Wikis what?

It was fun finding out the meaning of the word Wiki. I should have been able to figure it out. It looks Hawaiian.

I looked at all of the library wikis offered in the Discovery Excerise. I thought it was interesting that three libraries share a wiki. I supposed that is because they are three small libraries. Sharing services and information is good for those communities. I also found it interesting that one library wiki was having vandalism problems. I would assume that is a general problem with wikis that are open for public edit. I will continue to investigate and read about wikis. Doing that will require more blog entries. Look for them. I hope I have some worthwhile comments.

Wikis

Doing the Ferguson Learning 2.0 wiki was fun and easy. I worked on it this morning and had problems adding to the lists of favorites. This evening it dawned on me how to do it. I guess all this technology experience is helping me become better at solving problems I am confronted with as I work on the discoveries.

Comments

I love getting comments. It's exciting knowing someone that is doing Learning 2.0 os reading what I write.

Web 2.0

Today I had a conversation about Web 2.0 with a friend. This friend worked for years for IBM and today is an instructor at the Maritime College. He uses the public library a lot to help with his classroom and online instruction. Since he now frequents the public library often he has developed a paper on the future of the public library and its place in the community. I have attached the URL for his position paper. Take a look
http://jmsdrgn.squarespace.com/other-information-and-ideas/

WEB 2.0

As I was looking over the five perspectives, I noticed four were written by men. What's up ladies?

I read four of the five perspectives. Because I do not have a librarian degree (I have and degree in elementary education), some of the discussions were confusing to me. I did find that Rick Anderson's article "Icebergs" hit home when he wrote about the "come to us" library model. One does not need to go to a library for information like the good ole days. One does not need to go to the library for a book. We experienced that when doing the audiobook downloads. One doesn't need to go to the library to do a research project. Today most of those needs can be met by searching the Web. This Learning 2.0 project has made me very aware of that. I knew it, but now I have experienced more of its offerings.

Podcast link

http://www.mugglenet.com/mugglecast/

Here is my Podcast link.

LibraryThing

Here's my catalog. That was easy to do and fun.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/MarilynM

A Comment

This was an exciting find. Someone made a comment on one of my entries. It was the post about audiobooks. Keep commenting. I love to get input about my experience with Learning 2.0.

Rollyo Second Try

I tried again today. Somehow I have two searchrolls--recipes and Food for Thought. I go to sites on the recipes searchroll but nothing happens when I try the same thing with Food for Thought. I thought I made a search link to Food Network, Cuisine At Home, and Kraft Foods but nothing happens when I click on the link. This one befuddles me. Help!!!!!

Quote I Found

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Jack Benny

Rollyo

hThis was another confusing lesson. I can't figure out how to connect to my Searchroll (?) to the sites I selected. When I try to visit the sites I get an answer that says can't be found. Oh what am I not doing or doing wrong? I'll have to revisit this lesson.

Technology

I was thinking that since I began to use computers there has been a big change - in them and me. I used to spent hours trying to figure out how to do something, now it seems navigating on the computer is easier. Maybe it is because I more experienced too. Working at Weed Hollander has improved my skills a lot. Marilee has taught me many things on Word. The teen tech we had this past year showed me Exel. He also showed me how to find clip art. Each new skill learned makes me feel "smarter".

Podcasts

That was fun. I always wondered how they worked and today I found out. I tried a couple different finding tools. Sports is a favorite topic of mine so I listened to a NASCAR podcast for one. I moved around some of the other tools and found a podcast for Muggles. I made a feed to my Bloglines. That took some doing. Every time I tried to paste the URL the screen jumped back to the podcast. I finally typed in the URL when subscribing. That worked. This was a fun activity.

Catching up

Just went back to Flickr and created a postcard. I love the options on this site. I will use it often. I sent my uploaded photo account to my family. They took a look at what I am learning to do and are impressed. Here is the link to the postcard I created. By the way, I sent it to my husband.
http://www.delivr.net/popcard.php

Audiobooks

I looked over both NetLibrary and OverDrive. I liked NetLibrary best. I ordered a book but couldn't download it without Media Player. Since I am not really interested in audiobooks I didn't download Media Player. This is one service I don't think I will use. I don't use the books on tape offered at Weed. I know they are very popular and people that use them love them. Maybe I will get into audiobooks in the future.

