Whew! I'm happy to have a week off! This is a GREAT program but if anything it's almost too much information to absorb in a short period of time.
I've really enjoyed learning about things that I just haven't had time to explore before, and the self-paced lessons are a plus. Some weeks I can start right away on Monday and other weeks I find myself scrambling at the last minute to catch up.
This week I went back and spent more time with Twitter. I now have an account and am carefully choosing who I want to follow. It's so easy to hit information overload!
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Thing #4: Online Communities
I'm familiar with the online tools we were to look at this week. The Library is on Facebook and Twitter. Personally I use Facebook, GoodReads and LinkedIn although I'm not that interested in spending a lot of time on the computer after a day at work!
I "liked" the Learn with CDLC Facebook page and made use of the refresher on Facebook privacy -- always good to review those details. As I read in a comment by someone else, I am so busy at work that it is difficult to read and absorb all of the information being sent our way in these lessons. But, I'm trying to keep up! I hope the Learn with CDLC Blog will stick around for a while so I can look at it again later this summer.
Our Library is going to try something fun with Facebook that we've seen done elsewhere. We're going to ask patrons to tell us the last 3 books they've read and we'll suggest a new title for them to read. We hope it will be a fun Readers' Advisory day -- and a great use of Facebook.
I "liked" the Learn with CDLC Facebook page and made use of the refresher on Facebook privacy -- always good to review those details. As I read in a comment by someone else, I am so busy at work that it is difficult to read and absorb all of the information being sent our way in these lessons. But, I'm trying to keep up! I hope the Learn with CDLC Blog will stick around for a while so I can look at it again later this summer.
Our Library is going to try something fun with Facebook that we've seen done elsewhere. We're going to ask patrons to tell us the last 3 books they've read and we'll suggest a new title for them to read. We hope it will be a fun Readers' Advisory day -- and a great use of Facebook.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Thing #3: Photo Sharing
I chose Option A this week and searched Flickr for pictures of "library frog." (As to why "library frog" see previous posts!) I found this picture taken by "woodlywonderworks
." We have three frog statues in the outside Reading Garden at our Library that look very much like this one -- they could be cousins! Our frogs are named Booker, Read and Polly. We have a Flickr account for our Library and there are pictures of our frogs if you're curious. Just check out the pictures of the Reading Garden on our website: http://www.cphlibrary.org/
." We have three frog statues in the outside Reading Garden at our Library that look very much like this one -- they could be cousins! Our frogs are named Booker, Read and Polly. We have a Flickr account for our Library and there are pictures of our frogs if you're curious. Just check out the pictures of the Reading Garden on our website: http://www.cphlibrary.org/
Monday, April 4, 2011
Thing #2: RSS
I've had an "igoogle" page for a while but I learned a lot of new things in this lesson.
Also, I had missed the "Add Feed or Gadget" link to easily add a blog to an "igoogle" page, so finding that makes it much easier to read my favorite blogs.
And, finally, I knew about Google Reader but hadn't tried it out. Now I have!
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