Thing # 11 Tagging and Del.icio.us

I enjoyed Del.icio.us. I can see some uses for this for our library. It would be nice to have sites bookmarked that you can access anywhere. I come across some good sites and then try and look later for them and my menapausal mind just can't seem to locate them again. This would work well for sharing of sites. I tried to watch the 8 minute tutorial and it would not open for me. I did find a site http://www.go2web20.net/ that I have shared with some of our faculty. Like one of them said, "its overwhelming, whats out there". This site puts it all in one place for you. I looked at Furl and Pagekeeper but our school uses D2L IMS software for sharing and discussion and it seems to work well for our students and faculty.

Thing #10 Wiki's

I've been looking at all the wiki links and really searching my brain as to why we would use one for our library. I can see uses of project involvement with others, I like the library that showed all their new items by month. I could see us doing that but I could also do that in a blog. Unless I would want feedback about something we were doing, I don't think I would wiki, wiki, wiki!
I did go out to 23 things on a stick wiki and put in a comment in the comment tab.
I've looked at several of the wiki examples. I am still having a hard time thinking of uses for our library. I joined PBWiki and have been playing around with that. I'm beginning to feel a little overwhelmed with all the tools. I am at a stage in my career where I want to downsize my work load, all these tools seem to make more work?? Maybe I haven't used them enough. I have a hard enough time checking emails, much less blogs, wiki's etc. I have enjoyed learning about all the tools, just need to see where it would be practical to use them. Our college uses D2L for alot of our sharing, discussions, course info.

Thing #9 Online Collaboration

I set up an account in both Zohowriter and Google Docs. The first problem I had was that it would not upload a Office 07 doc. I changed it and it uploaded fine. I edited in both and they were both very easy to use. I went to publish in both of them to my blog and it said it did but I can't find it anywhere...will continue with Thing #9.....

Thing #8

I fooled around with Picture Trail, the download was pretty slow, so I uploaded the faster version and I could not find the pictures I had saved. So I started over and it went fairly well although it put doubles in of two pictures. The picture cube is cool, not placed very well on the page. I could see utilizing some of the picture tools. Have some pictures coming later this week of our "Amazing Race" so I'll play around with that.

Thing #7 Communication

Since I am a one-woman show at our library, I have yet to set up a online reference desk. I am very interested in IM and how that could work as a reference desk. Our students have their own student email account but I find that most of them use their own personal email. We tell them constantly to check their student email as that is our preferred mode of communication. Some do, some don't. I just had two students today (as we are into a month of the semester) tell me they didn't know they had an account. I see most of them on facebook, myspace etc. I truly think having a library blog will be the way of communicating with them. Email is going out. I need to get on board with IM as I see them using that more and more. I have yet to test message anyone because I rarely use my cell phone and we don't allow them on in the library as we do so much testing for distance classes.
I did not attend any webinars through Minitex or OPAL but have attended quite a few through MNPALS and enjoy that route rather than driving 200 miles in January. The information I need from the webinars is easily understood and a great way to disseminate the info.

Clara in her Brett favre jersey

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originally uploaded by campbean.

Trying Flickr again to see if I can get it where I want it

Ongoing RSS saga

Well I got CNN top stories to feed but that really isn't exactly what I wanted to accomplish. I will continue to see how I can get my favorites...