Ending point comments

Well, this program was fantastic. It made me stretch in a way I wasn't entirely sure I could. It also reminded me that we each have to make decisions about and manage our own growth and education, including professional education. For me that meant that while there wasn't time at work to do this, except for Week 9 activities, it was great that I could do it from home and finish. It was a marvelous and fun program. Adding the prizes, making it voluntary and having the occasional emails to spur us on was helpful. I really don't have suggestions for improving it without totally swamping Jim and Ellen even more. It must have been quite a challenge to keep up with the monitoring. This 'model' for learning is something we should keep in mind for the future. It was gratifying to hear staff say how much they enjoyed doing this in their office where they could ask for help and get it. Several staff came in on their days off to do this, FT and PT. It doesn't get any better than that.

I will need a little more time to think about how we can apply some of the 'things' to work. I have to admit I was doing this exercise FIRST for myself, secondly for work application ideas. I'm sure I'll have some ideas after I finish basking in the glow of my success. Isn't it all about me???

Glitch

Hey, my avatar left. She was there in her yoga pose a minute ago.....

Yeah! Thank you to Jim D.

Jim D. dropped into my office just as I was lamenting not being able to post my avatar on my blog. Anybody who knows Jim knows my dilemma didn't last long. done!!

That inspired me to try once again to post a video on the blog. Success!

Week 9 Thingy 20

YouTube- I was familiar with YouTube and still find it cool to pull up the two videos that 'outsiders' posted about the Towson Library. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=towson+library takes you to both of them.

Week 8 Thingy 19

I took a look at Stumbleupon.com which selects 'best' site on topics and you can select topics. I selected Agnostic and Atheists as a topic and it lead me to some sites where I found some reasonable and some unreasonable stuff. Here's a funny find: http://www2.b3ta.com/host/creative/46786/1181772099/creationist01.jpg

I'm not sure it's better than Google, at this point. It's a little clunkier. I like the idea of having a place to go to to look at award winning 2.0 concepts.

Week 8 Thing 18

I just heard that we need to list each Thing to make it easier for overseers to credit us. Sorry I haven't been doing this.

Thing 18- Access to these online productivity programs is super. Would anybody be too upset if Microsoft took a little hit? I created a short doc. and did try to post it to my blog using the "publish' option in Zoho but it didn't work. Knowing that this is out there is cool. My issi lives in California and the next time we have a draft a letter together for our folks, Zoho is it!!

Week 7 Wikis

Advice from one source that wikis are best used by groups who know each other was good. In my sort experience with wikis tonight I fell upon an error in one-- it referred to UPENN and then the link for more info. went on to talk about Penn State University. Two different institutions.

I spent a little time tossing some sand around and added an entry to Maryland's 2.0 Sandbox wiki.

Commoncraft.com

What a great way to present a tutorial. Maybe they could devise something that could help libraries promote databases.... Love their description
"We use simple tools to make sense of a complex world."

Week 6- Tagging, etc.

Del.icio.us offers some targeted searching for sites that serious users are taking note of to use again. The quick tutorial I listened to was done by the same group that is helping ALA vision for the future. The use of tagging must blow the minds of catalogers and Sears Subject Headings devotees. I had to laugh at the reference to "the old fashioned Web." Guess I should stop calling my 2001 car, which I bought in 2005 'new' too.

Week 5- Play Week

Gee wiz-- I designed a cool avatar for moiself and then couldn't figure out how to put in on my blog. Stay tuned.

Update- Jim D. made it happen!

Things 11 and 12: I also realized I hadn't scrolled and seen all of our Thingys we needed to do. so I went back and got to know Library Thing beter and Rollyo too! I guess I took this "Play Week" thing literally the first time ;)

Week 4-RSS Feeds

I'm realizing how Google-based this project is. I guess I've selected the Google options for accomplishing some of the tasks and there are other options as well. I signed up for one RSS feed to start with (News) and will try to also find some neat library RSS feeds as well.

Update! Found an OCLC blog "It's All Good" about practical library stuff. Will now try to make going to my Google page a habit ;)

Towson 4th of July

Towson 4th of July
Originally uploaded by generator24

I got a shot of a loyal TO staff member who couldn't be in the parade with us but, as you can see, had the spirit and cheered us on!

Yee! Ha! It worked!

Week 3- Thing 7-Great YouTube link for Maryland 23

I'm trying to post a link to a funny YouTube clip that reminded me of the Maryland 23. I guess I'll just type it here and see what happens!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX0-nqRmtos

Week 3-Thingys 5 and 6

Lots of possibilities. Had some difficulty occasionally getting around and back. Will create something next. More later!

Week 2-Testing the waters

Thingys 3 and 4--Here I am doing what the instructions told me to do and wondering if this will work. The tutorial eased my concerns, so I took the plunge. I had some trouble figuring out the easiest Habit for me....it was easier to name the hardest one: Play. Go figure!