Summer is upon us............

and the theme for the summer reading club is Superheroes read too...so how can i resist not leaving a superhero on my blog, lookout she or he? may be coming to a library near you!!

Superheroes in the library

#23 this is the end

Touch the sky - Fantasy
Originally uploaded by s0ulsurfing

YAY i feel so good that i finished this. I lost momemtum half way through but fellow worker LIG kept asking me how i was going with the blog and finally i got back on the horse and i have past the finishing post. I dont think i am a techno dinosaur and i am definately not a techno geek , learnign new things does excite me but i do need a push now and then and this program gave me that push. I think the biggest thing for me is the time factor, i am leading a busy lifestyle i am already juggling full time work, two teenagers, a bunch of animals , an overload of extra curricular activities on the home front and a battle to keep fit so finding extra time to sit down at the computer which i have to fight for at home with the teenagers has been a battle. I am happy to say that i can show my kids a thing or two now and it feels good to be keeping abreast of new technology. I loved technorati, podcasts, wiki and rss feeds, i will definately take some of these skills with me and i have already used technorati in the work place.i Loved Flickr and some of the on-line generators, i thank the organizers for putting the fun things in the program, they really appealed to my sense of humour. I recently read some articles in a Library Journal and i understood all the things they were talking about because they were things i have coverning in Learning 2.0, The learning and knowledge has increased my confidence in embracing new technology and i have enjoyed the journey, THANKS!!

#22 audio books

Oyoyo Headphones
Originally uploaded by SoulJah

now this could be really useful in the library personally i am not the greatest listener so audio books can be a challenge sometimes, i think its something to do with my wandering brain patterns. Audio books are becoming increasingly popular and people use them for all sorts of reasons, just take LIG who i work with she is an audio junkie!! This is fantastic to know thta people can download some for free as they are so expensive for the library to purchase and are easily damaged

21# podcasting

i love podcasting , thankyou for the knowledge, i really will explore this one further both for work but more for my own listening pleasure. I would like to purchase a new ipod and download lots ot things to listen to when i am walking so i think this is great. Some of the pod sites required extra software, which i didnt bother with. I listened to some travel and food casts and will deinately revisit thes sites again

#20 YOU tube

what fun this has been , if only one had more time to sit and play. i decided that my blog could not be complete without a little Johnny Depp so be it....

How can i resist

#18: 2.0 awards

ok so i went for the fun awards and how can it be used in the library....well its friday arvo here .....ticking on towards 5pm ....i can think of many ways i could use this in the library.....cant you

#18 cocktail builder: so how can i use it in the library

pineapple smooch 4 ingredients


2 oz of alize cognac
3/4 oz of triple sec
2 oz of pineapple juice
angostura (or other angostura bitters)

place a cherry at the bottom of a chilled martini glass. shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass.

#17 ZOHO not Zorro

#17 Zoho Writer: well l managed to post it with a picture but now l just need an online editor and i must press spellcheck before posting. I do like some of the features like  special characters and the comments boxes. i am not sure what the anchor thing does but i think this program could be quite useful to use. I would like to know if this program could convert text saved in another format so that it can be accessed on any computer
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#17 Zoho writer: well here i using zoho writer which up until 5 minutes ago i had never heard of so now i am going to attempt to add a few things to this document and blog it

#16 Wiki's: full of surprises

Little finger party people
Originally uploaded by glowfish

I love the concept of Wiki's now. I especially love Book lovers wikis and and the librarys using annotated catalogues, its fantastic to look at the covers and see what people think about certain books and titles. i read a few book reviews and then got enthusiastic and reserved them myself. I really like librarians sharing successes, this is fantastic to find out what what has been successful in different libraries and i found the online communities wiki very useful and started thinking about how we could do this. I loved community links and local walks and resturants and we could have a wiki on whats happening in the local community. I am glad that i took the time to look at some of these wikis, they were great.

#15 Learning 2.0

librarian13
Originally uploaded by Shambles Work & Play

Forge ahead learners of the world and we will lead you. Well at least i am trying, i can see libraries are changing and need to change, we are learning and resource centres and need to embrace the cyber world even more than we are now . What a great thing it is that we have this chance to learn more. i can now read Library journals and understand the articles about 2.0 learning and i think its great that we have had to find the time to take on board all these new and exciting concepts.

#14 technorati

Storytime
Originally uploaded by Haysi Community Library

OK first i thought this wasnt of any use to me at all, i could use it to find out what other people might think of things that i was interested in but really i have better things to do in life than read other peoples blogs but then i thought about how i could apply it to my work so i tried looking up peoples tips for successful storytime in libraries and found myslef very interested in the results so SUCCESS i can see this is a useful tool!!

#del.icio.us

librarian65
Originally uploaded by Shambles Work & Play

So now i have learnt more than saying shhh!!
tagging is like freefall cataloguing with no rules. I can see how it would be useful to computer junkies but i dont think i use enough websites to justify an account in del.icio.us just at this stage but if i do become a web addicted computer geek in the future i shall return here.

