Wow! This has been a really fascinating experience for me to learn all this stuff.
Most of my favorites have been for personal use, more than Library related...I love the blogging and social networking, I loved learning to add movie clips and pictures to my Blog and other profiles. I had a lot of fun exploring the image generators and the podcasts.
It was fun to take things home, like Bloglines, to my husband (who is very tech-savvy, but had never used or even heard of Bloglines) and teach him how to use it. He's involved with a lot of different newsfeeds, forums, etc. and it's fun to watch him utilizing something that I actually taught him about. So, that was cool, even though I probably won't use it again myself.
I feel I have a slightly better grasp on some of the options available out there in InternetLand...even though I'm sure I've barely scratched the surface. I think I'll make sure to print out all the "lesson" pages in the event I might need to go back and re-figure this stuff out again. It's been very useful.
A lot of the stuff doesn't apply to my job, and some of the stuff seems like it's double or triple the work. I noted that in my blogs. But that's okay, because at least I know it's out there, right?! So that's still good!
I would probably participate in a future discovery program, provided it was offered again during a "slower" time so that I had time to work on it. It's been really fun and I thank you for doing this program!!!
Monday, August 20, 2007
#22 supplement.....
By the way, if you want to be friends on MySpace or Facebook, I'd love to add you to my Friends List!
You can check out my profile on MySpace at
http://www.myspace.com/singinmomontherun
and you can find me in Facebook in many of our Library staff's Friends lists or in the following groups: Athens High Alumni ▪ Ohio University ▪ Athens Townies ▪ The Official LOLCATS ▪ Ohio for John Edwards ▪ I want a Morelli or Ranger in my life! ▪ I want to be Stephanie Plum ▪ A Tribute to Stargate SG-1 ▪ Circ Kids For Facebook!
You can check out my profile on MySpace at
http://www.myspace.com/singinmomontherun
and you can find me in Facebook in many of our Library staff's Friends lists or in the following groups: Athens High Alumni ▪ Ohio University ▪ Athens Townies ▪ The Official LOLCATS ▪ Ohio for John Edwards ▪ I want a Morelli or Ranger in my life! ▪ I want to be Stephanie Plum ▪ A Tribute to Stargate SG-1 ▪ Circ Kids For Facebook!
#22
Facebook and MySpace are so much fun! My students and some of our younger staff members got me involved in it at the beginning of the summer. Both sites are fun but I definitely prefer Facebook for several reasons.
MySpace is very glitchy. All the fun in MySpace exists in developing your profile...you can do the coolest stuff simply by adding html code in certain locations! But half the time you'll be in your profile and it will crash MySpace and then you'll have to go log in again, and sometimes you lose stuff and it's all very frustrating at times. I have not spent as much time developing my profile on MySpace or developing my Friends list. My one thing that I like best about MySpace is my Playlist -- that's a list of my favorite songs that I can listen to when I want to...I really like being able to listen to my music!! Until, of course, MySpace crashes and then I have to go log in again. The only interaction you really have with your friends on MySpace is if you go check out their profiles and send them a message or just write a comment on their profile. You can post a bulletin to all your friends, but overall, MySpace gets a little boring after you succeed in getting your profile set up. And it wasn't easy to set up the profile either...I had to have all kinds of help, so not exactly the most user friendly thing in the world.
Facebook, on the other hand, does not offer music...(if it ever does, I'll probably trash my whole MySpace account and just keep a Facebook profile instead!) Facebook does not allow you to post html codes in your profile either, to link you to funny pictures, videos, etc. It would be nice if it did....but Facebook is a lot more FUN! It's a lot more socially interactive. I've spent a lot more time developing my friends lists. You can message your friends, write on their "wall", draw pictures for each other, etc. And there are tons of Applications you can add to your account that are just play related. You can join groups that have similar interests that you have. You can Poke your friends, which is just a playful way of reaching out and saying hi to someone. I have created my own quizzes, I have located people from my past that I'd lost -- I even found a lady on Facebook that I used to walk to Middle School with back in the early 80's, who I haven't seen in 25 years! She moved away and is now living in Canada, and I found her on Facebook through joining an Athens High School Group. What are the chances?? I HIGHLY recommend everyone joining Facebook and keeping in touch with each other. It's especially nice in keeping up with old student employees! It's fun to collect friends and every now and again you come across someone who you had nearly forgotten about and you can get caught up!
