Monday, August 3, 2009

NEW EXPERIENCES

Now that all my kids are grown and moving out on their own, me and another friend from high schoo (her kids are also grown & gone out on their own) we are looking for things to do to keep us feeling as young as we look. (We both look a lot younger than we really are). We are currently looking into joining a Wine Tasting Club, Indoor Skydiving, and having just a Girl's Night Out (in-house, just talking & drinking (safely), current friends and family. we are also trying to just get out and meet different people. We devoted these last years to our kids and we did good jobs because all are doing great. We both were single moms me widowed and her divorced. We are not looking to become party girls, just looking to expand our minds and explore what is here in the world. HERE'S TO LIVING!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008


Learning about the different tools like: Blogging; Photo Images; RSS Feeds ; Newsreader; Tagging; Wikis; Social Networking; and Podcast was very educational in learning the new ways in technology in communicating and researching.

This Web 2.0 course has opened my eyes to a whole lot of tools that I can access free and be able to communicate and research anything I would like to. This course was very informative to me. I learned very quickly about some things that I had been trying to figure out but just never had the time to do and some things I didn't know about. The course was very easy to follow.

I really enjoyed this course and hope that we have some more of them coming up, because technology changes every day and I would like to try to keep up a little bit.

Friday, March 28, 2008

YOUTUBE & PODCASTING


YouTube and Podcast are very similar to me other than Podcast is a little more personal. I would probably use the YouTube just to watch the old sitcom's that are on it or if someone told me to watch something someone posted. I would use the Podcast to download certain audiobooks or music. So, I really don't have a preference. I would probably use both of them an equal amount of time, just for different things.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

SOCIAL NETWORKING


Both are great forms of social networking, but to me they are also different in a lot of ways. It really depends on what you would be using them for.

Facebook seems to be more business orientated and a little more formal than MySpace. Facebook is an excellent place to post upcoming events to inform everyone of. A lot of college students use this form of social networking so the know what is going on a the different colleges that their friend are at.
MySpace is a little more laid back and a lot more fun. The social networking in MySpace has a lot of crazy graphics and people go crazy changing the layouts and backgrounds in it. They also post a lot of pictures of events that they attend as slideshows that rotate or flip around so their friend can see them. There is one for minor children that is a lot safer for them than MySpace called Vevo. I would not recommend that minors use MySpace because it is to accessible, even with the new privacies changes.
My preference is MySpace. I just have a lot more fun with it that FaceBook, and even though everyone I know has accounts in both, they use the MySpace the majority of the time.
Below are my links for this lesson.

Thursday, March 13, 2008



Wikis was fun and interesting. I had used Wikipedia before, but that was for research only, which I really didn't find too helpful. Using Wikis for communication purpose of planning events at a Library or etc.. would be great. I would enjoy the BookLovers Wiki though. That one I know I will be giving a second look to.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

DEL.ICIO.US & TECHNORATI

Tagging would be very important to people who do a lot of research on subjects that they are interested in. It would be a quick and easy way for them to keep up with all information on the subject without doing a lot of internet searches.
Del.icio.us would be very useful for people who does a lot of research on certain topics and if they know others that would be interested in some of the things they have tagged. It would be very useful and simple to forward the information to them.
Technorati a good place to tag certain links and it is very simple to do. It seems to already have subjects divided in catagories so it would be easy to find subjects and tag them to your blog.
Here are my links to del.icio.us and technorati:

Friday, February 29, 2008

PLAYING WITH TECHNOLOGY




Using Rollyo, Library Thing, and Online Image Generators are all excellent things to use in a library. Library Thing would be great for cataloging and Rollyo would be great for doing the research, both would be very useful and used a lot. Online Image Generators would be good for special projects and activities going on in the library, it would not be something used all the time.


I enjoyed all of them and will be using them quite a bit now that I know about them.