Not Just Another Pretty Place

11.5: Thing 11.5

2009-08-03T14:45:00.000-07:00

I thoroughly enjoyed this trip to the beach - no sand in my swimsuit and nn sunburn!!

1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey? My favorite discovery was screencasting. My least favorite was Second Life. Still haven't shaken that sketchy guy...LOL

2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals? Just like 23 Things, I have benefitted from the structure. Had I not jumped in, I would've NEVER done this on my own.

3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? Oh yeaH! By commenting on some of the 23 Things group, I leanrded about docstop - very helpful

4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? you guys should win an awrd for this - seriously - someone better enter your product into whatever competition it fits in...VERY organized. VERY concise. VERY well thought-out

Thanks for another fun summer of learning!!!

11.5: Thing 11

2009-08-03T14:04:00.000-07:00

Perfect timing for me - I can use "digital Citizenship" for my orientation! This may sound juvenile for the high school set - but PBS's "drivers License" test for the internet is really basic but that's the beauty of it It's a very cool site - and would be great for elementary kids - they get to print out a "license" and everything.

I'm going to incorporate the following points into orientation this year, not necessarily in the order - from digitalcitizenship.net

1. Digital communication issues: cell phone use, i-touch use, IMing, texting
2. Facebook, MySpace guidelines
3. properly using email
4. website evaluation
5. research guidelines
6. properly citing sources and honoring another's intellectual property
7. and more I'm sure

11.5: Thing 10

2009-08-03T13:48:00.000-07:00

Second Life. Hmmmmm. It was super easy to become "Jacquelyn Sapphire" - but here's the deal. I'm just as shy in Second Life as I am in First Life! I don't want to visit with anyone. And note to sketchy guy that kept asking me my name...I heard you. I just want to play and walk around and look at stuff and fly if I want to. Can I be there incognito?? LOL

Now, to discuss the use of Second Life by children. I can totally see where geeky, shy kids would feel free to become someone else. Or abused kids could escape. Or maybe children with very few physical possessions could dream. And achieve. Kind of what books did for me when I was a geeky, shy kid. I browsed through some of the kid-friendly sites - they're pretty sophisicated! I think their screen time should be limited, though. It's just like some of the WOW addicts - they actually LIVE there because they find more success there. That's sad.

11.5: Thing 9

2009-08-02T19:54:00.001-07:00

280 slides is a GREAT product, especially since you can import your powerpoint slides and not lose anything. Every now and then we have issues where it's a different version of powerpoint between home and the teacher's classroom or the library. 280 slides would make it easier for those kids, no doubt. And of course, don't forget Google's version of powerpoint. There's no excuse now. Slideshare, like Google, etc., would allow multiple students to work and collaborate and synthesize single presentations. That is probably the most important aspect - some of these products are sleeker than powerpoint, i.e. the graphics are more professional looking but really when you get down to brass tacks, the main thing in my opinion is accessibility.

11.5:Thing 8, part 1

2009-08-02T19:21:00.000-07:00

Oooooo...I see big potential with jing. Even if I do have to download it. (I trust the TechSmith folks and I'm big on brand loyalty...LOL) I'm going to use it to do my orientation presentation this year. Instead of trying to herd the masses into the library to do orientations I've decided to instead shoot an infomercial, I mean, orientation presentation to send out and post to our site. Sue Waters's blog post about how to do a better job of screencasting has answered several of my concerns. I have the orientation worked out on paper (I'm still one of THOSE people that like to sketch things out, like a storyboard. I still write grocery lists. Yeah.) and all I need to do is shoot the video once I go back on duty. The screencasting is ready to go but I want to record the audio at work. I'm very excited about this project. I've wanted to do it for a long time but I feel I didn't have enough skills to pull it off...I'm almost there!

