Flickr

I really like Flickr. I've heard of it a lot, but never used it before. Even if you're not putting pictures on it, it's really fun just to look at the populart tagged pictures; there's some really cool stuff out there! I think it would be neat to use a site like this if maybe your library was doing remodeling or something like that, you could put pictures out there for the patrons to see. That would be pretty neat. It would also be cool to have pictures of programs as long as you watched out for minors being able to be identified.

I choose this picture off Flickr because I really like running and would love to go watch (and MAYBE run one someday)

RSS

I love the RSS feeds! There is so much out there; I think I could subscribe to hundreds of feeds. I can see how these would be a huge timesaver for people who are on the internet a lot or people who just want to check their email and a couple news sites. There is something there for everyone. I used Google Reader, it took some time to figure out how the searching worked and I ended up subscribed to 165 things I didn't want to subscribe to, but once I got around that, it was pretty easy. This would be great for my personal use, I think it would also be neat to use at work to find out when ne books are coming out and book reviews. There are just so many things to do with this. I can see how this might get some people in trouble; I want to check it all the time and just keep adding and adding....

Twitter

I read the articles about Twitter. The one about the guy who accidentally got a search party called in on him was scary- you just never know whether to take stuff seriously or not.

Making the Blog

Setting up this blog was a lot easier than I thought it would be! The hardest part was coming up with the name and after that, deciding what to write in it all the time. I came up with the title because I love to run, but am VERY slow and I am a mother to two wonderful, beautiful little boys! I think it would be useful to have a blog on the library website that patrons could use to give suggestions or to tell us things they like or don't like about the library. I also think it would be fun to blog from home if I could. It would be a fun way to keep in touch with out of town relatives and friends.

Learning Habits

When I think about the 7 1/2 lifelong learning habits we learned about, the hardest one for me is play! I like to just plow through and get things done; sometimes it feels like a waste of time for me to mess around with something to learn diferent ways to do things if I already know one way that works for me. That should be an easy one to work on during this challenge though- it seems like most of the focus will be on messing around to learn how to better use new technology. I think the easiest habit for me is to teach or mentor others. I have a teaching degree and love to show other people how to do things. I am definitely a helper!