Week 10: #23 Is This Really the End?

There were so many fun and interesting aspects to the program that it is hard to name favorites, but I guess I would say I liked learning how to create and post on a blog, and I enjoyed learning about Flickr and Library Thing. I feel that I will use the knowledge to help patrons when they are in the library and I will also revisit some of these for my own personal use. I need to practice what I have learned in order to retain it.

It has been wonderful to have the opportunity to spend work time learning about new technologies. Many thanks to those who worked so hard to bring the program together and maintain it during the duration of the 10 weeks. Excellent job!!!

Week 9: #22 Downloadable Media

I had downloaded a couple of samples of audiobooks and music when we first got the MP3 players for the branch, but I had to fumble with it this time to remember how to do it. I was able to check out an audio book and to listen to it on the computer, but I never was able to download the book. I watched the tutorial after the fact and now I believe I know what I was doing wrong.

The main difference I see between HCPL's audio holdings and the holdings of the free sites is that the latter have to be in the public domain.

Week 9: # 21 Podcasts, Smodcasts!

I found lots of podcasts on travel, and they are both informative and entertaining. I did look for some library podcasts, but didn't find anything outstanding. I now understand better what podcasts are. I will attempt to add a link for one of the travel podcasts I found.

Week 9: #20 Discover YouTube

The link to the video is the best I can do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JODtdv9114w

Week 9: #20 Discover YouTube

Looking at YouTube was fun. I found a tv show I liked years ago and haven't heard anything about in a long time: 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'. I watched some videos of cairn terriers and some librarian videos. I can see how YouTube could be used for libraries as well as virtually any other topic. I want to try to post a video I found that uses the song 'The Velocity of Love' by Suzanne Ciani and sets it to pictures of nature. I love the song so it was great to find that someone had done something like this with it. Here's the link to the video, which I hope works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JODtdv9114w

I will continue to try to post the video the proper way, if I can figure out how.

P.S. Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps

Well, my smiley faces didn't get placed the way I had them in Zoho in the previous posting, but otherwise a successful attempt.

Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps

I am flying to Rome!  On Thanksgiving Day!  To see Archbishop DiNardo of Houston be made a Cardinal!  Which makes everything else seem oh-so-wonderful.  Flat tire?  Who cares???  I suppose if I were feeling physically horrible, things wouldn't seem so wonderful but, barring that kind of thing, right now everything seems bright and shiny and beautiful.  Like this nifty Zoho Writer webbased wordprocessing program.   It is neat and easy to use and to publish to my blog.  I realized after I published the first draft that it is better to edit by going back to Zoho rather than editing in Blogger. 

This free software is very good to know about.  I think it is good that you can work offline with it, too, which I don't really understand yet how that would work but it sounds good.