MySpace is very glitchy. All the fun in MySpace exists in developing your profile...you can do the coolest stuff simply by adding html code in certain locations! But half the time you'll be in your profile and it will crash MySpace and then you'll have to go log in again, and sometimes you lose stuff and it's all very frustrating at times. I have not spent as much time developing my profile on MySpace or developing my Friends list. My one thing that I like best about MySpace is my Playlist -- that's a list of my favorite songs that I can listen to when I want to...I really like being able to listen to my music!! Until, of course, MySpace crashes and then I have to go log in again. The only interaction you really have with your friends on MySpace is if you go check out their profiles and send them a message or just write a comment on their profile. You can post a bulletin to all your friends, but overall, MySpace gets a little boring after you succeed in getting your profile set up. And it wasn't easy to set up the profile either...I had to have all kinds of help, so not exactly the most user friendly thing in the world.
Facebook, on the other hand, does not offer music...(if it ever does, I'll probably trash my whole MySpace account and just keep a Facebook profile instead!) Facebook does not allow you to post html codes in your profile either, to link you to funny pictures, videos, etc. It would be nice if it did....but Facebook is a lot more FUN! It's a lot more socially interactive. I've spent a lot more time developing my friends lists. You can message your friends, write on their "wall", draw pictures for each other, etc. And there are tons of Applications you can add to your account that are just play related. You can join groups that have similar interests that you have. You can Poke your friends, which is just a playful way of reaching out and saying hi to someone. I have created my own quizzes, I have located people from my past that I'd lost -- I even found a lady on Facebook that I used to walk to Middle School with back in the early 80's, who I haven't seen in 25 years! She moved away and is now living in Canada, and I found her on Facebook through joining an Athens High School Group. What are the chances?? I HIGHLY recommend everyone joining Facebook and keeping in touch with each other. It's especially nice in keeping up with old student employees! It's fun to collect friends and every now and again you come across someone who you had nearly forgotten about and you can get caught up!
Monday, August 6, 2007
Precious picture
On Saturday August 4, 2007, Grammy turned 97 years old. Here is the Oldest and the Youngest in our family....Grammy (Bonnie Arnold) and Elijah Brooks, 5 years old. Great picture!
#21
Podcasts seem sort of random. I listened to part of an interview with Jason Statham, who is one sexy man! That was on the Yahoo Podcast site. There were a lot of links that didn't go anywhere - kept telling me it couldn't find it. That didn't impress me, and in fact frustrated me because I don't really know what I'm doing half the time and then when I follow the directions I'm given and it still doesn't work...AUGH!!!
Then I checked out Podcast.net but it seemed like everything I tried to play/listen to I got a box that said "Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage". ???? I don't know what that means. Then it kept wanting me to restore MIME type associations to QuickTime...I don't know what that means either. I didn't know if it was safe to do that or not, so I told it NO. When I finally got to the actual point that it would play something, it just kept saying "rockin'pop-cast" and "rockin'pop-cast.come" over and over. That didn't impress me either. I must be doing SOMETHING wrong.
I also went to Podcast Alley -- had trouble locating anything I actually searched for. I typed in Janet Evanovich (one of my favorite authors) and got ten hits...none of which had anything - and I mean ANYTHING -- to do with Janet Evanovich. Nothing. Sooo....either I'm doing something completely wrong, or it's just not all that easy to use. At least for us technologically slow people.
Then I checked out Podcast.net but it seemed like everything I tried to play/listen to I got a box that said "Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage". ???? I don't know what that means. Then it kept wanting me to restore MIME type associations to QuickTime...I don't know what that means either. I didn't know if it was safe to do that or not, so I told it NO. When I finally got to the actual point that it would play something, it just kept saying "rockin'pop-cast" and "rockin'pop-cast.come" over and over. That didn't impress me either. I must be doing SOMETHING wrong.
I also went to Podcast Alley -- had trouble locating anything I actually searched for. I typed in Janet Evanovich (one of my favorite authors) and got ten hits...none of which had anything - and I mean ANYTHING -- to do with Janet Evanovich. Nothing. Sooo....either I'm doing something completely wrong, or it's just not all that easy to use. At least for us technologically slow people.
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