Saturday, June 20, 2009
Thing 7
I added a feed to my Google Reader and another to my blog. It was easy to do. And I think these are great ways to handle blogs, the issue again is time.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Thing 6
I am afraid that Google Reader may be dangerous for me. I ended up signing up for blogs on some of the topics that interest me, such as accessibility and mystery books, and if I read them all I won't have time for anything else! In reality, it is a great way to keep up with a field.
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Thing 5
Image generators were also fun to play with.
.This time cutting and pasting the code worked! Very exciting. I also created a magazine cover, but my husband complains that his band's name should be two words. I told him reporters always get names wrong.
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More Flickr
Playing with the Flickr was fun, especially adding captions and the mashup. I played with lots of toys.
I spelled out the word "read" and pasted in the code that the site said would allow the letters to appear on the blog, but it didn't work.
I posted pictures to flickr. I don't know if my daughter will like the mishmash of her graduation picture, but that was fun, and it was fun making a mosaic of wedding pictures. I don't know if I have time to play with flicker much, but it does to alot of great stuff. I did decide to put the account to use, and put some wedding pictures that family were wanting there, instead of waiting for my husband to put them on DVDs.
So I have learned a lot.
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I spelled out the word "read" and pasted in the code that the site said would allow the letters to appear on the blog, but it didn't work.
I posted pictures to flickr. I don't know if my daughter will like the mishmash of her graduation picture, but that was fun, and it was fun making a mosaic of wedding pictures. I don't know if I have time to play with flicker much, but it does to alot of great stuff. I did decide to put the account to use, and put some wedding pictures that family were wanting there, instead of waiting for my husband to put them on DVDs.
So I have learned a lot.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Flickr
June 13, 2009
I obtained a Flickr account and uploaded some vacation pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleaseview/ is the location. It wasn't hard to upload the pictures. I wasn't able to change the icon, I think the picture I was trying to use was too big, I decided it would be better to try again later. This does seem like a great way to share pictures.
I obtained a Flickr account and uploaded some vacation pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleaseview/ is the location. It wasn't hard to upload the pictures. I wasn't able to change the icon, I think the picture I was trying to use was too big, I decided it would be better to try again later. This does seem like a great way to share pictures.
Electricity
June 13, 2009
There is one problem with this technology--it all uses electricity. Our house was one of the 500,000 who lost power from downed power lines from thunder storms in the DFW area on Wednesday. It was great when it came back on on Friday. However, it made working on 23 Things impossible. My daughter went to a public library to do her e-mail and some work for her on-line job. However, my links and passwords were on my computer, so I didn't work on 23 Things there. Okay, I should write them down. My neighbors were surprised to learn that, as long as the place has electricity, the local library is great for checking on e-mail. And it has air conditioning, besides all of the great books. So there may be more visitors from my neighborhood at the library if this happens again. I did a lot of reading by flashlight, so the outage wasn't all bad.
And the neighbors check in with each more often, looking for the latest news.
Flickr is very interesting. It was great looking at pictures from my favorite places. I will use the account. This is great for libraries. I wonder if school libraries use it much? I'll blog more after I set up an account.
There is one problem with this technology--it all uses electricity. Our house was one of the 500,000 who lost power from downed power lines from thunder storms in the DFW area on Wednesday. It was great when it came back on on Friday. However, it made working on 23 Things impossible. My daughter went to a public library to do her e-mail and some work for her on-line job. However, my links and passwords were on my computer, so I didn't work on 23 Things there. Okay, I should write them down. My neighbors were surprised to learn that, as long as the place has electricity, the local library is great for checking on e-mail. And it has air conditioning, besides all of the great books. So there may be more visitors from my neighborhood at the library if this happens again. I did a lot of reading by flashlight, so the outage wasn't all bad.
And the neighbors check in with each more often, looking for the latest news.
Flickr is very interesting. It was great looking at pictures from my favorite places. I will use the account. This is great for libraries. I wonder if school libraries use it much? I'll blog more after I set up an account.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Library 2.0
June 8, 2009
I watched the videos today. Stephen Abram's was very interesting. He referred to the minor change of technology and the web made on libraries. I disagree. I became a school librarian in 1975. I had a manual typewriter to type the catalog cards with. Students signed their names on cards to borrow books. Buying a new set of encyclopedias every year was crucial. Technology did make a very big difference in the library world. I do agree that all of the different parts of technology that make up 2.0 are making enormous changes. I agree that we must make it a focus of libraries or we will be seen just as warehouses, not an important part of today's society. He was also right that we must use the technology ourselves, but that can be the hard part. It takes me more than a few minutes a day to learn something new.
"Think Library 2.0" did a great job of showing visually just how much technology has changed from pencil and paper to things like Flickr and Utube on the web. I like how he showed how Web 2.0 is linking people. Now we need to use Web 2.0 to link people to the library!
I watched the videos today. Stephen Abram's was very interesting. He referred to the minor change of technology and the web made on libraries. I disagree. I became a school librarian in 1975. I had a manual typewriter to type the catalog cards with. Students signed their names on cards to borrow books. Buying a new set of encyclopedias every year was crucial. Technology did make a very big difference in the library world. I do agree that all of the different parts of technology that make up 2.0 are making enormous changes. I agree that we must make it a focus of libraries or we will be seen just as warehouses, not an important part of today's society. He was also right that we must use the technology ourselves, but that can be the hard part. It takes me more than a few minutes a day to learn something new.
"Think Library 2.0" did a great job of showing visually just how much technology has changed from pencil and paper to things like Flickr and Utube on the web. I like how he showed how Web 2.0 is linking people. Now we need to use Web 2.0 to link people to the library!
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