Lesson 10: Wrap up

Libraries are the path to the future. If anyone needs help setting up any of these wonderful tools and using them, I will be there to help. I love keeping up with technology. So many of these sites will be useful in many ways, both at work and play. I promise to maintain my blog and post something I have learned at least once a week. I will practice with the other tools we've learned. Thanks for the training opportunities you've given us with this challenge.

Lesson 9: wikis

This could have the potential to become very useful in a community. The library has been developing objectives and goals for the future. Imagine the interesting ideas we could gather from the community. Rather then hearing from just staff and board members, we could also hear from patrons. This could be a great asset to librarians.

Lesson 8: Tagging

I already use del.icio.us as my favorite tagging site. I might be at the front desk and can't remember where a certain site is and need it right away. It would take time to run to my computer and check my "favorites". So, I go to Delicious and find that site right away. I have the AR BookFinder, a juvenile series site, a reader's advisory site, IRS tax forms, etc. It's the best!

Lesson 6: Office 2.0

Oops! Forgot to write up my experiences on Office. It's very practical. I wrote part of my Christmas letter on Docs and sent it to my family for their changes. I also did a spreadsheet. I think this could be a very good way to edit documents in the workplace. I love it for home use too.

Lesson 7: Social Networking

I really liked joining Facebook. I think it'll be really nice for sharing pictures with friends and family. I'm not sure how I'd be able to use it at work yet but I'll play with it a bit.

Lesson 5: UTube

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Lesson 5

I'm trying to learn about the podcasts and videos. I joined Podcast.com. Very interesting way to gather material to listen to. Somehow I ended up downloading a site called Juice. I'm not sure why. I'll keep working on this lesson. I don't own an IPod or MP3 so I guess I'll need to listen to these podcasts on my computer. I found "Library of the Living Dead" which has some strange music. Mostly I guess I don't know what I'm doing.