Week 14: Library Thing

Week 14: Library Thing. I chose Shelfari to list the books I have read, tag them and give the books a thumbs up or not. I really like the idea of listing all the books I have read so I don't get confused about what I have read and what I haven't read. Plus, Shelfari lists all the books by an author. It is helpful to find more books to read by an author I like. I think this website will be useful to me in the future.

23 Things Kansas Week 13 Slide Sharing

Week 13 Slide Sharing was very interesting and easy. I tried the Slideshare.net but it wasn't what I was looking for. I wanted to use photos that I had saved and do a slide show. Animoto worked very well and I liked the music you could use with the pictures.

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Week Ten: Video on the Web

Week Ten of 23 Things Kansas is Video on the Web. I did a video of Kyler Carpenter doing his songs for storytime. He will also use this video on our library website as an example of what a person can do for a storytime. I had to use Media Player to upload the video. Uploading to YouTube was not difficult at all which surprised me.

Instant Messaging

Week Nine - Instant Messaging for 23ThingsKs. I signed up on Meebo for Yahoo, Facebook instant messaging. I have done instant messaging on Facebook and thought that it was useful because you had an immediate reply. We also have trillion installed on our computers but I haven't used it much. I can see if a person was at their desk most of the day instant messaging would have value. Much quicker than email and more like a conversation.

Week 8 Cloud Computing

I joined Elaine O'Gara on her blog to do an activity. She wanted other people to list funny experiences we have had being librarians. Of course, there are many that have happened over the 19 years I have worked in libraries. My latest experience was working with a book store ordering books for an author visit. The manager who had been working with me told me at the last minute he had never talked to me or gotten any emails from me. I was sure the guy had gone completely senile. He did order some books that he got shipped overnight and there were books for sale at 1 of the 3 sessions. At the time I was frustrated and furious but now I can laugh. Lesson learned.

Twitter

Week 7 - Twitter
I was finally able to follow some people on Twitter. They are David King, Topeka Library & 23ThingsKs.

Twitter

Week Seven of 23 Things Kansas is Twitter. At first it sounded like it would be very easy. Easy to sign up but difficult to follow someone. Hopefully, Becky has some hints to follow.