11.5: Thing 7

2009-08-02T12:55:00.000-07:00

Hello. My name is Renae and I'm a television and movie junkie. Hulu is my drug of choice. Second only to All My Children. In all seriousness, there is so much out there. Fair Use is just the tip of the iceberg as far as I'm concerned. Remember how scared we all were (those of us with pre-adolescents that liked to download music)when music companies really started prosecuting? I get the same heeby-jeebies when I think about the mash-ups and mixes that we're coming up with. The Fair Use link helped me reason through it, though. And I believe we should show this to kids - not to just the broadcast journalism kids, either. I'm going to suggest (hi LR) that we broadcast this 4 min. video from the main page to the whole school - kind of like an part introduction to fair use, you know? And then follow up with the documents.
I thoroughly enjoyed playing with the National Geographic videos. I chose one to coincide with my trip to Holland - I came to realize after visiting the World War II AMERICAN Memorial in Holland just how involved we were. 8000 Americans lost their lives just in Holland. You know, I think we don't do our students justice when it comes to teaching them the history of WWII - as Americans we really just think about Pearl Harbor and then we dropped a couple of bombs. I talked with Dutch survivors that had German soldiers walk into their homes and take their food - the whole country was occupied. And they are so appreciative of the American, English and Canadian forces that saved them that they constructed memorials on their own decades before we did.

11.5: Thing 6

2009-08-02T12:26:00.000-07:00

Boy, this was a challenge for me. I decided to wait until my son came into town so I could play with his iphone without the Apple guys breathing down my neck. He already had a plethera of apps downloaded so I really got a little bogged down in his toys first. LOL I did manage to download a free wikipedia app for his phone - it was very easy to do and I was surprised he didn't already have it downloaded. I have an apple itunes account because I bought my daughter a mac online a year ago - I just hadn't used it for anything else so now I'm hooked up. I want to visit with some other librarians to find out the best course of action in reference to downloading on the itouch(es) we're getting. I imagine most kids will have their own account but I want to have a general account ready. Maybe something easy to remember.

11.5: Thing 5

2009-07-24T15:02:00.000-07:00

GREAT ideas for backchanneling during conferences. Especially the idea of having a friend monitor the chat so it doesn't get out of hand like the sxsw 08 interview of facebook's boy genius by Saray Lacey....I would've just died. And the transcripts can be archived so the feedback is immediate - you don't have to wait for those pesky eval forms. I like the idea of their eyes being on their screens instead of me (during presentations)...I don't like the attention as it is so I certainly wouldn't mind keyboard tapping as long as they weren't looking at me! As for a classroom, I think you would have to BIG TIME set boundaries at the beginning. Otherwise, they would be all over the place in their comments. I'm just as guilty!
As far as Twitter goes, I'm still not quite ready to share my every move with anyone yet - I like being under the radar...LOL Seriously, my Facebook account has been a HUGE step for me...and I go through little spurts of being super visible to leaving the country for two weeks and not touching a computer....I know! I'm a baaaaad girl.
Maybe I'll start tweeting. Arghhhhh.

11.5: Thing 4

2009-07-24T08:10:00.000-07:00

I'm back and now that the jet lag is practcally gone, I've hit the beach again. Uploading to youtube. My first experience with video uploading went well. However, I uploaded straight from my camera and found that the audio file uploaded at a different speed. Catastrophe, right? No! It actually worked out better because the video shows my kitten and dog playing or I should say my kitten attacking my 60 lb. white german shepherd. I am laughing through the entire thing so my laughs and commentary are sped up like Minnie Mouse on crack. It's hysterical! I did figure out that I should've dumped it somewhere else first and then uploaded to youtube so at least there was a lesson there. But my mistake came out much better than the intended product :)

I didn't know about SchoolTube - only TeacherTube. Another great place for ideas and an easy place to upload student products. Did you see the list of sponsors????? WOW!

