Here's a cool link.

Yikes no juice!

Well it was a first for me. No electricity at the library. So no class on Wed. 1/14 and no class on Mon 1/19. So after a week we were back to class. It was a wild as always . They had to hold up their cards as their fellow students read out a sentence. They were holding up contractions he's, she's or she is, he is. It became an out of control free for all and we finally shut it down 75 mins. into the class. Then we worked on question scramble and they had to write their answer on the board. (they worked in teams) I am not sure how we got to this answer but here was what one group came up with to the question "Are you married?" No we aren't. We are divorced, single and looking.

Day two and the questions were flowing.

Day two of classes and the questions were flowing. It is fun to work with the lower level of ESL as they are so inquisitive. Once again we were sidetracked by the simplest thing. The word "stir" caused quite the stir. Once we settled on the pronunciation we had to work through using the word in a sentence. This led to when to use the word "can" and "would" and a giant can of worms. Monday we will stay on subject. I'm glad it'll be a new week.(contractions)

Ugh! No I don't speak Spanish.

Well we survived the first night of class. My new group is absolutely fabulous and of course Roger was back from the old group. Hang tight Roger the rest of the old gang will be joining us shortly. The new group had to adjust to the fact that their teacher speaks no Spanish. None what so ever. Not even the numbers. Oh the sin of it. Maybe she shouldn't be so lazy and she should learn a new language. We worked on basic name address and a little fun item about their home land. I believe they had a good time and dare I say actually learned something.

Here's to a great semester!!

First Day of Class

I can't wait the first day of classes. I am excited about the new group mixing with the old group. Who knows by the end of the semester I might actually know a little Spanish. Well, I am off to class.

#23 Farewell To 2.0 ... Gone but not forgotten

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Thanks to JPL 2.0 I ventured into computer territories that I would have never "clicked" on. Lessons on Library Thing, Flickr, You Tube, and Podcasts were fun and enlightening for me. The Technorati, Wiki, and RSS Feeds left me dazed.
I would gladly participate on the next venture. I do feel that with this assignment there were many who really did not need JPL 2.0 but JPL 3.0 as they seemed to already use and know of many of the sites and services. The tutors on Wednesdays were life savers. Donna had the patience of three saints and deserves a gold star. If my schedule had permitted I would not have missed a session with her. As for the library... this is the direction we must go in. The librarian with the reference book is now the librarian with the best website.

#22 Audio Books Home stretch

I made it through the Overdrive tutorial. Boy do I miss the common craft people. I am amazed at what technology can do for us. I do look forward to trying out the audio books for those long family car rides. I captured the cover of one of David Sedaris' books. i hope he is the narrator/reader of the book.
As for the library customer it offers you one more place to find your favorite book and best of all keeps track of your due date. Although, you all do a pretty good job with the e-mail reminders.

#21 Second time around

YES YES YES I came to the tutorial and Donna showed us how to add the feed to the Bloglines. I now have NPR's Wait Wait Don't tell Me on my blog!

# 21 Podcast or better yet Pod H -e- double hockey sticks!

Ok This is somewhat like you tube for me. I find it overwhelming to say the least. Pod Pickle was way too confusing. I am now signed up for Odeo and Podcast Alley and I already had itunes at home. My problem is that I could not make the RSS feed thing hook up with my bloglines account. I am not sure where all the info went but it surely is not on my blogsline account. I think as exciting as the sites are I am so overwhelmed by the sites i do not know where to begin. I listened to some of the Education site with the English as a second language podcast. Unfortunately it was not very good. I ended up going into Podcast Alley and finding Prairie Home Companion and hopefully it is linked in with this title. If I have time I will visit the tutor session tommorrow.

http://odeo.com/episodes/1441308-Toyota-Public-Library

#20 You Tube Addiction

I have to tell you all this is the first time I ventured into You Tube. I know, how can that be? Well, unless you sent me a link in an e-mail I just never went on the site. One thing I learned from JPL 2.0 is that you place the video on pause and let it load up and then watch it. This has been the missing link for me. i never had the patience with the videos constantly stopping with the little dot thing circling over the video but now I am addicted. I went in to look at the fun things the libraries had put on. I watched quite a few and kept going to the next one thinking that would be the one I put on the blog. But i decided to put a video of the blue whale on because I could.

Yikes There It Is!!

