Thing #15

I read all of them but I liked what Michael Stephens had to say about technolust. We should not invest in technology for the sake of coolness and status. What good is technology if the students do not know how to use it. I think we need to find out where our students are at and then we know what we will need. For libraries to keep up with the changing world I think it is going to cost a lot of money. I don't think any of it is going to come cheap. Above all, we need to keep the librarians educated on all the new stuff so we need to spend money on staff development. I think it's great how libraries are working together and sharing resources. All these changes seem positive and that we're moving in the right direction. What the patron needs is what we need to provide.

Thing #14

Technorati rocks! Wow, I could sit all day and look at other blogs. I went from searching for Learning 2.0 to parenting to recipes. I checked out the popular blogs but I'd rather search by using the tags and come across just the average joe blogging about a topic that I'm interested in. I'm definitely going back to visit some of these again. My favorite was the "5 minutes for Mom" blog. They talked about banning books and then I went to a blog with a lady who lost 200 pounds on Weight Watchers and then I got on a blog post that was giving away a t-shirts that say "My husband rocks". That last one was cool because it listed the people who were reading it live and it said Bismarck, North Dakota and then listed how we found the post. There were only 8 of us reading it and everybody else was from other parts of the United States. I did it by using the tags and the Blog Directory.

Thing #13

With help from Liz I now understand this sight. It's a really handy tool. This could be great for not only faculty but students writing a term paper. We could also use this at the reference desk. When we help a student with a certain topic at the reference desk we could have bookmarked sites for us to go to on that topic. It's really neat that we can access those sites from any computer.

Thing #12

http://rollyo.com/lighthouselover/lighthouse_bb/ Liz said to use this address to get into my Rollyo. This is neat. I'm going to keep using this even after our project is done.

Thing #12

http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=lighthouse+bb&sid=462098

This is really handy. I want to set up another one of these when I have time with the websites for each state's tourism department. Whenever we take a vacation we do a search of the official tourism department websites for each state we will visit. I could have them all in one with this.

Thing #11

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=lghthouselover&deepsearch=

This was a really neat exercise. I would like to use this to keep a list of the books that I would like to read in the future.

Thing #10

This is cool. I would have to say It would be hard for me to pick a favorite because they all were amazing. Being able to make your own "for dummies" book was awesome too.

DVR

We subscribed to a new piece of technology (new for us anyway) from our local cable company. It's called DVR and it's pretty awesome. We never miss a show because we can pause live TV and come back to it and it starts at where we paused it. We then can catch up to the live broadcast as we fast forward through the commercials. No more having to jump up during the commercials to get that evening snack.

Sturgeon Bay Pierhead

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leviathor/111595681/

We saw this lighthouse when we were in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin. We walked out on the pier to get as close as we could. With waves coming up on both sides of the pier it was very scary. I made it about 3/4 of the way because the pier narrowed considerably and you felt like you were in the middle of the ocean with very little land beneath your feet.

7 1/2 lLifelong Learning Habits

The easiest habit for me is Habit #1: begin with the end in mind. I'm not sure if I'm thinking correctly but to me the end is getting an I-pod. I realy want one and so I really want to finish this whole project. I know I will be learning along the way and that's what is supposed to be the imprtant thing.
The toughest habit for me is Habit #4: have confidence in your self as a competent effective learner. I am so dumb when it comes to technology so it's hard for me to have confidence in myself during this whole project. I was so scared to get back into the swing of this after being gone for so long that it took me five days before I even started looking for my password for my blog. But I know when I do finish this whole thing I will feel a strong sense of self worth. I still remember how good it felt when I created a blog. :-)