Wow, it took me hours to figure this one out! It was fun shopping around the virtual library and picking items. I finally chose an O'Henry audio book on "classic American short stories and and a language audio "In Flight Spanish" to prepare for my upcoming trip.
The trouble started after I had installed the Over Drive Media Console and tried to check out and download the items in my cart. I tried to open them, I tried to save them as files then open them, I tried just about everything I could think of to get them into my Over Drive Library. Nothing seemed to work. I looked through the Over Drive Media Console help menu. I even asked my son. No help.
Finally, I clicked the Sno-isle media help button and it came to my rescue. Since I have Firefox the downloads were being blocked and Firefox had to be instructed what to do with them. Thanks to the good instructions, I went to the tool box and changed the options. The instructions were step by step and clear. I should have clicked that help button earlier!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Lesson # 11 Delicious-Social Bookmarking
Well, this is a tool that I like, being the unorganized person that I am. I like the ability to categorize things (tag) into as many groups as you wish, making it much easier to find the item your looking for. It is now set on my home computer.
I enjoy cooking so I looked up some recipes and tagged them. This would be a good way to create my own "recipe box" on line.
I have not figured out how to share my tags with others yet, but I will be asking around to see if anyone wants to do some sharing and will figure it out.
Librarians must love tagging. It would sure quicken their searches of often asked questions and often sought after subject matter if tagging was used.
I enjoy cooking so I looked up some recipes and tagged them. This would be a good way to create my own "recipe box" on line.
I have not figured out how to share my tags with others yet, but I will be asking around to see if anyone wants to do some sharing and will figure it out.
Librarians must love tagging. It would sure quicken their searches of often asked questions and often sought after subject matter if tagging was used.
Lesson # 13 Online Image Generators
I down loaded this image twice because I forgot to save my blog.
I need to remember all of the steps involved in down loading and posting! This lesson was fun but I don't know if I would use it. I suppose that I would if I needed to create cards or posters.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Lesson # 10 Wiki
Actually, I was surprised to see that there were so many wiki programs out there. I can see that it would be a wonderful tool for any group that needs to organize itself.
I like the fact that anyone can add or edit the information on a wiki website or it can be restricted to members only (user name and password needed) or be private if wanted. The choice is up to the person or group that creates the wiki. With the fact that the wiki is on the web, it is a real nice feature that pages can be repaired if they are spammed or "adulterated" by going back to the original or previous page.
PBWiki seems to be a very user friendly program with some nice plug ins or widgets like chat, templates, calendar, video and slide show options.
Wikipedia is a fun site to use because there is so much information on just about everything. I understand that it is self monitored so not all information can be trusted and it is continually being edited, questioned and changed.
Wiki's can be used by libraries in many ways. They can be used by staff to share information about their work place rules, procedures, meetings, work schedules and workshops. This is different than the Sno-isle intranet website, which doesn't have as much flexibility. The average employee doesn't add or change anything on the website. Libraries can set up wikis for book groups, historical societies, genealogy groups, study groups and youth or cultural clubs. What a good substitute for the old one- way directional news letter.
I like the fact that anyone can add or edit the information on a wiki website or it can be restricted to members only (user name and password needed) or be private if wanted. The choice is up to the person or group that creates the wiki. With the fact that the wiki is on the web, it is a real nice feature that pages can be repaired if they are spammed or "adulterated" by going back to the original or previous page.
PBWiki seems to be a very user friendly program with some nice plug ins or widgets like chat, templates, calendar, video and slide show options.
Wikipedia is a fun site to use because there is so much information on just about everything. I understand that it is self monitored so not all information can be trusted and it is continually being edited, questioned and changed.