11.5:Thing 3

2009-07-07T10:42:00.000-07:00

Skyppe hype - it's real. Out of my circle of friends, I know one couple that uses it to communicate while he's overseas. It (or a facsimile of Skyppe) was utilized in The Taking of Pelham 123 with Denzel and John Travolta. It's really easy to use and free for the most part. I see it being used in the educational and business arenas. One of the unique educational uses I discovered by exploring Vaughn's list of resources is Mixxr - really cool place for language learners to hook up. The list is continuously growing (ways for schools to use it) - virtual field trips, meet an author, collaboration with schools on the other side of the world, etc. And of course business meetings all but require face-to-face meetings so these tools can save loads of money in travel expenses.

One thing I worry about is that we're bringing up generations of kids that won't know how to sit across a table from another person and have a conversation. They would rather text or IM - even sitting literally across the library from the other person. At least with video conferencing, they have to be able to carry on a conversation and speak their thoughts as they flow instead of filtering them as they type.

Bookr, Dan O.... couldn't help myself...

2009-06-24T09:02:00.000-07:00

Bookr. Another one of those free products that makes me wonder over and over again...who are these people and when do they have all of this free time to come up with these cool tools... for FREE??? Whomever they are...I LOVE them. I could see using Bookr's book format instead of powerpoint or photostory. I have to confess, though. I "cheated" and clicked on the index menu on the right so I didn't have to manually turn the pages. That option would thrill younger audiences, I'm sure. I noticed that pim pam pum takes donatons - I hope they get some $$$ so they can keep creating cool tools like this one!

Starship Log 11.5: Thing 2, Wordle

2009-06-24T08:49:00.001-07:00

Wordle is soooo easy to use! I used the text from The Preamble and edited the color palette (red, white and blue, of course!) and played with the alignment to make something really cool. You can generate top-notch, high-art products so quickly. LOVE it. This could replace the old-fashioned "cut up a magazine and make a collage of who you are" project that I still see assigned every year. I remember reading about different learning styles and the "artsy" type of person could use this format to study key concepts or vocabulary. VERY cool.

11.5: Thing 1

2009-06-16T08:40:00.000-07:00

I've watched this video so many times now - and we really are all students of connectivism. It's where we are all going - not just students. Now that we have opened up FB and MS, what I want to see actually happen is that students really do post their research findngs to ther FB account for their use or for collaboraton with their team members. They're not going to automatically do that since they don't see the potential yet - they still think of FB as their social pipeline, their lifeline actually. It's going to take librarians teaching teachers how to use FB - and this forum is going to go a long way in dong that. I hope.

SUMMER SUMMER SUMMER

2009-06-16T07:58:00.001-07:00

Love it love it love it. And I'm back on the web 2.0 train so...WOOOWOOO, ALL ABOARD!!! I'll try to tear myself away from the yardwork and the really long list of things I want to accomplish in my household in the next couple of weeks to post and ponder and ride the web train!

Facebook, Schmacebook

2009-05-12T11:14:00.000-07:00

OK. So I finally started the Facebook thing since my 30 year HS reunion is approaching and apparently, that's THE place to meet up with everyone. But I'm seriously overwhelmed with the whole thing. If any of my Facebook friends are reading this...STOP RIGHT NOW. JK - what I'm trying to dance around here is that I don't pay much attention to the little comings and goings. I'm a big picture girl...like...did you hit the lottery? Did someone propose? Did you solve the credit crisis? I don't look at it often enough to play the little games and take the little quizzes or figure out what mythical creature I am. Truth is, when I get home, the last thing I want to do anything that requires a log-on or password. The most technologically emeshed thing I do in the evening is fire up the DVR to get my daily dose of ALL MY CHILDREN. That's right...I still watch it, like everyday! I am seriously impressed with you guys, though. I do see some serious creativity out there...and I don't want you to stop poking, pod casting or pinging me...I would miss it...I really would.

By George, I think I've got it (for the most part...)

