Reflect

Most days I approached this kicking and screaming feeling it was an irrelevant waste of time. It did expose me to some innovative technology that I enjoyed and some that will benefit me just by knowing about it. I like the music downloads and photo uploads and if there wasn't so much else to do in life, I could see myself playing games and creating Avatars. As it is i prefer to take a hike.

Next time, I will opt in but not for 20 lessons, spare me!! The hardest part of this was managing the login and passwords, opening all the windows to complete every week's task and finding the time to do it all. Programming is a priority, there's always weeding to do or reader's advisory to catch up on, it's hard to justify watching TV clips during work hours.

Gaming

Didn't like it. I don't want to spend time downloading games, I have no interest in spending my time this way. Sure there's a lot of cool stuff out there, that's great, yeah.

Google Earth

I use this a lot at home and at work. My favorite reference story with this program is when a patron wanted to know how high above sea level his home is, because the snow forecast is sometimes based upon feet above sea level. I tried several different source before trying Google earth which tells you right off how high the property is--boy was he impressed!

Avatar

How can you not love Avatar?

online docs

testing out google docs and zoho. i quite like the idea of having these tools available to everyone with Internet access. it's another great collaboration tool and kind of evens the playing field, i mean maybe my college junior didn't need to buy all that MS software with her new laptop afterall...

search engines

I tried the term: top 10 books and found rollyo gave the nytimes 2007 list as a top result. the other sites started with commercial sites like B & N and Amazon. I will try rollyo out again but perhaps not the others. i don't like search engines or websites telling me what other people are looking for, i've got enough of my own interests that i find that extra information just distracting.

Podcasting for everyone

I listened to our own Edith Farrar and Jennifer Sullivan reading children's books through Sno-Isle's website. I'm glad to be reminded of this resource for our community. A good filler for the times when storytime is not in session.