8. Sharing creations

This is a test to see if my badge appears. Yeah, it does!

I used Photobucket rather than Picture Trail because I didn't want to create yet another acct. I tried to use Lazybase but it wouldn't work. I was able to view what others have created for public use and liked what I saw. I have an eFolio account already.

I'm not sure how useful these tools would be in the library. Although they were not difficult to use, I don't see how I'd use any of these at work yet.

www.flickr.com

7. Web 2.0 Communication Tools

This lesson covered: email, IMing, Texting, and Web Conferencing. I'm comfortable using email and use it a lot at work and at home. I was aware of IMing but haven't really been interested in using it. I think it has limited functionality for my uses and I see it as a time waste. Texting might be something we could use at the Reference Desk to answer student questions. Twitter seems to be a hybrid between IMing and Texting. Web conferencing is a useful tool. I've been an attendee numerous times. The last Minitex Webinar that I was in was with the MEIR Task Force.

6th Thing- Online image generators

This was a fun activity. I liked seeing the Librarian trading cards from Carleton College. I think it's a creative way to market the library to the campus.

Here's the trading card that I created. I keep forgetting the imported images bump to the top!

Thing 5- More Flickr stuff

My creation
Originally uploaded by labluedogmn

This took me all morning to do and I think I have only a sketchy idea of how I did it.

I tried the Spelling API but wasn't able to get the picture on my blog. I do like the idea of sharing photos.

Although these were fun to play with, I'm not sure how applicable these would be for library uses.

4. Photosharing with Flickr

Here is the photo of something from work that I uploaded into Flickr. The site wasn't hard to use, I just had problems resizing a photo small enough so that I could use it as my buddy icon. Also, I wasn't thrilled about linking Flickr to my blog because it seemed that the registration process was too invasive.

I'm still on the fence as to whether I'd use Flickr for library things or not.

3- RSS

I like to receive news and updates so RSS and newsreaders are great.

Library 2.0

After watching Stephen Abram's video, I was excited to try and set aside a little time each day to work on the 23 Things on a Stick program. However, after several days the reality sank in that I need to consciously schedule some time each morning in order to do the work.

I'm participating in the 23 Things program because I am interested in learning about new (at least to me) technologies that are on the Internet that are effecting libraries and our users. I am a newbie in knowing about Web 2.0 tools. I'm hoping that learning about these technologies will be beneficial to my work.