Ideas and Opinions

Finishing the class

2008-03-03T08:53:00.001-08:00

After this class is over, I do plan on giving my blog a facelift. I will be changing the template to see if I can get the blog to have a better appearance. I want to do some experimenting with blogs to see what I can do, and if I can attract others to my blog.

Wikis

2008-02-27T12:10:00.000-08:00

I like how that one site had the pros and cons listed for having a wiki. This should always be considered before starting a wiki site. Also I found sites that have not been added to since, 2006. This information is old and the site is no longer being maintained.

A wiki site takes time to be able to take care of. If you ignore the site you can end up with a lot of links to sites that are trying to sell items. Do you want your wiki site to be an advertisment drop point? At least once everyday the site would have to be checked for changes, add on, and what it is all about.

Could be useful in information about your community so people can post an event that is going to be happening.

Tagging & Social Bookmarking

2008-02-27T10:44:00.000-08:00

Del.icio.us could be real helpful if you travel, and do not have your own computer traveling along. It could also be handy for those how have important bookmarks, and if the hard drive crashes the bookmarks will be safe at del.icio.us.

I did do several searches on the website, I notice that it is slow bringing me information about my search. Maybe if this takes off they will start charging a fee, and invest in faster servers and bandwidth.

The funniest technical support video ever. Thank you India!

2008-02-20T16:47:00.001-08:00

Amazing video demonstrating why we tend to hate calling technical support! You will never believe what those technical support people have to go through to make a living...

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You Tube and others

2008-02-20T16:11:00.000-08:00

Lots of advantages and disadvantages. I love to look at the different you tube little movies. Some are really funny, others well you know not worth looking at.

Again you have to be careful on which ones you decide to look at. some are funny others are lets just say bad taste.

This is one of my favorites. It is not on You Tube anymore, but I think it is one of the best tech support movie. This is a must see.

http://www.callcentermovie.com/movie/movie2.html

Podcasts

2008-02-10T11:19:00.000-08:00

Podcast is a hugh subject. So many things have been put into podcasts, anywhere from books, movies, tv series, and much more. I believe that podcasts have a hugh future ahead. It is a great way for someone to listen to a book if they are blind, driving a car, doing housework, or many different things.

Podcast can also be used for advertising your library, showing special events that you will be having, and maybe someday storytime with podcast so the children that could not attend could enjoy a good story.

Podcast could be used for training different subjects also. Podcast has so many different advantages it is hard to name them all. You could have a class just covering podcast.

Even MSNBC now podcast news.

Discovery

2008-02-10T10:46:00.000-08:00

That is an interesting search bar. A lot of times I like to look for technical reviews on products to see if any known issues. This could give me a lot of fast information instead of google the information and have to search 1000,s of pages that do not even relate to what I am looking for.

I can see a real time saving with this search bar and have bookmarked and setup as one of my home tabs. I recommand anyone how does any kind of searches take the time and bookmark this handy tool.

Library Thing

2008-02-10T10:37:00.000-08:00

Library Thing is good to see if a book is worth reading or purchasing. You can also keep track of the books you have read, which a lot of times I do forget which one I did read.

My Library Thing

Grandson

2008-02-10T10:10:00.000-08:00

Isn't he the greatest looking kid you ever saw. So pretty, handsome, and sweet.

Trading Card

2008-01-30T17:10:00.001-08:00

Here is what I came up with after several hours of trial and error. Was trying to put in an actual picture rather than clip art, but it kept failing. So had to settle for clip art.

Interesting

Could use as a reward system. Different picture for level of accomplishment. Can turn in card for various gifts.

Or, card with book title and brief descripition for collecting to see how many books they read.

Just a few ideas I could think of many different things that this could be used for.

Any ideas you can think of?

Flickr The good the bad

2008-01-30T11:56:00.000-08:00

As always I am the negative force. LOL (Laugh out Loud)

Flickr has some good features with nice pictures like:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterpubliclibrary/2229877266/in/pool-librariesandlibrarians

You can see the joy in the children faces. This picture would give a parent the feeling that their child would enjoy something like this, and attend the next time.

However if you do a search for library on flickr you can end up with this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanka/2138399331/

This is not good for libraries, it could be negative libraries.

You would have to be really careful on information you link. The good side and a bad side.

Whats your opinion?

RSS Feed

2008-01-23T11:30:00.000-08:00

Looks like a quick way to get information.

But, also looks like a quick way to waste time. I am sorry, but trying to spend all that time reading different information from multiple areas could eat up a lot of time. Having it all in one place could save some time.

However, if I owned a busines with employees using this feature it would be blocked. Just setting it up took a lot longer than I would like to spend on something.

I am sorry but I can not see any advantage to RSS Feeds other than taking up time. If it was for educational items or how to fine, but just a lot of useless information that just looks neat I am not into. I hate "bells and whisles", in other words looks fancy does a lot, but no real use.

Again sorry about my opinion, but that is what I think about this and would not really get much involved with it.

7 ½ Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners

2008-01-16T11:28:00.000-08:00

Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind
Habit 2: Accept responsibility for your own learning
Habit 3: View problems as challenges
Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner
Habit 5: Create your own learning toolbox
Habit 6: Use technology to your advantage
Habit 7: Teach/mentor others
Habit 7 ½: Play

Blogger Setup

2008-01-08T11:41:00.001-08:00

Blogger is setup and now time to get started.