Week 10 Exercise #23

My gosh, it's over and I am in one piece, none the worse for wear, and feeling pretty full of myself. When I go help folks with some of these different skills will I have to peek back and get a quick review, sure. Will my heart be pounding again as it did when I first began, absolutely not! How good to feel so impowered. Favorite discoveries, lets see: digital media ( I can't believe I'm saying this!); podcasts; avatars (super fun); Zoho Writer, Flickr, and surprise, surprise, social networking. I enjoyed sitting down and putting my head together with follow co-workers and puzzling through some of these exercises. Best of all I like knowing that an old dog can be taught new tricks and that there is a whole new wonderful world waiting OUTSIDE of the tortoise shell!

Week 9 Exercise #22

I admit it. The downloadable media topic is the one I was most fearful about. It took me a while, but I now think that I understand the idea of retrieving the appropriate operating system that will manage the type of information sent from the digital library (OverDrive) down to one's own computer. I also get that you can then transfer this information to some other device to be viewed or heard. I know that there is a tutorial that shows you how to do this. I almost wish that there was some sort of visual schematic that would graphical illustrate this for me. You know, the whole idea of a picture being worth a thousand words.

Once I got over this fear, I actually became excited about digital media. I really love how user friendly the site we use is. I've mentioned that I will be traveling next year and I found tons of stuff (ebooks) that I would like to look at: Fromer's Florence and the Best of Tuscany Day by Day; Frommer's Portable Florence; and my all time favorite Rome For Dummies are just to name a few. I hated Libriox you can only search their way or the highway. Wowio is somewhat friendlier, but still, does not compare to ours.

Week 9 Ecercise #21

How coincidental! While doing some research for my trip next fall I came across a podcast about Nice, France This occurred on Sunday. Well here it is five days later and my new iHCPL assignment is to learn about Podcasts. Armed with podcast.net, I now have a whole new travel library at my disposal. Professionally, I am now able offer suggestions to our families regarding stories, literature, child development, and more all via podcasts.

Week 9 Exercise #20

YouTube can be great fun. My clip came from a Comcast commercial. How appropriate that it dealt with turtles and computers. There are times that I still feel like a technological "Slowsky" but I've come a long way from where I began. I think that there is a place for YouTube on library websites, especially if they are clips of your own creation. Great for program promotion!

Even Turtles Use Computers

Week 8 Exercise # 19

Now here's something that I think that I'm going to like. I especially like the idea of being able to give up my flash drive and store all of my documents here. Talk about any time, any place. I am difinitely going to bring this to my college student's attention. Something tells me, however, that he probably knows about this already! Oh, by the way, I originally wrote this in Zoho Writer and sent it here to my blog!

Week 8 Exercise #18

I stopped and visited many of the social networking sites and I'm trying really hard to overcome my discomfort with the whole idea of it. Yes, I had great fun at HGTV's Rate My Space and I'll probably go back and investigate it some more. My problem, I think is my own need for privacy. I don't quite understand why people feel the need to talk about themselves or share pictures that they took. I get the value of sharing information or contributing knowledge that would benefit others. But, why talk just for the sake of talking?