Week 10 / #23 Is this really the end?....

iHCPL was a rewarding experience for me and I am excited about my newly acquired skills and want to continue to expand on them. This program has been an excellent opportunity for staff to work and learn together. Creating a blog, flickr and photo editing, RSS feeds, avatars, Library Thing, Zoho writer and overdrive were my favorite discoveries. I am always ready and willing to learn new things and would appreciate more training like this in the future.

Week 9 / #22 Downloadable Media

I visited HCPL's digital site and explored the different types of materials available. Wow! A wonderful choice. Then I performed a download of the OverDrive Media to my personal computer and proceeded to check out 2 music audios and a Ronnie Milsap: Live in Concert video to enjoy on my computer. I also looked at LibriVox and Wowio but didn't like them as well. It is good to know these sites are available but the HCPL digital site is the best. What more can I ask for?

Week 9 / #21 Podcasts, Smodcasts!

I researched Podcast.net and Podcastalley.com for libraries and found an interesting podcast on Harry Potter Prognostications in Podcastalley.com and added the RSS feed to my Bloglines account. There are so may topics to choose from -- I may never get any other work done!

Week 9 / #20 Discover YouTube

I went to YouTube and watched numerous video clips relating to libraries. Even though Your life work: the librarian was dated, the information it provided was excellent pointing out that an individual who possessed a love for books and a love for people was a good candidate for librarianship. The Adventures of Super Librarian and Ninja Librarian were not only entertaining but educational too. My favorite library video was A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto as it embraces everything that we have been learning. Excellent!!

Week 8/ #19 Web-based Apps

Zoho writer or Google Docs?  Which to use?  Choices, choices, choices!  I looked at Google Docs and Zoho writer.  These fantastic online tools can be used for word processing, spreadsheet, note taking and an organizing planner.  They enable us to accomplish our work more efficiently, as we can access our documents from anywhere and we can share them with our friends whereby we can all work on it simultaneously.   This eliminates the need to email documents.  Zoho writer has many fine features; I especially liked the templates. I created an account with Zoho writer and will use its "publish" options to post this article to my blog.

 

Week 8 / #18 Social Networking

Social networking is a convenient and delightful way of keeping in touch with love ones, friends and acquintances in the comfort of your own home. My Space, Facebook and Yahoo!360 are just a sampling of sites that enable you to set up your own account and be able to search for a long lost friend. After looking around these sites, I discovered that I preferred Facebook over My Space and think the Dogster, Catster site is entertaining and may like to post one for my beagle. Wow! you can spend hours visiting with others without ever stepping foot outside your front door.