Week # 6 # 19 LibraryThing ( I jumped ahead )

I love LibraryThing.
My catalog is at
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/hawthorne

Week # 6 # 13 del.icio.us

Today I managed to create a del.icio.us account all by myself. I am just pleased and relieved that I was able to accomplish this without any assistance. I do all the Learning 2.0 exercises at home because I do not have time at work and I need complete uninterrupted SILENCE ! when I do this new stuff. Anyhow, now I will start exploring del.icio.us to see what powers it possesses. I have now a written list of user names and passwords ( all different, it seems ) to all these new accounts I have established. I keep this list at hand, because I will never be able to remember all the passwords. If I lose this list, I am doomed ! I sort of jumped ahead and established my LibraryThing account. I love LibraryThing because I love books. I could spend hours there.

Part II : I like del.icious because my special bookmarks are always there no matter where I may be. I just have to remember my username and password and then I can access my del.i.cio.us account.

Week 5 : Thing #12

What did I do wrong here ? I selected 5 excellent websites for preschool storytime plans. I put the URL's in the correct box on the Rollyo page. I THOUGHT I copied and pasted to put the little Rollyo search box on my blog, but I guess I messed up. I am a bit frustrated. This took a lot of time, and I still didn't get it right. I need HELP ! TRINA IS MY SUPER HERO ! SHE SAVED ME ! Here is my Rollyo Search box. Thank you Trina Richbourg. Now, I need to fine tune this search box. It is supposed to be searching specific websites that I assigned to it, but it is not doing that... hmmm.. back to the Rollyo homepage to see what I can do to fix this without ruining what has been accomplished so far. I think I see the problem. Rollyo provides you with a "starter kit" of sites to search. I do not want these "starter kit sites" and I can't turn them off. I need help again. My brain is just not trained to manipulate stuff in a digital based environment.

Select...storytime planspreschool storytimeSearch The Web

Week 5 : Thing #11

I selected Campfirenow.com as the site to explore. I listened to the site's tutorial that outlines the capabilities of this web based group chat program for businesses. Campfirenow.com would certainly be useful for SJPL staff. Let's say you are on a committee working on a team task. Usually the team members work at different library branches and often have different work schedules. How do these people work on a project on an ongoing basis ? Usually members have to check their schedules to see when they are free to meet at some designated location. Then there is travel involved . The team members meet together for a set amount of time and then leave. Oftentimes this one meeting is not long enough or ends up being unproductive. So follow up meetings or emails or phone calls are needed to conclude work on the task. Campfirenow.com allows team members to set up an online meeting room that can be visited at any time. You set up a chat room for members on Campfirenow.com and you can either leave messages or chat together online anywhere or anytime about your particular project. It is similar to online conferencing and is very flexible. A nice feature is that all your online communication is stored in files that can be accessed at any time. This eliminates the "Meeting Minutes" task. The whole concept makes a lot of sense. The only drawbacks for me would be learning how to move around the site and learning how to access all of its features. I think I would need a lot of orientation before I would feel confident using this tool.

Week 5 : Thing #10

Here is my image generator sample :


http://www.GlitterMaker.com/ - Glitter Graphics - MySpace Layouts

Week 4: Thing #9

Here are 2 library related blogs that I enjoyed reading:

http:// tinylittlelibrarian.blog-city.com

http://bookcurl.blogspot.com

Both of these blogs list other blogs that would be of interest to librarians working in the public arena.