VIDEO SHARING

One of my all time favorite videos! It really says it all without saying a thing! It has great music! If it shows an error, you can go to Youtube and search Lifehouse skit. There are several, but this one is my favorite!

VIDEO SHARING

Video sharing can be fun. I'm not sure if I will have time to do my "own" video, but I certainly can add a video to my blog. I love to knit and I am so glad when I can share with others how easy it is. I'm convinced "Anyone" can knit. Hope you enjoy the video!

Week 9 Instant Messaging

For some reason I did not like using Meebo. It just didn't seem confortable to me, but I'm not sure why. I do IM on facebook and keep up with my family, friends, and co-workers. It has come in handy a time or when the girls at work have a question and it is my day off.
I started IM long ago when I was in college with ICQ. It was great at that time because no one had heard of cell phones yet, and long distance phone calls were a luxury a college student couldn't afford. I was able to chat with my mom on occasion and at least stay in touch. It had a neat feature where you could record a message and send it. My kids sang happy birthday to my grandma and we sent it. She was tickled! I love that memory!
I think IM has great uses for many people. It's just a matter of finding out how to fit it into your life, whether it be for work or pleasure!

Cloud Computing

I love the idea of creating my summer reading brochure and calendar on google docs and google calendar, and then making them available for the schools to access. This will make sharing the information with the kids so much faster and easier. I think we can even link it to our website so that kids (and parents) will have access to it anytime.
We use google calendar in our library to book our meeting room. All staff has access to it including our administrative office. This is a big improvement over our paper binder we had before. No more running to the front desk to look at the calendar before you book the room.
Outside of work I can see using Google docs with my family to work on our family history. We each will be able to imput information we find without having to email it back and forth and burden one person with compiling all the data.

I shared a document with several other librarians, where we just introduced ourselves and told a little bit about our jobs. If we were supossed to link that here, I didn't get it done, but I did do it!!!!! I promise!

Microblogging

I am so far behind on my 23 things. I have been out sick, so I am trying my best to catch up this week. I signed up for Twitter (screen name is mader68). I find it interesting that people have so much free time to do all this stuff on their computers. I must be way to busy, or the computer is just not my priority. You can lose a whole day just spending time on all these 23 Things. I have not found a real use for Twitter as of yet. It is easy to do and use. I am following MetroLibraryOK which is the Library where we used to live, also hclib, because they have very useful Teen ideas on their webpages, and the libraryJournal and TopekaLibrary. Hopefully I will find time to check this and connect with people with great ideas for teen programing.