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.