Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Week 13--Online Surveys

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PDTQ2NP

I wonder if this will work. My previous job used Survey Monkey all the time to collect statistics. It seemed pretty easy to open and close the survey and collect the statistics.


Click here to take survey

Will this work? I had trouble following the instructions on posting a Google Doc to the blog.

Week 11--shortening a url

I see this working when you need to push pages to a person via e-mail. If the url is too long, it may not get copied correctly. Is it one step too many? There are some things I find myself willing to do but others that seem like too much bother.

Week 12: Document sharing

Although it wasn't necessary to post a blog on cloud computing, I have some thoughts...I love it. It's a great tool to allow small businesses flexibility, even allowing individuals who travel access to information without lugging around files, computers-heck even flash drives can get lost! I use delicious to keep track of all my "favorite" websites so no matter where I go and what computer I use, I will have all my links.

Docuemnt sharing--I love Dropbox and the Google docs as well.

Here's what I envision--librarians as Johnny Appleseeds, but instead of planting fruit trees, we plant information literacy skills. Imagine if ALA sponsered a kind of "peace corp" project where librarians traveled around the US to offer help and teach info literacy classes. It may not require a great deal of travel, perhaps just to another part of a state or into a different neighborhood. All a librarian would need is a room, a computer, internet access and a projector. A bit push effort to show the world how important we really are.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Week 11 Tweeting

I did create a twitter account and I don't really post to it. There may be a mental block with this because I really do not like Tweety Bird and the twitter jargon reminds me of him. Still!! I will swallow my animated character discrimination and wallow forth and when I mean wallow...WOW! Finding something on Twitter to follow ain't easy. I went outside of twitter to find something. When I went back in and tried to find what I wanted--error message. A few more tries and I was successful. Now I need to figure out how to read all these posts.

Week 8 Generators


This stuff is fun! I can see using these in displays, marketing material, etc. The image I chose was a random one but I will be doing some things for the home and showing the kids. They will get a kick out of it!

Metro Graffitist, Green Line.

This person suffers what I call "Special Snowflake Syndrom". He obviously thinks nothing he does is wrong; that rules, mores don't apply to him and all his actions are consequence free.

Flickr

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Week 7: Sharing slide presentations

My kids always enjoy it when Daddy makes a paper airplane. Wasn't sure I would find a presentation on the topic. What a pleasent surprise!! Since I'm not too confident in my own slides, I don't know if I will publish them. But maybe I will.

How To Build A Paper Airplane

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: