Week 10 - 23 Is this really the end?

After such a long trek it seems impossible that this is the end. No longer clicking on iSTAR to find out what are this week’s exercises. No more freaking out because something seemingly so easy is frustratingly hard to accomplish! No more creating accounts with every Tom, Dick, and Harry dreaming up user names and passwords!
Some of my favorite discoveries have been Flickr, Picnik, YouTube, Zoho writer, Animoto, Technorati , Library Elf, Library Thing, the Image Generators, Bloglines and RatemySpace.HGTV.
This program has made me more adventurous when it comes to going to web sites. It also taught me that there is a whole world of sites in the Web ready to teach you.
The most surprising outcome from this program has been that I have become a fan of YouTube!
Library Elf and Library Thing are custom made for customer and personal use at HCPL.
The different Generators are great to use for the children’s programs. Animoto can create great presentations to show different pictures of library programs. As a matter of fact all the sites that have been presented during this learning experience are helpful to our customers in one way or another. Also I feel more “with it” than before the course.
I would like to learn more about HTLM, RSS feeds, and Image Generators.
By the way, thanks for the learning experience but we should get 40 training ours instead of 10!

Week 9: 22 Downloadable Media

I became familiar with HCPL digital media site about a year ago. I have enjoyed music, audio books and even movies. I highly recommend it to anyone willing to listen. I had some trouble with the type of portable player that I first bought, somehow it would download the files but I was not able to play them. My second portable player worked much better. I have enjoyed listening to music, and books: Koontz’s “By the light of the moon” and “Intensity”, Johansen’s “Blind Alley”, Patterson’s “4th of July” and many more. I also downloaded a film “Fuera del cuerpo”. The film was watchable but due to my computer being of an older vintage, it would freeze and then start again.
It was very easy to download the OverDrive Media Console to my computer. I like HCPL’s media site because is easy to browse for items and put them on hold (if not available at the time). I enjoy Ebooks for reference type materials although I find it a bit awkward to use. I have not used Adobe Reader or Mobipocket Reader, but some of my friends really like that type of software.
The difference that I found between the library site and the free sites is the fact that the library site is familiar to me and easier to use plus I did not have to create yet another account with username and password!

Week 9 - 21 Pdcasts, Smodcasts!

I really don’t think I am up to be a podcaster at this time. On Odeo.com I found where I could subscribe to a myriad of podcasts. I chose “Uncensored History of the Blues” it looks very interesting. You can listen to the music or download it to you computer.
On Podcast.net I found “Really Learn Spanish”. This podcast would be useful for patrons wanting to learn Spanish without having to check out an audio tape or CD. I did subscribe to this feed and also to "listeneasy.com/podcasts/serenity". The most useful aspect of Podcast.net is the ability to listen to lectures of your interest whenever is convenient.

Week 9- 20 YouTube

I found my favorite song in Youtube

Week 9 - 20 YouTube

I had a lot of fun watching different library related videos. I selected No cookies at the library because I thought that would be a fun video to show at lapsit or storytime. Here is the link
no cookies

My animoto video

Week 7-17 Blog about technology

Oh dear! I was gone for a week and I skiped week 7! Since I do not know how to shuffle posts this one about “wikis” is going to be out or order. My first experience with wikis is http://wikipedia.org/. Ihcpl wiki is very interesting and a good way to interact with our coworkers and share information. It is a good thing that you can edit your entry to correct mistakes. On the other hand the fact that you can edit the information entered it makes it not so factual.
I did create an account http://ihcpl.pbwiki.com/ (another set of user names and passwords to remember!) and added my blog to the favorites.
I also put a comment on one of my fellow bloggers.

Week 7-16 So what's in a wiki?

Oh dear! I was gone for a week and I skiped week 7! Since I do not know how to shuffle posts this one about “wikis” is going to be out of order. My first experience with wikis was http://wikipedia.org/. Ihcpl wiki is very interesting and a good way to interact with our coworkers and share information. It is a good thing that you can edit your entry to correct mistakes. On the other hand the fact that you can edit the information entered it makes it not so factual.
I did create an account http://ihcpl.pbwiki.com/ (another set of user names and passwords to remember!) and added my blog to the favorites.

Week 8 - 19 Zoho writer

What a fantastic web page! Full of options and able to access it anywhere! It is similar in some aspects to Microsoft Office. My question is: how do the finance the support of this website? At this point I do not see any advertisements.

Week 8 - 18 Social Networking

I really am not into myspace . Quite a few of the pictures, videos and/or language are objectionable to me. On the other hand I can see how it would be an ease place to find friends. dogster and catster seem real cute places for cat and dog lovers. www.infieldparking does not interest me at all. Now www.threadless.com looks rather interesting, plenty of designs that can be used for bulletin boards, crafts or decorating. www.xanga.com and www.facebook.com are good places to make friends. www.linkedin.com seems to be the perfect place to interface with other people in the same profession or to look up old school friends. www.360yahoo.com lets you create your own page to share pictures and so on. Now the web site that I did create and account with was www.ratemyspace.com and I can see myself spending countless hours in this social network site for decorating aficionados.
I still feel that you need to be very careful when interacting with other people in any social networking site. There have been too many cases of being harmed by being too trusting in this element.