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.

Week 7 - Microblogging

I have to admit that my age or lack of desire is catching up with me this week. I have never had the desire to post a lot of details about what I am doing online. If I want to tell that to someone - I call. So, for now, I am holding off; I do not plan to set up a Twitter.

Week 6 - Social Bookmarking - Tagging

I have created a Delicious account which was not too difficult. I think it is going to be handy to access my favorites from any computer as I don't usually have my work computer at home. Now I can add sites at home and still access them at school. The other feature that I like is the idea of creating "Bundles." This may be useful when working on different research projects for the students and I want to earmark sites that would be useful during the project, keeping all the sites together in a folder

Week 5 RSS and Feed Readers

I chose Google Reader as my aggregator because I already have a Google account and I thought it would be easier to keep going with some items that I already understand. I have subscribed to several RSS Feeds. I did this by choosing the Browse option which allowed me to look at bundles on topics that interest me. One bundle that I selected was on libraries. I selected another bundle on cooking and a third on scrapbooking.

Now I have plenty of feeds to review. The next step will be to go in and edit the feeds as I don't want 80+ feeds to review every day.

Week 4 Photo Sharing

I have created a Flickr account and I believe I was successful at uploading several images. I do see how I could use this feature to add pictures of the library to the library's webpage. It was not too difficult. However, I am not sure that I was successful in tagging a photo so that it would show up on the 23thingsKansas site.