Thing #22

Carolyn and I did this one together also. It was easy. We downloaded the Velveteen Rabbit and listened to some dramatic woman read it. She was a bit too dramatic for my taste. We also listened to a duo of father-daughter (I'm guessing) read The Night Before Christmas. Oh, is it cute! We tried Little Black Sambo but that didn't come up. It's really too bad that they can't do books after 1923. I think this is a great idea and that every book should be public domain.

Thing #21

Carolyn and I worked on this one together. The first thing I say for this assignment is "Wow". I had no idea how much is out there. My favorite was Podfeed.net. I created an account and found a Podcast I liked. I subscribed to the SoonerThought Podcast. Podcastalley.com was good and so was Podcast Directory but holy palooza was there some smut on Podcast Directory. There were alot of podcasts from different libraries. I could sit and listen all day if I had the time.

Thing #20

For my YouTube video I watched the "Oregon Lighthouses: the silent sentinels". Actually I watched about 20 different videos on lighthouses but this was my favorite. It's on Yaquina Head Lighthouse and Yaquina Bay Lighthouses in Oregon. We saw both of them on our trip in August 2006. I liked this video because it was professionally made. After looking at so many videos on YouTube I really do not care for the ones that people have made on their vacations. Some of them are really boring and drug out. I like to watch the videos that are informative and done in a tasteful manner. I like a narrator that has a nice calm voice and the background music fits what you are watching. I think it would be interesting to make a video of our library and put it on YouTube but it should be professionally done. Not just pictures of us smiling and waving at the camera.

Thing #19

The directions say to select one site. I had to contain my self to looking at 9 sites and then I had to stop. I could spend all day looking at the different sites. Two that I liked were for parents: MothersClick and Minti. They had areas where parents could pose questions and then people would answer. MothersClick had recipes that I found were useful but the site was mostly for mothers with young children. Minti had advice about older children also so I found that more helpful.

There was another site that was good called DonorsChoose.org. It's a site where teachers all over the United States can put in a request for an item for their classroom and the dollar amount and anyone can give money towards that item. It shows the total cost, how much has been given, and how much is needed. It also tells if it's a poverty level area or moderate poverty level. I found this helpful to teachers who are teaching in poverty level areas.

I also looked at Craig's List. I've heard of it but had never looked at it before. In North Dakota it's only for the Fargo-Moorhead area. I think they need to get Bismarck added. This is a very helpful site and it's amazing at how much it contains.

Thing #18

Wow, this is so easy to use. Why aren't we all using this instead of Microsoft Office. It's free and we'd all be using the same version. I imported two documents and I was able to make the same changes that I would normally make using Microsoft Office. If I understand it correctly, I could work on stuff at work and post it to this and then work on it at home. Brilliant!

Thing #17

I found this one to be a little difficult. It took me a while to figure out but it is pretty cool.

Thing #16

Wikis are pretty cool. They allow libraries to share information with each other and their patrons. My favorite was the Book Lovers Wiki. If I'm looking for a book to read for pleasure, reading what an average everyday person thought about a book is much more important to me than reading professional book reviews. I think we should do this at BSC Library. We could create the Wiki and then have any employees that want to do a review of the book they just read or do a review of their most favorite book. That way, if we pick their book to read we know who we can contact after we're finished if we'd like to discuss the book.