Wiki's can be used by libraries in many ways. They can be used by staff to share information about their work place rules, procedures, meetings, work schedules and workshops. This is different than the Sno-isle intranet website, which doesn't have as much flexibility. The average employee doesn't add or change anything on the website. Libraries can set up wikis for book groups, historical societies, genealogy groups, study groups and youth or cultural clubs. What a good substitute for the old one- way directional news letter.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Lesson #8 Facebook, MySpace
I set up a Facebook account. I am not sure if I like doing it. Being a fairly private person, I felt a little intimidated writing about myself.
One thing I do like about Facebook is that it is connected to Yahoo and it automatically listed my Yahoo e-mail friends and asked if I would like to invite them. It also listed fellow Facebookers who went to my same college, same year. I found two people that I knew and now I can re-connect with them after 30 years!
One of my friends is traveling in Thiland and plans to upload his pictures and share them. I am looking forward to him accepting my invite and to seeing them.
I can see how libraries like Myspace and Facebook to connect with their different interest groups, especially the teen groups with Myspace. So many of them already use it and feel comfortable doing so. They can connect at home with the library staff and with each other. This can make the teen programs so much more flexable.
One thing I do like about Facebook is that it is connected to Yahoo and it automatically listed my Yahoo e-mail friends and asked if I would like to invite them. It also listed fellow Facebookers who went to my same college, same year. I found two people that I knew and now I can re-connect with them after 30 years!
One of my friends is traveling in Thiland and plans to upload his pictures and share them. I am looking forward to him accepting my invite and to seeing them.
I can see how libraries like Myspace and Facebook to connect with their different interest groups, especially the teen groups with Myspace. So many of them already use it and feel comfortable doing so. They can connect at home with the library staff and with each other. This can make the teen programs so much more flexable.
Lesson # 9 YouTube, Hula
I searched through You Tube on the subject of libraries and found a wide variety of videos from seminars about"Google Collections for Java " (above my head), to overviews of individual libraries, to comedy skits about libraries. "Mr. Bean in the Library" was my favorite.
I searched for a variety of subjects and viewed a few (pet antics, Obama, and "most viewed"). I also looked up a video that my son created and stared in a few years ago for Bedford Unicycles, Bedford commercial. It was fun to view it again and I was surprised to see that it was still up there. Does You Tube ever take legal videos down or do they stay up there indefinately until the postee withdraws it.
I looked at Hula and Funcast. I would probably not use them very much because I am not interested in many TV series and most of the movies listed were not ones that I would select. I also do not like looking at a computer screen for long periods of time. I use Netflix and the Library's DVD collection which I think gives me better variety. I suppose the two sites could be used as a tool by libraries if patrons want to access any of the movies(some are clasics), series,trailers, etc.
I searched for a variety of subjects and viewed a few (pet antics, Obama, and "most viewed"). I also looked up a video that my son created and stared in a few years ago for Bedford Unicycles, Bedford commercial. It was fun to view it again and I was surprised to see that it was still up there. Does You Tube ever take legal videos down or do they stay up there indefinately until the postee withdraws it.
I looked at Hula and Funcast. I would probably not use them very much because I am not interested in many TV series and most of the movies listed were not ones that I would select. I also do not like looking at a computer screen for long periods of time. I use Netflix and the Library's DVD collection which I think gives me better variety. I suppose the two sites could be used as a tool by libraries if patrons want to access any of the movies(some are clasics), series,trailers, etc.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Lesson # 7 Flickr
I am just finishing up lesson # 7 and have set up my flickr account but I don't have any of your yahoo addresses so I don't think that I can share photos with you.
I found a website that you do not have to make an account for to download pictures. The pictures are in public domain. The website is http://www.pdphoto.org/.
I found some beautiful pictures of Balboa Park and down loaded them (I also put them in an album on facebook), I grew up in Chula Vista near San Diego and loved going to Balboa Park on Sundays with my family. I thought that you might like to see them, but I haven't figured out how to get them over to my blog. They ended up on my feeds on my bloglines. Help! I finally got them onto my documents and placed one in here. Like the Balboa Park carousel I'm going round and round!
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