2008-08-19T11:43:00.000-07:00

Spent the day putting my money where my mouth is....reminds me of a joke about the big-mouthed momma frog and alligator...never mind. I was so excited to find out that I had to work through Photo Story, Audacity, Flickr, Irfan View, Power Point, Incompetech, TeacherTube, MovieMaker and a plethera of image generators. Overall, I worked fast and furiously to try to complete SOMETHING, ANYTHING that I could share. Must get rid of this perfectionist thing I have going on...anyways, I did try to post my audio file on the Learning 2.0 wiki and was unsuccesful....s-l-o-wwwwwwwwwww. Just shoot me. SO I gave up. Here is something though...just to prove that I really did something. OK. Never mind. Error in uploading. We have not had much success in uploading today :(

I started my Freshman Orientation presentation by gathering a few photos to construct a flipchart. That took a while because I wanted a mixture of backgrounds. I did find a good reggae mp3 to play in the background. So I really spent my my finding all of the components and didn't come up with a finished product. There's a partial movie, partial powerpoint, partial photostory - all saved in one file so I can pull from it to make a smashing orientation presentation.

WHEN I finish the flipchart, I'll post it here. Wish me luck.....
Toodles!

Yes, I'm still alive and well

2008-07-09T12:15:00.000-07:00

Have you missed me? I can't believe my last post was in MARCH. It's like I finished my 23 things and just disappeared, eh? Truthfully, I didn't abandon USING the cool toys I picked up in 23 Things - I just haven't blogged about it. AND I've been reading. Actually READING. Those of you that know me well know that I'm always whining about how little time I have to read. Well, let me tell you. I've been working on that...I just finished Eaters of the Dead by my boy Michael Crichton. It was enlightening and disturbing at the same time. I read it in a day and find it so interesting that it all started on an argument that Beowulf could be interesting if the story was told in an interesting way. I agree. Something else I learned is that the Antonio Banderas movie The 13th Warrior was based on Crichton's Eaters of the Dead. Now I have to go rent it..TTFN

THING 23 - Good Night, Gracie

2008-03-18T08:10:00.000-07:00

It's not the end - it's the beginning, right? I learned SO MUCH. I'm slowly but surely getting over the overwhelmed feeling. I don't have to do it all! I just need to be open to doing it all. It won't all work for me but I have to remember our students are living it. Right now. Social networking is EVERYTHING to them and we had better jump in or we're going to miss the chance to make an impact. I am walking away (see me? My Avatar does have on sensible heels, even though they are cute) with a considerable amount of new info to process. I need to figure out how to weave these tools into my life. I'm optimistic. But I have to give myself a break if I don't take to some of these environments immediately or easily like I'm used to doing. I have to remember way back to Super Mario Brothers. I could not get past that stupid 2nd level but my 1st grader could. That really still drives me insane. I'm not good at most video games - only the racing games. But I still want a wii...

And at least I know how to hook up a data projector...so there! HA!!

Thing 22 - Ninging it

2008-03-18T07:55:00.000-07:00

Ninging it. MUCH better than that atrocious MySpace thing I got sucked into by my college-aged children who insisted I have a page of my own. NEVER got into that scene. But I did get to peek in on their pages so it wasn't a total loss. Found out that my daughter liked to quote me on her MySpace page. Cute, you say?? Nope. She wasn't citing my quips of maternal knowledge and wisdom. Noooooo. She was telling the bajillion people that visit her page about the FUNNY things Mom said and DID - in detail. And NO I'm not going to tell you how to get to her page. But back to the task at hand. Ning. Like I said, MUCH better. Very low CREEPY factor. I hadn't set paramters on my now-removed MySpace page so I regularly got, shall we say, invitations to share my space. No thank you. But with a ning - I'm in a specific circle of "friends" - explored the Librarian nings and then a golf ning and now I'm thinking I'll start a ning of my own. Subject to be determined at a later date. I could see using a ning for a specific school project - like an inter-disciplinary project. It's a bit more cool than just a wiki or a blog, you know? :)

