Week 9: #20 Discover YouTube and other video sharing sites

Exploring YouTube was fun. I found a couple of really neat videos that I enjoyed. One posted from the the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin showing butterflies and other insects that have visited. The one I will try to post is of a mama hummingbird raising her babies. Their nest is on top of wind chimes hanging from the videographers patio!

Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops

I discovered that Zoho web based word processing application works very much the same way word does, so it was easy to use. I even posted a short document I created in Zoho using the publish function in Zoho. Posting to my blog from Zoho was not difficult at all! Completing these ihcpl exercises is giving me more confidence using web based applications.

Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops

Native American Craft
Today we hosted a Native American Indian Craft. The children made Dream Catchers and Indian headbands. Moms got into the act and wanted to make their own Dream Catchers. All projects turned out really well. Kids are so talented! 11/28/2007

Week 8: #18 Social Networking: Making friends in the comfort of your own home

Myspace, Facebook and other social networking sites can work for friends and family who do not see each other often. It allows you to share what is going on in your lives and even allows you to share pictures. So many that do basically the same thing! Some especially, myspace have a lot of advertising and why not it is all free!

Week 7: #17 Blog About Technology

Right now technology is not my friend at home. Our computer caught a bug, so our home system is crashed. We thought we had all the necessary protections in place, but sometimes all you do is not good enough. Utterly frustrating and terribly inconvient! Fortunately, we do back everything up onto disc, so maybe we have not lost too much.

Week 7: #16 So what's in a wiki?

Wiki is a good way to create or contribute to documents by "committee", used properly it can be a good professional tool. Not sure of the practicality of Wiki on a personal level. Again this is an easy internet tool to use which is great.

Week 6: #15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

It is interesting to me to read about 2.0 because I feel that Harris County Public Libraries having been consistently moving into the 2.0 model. HCPL has pioneered the way in many aspects of technology. Many of our services are certainly 2.0 such as wifi, electronic databases, computers and laptops for public use, etc. We are doing great. I don't think that books will ever be entirely replaced by the web. Especially for children, there is too much satisfaction and opportunity for interaction with an actual book in your hands.

Week 6: #14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

This exercise did not thrill me, I guess I don't "get" it. It looks like something that is nice for people who love to blog or spend a lot of time online. Not my cup of tea.

Week 6: #13 Tagging makes the web 2.0 world go round

Tagging is easy and should be a great tool for serious researchers and people who have a lot of information to keep track of. This exercise was fun to explore.