Yay!!!

librarian14
Originally uploaded by Shambles Work & Play

Maybe I am not as excited as this bellydancing librarian but I am mighty pleased to be finally finished with week 5, lots of fun but quite time consuming.

#5 at last

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oh library thing

Here are a few of my favourite things.....

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/glhigg
I give up!! I cant work this one out!
I cannot get it to display my favourite book covers so if you are really so interested to know which ones are my favourites you will have to click the link!
If i had more time i would persist but i dont so i wont!! not that anyone really cares!

#5 Online generators

Well after watching brad shake those hips i dont think i shall be joining the lady on the floor after all! i am feeling much better about some of those generators now!

Bradman Miranda

Star in Your Own JibJab! It's Free!shake those hips!!!

Death from Blogging

I think she has overblogged!! I know how she feels I have hit a lot of snags with online generators, some of them are fun but some are just plain frustrating. I can play endlessly but just unsure how to get some of the images onto my blog! I could soon be joining this poor woman on the library floor!!

Online image generators

so this is me!! look familiar to anyone? this is my image in doppelland!!

well i now know how to waste a lot of time I can convert my name in pirate, nerd and willy language? i would be called Perla in italy, Cressida if i was a vampire and if i was in a rockband we could be called A fistful of litterbugs!Well i have enjoyed the fun but its back to work.

#8 RSS Feeds

Newspaper Man
Originally uploaded by Sarah Camp

Well I have subscribed to endless sites and blogs feeding me facts and trivia about all sorts of subjects now i just have to find the time to actually read them and that is the hard part. I can see that RSS would be fantastic for travellers, imagine connecting them to your mobile if you are a die hard sports fan travelling in some remote country. You would only have to find a mobile tower to find out all your favourite footy team news. I can also see that if you had a dead keen interest in a specialised field that this would be an invaluable piece of technology. Myself I can't go past , finding a comfy chair on a cracker of a day, sharing a cup of coffee with a newspaper to catch up on some headlines. Failing that in this busy lifestyle, I do manage a quick scan of the paper copy whenever i can snatch a few minutes.

#7 Technology

3-librarians-large
Originally uploaded by Shambles Work & Play

Well we have come a long way in the technology world in libraries. I can remember card catalogues, book stamping and shuushing in libraries and whilst I am showing my age i am pleased to say that technology doesnt scare me witless. These librarians pictured here look like they might be interested in reading my blog! I wonder what they would think of modern technology.

The grumpy Librarian

Why did the librarian slip and fall on the library floor?
Because she was in the non-friction section.

Who says Librarians dont know everything!!

Ask the librarian
Dilbert is talking into the telephone. "Hello, is the the library reference desk?"
"Yes," the voice on the other end replies.
"What's the average running speed of the Tazmanian Boola-boola dog?"
"8.3 miles per hour."
Dilbert stares at the phone and says, "I can't believe she knew that."
The voice continues, "And you have something stuck in your teeth."

Having fun.

My creation
Originally uploaded by higgail

Well at least i know how to use to use this card creator now! Lots of fun to be had with this.

My creation

My creation
Originally uploaded by higgail

Flickr ?Toys well i have played with photos and frames and put it on a map of the world and found this lovely sign. What librarian could resist it really. This has been fun but really one does need some time up one's sleeve to play with alll these groovy tools

Mashups

Curried Root Vegetables
Originally uploaded by hold your spin

and I i thought mashups were what you had when you had a lot of leftovers well now i know its mashing technology not leftovers. We live and learn in libraries and life!!

zero gravity

zero gravity
Originally uploaded by [auro]

well i am adding this photo to my blog because i just really like it and it is the week of the Royal Melbourne Show so it ties in nicely . Swing high , let your arms go free, enjoy the spin!

Its all too hard

Turtle at Home
Originally uploaded by fritzmb

Well I am continuing with the animal theme this week, I am pleased to say I am not feeling like this poor turtle with my head jammed in although i am finding this weeks task more challenging, i have read about mashups but i think i need some extra time to play around with things until I feel more confident. I think its going to be more time consuming than i thought.

#5 Flickr: Free style, head first into the sand

Free style
Originally uploaded by Melville B.

This photo represents how i am feeling, excited about experimenting with some new technology but also feeling a bit out of control, out of whack, disorientated and maybe heading headfirst into the sand with a bang. However if i was going to do cartwheels in the sand with my dress on i would wear pants underneath beacuse we all know about the magic of thousands of tiny grains of sand and where they can end up. I love looking at photographs so experimenting with Flickr is fantastic but i found this weeks task a bit tedious as there are too many links to follow and i am running out of time on this public internet as its about to boot me off . so its goodbye from the freestyle cartwheeler

Flickr

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

1st time for everything

Well here i am sitting at the computer in Hastings library, typing away , not really sure about what i am doing but doing it anyway. It just occured to me that i really should have looked at some sample blogs BEFORE i did this part so i would have some idea about what people are blogging about, but as i didnt i will continue on and have a look round afterwards. Anne is sitting next to me, saying gail what are you typing about? and i said i can rabbit on about anything really !!