Thing 21 - Podcasting

2008-03-18T07:12:00.000-07:00

In case you've been in a coma for last year, I guess you know how HOT vampire books are with the teens and adults alike. Steph Meyer started it - and now girl-falls-for-werewolf, boy-gets-the-vampire genre is exploding. We can't forget Buffy, though - she did for TV what Bella has done for reading. Anyways, there are so many people out there wanting to tell a story and I ran across it looking for new vampire writers. The author reads it herself - and for free. Smart marketing move? But BEWARE - it's a tad bit on the adult side. OK, more than a tad. But perhaps this will be one you could recommend to the older students and not necessarily put it on the shelf? We'll see...it's Forever Fifteen by Kimberley Steele

http://www.mediafly.com/Podcasts/Episodes/Chapter_1_Lucy_Gets_a_Detention

I've done a couple of podcasts of my own but I still can't get past hearing my own voice. It's creepy. Next move will be to coax a student into doing one for me...

Thing 20 - YouTube

2008-03-12T17:39:00.000-07:00

The YT video I decided to embed is hilarious - it's about the perils of powerpointing your audience to death....I wish I had his speaking skills..AND his powerpoint skills...LOL OK, maybe not so much. I found TeacherTube to have TONS more than the first time I played with it. I can't wait until You Tube is unblocked!

Thing 19 - Web 2.0 Awards

2008-03-12T09:16:00.001-07:00

It's stuff like this that freaks me out and makes me crazy because I feel like I'll never catch up: "There are about 500 2.0 tools on the web. You have explored just a few so far thorough this series of activities. "
Anywho, I explored LuLu and shared it with a budding teen author that hangs in the library with me every chance he gets. Everyone has a book in them, as far as I'm concerned. Whether or not anyone else would want to read it...different story, but at least we know that self-publishing is an option, right? I also looked at WriteBoard - I could see using this and I could see kids using it for group projects.

Thing 18 - Open source stuff

2008-03-12T09:11:00.001-07:00

Love the free part. Love the Google part. Love that I can just hop on and not worry about version this or that of popular Microsoft software. Like the powerpoint knock-off but had problems importing clips but I'll deal and learn to love it. Did I mention it's FREE??

Thing 17 - sandbox

2008-03-07T09:10:00.000-08:00

Now "sandbox" is the perfect descriptor for these wikis. I play in a couple of sandboxes - one that is professional and one that is a creative outlet. Both are equally gratifying and easy to get to. Sometimes I forget to make my way there but once I'm reminded, it's always a good feeling to connect.

Thing 16 - wikis

2008-03-07T09:03:00.000-08:00

I've been a big fan of wikipedia since way back. From a professional point of view, I've suggested to students that it's a great place for ideas, keywords, concepts when starting a new research project. I do not however, suggest that they use it as an official cited source (yet) but that's only to keep my teachers happy. They STILL think wikipedia is the devil even though I've pointed shown them how useful it can be and that it is monitored more closely now. And besides....you can find just about ANYTHING on wikipedia. Love it. By the way, pbwiki.com looks like a great place to easily start up an educational wiki...

Thing 15 - David Warlick

2008-03-07T08:19:00.000-08:00

Now. If we were going to use "authority" correctly...it would be to label David Warlick apparently. What a find! Could you imagine having him on your faculty? He's probably inspired me the most out of any of the blogs I've sampled recently. He's not preachy and his ideas are do-able but just far-fetched enough to challenge me. Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do…” Christopher Morley

Thing 14

2008-03-07T07:04:00.000-08:00

Who knew that there are two faces to tagging? Technorati's philosophy and Joshua Schachter's philosphy of the purpose of tagging is polar different. I also learned what "authority" is...I personally think it should be called something else...like "connections" or "taps" because it's the number of times your blog is linked. I just think "authority" lends a false air....of well....authority. Maybe I'm being too literal again....

Thing 13 - del.icio.us

2008-02-29T09:46:00.000-08:00

When pronouncing the name of this bookmarking site - do y'all just say "delicious" - don't want to sound foolish...ok, kidding aside. What a great tool. My literature students can bookmark literary criticism sites! I can bookmark my recipe sites! And I do enjoy browsing other people's tagged sites. Great ideas are swirling around out there!

Thing 12 - Rollyo, HO!!!!

