Thing #19 Podcasts

Reviewed a couple podcasts in PBS - Jane Austen series and one on retirement, but that one was like 55 minutes long, and I didn't have that much time to spend on it. I don't own an iPod, but was able to hear the Joel Ostien audio and music when our kids were at our house. Very interesting!

Thing #18 You Tube & other Networks

I have watched and listened to the 28,000 people at the March of the Librarians at least 4 times and cannot spot a MN librarian in the crowds going up and down escalators and walking the floors. Of course, I do not know many librarians outside of TDS. I looked for name tags, familiar faces but to no avail. I hope that it is just not something that I should be looking for. Now I am going into WCCO and listen to the organ at the Cathedral in St. Paul.

Thing #17 ELM Productivity Tools

Yesterday, I went into ELM data base and found that there are 15 data bases from 5 different vendors in the electronic library for MN. A division of Ebsco publishing has NoveList where there are 150,000 fiction titles. In March now, 50,000 non-fiction readable titles will be addes. The historical fiction catagory is without racial or gender biases and there is no violence. I appreciate that. In Kids info bits, I found many articles that really impressed me. I do want to go deeper into this area because I have grandchildren who read alot and I myself, love to look at the kids side of things too.

Thing #16 Assignment Calculator

Decided to try the research project calculator. This was neat. Since I have to read the questions and answers about the First Amendment by April 4th, I find that there are 9 days to complete this project. This would be great for students. Now I need to start on it.

Thing #15 Games

Tonight I stepped into the library to get a newspaper article for my granddaughter from an old paper. Sitting there were 5 people, some children, some adults, and all were playing games on the computer. I was shocked. I'm not much into games on the computer, but I did try the puzzle pirates. It was fun to hear the sound of the water bubbles and I did get a bonus! However, I don't see myself playing the games, maybe show them to the grandkids.

#14 Library Thing

I went into the Library Thing Local - it gave me the map of our location, no events were scheduled here, but there were bookstores in Mankato. I did read the thing about adding books to a catalog and you merely need to have words from the title, the author or an ISBN. Library Thing gets all the info from amazon.com and from over 250 libraries around the world, including the Library of Congress. I loved the word used, "folksonomies"someone used for a tag.
Our library has a newsletter to alert readers about new books at the library. I use amazon.com and barnes & nobles often at the library to figure out authors, prices & etc. about books.

#9 Google Documents

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
FIRST TEN AMENDMENTS
Bill of Rights
• I Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition
• II Right to keep and bear arms
• III Conditions for quarters of soldiers
• IV Right of search and seizure regulated
• V Provisions concerning prosecution
• VI Right to a speedy trial, witnesses, etc.
• VII Right to a trial by jury
• VIII Excessive bail, cruel punishment
• IX Rule of construction of Constitution
X Rights of States under Constitution

Thing #13 Online Productivity Tools

Especially liked the weather maps since we are expecting snow tonight or tomorrow to see just where it is coming from. Also, the politics was easy to get around in to see how the candidates stood on the issues. I have the weather in my bookmarks now.

Thing #12 Sites of Digg, Reddit, Mixx & Newsvine

First, I tried Newsvine and listened to Obama's speech which I liked better than the others for national news. Some of the statements made in Digg and Mixx were weird. It would take a large amount of time if you wanted to read all this and I knew then that I didn't want to continue. I did like the idea that we don't need to sign in just to read about it.

Thing #11 Tagging & Del.iou.us

After a "few" tries, I finally was able to bookmark a recipe in Simple and Delicious for an Easter meal plan. Almost sounds the same as del.iou.us.
There are 1,192 matching del.iou.us bookmarks. In reading about bookmarks, the number is almost unbelievable, something like 197, 940 from organization, activity, place, technology, contributers, tags, genre, by attribute and by site. Wow!

Thing #10 Wikis

Found the most interesting genealogy writeup in "How Stuff Works. " Since I do quite a bit of the genealogy at our library for patrons, I have used ancestry.com, our state Historical Society, the Salt Lake City Family History and at my home for our family history in the data base of Roots Magic program.
Our library has most of the newspapers from about 1862 on and are used frequently by visitors to our state and from people in our own county. Noticed that geni is mentioned in our sites also, and plan to check that out too.

Thing #8 Share Photos

Was able to post 3 pictures to my blog today. Having trouble with Flickr. Our computer at home has much security and all our pictures are in Kodak. With that, we are able to make slide shows and have tons of pictures for about the last 10 years. With my pictures today, I made a CD of them and entered them into the blog.

# 7 Text Messaging SMS

We do have a cell phone but we do not subscribe to text messaging.
For that reason, I had to read about it. The most common application of
service is person-to-person messaging but text messages are also often
used to interact with automated systems, such as ordering products and
services for mobile phones or participating in contests.
There are some services available on the internet that allow users to send
text messages free of direct charge to the sender, although users of all
North American networks do not have to pay to receive any SMS (short message service) one hundred sixty characters or less.

Thing #6 Instant Messaging

I have now set up an account for messages to a family member. Now I need to look for the little person who is "green" to send messages and receive them. I probably won't be using this for more than a family thing.