Beth's Blog

23 Things

2009-01-27T18:56:00.000-08:00

I definitely learned a great deal from 23 Things. I made a mistake in starting the program before the December holidays since it meant that I often did not have time to keep up with the program. Since I was so far behind, I almost quit, but knew that I was pitifully ignorant of many Web 2.0 features. I definitely enjoyed learning some new skills. I must say that some lessons I struggled with, but suspect if I was to repeat the course I would learn many other skills now that I'm a bit more confident.

I found myself very concerned about placing personal data on Facebook or allowing unknown people to connect to my blog. Yet I was also stunned to find about 25 of my high school friends under the year I graduated from my high school. I have notes to myself to further pursue some specific features that I think will prove to be useful. And yes, I would definitely take another course along these lines. Thanks Kam and CTLS for the chance to participate!

Podcasting

2009-01-27T18:39:00.000-08:00

I'm familiar with some podcasting and need to spend more time looking at all the alternatives. Assuming I manage to finish the program in time, maybe I'll even have sometime to play the podcasts on other than my computer.

I tagged Libravox for future use. I was impressed with how many ways the book could be delivered and was readily able to listen to a chapter from Jo's Books. I think my 92 year old mom would enjoy this as well.

You tube

2009-01-27T18:18:00.001-08:00

I've seen dozens of YouTube videos that friends have sent, when I wanted to catch up on some of the campaign news, when I wanted to watch the amazing US Airways flight, so am very familiar with the medium. I certainly enjoyed Round Rock's summer video which I had not seen before. I plan to ask all the creative folks in my library to come up with a fun video!

Zoho Writer Experiment

2009-01-26T19:29:00.001-08:00

This is my 3rd attempt to write a word document with a phot and hopefully save it this time

Wikis and PB wikis

2009-01-26T18:53:00.000-08:00

I definitely enjoyed this section more than some of the others. I waas particularly tickled with the video on the camping wiki since this will definitely work for a camping trip that involves coordinating 8 families from Texas, Oregon, California, New Mexico and will take place in Utah!

2009-01-25T20:05:00.000-08:00

I read through some of the articles on Web 2.0 found through Academic Search Complete. I arbitrarily choose an article on Twitter and SMS. My instinct is to think that Twitter and SMS are not of particular value to libraries. I do think that IM has real possibilities in the reference area although we have very limited use of this option at Westbank despiste our best efforts to promote it.

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=16&hid=114&sid=93e2040a-f34d-4d39-aa1f-2cad2c95e99f%40sessionmgr109

I tried to add a tag to this but was not successful

Facebook

2009-01-24T15:00:00.000-08:00

I was very leary of putting much personal information into Facebook and so was absolutely blown away to find about 20 of my HIGH SCHOOl classmates already members.

2009-01-24T14:19:00.000-08:00

Some of the many things that I've signed up for.
blogspot.com called Beth's blog
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2850107065424559755
Gmail -
Flickr
Goggle reader - for RSS feeds but don't think this is working.

2009-01-18T08:40:00.001-08:00

The month of December was insanely busy and learning about 23 things was pushed to the back burner. Hopefully I can get back on track. Today I'm looking at all the Flickr applications - what an incredible array of options! I loved the way you could even create a puzzle. There were lots of things to download but hesitated to load up my computer with so many applications.

Drumroll for Day #1

2008-12-01T11:56:00.000-08:00

Finally on December 1st, I seriously started the CTLS 23 Things Program, because I was the captive of some ferocious cold bug and as a result stayed home. The addition of a photo brought a smile to my grumpy face as I remembered the sheer pleasure of spending a week this fall with some of my grandchildren in New Hampshire.

7 and a half traits

2008-12-01T11:53:00.000-08:00

My strongest trait is that I do viei problems as challenges and that I am confident that I'll figure out a solution to just about anything. My weakest trait is that don't always allocate enough time to adequately truly learn new skills. For instance, after painting thousands of square feet of walls, I still end up with paint from head to toe. On the other hand, the walls do get painted as well.

Overwhelemed by options

2008-12-01T11:51:00.001-08:00

I set up an IGoogle account and gmail account. I also edited the IGoogle account page, so that it included additional information. Looked at google book, Google scholar, google maps. I went through the tutorial but soon became just overwhelmed with all the options

Avatar challenge

2008-12-01T10:45:00.001-08:00

Not any too sure of what I'm doing, but think that I've now created both a blog and an avatar. Fun to fiddle around with new ideas!