2008-02-27T09:02:00.001-08:00

OK - this was entirely new for me - had no idea this was an option. WAY helpful. I'm rolling in about 20 categories now. I've been counting on Yahoo to roll for me up to this point, sad but true. When I go to Yahoo - I read their news and entertainment suggestions. Now I have to organize all of these tools. I'll probably add it all to my Yahoo home page since that's the place I start every time. There goes more of my social life...good-bye city life! Being tech savvy is a double-edged sword....

Thing 11 -LibraryThing

2008-02-27T08:30:00.000-08:00

New toy. Something else bright and shiny to distract me. I can see it now...my social life is going to waste away because I'm going to be glued to my laptop. Hold up - that's just crazy talk....anyways, I started my LibraryThing catalog. It made me think about those particular titles for a little bit and remember back to how they made me feel. It's also made me think of that slogan "so many books, too little time.." I did like the "top" lists ...very interesting. If you look at the top authors, it's a great mix of classic and contemporary. I'm still a little miffed that Steph Meyer's not there...YET.

Thing 10 - Proud momma

2008-02-27T07:49:00.000-08:00

The trading card generator, really, is very easy. I can totally see how students would love this. For instance, when I taught middle school science, we could've made trading cards for scientists, the elements, plants, animals...endless possibilities. I decided to make a trading card for my daughter...a sophomore Architecture major at LSU...GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!!! Ok, I'm better now...

Thing 10, part 1

2008-02-20T09:22:00.000-08:00

Before I forget - here's a link to make your own custom RSS feed button - just in case you want to confuse everyone and make your RSS feed button unique. http://www.rssbuttons.com/ - more later.

Thing 9

2008-02-20T08:26:00.001-08:00

And so I finally set up RSS feeds for some grown-up topics like my work and our government. It was time. I've procrastinated long enough. I am totally on board for the whole thing - but quite honestly, I tend to bite off more than I can chew so I have avoided "signing up" for too many RSS feeds. So the beginning of my "circle" was well chosen I think. So with Thing 9, I learned how to search blogs to find the ones I want to take the time to read. I'm so glad that the orange feedicon is usually present - it makes it so much easier to find the orange box and click it. Sidenote: I still am a terrible commentator - I think that's the term - or would it be commentor? Whatever. In other words, I'm bad about commenting on other people's blogs. And I know everyone wants feedback. I'm working on it. I'm just overwhelmed I think. OK, back to the task at hand. I think the easiest search tool for me is feedster. It's more of a one-stop shop for me and that tickles me pink. The categories save me time - when I want news, I want news and not someone's thoughts on the news.

Thing 8, RSS feeds

2008-02-20T08:22:00.000-08:00

Since I already subscribe to a few RSS feeds for entertainment purposes, I was already familiar with the lingo. But this did make me think about it. Sometimes, I just can't be bothered to read a movie blogger's comments but I almost always find something interesting in an educational blog.

Thing 7 - whoa

2008-02-06T12:39:00.003-08:00

I was supposed to choose 2 projects after exploring Google. I thought I knew Google. After all, I had Google Earth WAY before my contemporaries. Boy, was I naive. OMG. OK, it all started when I decided on the notebook module - tres cool - I could organize my thoughts, no? Naturally I got distracted by the other pretty buttons so I was in calendar and there were more pretty buttons especially the DOCUMENTS button where I've started a spreadsheet and then I clicked "more" and there's even more under "even more" (KISS) and then I found the best thing EVER near the bottom of the list. BOOK SEARCH. We're talking full-text, table of contents, classics and LITERARY CRITICISM books are there, too! And you can click on "about this book" and OMG again. There are WEB references, related books, and a MAP with cute red push pins showing all of the PLACES MENTIONED IN THE BOOK. Ok, that's just scary. WHO ARE THESE GOOGLE PEOPLE? I'm so glad they don't have a life and they are busy putting this GENIUS package together for me. I wonder how much the ads cost? How do they keep ADDING products for free? I want to kiss them.

