Final thoughts of 2.0

I have complete my goal of finishing the class. I will do myspace tomorrow when my daughter comes over. It is a holiday and I have the time. yea. She has been after me all summer to get connected. I think that my continued goal for this class (blog) will be to post some thoughts once a week. I will probable use it as a diary type spot for what I learned this week... Thank you for challenging me this summer. Dawn

Wiki

I viewed the suggested wiki site and found info in all of them. I can't attend the conference in Aberdeen but will forward it to the girls who will be so they can review the schedule. I found an idea at the Bull Run wiki to have one of the 2.0 slide shows on our web site. Let the public have access to the tutorials. I don't feel confident enough to start my own wiki or Maybe if something really moves me I will add to a wiki some day... Dawn

Delicious

This will be very helpful as I have favorites saved at work and at home. It never fails that I need one site when it's saved on the other computer. Having everything on on place would be very helpful.... I am going to try to set that up before the week end is over.

Dawn

Office 2.0

I can certainly see the help this could be for my civic organization. We all post e-mails about meetings and changes and who will attend and who won't and the minutes sometimes don't print out for everyone ect. a googl.doc space would be great for the administrative staff.... I personally liked the budget template... something I think i could keep up with every day... Dawn

Thanks for the instructions

I would have never been able to download a podcast from youtube without instructins from Wynne. thanks. Dawn

PODCAST

Podcasts

Found a great sit on Mediafly but couldn't get it to go to rss on blogline. Did find 1 each on the other sites. A "Muggle" site and a 6th grader doing book reviews. I would have really liked to get the Garrison Keillor 5 minutes @ day for the relaxation quality. Didn't see any sites that would be extremely helpful but didn't spend over 1/2 hour looking. All of these lessons have been very helpful if patrons have questions. Up to this point I have had nothing to help them with. Dawn

Pictures

ok... got the stright picture now lets go for the sports card

Flicker

I made the coolest sports cards of my three grandchildren.
Lets see if I can download them to my blog now....Dawn

Flickr

Trying to download a pict from e-mail to my blog via flickr..... will try again tomorrow when my brain is awake..Dawn

RSS or Really simple stupid

I finally got it ..Only took me all week to get one of my subscription to actually load. Now I have to add bloglines to my favorites page and I think I'm set. Next LOOK OUT FLICKER !!!
Dawn

RSS Feeds

If I don't have to look all over for things I will be more likely to scan stuff.
Technology in personal life....Keep updated on sales at favorite on-line stores.
Technology in library life.....Keep track of best sellers and teen reading lists.
I think the best tool for finding feeds is to just be aware of the sites you go to and if the have a feed maybe/not subscribe.
I only visited the feeeds you suggested but my blogline is set up know so all I have to do is add to it.
No great sources yet.... will blog when I find one/two/three....

Dawn

Twitter

Twitter: I think that if I was on vacation this would be a great was to give play by plays on my daily activities. I'll think about it some more but on an hourly or daily basis I don't carry my cell around with me (Work rules) and the computer is for business use. At home I don't even check my laptop every evening.... It was a very informative lesson and I can talk about twitter and know where to go to get more info. Dawn

How hard can it be to create a blog?

That 5 minutes to success slogan didn't work for me. I had to watch the tutorial to find out that I don't have to create a google account to have a blog. I can use my yahoo mail. The rest was easy. I do update the library blog/web page. Updates and edits shouldn't be a problem.

Easy /Hard for Life Long Learning

First the easy issues of being a life long learner.
I find it easy to teach or mentor others
I find it easy to play, too easy.
I have a decent start on a tool box.

Now for the Hard to do things.
I need to get my goals in writing.
Technology should be advantages but...I truely undermines my confidence as a competent learner.
Problems are challenges. Therefore my learning curve is big.
You would think that after all these years of challenges I would do a better job of accepting that everything is going to be difficult. I'm smart. I'm articulate. Why won't a simple "print the attachment" button work for me ????

I therefore must accept responsibility for my own learning.

Dawn