I did find there was a good selection of my favorite books--mystery and suspense.

YouTube

I watched several videos and didn't find any I could say you have to watch. I have received in emails YouTube videos that have been terrific. This is a fun site and one can spend a lot of time looking at all that is available. I am including a link to one video I liked. Take a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iff5GXeW3nw&feature=bz303

Some of the videos I watched tonight were not playing properly. They kept hesitating. I hope my link works.

This is a site I will visit again.

Improving daily

Yea!!! I am getting better. I added an image and it covered my whole blog. I was paniced. Alas, I figured out how to delete and mess and I am back to normal. What a relief.

Mess up

Man, I think I messed up my whole blog. Help!!!!

Adding To Blog

I tried to add to my blog today. Each time on I get on my blog I want to experiment. I don't know how this one worked.

Having Fun

Today I worked on Bloglines again. I am getting a whole lot better finding feeds and saving them. I hooked up to Flickr for a couple feeds. That should be fun to view. I read about Mashups on Flickr and viewed some peoples API( is that what I did?) and enjoyed seeing people's photos. There are many creative folks out there. I think I will try a digital post card through DelivrDigital Postcards on Flickr.

I'm finding technology can be frustrating. For example, I was following the tutorial for Bloglines and found the pages shown in the tutorial didn't look at all like those on the computer I was using. This required my fooling around and clicking on different menus to finally find what I needed. In a way, that was good. It forced me to try to figure out the process. I have also discovered technologly can be fun, like Flickr. That site was just plain fun. I hope to use that site on my blog. Just have to figure out how to do that.

Next are the audiobooks. Stay tuned for how I did with that lesson

Learning every day

Every day I get better at blogging and using Bloglines. Today I added a couple new feeds. I have used the bloglines search to get most of my feeds. I need to work at getting feeds from newspapers.

I truly enjoyed Flickr. I was successful importing three of my own pictures and making a link to my blog. YEA!!!!

Learning daily

Today I spent a lot of time on the bloglines and Flickr. I tried to use Feedster and Technorati with my feeds to Bloglines. I didn't have much success with Feedster. Technorati was a little easier for me. I was able to add two more feeds to my list with the help of Technorati. I am having problems with hooking up to newspapers. I don't know why. There has to be one thing I am missing. I'll keep trying. I am enjoying learning more about technology. I don't know how much of it I will keep up after finishing these lessons but I'll wait and see. It may grow on me.


After posting the previous blog I went back to my Flickr account and added two more pictures to my account. It is very easy to do. Thanks for including Flickr as one of our lessons.

Flickr

Hey look!!!! I did the Flick lesson and imported a picture. Here is the address. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14806095@N05/ That was a fun lesson. Much easier than the blog and bloglines. What's next!

At Last

I have been working for two weeks on Bloglines (RSS). I was ready to give up until I had a conversation with a friend that uses blogs and bloglines services. He convinced me to try again and help me determine some areas of interest that I could find feeds for. Thank goodness I tried again, because this time I was able to complete the discovery and find 10 feeds to add to my bloglines account. It was very confusing. I am still learning. Sometimes I can't find the url for the feel I want. I will keep at it. Determination keep me going. I don't like not being able to figure something out. On to the next lesson.

RSS bloglines

Today I am trying to learn about RSS and bloglines. I am frustrated again. This time I can't them bloglines to accept my email address. I am not getting a confirmation. What am I doing wrong this time. It can't be that hard.

Try three

I didn't wait until tomorrow to attempt opening my blog. It took forever. I get confused with all the usernames and passwords. I took notes this time. I hope my next attempt will be easier.

Try two

I finally figured out how to do this blogging. It was very confusing, not at all what I expected. Helping me were a couple friends at work. They have been just as frustrated. I think I have this part now. I'll see if I can get back into my blog tomorrow. That will be a success for me.

Frustration

This is my second attempt to create a blog and post on it. What a trial!!! I never believed it would be so frustrating