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.

Image Generator

OK, that was fun and easier than the first time I tried adding an image to my blog. Perhaps I am learning something after all.

streaming mukilteo

Not as exciting as Disney California Adventureland's Screaming California, but pretty nifty, this Audio Download stuff. It took longer than expected to upgrade my software but ended up with the soundtrack for Because of Winn Dixie--I did not know we had soundtrax avaialble through OverDrive so this was a bonus.

del.icio.us

we use ths tool at the reference desk at MUK. It's cool. I'm sure I could make better use of it so I will try to explore this more when I can.

wiki wiki woo

sounds like a children's book title to me...Mary, super MUK PSA, created a wiki for our safety committee. we used it at our meeting earlier this week and all of us felt it was a useful communication tool. as the minutes taker I enjoyed the immediacy of the act of typing minutes and publishing them for view all in one fell swoop. see for yourself: https://safety4muk.pbwiki.com/

Facebook

musings on facebook...at the risk of sounding really old and stuck in my ways, i can't see many good reasons to spend time on websites like this, although, perhaps i'll dig up some old friends and reconnect with them.
wanna be my friend?? http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=837193826

You Tube, Hulu and Fancast

OK, so now I'm watching TV at work. I recently read in one of our professional journals about the 8 year old guitar phenom from Japan, Yuto Miyazawa, so I watched a couple clips of him. Then I watched some clips from 30 Rock and started a full length episode of the Office. But I don't care for TV much in any format. I see patrons using this kind of service all the time. Good to know the URLs they may be using...

One of the read posters created in celebration of the Mukilteo Library 10 year anniversary in July 2008.

About Flikr, i love the concept of having a back up for digital photos and makes sharing them easier than monkeying around with picture size and emailing them to folks. Still having a hard time with all these accounts and passwords, etc. Also this picture didn't load up directly from my Flikr account even though i tried more than one way. others have had the same trouble.

MOG

cool. last night on the commute home i heard the newest from Death Cab for Cutie and have been mesmerized by the tune ever since. what a treat to have work time to find this song in MOG and add it to my playlist! the only prob is i'm feeling overwhelmed with user names and passwords and really want to stop signing up for stuff...

RSS

signed up for RSS. wanted ferry updates and information but couldn't figure out how to subscribe and don't have the patience nor time to keep searching. i have work to do...
kcombs@sno-isle.org

IMagine!

Chatted with my cell mate today, and also librarian on desk. it took us a while to get the group chat thing going but we did it. the appearance is different than programs i've used before but function is similar. it might be fun to learn some of the shortcuts to help us keep near up to speed with the younguns.

Use a Header Next Time

looking at others' blogs i see they are more appealing with headers that describe what the post is about rather than just having a date up there....boring

Blog thought part II

I've been playing around, trying to add a video clip from You Tube, but can't figure it out. Got the pictures down though. now i must forge ahead with next week's assignment, instant messaging. Tried this years ago when my husband was out of the country and found the experience frustrating because of the lag time and overlapping comments. Also used this in distance courses at UW. My kids got me used to using emoticons, which I'm now hooked on...where's smiley face in here???

recently read

Pssst! by Adam Rex
Imaginative and liberating--young girl visits the zoo where several animals separately request items from her. the last animal gives her a bag full of change from the fountain to buy the things they've asked for. the accumulation of stuff she buys for them adds up to a ride out of the zoo. great concept that can open doors for conversation about what it must be like to be kept locked up.
ages 3-8

First Step

the first step is the hardest...jump. here I am in blogger-ville. Way back in 1997 I created a website using straight HTML and I must say things have gotten soooo much easier; now all the back end work is done for us. This just might be fun after all.