Hello!, I wanted these with my post below but could not get the window thing to open but apparently it was open and sitting in the little thing across the bottom ogf the screen.

#19 Web 2.0 Winners

OK so I must admit that the first site I went to visit was the Retail site. Now I know you are wondering how that will help the library but let us remember first impressions are sometimes lasting impressions. I did enjoy finding a site that sold vintage clothing and now I am drawing a blank on the name. i guess that first impression was not lasting. For the library I checked out the education winners and found Mango and SpanishPod that would help with ESL students. There was also .docstoc that had all kinds of legal forms that you could download. I know the librarians get bombarded with questions on that kind of stuff. Under Books I found our old friend LibraryThing as Honorable mention. they also had Vufind. And I checked out the employment section because the days of paper apps is long gone and many of our customers have to turn to the library to apply for a job.

What I know abot 2.0!

Ok! Here is my document on Zoho Writer.  Some thoughts on 2.0 and moi. So far I have

• created a blog
• learned how to add a picture to my blog
• although I am not an expert I at least now know what an RSS feed is
• I realize Google is not the only place to find stuff on the web
• I realize I may not have the patience for a job that requires you to be on a computer 24/7
• and for the first time ever I used the smiley faces that a certain someone use to send on all his email and drive me crazy!!

So all in all 2.0 this has been a fun ride and I look forward to the rest of the trip.

 

KT

#18 Web-Based apps.

WOW!!! I am so excited about this activity. I published my document to my blog. It is the entry above this one. I must say this is something I will use in the future. It is neat that you can save your work and use any computer to retrieve it.
Thanks for this one 2.0!

# 17 Playing around with PB Wiki

Well I actually added myself to the favorite blog list without any outside help. I'd say pretty fantastic on my part. But enough about me and more about the PB wiki. Once again I guess I am not really appreciating all that this has to offer. I did add an entry to favorite movies and TV section. On the movies I could not figure out how to link up the movie title and the review section some fans hooked up to. For the favorite TV show I did manage to copy Arrested Development's title but it is so big I'm sure there will be talk. Again the wiki seems to be just one more alternative for a place to find info. Yes it is a little more subjective but it still serves the same purpose to me.

Where's my camera?

OK so we went to Cumberland Island for the day to see the incredible scenery and wild horses. It was beautiful. The salt Marshes, Carnegies home(whats left of it) and the horses,just being horses grazing and enjoying life. But I can't show you this lovely place because I did not have a camera with me. I know, who goes without a camera? So enjoy this blank space and try to picture the splendor of the island.
http://www.nps.gov/cuis/ Link to the park .

#16 Wiki

Wiki OK I have read all the info on Wiki. I looked into the ALA 2006 New Orleans Wiki and saw the meeting schedule for the conference. I then went to Book Lovers which I understand is not currently being updated. The site was left open to show what they had done with it and the reviews but now the reviews are kept on another site. I then looked at Library Success and read about the wonders that Wiki can do for a library. (not really) If I recall that site seemed to me to be the same as maybe the normal web site for a library.

I must say that here is where I admit my defeat to technology. Honestly at this point I am not sure how people use all these different sites. The RSS feeds, Blogs, Web page, Wiki...after a while they all seem to be offering the same info. I feel this is one of those left brain right brain things and I am using the wrong brain. I feel when I am looking through the sites it is just gibberish to me. I go through the list of JPL participants clicking on my fellow bloggers sites and I am in awe.
I do look forward to getting through the next 7 lessons and forcing myself to go and face my fear.

# 15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

Libraries are not merely in communities, they are communities: they preserve and promote community memories; they provide mentors not only for the exploration of stored memory, but also for the creation of new artifacts of memory. What was the library of the past?
I took this passage from Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries? To a temporary place and time.Not being a librarian some of the article lost me but the man point, the gyst that we continue to service our communities into the age of technology. Peolpe will always need each other to move forward and the library definitely fills the nitch.

# 14 Technorati

Technorati was interesting. the ability to once again use key words to search is what I am all about. I was unable to find my blog on Technorati so I went ahead and claimed my blog on them.

Now the not sogreat stuff. When I tried to search "Learning 2.0" I did not find anything related to this course. I must admit though I did not go into all the pages but the first couple did not pull up what I was looking for. So the up and down side is the easy search and yet you do not always get what you are looking for.