Thing 21

I explored the world of podcast. I really liked the ones put out by SirsiDynix Institute. The ideas and applications that they talk about are something that our library system could use. I liked when they talked about the teens participating in a monthly program. We seem to have so much trouble reaching that age for programming. Maybe our teen xtreme board could become involved in something. I also listened to a book review of inkheart. (I loved both inkspell and inkheart). It was done by a youth who had read the books with an adult asking some questions. Our school age group is another one that's hard to reach. Something like that might bring more of them in for good reads. It helps to have your peers recommend books. I think a tour of the main library might be a good thing too. If we all sat down and talked about it I think we could find many uses for our system. I never realized how interesting and informative a podcast could be. Thanks.

Thing 20 pt 2

You tube is fun. I chose the harry potter ticking noise because it made me laugh. Harry is a very popular person right now and I just truly enjoyed watching it. I liked a car commercial one too, but Harry was quicker for me to find. It was interesting to check out the tags that came with some of the video's too.
We could probably learn to create some of these and share information among ourselves. It's not as scary as I thought it would be. You can find information by entering the tags. Some of the video's are just silly, some are just trashy, many have information to share. It's just kind of a fun site and I think it's one that I would like to play with more.
Many of us have come a long way with this new technology. Perhaps a few videos like this on how to use Search Ohio, or other information could be useful to us and to our public.
Thanks, I enjoyed this and will probably try watching more of the videos when time allows.

Thing #20

Thing #19

These are really some fun things. The cocktail builder site is interesting. Fun to look at all the different kinds of drinks and fun to see what you could mix up for a holiday party.
I also went to the games and tried guess the google. Gosh talk about pressure. Some were pretty simple others were elusive. But fun. It's nice to use the little grey cells every once-in-a-while. I think I would like to explore this site again.

Thing #18 add on

Ok it was much easier for me to publish this document from google doc than from Zoho. I'm so pleased that one of them worked for me!

I was unsuccessful in posting this to my blog in zoho. So I'm trying the google docs. My thoughts are that I think this would be a wonderful way for staff to access thier schedule's. When you are on vacation you could access the next week's schedule without having to install excel on your home computer. We have tried to email the schedule and sometimes the person we are sending it to cannot open the document. I like this idea of sharing.

Thing #18

I signed up for a zoho account. I couldn't get it to publish to my blog. I emailed it to my account and was told that that was successful. I'll check with some of my co workers tomorrow to see it I'm doing something wrong. I really feel this has some use for us.