Wikis

I had been thinking of having my own web site and had no idea of how to go about it. This gives me a starting idea, but I don't want anyone to be able to change what I put on there. I guess I'll need to do a little more learning.

For our city, I'm not sure how much impact this would have. Not many people here use computers in their homes. Probably need another generation for that to happen, but the ideas presented were interesting.

This whole Challenge has been/

Bookmarks, tags

One more time I am overwhelmed. I looked at the tags out there and it reads like a dictionary. I did enjoy looking at some of the sites tagged "Books". One was somebody's list of favorite book covers for the past 3 years as well as 2008. I love to look at book covers. In some ways I think this influences me in the books I choose to read (but not always).

I can see lots of uses for this, personally and as a library worker. I have always just added web sites to my favorite lists and this was enough for me. I'm not much of an internet user. But to use the tags to see what others think are "good" sites is interesting. Using the sdlib20 account, I can look back at sites we used to cover our lessons and I can now go back and review some of those items that I'm still not sure I understand. It was fun.

Lesson 7

I had some trouble getting this done. The e-mail account I had set up for this challenge did not have any addresses in the address book, so I tried using my personal e-mail account so I could add friends. But that didn't work since it was not one of the ones that were linked to this my space thing. So I ended up finding a way to type in the addresses and I did put 3 of them in. How will these people know I invited them to my site and what will they find there? I'm at a loss as to how this is of any benefit? and I'm not sure what them people I invited will see there except my name. I'm confused on this one.

pod?

Lesson 6

Boy, I liked lesson 6. I do the weekly newspaper column in our local paper with information about the library and things going on there. What I have been doing is working on it either at home or at the library and then saving it to one or the other computers and e-mailing it to myself so I could work on it at the other location. Then I also have to e-mail it to our librarian so she can review it before I send it off to the paper.

This will save a bunch of e-mailing. I can work on it anywhere and she will be able to review it and make corrections or changes if she wants. I can even submit it to the paper this way!
Wonderful!

Well, I had a great time looking at all the pod casts out there...wow! And I did find one I wanted to get on a regular basis, but I was not successful in getting it to download to my blog. The best I was able to do was to have it listed as a favorite on this computer, which I only use when I'm at work.

Is everyone having trouble with this or is it just me?

Lesson 4b

I don't even know where to start...should I make a calendar with my son's pictures, or a deck of cards with their baby pictures on and give them for Christmas? But the one "toys" that attracted my attention right away was the Bead Art. I've always loved beading, and I like needle work too, like counted cross stitch. With the bead art application, I can take the picture of the sun set (or any other) and turn it into a beautiful beaded wall handing or cross stitch framed picture. I could probably stretch the idea and use it to make stained glass panels of my favorite photo's.

But the sad truth is I'm a Readaholic, and I probably won't do any of those things any time soon, because there are so many books, and so little time.