Thing 6 cont.

2008-01-30T07:05:00.000-08:00

OMG - I just found the Wacky Packages site because I found krazydad's site because he does the colr flckr site...it's a long story. Wacky Packages were like gold to my generation - it explains why we're a tad warped and here's how I'm making library connections...ready? Wacky Packages were featured in Mad Magazine when I was a kid. So naturally, I provide it to my students. It is so irreverent...I LOVE it. They know how to go just far enough to make us laugh and think but not too far.

Wacky Packages...classic.

Thing 6 - Great banter

2008-01-30T06:51:00.000-08:00

Played with some mash ups - i love color and this one is easy to use. The banter part follows...a user commented on the site and the creator commented back. Priceless.

This is either something that designers and photo editors have been waiting their whole lives for, or one of those "I've created this because the Web lets me do it" kinds of things.-- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
To those that question the utility of this little application, let me point out that it is a toy -- like all the stuff on my website. Its purpose is simply to provide wonder and delight. Nothing more, nothing less. Isn't that enough? -- jbum

Site is color fields colr pickr by Jim Bumgardner http://krazydad.com/colrpickr/

Thing 5 - Flickr

2008-01-30T06:15:00.000-08:00

Explored Flickr - whoa. Had no idea there was so much to it - all I remembered was Yahoo telling me that they were going to Flickr. It's fairly easy to manipulate - and the tags are pure genious. I'm really trying to NOT become a bigger geek than I already am but because I tend to be a wee bit on the perfectionist side, I could spend hours on a simple project. So Flickr will allow me to assemble quickly. Thank goodness.

Thing 4

2008-01-23T08:43:00.001-08:00

SO. I'm officially on the blog train. Non-stop to station 23. It really has been easier than I thought it would be. I could see where one would want to start up a number of blogs to specialize by subject. I'm thinking my students would just love to blog with me about books and movies. Hmmmmm....that's an idea.

Last imported comment - Thing 3

2008-01-23T08:25:00.003-08:00

"Tiger Lilly said...
Thing #3 was slow going but I really did enjoy picking out my Avatar's outfit :) Now I'm going to be obsessed with changing my clothes for different seasons and occasions...I just know it."
January 23, 2008 9:08 AM

Imported comment on Thing 2

2008-01-23T08:19:00.000-08:00

Whoa - so there is a difference between a nickname, a blog name, a blog URL and your Avatar name. I swear, I'm going to get through this. Where is that chocolate I hid yesterday....

"Tiger Lilly said...
The 7 1/2 things really hits home with me. The easiest habit for me is naturally the first one - setting a goal. The hardest is the third - viewing problems as challenges. I tend to view problems as problems and get discouraged when the new task doesn't just come easily to me. It's a character flaw! I am a lifelong learner, though so that's what keeps me going.
January 23, 2008 8:37 AM "

So now I'm showing up as Tiger Lilly. Good.

Imported Comments on Thing 1

2008-01-23T07:48:00.000-08:00

For all of you "non-23 Things" bloggsters, you're probably thinking WTH, right? Just bear with me. It's general housekeeping. Apparently I posted comments in the wrong place. Duh. So I'm going to copy and paste them here. Smart, huh? Heeheeheehee...bwahahahaha.

"Not Just Another Pretty Place said...
This is where I 'blog' down. Do I really want all of cyberspace knowing my most private thoughts? My dreams? My vices? OK,if you must know, there was this one time when...oh, wait. This isn't "The Secret Life of Librarians" blog. My bad. Yeah, ummmm, right. Blogging is a valuable tool and I look forward to embracing the Library2Play philosophy."

Note to self. Cut down on the coffee.

Do your really want to know?

2008-01-23T07:14:00.000-08:00

OK - I'll start off with a confession. Blogging could possibly be a fun outlet for me. I know, I know....I've been bashing it since I signed up for the gig. So I've thrown in the towel. Strung up the white flag. Y'all win. But here's the deal. I don't want it to be just Librarian shop talk, OK?