Thing #23

I'm finally finished :) This has been a very interesting learning experience for me and I feel like i have learned a great deal from this. I'm not sure if i have a favorite exercise. I really enjoyed Flickr, Dumpr, and GoodReads. Some of the exercises were tough to get through but i am glad i finished each one. I just realized that i had not added a post for #2. I went back again and watched the tutorial for 7 1/2 things. I consider my self a lifelong learner. From when i first learned to read and how excited i was, to now all these years later learning about the new technology. A lot of the new technology is a challenge to me but i'm always willing to give it a try, and am always open to new ideas and skills. I feel like it is never to soon or to late to learn. Thank You! FRL, The Staff Development Team, and Sarah for all the work and time that you put in to the 23 Things and for giving me the opportunity to experience this.

#22 NetLibrary

I went to NetLibrary and first noticed that Fontana Regional system is already a subscriber!
I went to the mystery category and found several mysteries that would be interesting to listen to. I did see that you must be a subscriber with an account and password to download a book. You cannot listen on Ipods or Zune . Another concern might be the time it takes to download books, and how much time a patron is allowed on the computer if they were to listen to a whole book. What is good about it is that it is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

#21 Podcasts

I went to Podcast.com and Podcastpickle.com. I found Podcast.com to be easier to navigate. Podcast Pickle had more links to get to what I wanted, and I couldn't figure out how to add the RSS feed. On Podcast.com, I went to Books, Authors on Tour Live and listened to David Sedaris. I added Authors on Tour- live to my google reader page. On Podcastpickle.com I went to a cooking segment called Good Foods since that is of interest to me.

#20 Youtube and video sharing

Youtube is a lot of fun! There are so many different videos to view here. I spent a long time on this one and watched a lot of different videos and then started checking out the new movies that will be coming out in 2009. I chose Ice Age 3-Dawn of the dinosaurs, which will be coming to theatres July 4th 2009. I plan on going to watch that one. This execise was a lot of fun for me but I can't see how it could be used in a library setting.

#19 Your Choice

I went to "I'm cooked" and linked to English Muffin pizza's which turned out to be a cooking segment by "coupla fat guys". It was really silly, but entertaining!. There were all kinds of recipes and clips from cooking shows from fancy to what I clicked on which was not so fancy.

I think some of the patrons would enjoy this. The website itself was very fast!

#18 Online Productivity

I went to Google Doc and started a template for a Scrapbook of Nantahala Memories and inserted some photos. This was neat! Any of these documents would be useful to all types of patrons and projects. Students could use them for school presentations and other patrons could do scrapbooks, photo albums etc that look very professional!

#17 Your turn with the Wiki

This one was a little confusing. It seemed like alot of steps and you needed to be a little more knowledgeable about computers to do this. If I didn't have the steps listed on the things to do, I would not have been able to do it. Once it was done, it was fun to see that you can link right to my blog!