Week 11 Break

I need to use the break this week to catch up on some of the previous weeks' activities. For example, I did not realize when I signed up for RSS feeds, how they would pile up on me. I am not good about getting there everyday with all the research projects scheduled in the library now. I may have to delete some of the RSS feeds in order to keep it to a more manageable size.

Also, I still need to try my hand at the video on the web lesson.

Week 10 Video on the Web

I read through the lesson for the week but I have not done anything with it. I am not sure that I am going to commit at this time to making a video which I will upload to YouTube. I have the bookfair going on in the library for the next six days and that is consuming my time and energy. It might be a good idea to try and get some video and then maybe I could use it to advertise for next year's book fair. I will need to play around with that idea.

Week 9 Instant Messaging

I can see where this would be very handy in a work setting where co-workers were online and you could get some instant feedback. My guess is that at school this function is not going to work. I wish it was easier to find someone I know that is really good at these things so I could ask my "dumb" questions. It was not hard to set up.

Week 8 Cloud Computing

It is nice to have a better understanding of how online shopping, online meetings, RSS feeds etc. works. I had just recently heard the term, "cloud computing," and had no idea what it meant. Now, with this week's lesson, I have some idea. Of the examples listed in this week's lesson, the items I find that will be most helpful may be Google docs and doing a calendar using Google. The calendar is something I had thought about before where I could keep a calendar for the scheduled classes in the library. It would be a calendar that teachers could consult when they want to bring their classes to the library and note the dates that are still available. Now what I need to figure out is how to embed the calendar into the library's webpage. The other resource I reviewed was Dropbox; it sounds interesting but it seems like it does some of the same things as Google docs, Google presentation, etc. More research on my part is needed.