#23 Summary

I learned about many many new things. I know about podcasts, Flickr,RSS feeds,MERLIN, and learned many new words. I will have to play around more to get adept at this stuff but now I at least know the lingo. IT'S DONE!!!!!

#22 audiobooks

I used Overdrive and subscribed using my library card. It gives different categories such as the usual romance, historical fiction, etc., but also lists graphic novels. You can sort by author, title, genre, and release date. I couldn't find the release dates.

#21 podcasts

I looked around Podcast.net and found fictionright.com. In this they have podcasts that are interviews with writers. I can see the library conducting a short interview when we book authors to speak at a particular library. Posting a podcast about the author would make the author accessible to more customers and enable us to have a list of author interviews for customers to hear. Podcasts are used as tutorials too. I also listened to Denver Library's stories for kids.


I subscribed to the fictionright.com rss feed through my bloglines account.

#20 You tube

Iwas so excited to find the Bears in the hammock that I forgot to comment. I saw this on the evening news and was able to find it in You Tube. I chose it because I went to Yellowstone National Park for vacation and saw a bear but not close up. These cubs were so funny.Can ant of the sites be edited? I would like to delete the commentary about the bears. Two TV hosts are at the end of the clip.

#20 YouTube Bears on a hammock

See the bears trying to get in the hammock

#19 sites from Web2.0 awards

I had fun with the classified winner, Craig's list. My son uses it in VA and I wanted to see how it works. For fun Cocktail Builder shows you what you can make with linited ingredients. Yelp tells you what real people think about restaurants, services,etc. in your city. I didn't find anything library related except the library thing which would be helpful to keep track of good reads.

#18 Online productivity tools

This is a great way for writers to get feedback on new drafts. People who publish newsletters can use these to make changes or have others add content. Very useful.I wrote Ramblings publishing for my Zoho document

#17 Sandbox wikis

See my entry under claire is kickin. I listed some of rambling's favorite things.

#16 Wikis

Wikis get everyone into the project. ALA New Orleans listed everything from Restaurants to bus routes. Libraries could really use the subject wikis to put more content into a heading like Weddings. The site listed readings for the ceremony, magazines, music, and even honeymoon ideas. These headings are the way people look at a subject, not just the standard catalog. I thought the Princeton Public library book lovers Wiki was a perfect place for anyone to write a quick review of a book. Others chime in and soon there are several categories of books that people want to share. Wikis can be inventive.

#15 Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future

In today's world, libraries, especially public libraries, have to dialogue with users wherever they are. Users can help plan for library services and say what they want the library to provide. Librarians can use instant messages, weblogs, and wikis to communicate with their customers. Any way libraries can make services, especially web services, more user friendly will encourage people to realize that libraries are not static, but adapting to new technology. OCLC has an experiment to enable anyone to have access to their records without cumbersome user identification.
To start, BCPL continually reworks it's WEB page to get users to the databases and government services as easily as possible. The library of the future won't depend as much on the public coming into the building but the services that flow out from the library site. WE have to encourage the dialogue between the library and the potential users.

#14 Technorati

When I searched Learning 2.0 in BLOGS, I got different people's blog. Tags gave me Video streams of Librarians telling about Learning 2.0 and some irrevelant photos. Blog directory assured me that there are 540 blogs about learning 2.0. Technorati was much fun in showing Videos about Dick Chaney saying we shouldn't go into Iraq. Also there is a music category where people post blogs with Disc jackets telling you about what they are listening to. Is there ever going to be a Colman to remove unlistened or unread blogs? It could be BLOGSWEEPER.

#11 Library thing

This can be really useful for keeping track of what you have read and can recommend

#13 Delicious

I created a delicious account and saw what some of the PLCMCL2 people had to say. When I checked bookmarks I was shocked to see that people from all over the world and in every language make use of this site.While it may be useful for bookmarking I didn't see anything scholarly here.

#10 images BAD MEEZ

I thought I was posting a great picture from MEEZ. This was ny third try as it wouldn't work with the library computers. Oh well, I liked the image and playing with the different backgrounds.
Fixed it!

Week 4 Thing #9 and#10

I added an image from image maker and put a face on my previous postcard. I used library thing to list my books. This is a great way to keep tract of what is worth recommending to others. The website is: www.librarything.com?catalog/cramire. I plan to use this site again. It was very useful

Week 5 Thing 12

http://rollyo.com/cramire/esl


I played around with rollyo and used Lucy's esl sites. I then made one for me to add gardening websites as I find them. Useful

Week 4 Thing 8 RSS and bloglines

I created my blogline account and added PLA Blog, Unshelved, and Shifted Librarian. Bloglines made it easy as they give you categories and you just check off your interests. This is my accountscript language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?id=ramirezc.888" It looks weird but that is it. Now to paring down my Blogline account to fewer sites.

Postcard generator

This is Lucy's great postcard!!!!

http://www.exilim-tours.com/ecard/?id=2c7f9ccb5a39073e24babc3a4cb45e60

Thing 7

I liked Flickr. It is amazing that one can organize photos, pictures from Flickr, or pictures that are the same color into your own personal blog. For me it would be useful to list my flower purchases and then put location and pruning tips.

When Waves Collide

When Waves Collide
Originally uploaded by acastellano

a little test. Erin helped me to find this fabulous photo from Flickr.

Thing #6 Playing around with Flickr

Little Waimea 86480021
Originally uploaded by haddartist

Erin showed me how to link my Flickr and Blog. I uploaded this one directly from my Flickr account.

thing 5 Flickr

I had fun using flickr putting Snoopy in a new magazine. Woodstock didn't like his small billing.

Thing#2,#3,#4 revised

I have looked at Flickr. I will try to make some pictures. Sue F. is helping me.
I saw the 7 habits and thought that the easiest one is #2, accept the responsibility for your own learning. I will try harder to not only attend classes but to participate in the dialogue. I have always stressed this with my children . The teacher needs to know that you are involved. By asking questions you show that you are thinking about the topic. The hardest one is #3, to view problems as challenges to learn from. Some of the exercises in this 23 things were challenges. With new technology it is sometimes difficult to see oneself as a competent ,effective learner, but we MUST .

thing 1

Hi out there,

I am a complete novice at this, so all 23 things will be new for me. However, I am excited about learning about web tools and sites, and maybe having a little fun too.

I will keep this post short just to make sure it goes up on the blog okay.

snoopy