#11-tagging & delicios

I have experimented with tags and it not too hard a concept to get a hold of. We do that everyday, it's called organizing. I have worked on delicious, and set up an account. At first it didn't make sense to me. Why not just save sites in your favorites? But then as I pondered this it hit me, with delicious you can access it at any computer. This means I could research things for the library, say summer reading or story hour, and save the site on delicious on my home computer and then be able to acess it at work. I like that idea and will be working more with this. As for the social networking part, I don't get into that. My life is too full. I have great friends and family that enjoy. I love being with my kids and quite frankly would rather spend time with them than chatting with someone I don't really know online. My theory is that people online are not who they say they are. It is too easy to be someone else when no one really knows and has no way to find out. I value the input of those close to me, and maybe would do some networking for my job, if I ever had time, but not as part of my personal life.

#11

I have played around with wikis. I have used wikipedia in the past but did not realize the info was ever-changing. I have added some comments onto the 23things wiki. So far, and it may be because I am still learning, I have found wikis to be a hodgepodge of info and not as easy to use as other tools. They remind me of shopping at a garage sale of

more #9

I did the editing on both of the documents and did not find either or more difficult to use. They both had useful tools and I don't think I would choose one over the other, just whatever I happened to pick. I do like on zoho that people can view it without being allowed to edit. I am however insulted about the re-written documents. Especially taking out the part of the Creator. For those of us who do believe it is insulting and let's face it, the founding fathers put it in and we can't change history. Rather we should embrace it because it was a very imporatant part of the founding of this nation. I am really releived that the founding fathers wrote the declaration of independence and not librarians. But the new version is a bit more entertaining and make for an interesting read.

#9

I have done something that to me is unthinkable. I have edited the declaration of independence. I can see the value in corabortaing on documents and presentations, but to re-write the declaration of independence is somewhat insulting to our nation. Not to mention the new version is nothing to be proud of. No, I am not lacking in a sinse of humor, I can see the sillyness of it too. I feel that this thing while a valueable tool is not particulary useful for me in my position a tthe library but again the experience is a valueable one.

#8

I finally managed to get my slide presentation onto my blog. It takes a bit for me to figure these things out, but once I do it gets a lot easier. Do I see value in this? Yes, but for my position in the small Grove City library I do not see myself doing a lot of presentations. However, being able to assist patrons is a wonderful thing.

#7

I have read and listened to the info about IM. I am probably the last person in the U.S. who does not have a cell phone and I just got online last week, so although I familiar with the concept of IM and texting I have not done either. I plan to now! I think IM would be great in the library because it would allow people to renew or order things without inncovienenceing them. It's about reaching out to poeple in thier preferrred method of communication. I also think the reference IM is a good idea for large libraries but at the Grove City library it is probably not necessary.

#6

I managed to create a trading card. I first did one using a pic that I had stored in my computer, but after playing around in flickr I managed to get a pic onto a trading card. This is no small feet for me because this whole 23things is new to me. I would like to have had more time to play around with it, but alas I had to feed my kids dinner. I see how these things can be fun in regards to library use. They are also very time consuming. With more use I am sure it will become easier and be something we can utilize without time being an issue.

flickr

I, yes I, have opened up my husbands eyes to a whole new world by demonstrating how flckr works. I just searched under "choppers" as in the motorcyles. He was amazed and said he found a new favorite site. I also browsed under "corvettes" because I enjoy them and "hair-dos" because I wanted to explore and coulndn't think of anything else. I do not recomend looking for hair-dos, as I got an eyeful of things I was not expecting. I quess I will be more cautios before I search in such broad terms. Also, I am glad to say that I am now online at my house. This will enable me to get through 23 things a lot easier.