Golden Egg Summary #30

Thank you, I made it! I want to thank the academy, my mom, my friends who supported me through the maze of RSS, and MySpace, and most of all Cindy who gave mucho encouragement throughout! Yes, I would do it again. The exercises were sometimes time intensive, but always, informative and fun. I like playing with the technnology, but it for other minds than mind to figure how to implement them. If someone asks me a question at least I have some understanding and can help them.
I'm ready for my close-up...

At the Home Stretch #29

Slow going at first with RSS and the ideologies behind Web 2.0. So much reading, when I wanted to be doing! But what fun it all turned out to be! I agree wholeheartedly that we should vigilantly seek new ways to market our libraries to our communities. And we should always be interested in any new technologies, if possible find ways to incorporate them such as Blogs, MySpace, FaceBook or Flickr, into our repetoire so they can communicate with us. I especially loved LibraryThing! I had lots of fun with the mashups making cartoons, posters, adding video and music to my blog.

Rolling your own...28

Wow, I created my own and didn't get arrested, won't be tested.
I made a search engine for my research in early childhood development.
I never realized it was possible. this helps anyone who has special interests and wishes to keep on top of them, as long as they are trusted resources.

Librarything 27

I went back to my librarything account, and lo and behold all of my books were gone. I don't know what happened, but I added five more, per the discore instructions. I will check again tomorrow to see if they're still there. Maybe I didn't save it right? I still think this is very helpful for our patrons.
It's a chance to talk about books we have in common, and share our thoughts.

Generators.....

Generating a smiley Valentine was fun, and easy.
The generator does all the work, all I had to do was choose the features.
There were a few, such as poster generator, that didn't work on this site.
Postermaker worked on Flickr where I commemorated my son's birthday with a poster.
I enjoy playing with the technology, and I think it will be useful when someone in the lab has questions on how to add color and verve to their projects, and when they need to find picutes.

Podcasting 101

I love NPR on WHRO, and so naturally, I used the discovery exercise to add it to my blog. It especially helpful when I have missed programs that I wanted to hear. I used to love being read to by Dick Estelle every morning. And I enjoyed jazz with Jay.

I wish I had the nerve to create a podcast of my own! I fear I would come off as very egocentric and not as talented as I think, much like most of the videos on YouTube.

There is potential for libraries to use podcasting for storytime, and to publicize events while they are happening and certainly to entice people to join in the next ones.

I love music especially Al Jarreau

I took the liberty of adding one of my favorite singers to my blog, the multi-talented Al Jarreau.


It was easy, and fun. If I don't stop this soon, I will probably run out of space.


I also decided to change my template. I think it looks glamourous, sleek and lethal.