Hooray!

I finished! I wasn't sure I was going to make it when I lost several weeks after having shoulder surgery. Some of my posts had to be combined and some were kind of weak but I made it through each one. Actually having the 23 things to work through made my required stay at home recuperation more palatable.

Thing 22

Yes it is both easy to get lost in the day to day work and it's easy to get lost in social networking pages. It is important to keep up with what's new and happenin'
Therefore, I promise to do my best to keep up and take the time to try new things.

I may redo my blog. I'm now full of ideas to make it better or at least more interesting.

Remember back to thing one - adult learners better absorb what they learned by reflecting on what had just transpired. Or something like that!

Thing 21

I found several other social networking groups I'd love to join - like the MPR ones but how does anyone have time to really participate in all these groups? I try and check my facebook once a week but if I had to check several once a week I'm not sure I would be able to manage it.

WebJunction is a great idea and well worth it.

Visit 23 Things on a Stick

Thing 20

I already had a facebook page but I must admit I check it regularly but I haven't used it to its full potential. So, I joined some groups, friended some people. I even left a post on my 19 year old daughter's page. I hope she won't "unfriend" me for that.


A friend was telling me about her teenage son who was supposed to contact a friend with whom he was doing a project. When the mom asked her son what the friend had said, he said I couldn't get a hold of her. The Mom said, on it's too bad she wasn't home. The son replied, well she might be home but she's not on facebook. The mom suggested her son use the telephone to contact his project partner.

Thing 19

Ha! An easy one for me. I love MPR podcasts. I've never set up the RSS though. I listen to MPR during my commute and if there is a story that I missed part of or if they have more information in a podcast and I'm interested, I get it at home.

I've always thought it would be fun to have teens do a podcast from the library. I've never gotten around to doing it. Perhaps this will give me the impetus!

Thing 18

I love the Muppets and this silly video epitomizes everything I love about them. I have used Youtube many times before. It's great. As far as for uses in the library, I've helped patrons find speeches and all sorts of video clips on Youtube. Internally I suppose staff meetings or trainings could be posted for people to see...

Thing 17

Wow! That was a long thing - or maybe it was just me. I use all of these resources all the time in the course of my job - I also spend a lot of time teaching people how to use them. I had never investigated these tools until now. Off the top of my head, I can see that it would be much easier to send a patron a webpage the articles that I have found rather than each article separately. But when I opened the webpage that I sent myself I needed a password. I'll have to investigate that.

Thing 16

These tools are fantastic! I am going to make sure that my children's teachers know about them. Sure they could be used for lots of different applications. Basically the tools show you how to take a big job and look at it in small pieces which is much easier to contemplate accomplishing.

Thing 15

Shiver me timbers! Pirates was fun. I think this would be cool to do with teens at my branch. Pizza and Pirates!

Thing 14

I already am familiar with LibraryThing having used it for a project. However, I had no idea what my password was as it's been a while since I last used it, so I started all over. It's a cool site but I'm not sure I would use it all the time as I just confessed. I know a friend who uses it for her church library where she volunteers. It's great for that use - free cataloging. I'll have to see if I continue with it. I think this might be one of those things for which I just don't have the time. We'll see.

Thing 13

I like this! I chose iGoogle to set up my page mainly because I don't want to have accounts all over the place. It also seemed to have most of what I want right there. I liked Backpack but I don't think I need to go there yet but my husband could use it. He has hid own business and I can see tremendous uses for him. He has so many balls in the air all the time - this site would help.

Half Way There

I have only seven days left but I will keep plugging!

Thing 12

I like Newsvine. I can see how browsing through that page would save time versus hitting each separate news site. I'm also intrigued by the sysytem of weighting the articles. Democracy in action one of the sites claimed. I'm not sure that's entirely true as it's reflectve of only those people that use the site...

Thing 11

I need to reflect further than I have time for now, on the potential uses for a social bookmarking tool. I can see how it would help some one doing indepth reasearch - opening up possibilities for a new direction in that research by sharing resources. I'm not certain how this would help the basic public library patron who just want a quick answer to their question. I did take a look at the links to public libraries that are using the tool. I'll have to check them more thoroughly. Hmmm...

Thing 9 & 10

This was cool and easier than I thought it would be.  Very Fun!  On to the next thing.

Thing 7

I'm back!  I had shoulder surgery in the middle of March and wasn't up for much until now.  I'm still working one handed and slowly but while I'm off work I can finish the Things!

We use email a lot to communicate between staff of course, and we offer email notification to patrons.  But we have a lot of people who prefer the phone for various reasons.  I have two teens in my TAG who don't have computers at home.  

I love the webinars!  We have a very tight training  budget in our system and this is a great option.

Thing 3

I've done RSS feeds before so it was easy to set up a few for this exercise.

I realized I must have skipped over the section on designing an avatar. I'm familar with avatars from gaming so no biggie to miss it but it would be fun. I could be tall for once! In the meantime, I put in a photo of myself. It's actually edited from our Christmas photo this year. We set up the timer on the camera and we all sat on the couch in the family room, buried ourself in our main activity from the year. Goofy but fun.

Thing 2

First, I can't understand all the concern about what Library 2.0 is called.  It's trivializing it.   Anyway it is more puzzling, but connected perhaps, how some librarians don't think it's coming when in reality much of it's already here.   I think it's exciting and will revitalize our profession.  I loved John Blyberg's post.  

Second, one thought from the video - adult learners learn when we reflect .  Interesting, I think sometimes in our busy days we more too quickly on to the next thing and never take that time.  Something to work on!  Oh and I'll be watching for unintended consequences!

Last, I was at an MLA meeting last week and we were all talking about our blogs.  Very cool.

I'm in!  I'm on!  Hurrah!