What a frustrating day! Computers that were malfunctioning...between the mouse sticking and the keyboard sticking, and websites that were just running so slowly! The electricity went out at my house tonight, so I am just getting online to write my daily blog. We learned some cool stuff today. Creating our own websites was fun. I need to have some time to go back in and really investigate all of the ins and outs of wix.com and glogster.com
Thank goodness for Nicole D. She's young so she can figure all of this stuff out and she helps point me in the right direction!
I am looking forward to looking at the animation websites that we touched on today. I still have to get all of the links into delicious from the class wiki. I wish I had thought to do it as we were going along, oh well, lesson learned.
Tomorrow is the last day of class. I am definitely intimidated by the final project. Karen says not to worry, it is easier than it sounds, but that is easy for her to say.
7/19/2010
7/16/2010
Day 3
Wow, three days, it's all a whirlwind! I am learning so much, but will I be able to keep it all straight? I am trying to keep all of the links and passwords compartmentalized so that I can refer back to them when this is all over. I came home tonight and immediately showed my family Wordle, amaztype and spellwithflickr. I showed them what I did on mywebspiration.com
I was glad that I could retain it all, but I took notes too. I was really disappointed in our presentation today, we had high hopes that it would be great, but I didn't like working with empressr. if the fancy tools are there, they are hiding...not easily found.
Now I will spend the weekend finishing up the projects for LIS626 that are due on Monday. But I do hope to have some time to play with all of the fun stuff that I have learned over the past three days.
I was glad that I could retain it all, but I took notes too. I was really disappointed in our presentation today, we had high hopes that it would be great, but I didn't like working with empressr. if the fancy tools are there, they are hiding...not easily found.
Now I will spend the weekend finishing up the projects for LIS626 that are due on Monday. But I do hope to have some time to play with all of the fun stuff that I have learned over the past three days.
7/15/2010
Day 2....
Day 2...I love all of this stuff but right now I am so overwhelmed, I barely start to use one thing and we move on to another! When (and how) will it all make sense? Or will it? I love the idea of the RSS feeds, but maybe it will be too much.
There is so much in google that I did not even know was out there, I want to know it all. Is there a 5 day class just for all the google stuff? Google reader looks great, I love to read I want to investigate that more. Google lit trips sounds interesting too. The google search bar tricks are all very clever, maybe I can impress my kids...maybe not...they probably know it all already and it is just a fact of life for them because as far as they are concerned it has always been there...
When we do the final project will we just be sent out to put it all together or will there be a little more structure when we get to that point?
When will my head stop spinning?
There is so much in google that I did not even know was out there, I want to know it all. Is there a 5 day class just for all the google stuff? Google reader looks great, I love to read I want to investigate that more. Google lit trips sounds interesting too. The google search bar tricks are all very clever, maybe I can impress my kids...maybe not...they probably know it all already and it is just a fact of life for them because as far as they are concerned it has always been there...
When we do the final project will we just be sent out to put it all together or will there be a little more structure when we get to that point?
When will my head stop spinning?
7/14/2010
Using Blogs in the Library
Blogging is new to me, I have heard about it, but never actually investigated the possibilities.
I can see blogs being used in my library to start discussions about books, recommendations about websites that students have found useful in their research and finally to get feedback about programs that I set up in the library. I do believe that Blogs are going to be very useful, and that I will keep discovering more uses for them in a library setting.
I can see blogs being used in my library to start discussions about books, recommendations about websites that students have found useful in their research and finally to get feedback about programs that I set up in the library. I do believe that Blogs are going to be very useful, and that I will keep discovering more uses for them in a library setting.
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