowed me to edit!

It is was a Children's book list wiki. They have all different categories, like trucks and you can add your title and author to the list. I have a set or triplets who LOVE David Gordon's books; The Ugly Truckling, Hansel and Diesel, Three Little Rigs. I have gotten those books off the shelves so many times for them I hope other kids will enjoy the story as well.

RSS Thing 8 & 9

Frustration, frustration, frustration...

Did I mention how frustrating this assignment was...but after weeks and weeks I finally got it. I am very proud of myself, VERY PROUD!!!!! Seeing on the tips and zips that this was the one that gave everyone the most problems was very comforting...Thanks to whoever had the idea to include that!

I signed up for the account with out any problems, I understood the concepts. I was not expecting the problems I faced next.

I have no idea what the problem is but I couldn't figure out and of the search tools like feedster. Many of my searches had no results that actually could actually be connected to the bloglines account. I had tried Blog lines search back in the beginning but I had technical problems with that. I tried it once again today and it worked I signed up for a few library blogs and also for some EMS blogs. I can really see myself using this site. I end up finding sites that I check for a while but then I forget. By using this site I will be also to better track some of those interesting sites.

I am very happy because I thought this one thing was going to keep me from finishing the program on time.

See everyone at the finish lines in a little while!

Podcast...Smodcasts

Now I know what they have been talking about on the radio. And one question I had was answered which came first eh Ipod or the podcast...ANSWER the podcast. I actually wonder about that when I hear the word podcast. Since Apple has been doing so well with their clever word twist I was actually assuming it was the other way around.

I did look through and I found some interesting stuff like a woman who has posted herself reading different books. I wanted to listen to a bit of it but I was told by the computer who thinks it knows more then me ( and I fear it is right) that I am missing a file ActiveX. I don't know what that means exactly except I can't listen to the podcast, but with so much blocked on our computers I am not to surprised. That was when I tried Podcast.net

Yahoo Audio had better results I was able to listen to a few excerpts from audio books from this site. If we don't have this on our site yet we should look into it especially since one podcast came from a Suffolk County Library.

Online Productivity

I think I like this... I always like to have someone double check and reread my work and this is the perfect place to do that I can create the document and then someone else can go in and edit it there is no chance of printing the wrong document because it is always the original file that is being worked on. Much easier then sending attachments. Nice that you don't need to worry about the file size either I have a excel file that fills one floppy disk which used to be a problem for me since I had to carry several disks to work on an annual even for the fire house, although that has eased a bit since I started to use a thumb drive it is nice to not have to worry about the fire size for storage or if the e-mail can handle the larger files which has been a problem in the past as well. There does seem to be some draw backs, I only looked at the Google one, and the fonts are limited in types and size. I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and make a sign for the door reminding people to close the door behind them when the enter or exit but I could only go up to 36 on the font size. Very useful but I don't think Bill Gates needs to worry yet!

And incase anyone reading my blog is wondering I haven't had some one rereadthe blog posts for me I have just posted them on my own and there are a ton of typos that I have found later. On a positive not I figured out how to edit them recently, but who has time for that I bearly have time to finish this project. But I believe I have a bout 4 more things to go...onely one more to go bfore I need to go back to the dreaded RSS again...I tried SEVERAL times but I just can't get that one.

Library 2.0

Library 2.0 is a very interesting concept. It seems to be the directions that the library needs to go in. Times they are a changing and if we have no choice but to keep up with them. With everyone going paperless and green friendly society is moving be more technology based. We have been preparing for Library 2.0 for years since we switched from the card catalog to databases. Our Kids are growing up knowing web 2.0 before they even know their own names, with out keeping up we will surly die out.

When this is all over and done it will be interesting to sit down and compare the 23 1/2 things to our own Adult and Teen websites. Also would like to see how we compare to other library systems one the library2.0/web 2.0 highway.

Technorati

Interesting...but it looks like it should be Channel 4's news page.

Like Del.icio.us I don't see my self using this site much. I looked at he tutorial and the features page but I think I am really missing something on this site. I don't see how to search separately for blog posts, tags and the blog directory. I did search "learning 2.0" and found some interesting blog posts, but maybe if I was searching a topic that had more meaning for me I might find this site more useful.

I plan on visiting this site and Del.icio.us again one things settle down after New Years. I want to give myself some time to absorb what I have learned and look at it all fresh again and see if I pick up some new knowledge. It's will be like reading a book for the second time, you usually catching something new that you missed in the first read.

I did do a search for "Queens Library" while I was on this site and people are not happy with our flayers Thanking the mayor and others for their support for 6 day service. I was surprised to see that pop up.