Wahoo - Award Winners I Like

Wahoo or Yipee maybe. I scrolled through various award winners looking for something to spark my interest. I tried learning a little bit of Greek on Mango, attempted a game or two hmm wait a minute, that wasn't off the award winner list. Anyway, I tried out some fun stuff and was pleased with my new hair from hairmixer. No it is not my Halloween hair. I'm wondering if I but a case of gel and go to my hair woman if I could actually look like this.

Late in the day is when an honorable mention site caught my eye. It's under Fun Stuff and it's One Sentence. The site allows you to submit stories that are only one sentance long. I've always been told that I'm good at summing things up and putting them in a nutshell. So I tried. I have the perfect one sentance story. I fill in all the information except my name and then I foolishly click on SAVE assuming it will save. In fact, on this site it SUBMITS. So I dashed off a quick e-mail to the one with all the power explaining my dilema and have already heard back from him. Now I'm just waiting to see if it's good enough to post.

I'm thinking this site is a really good way to practice putting everything you want to say in one sentance. I've read some work e-mails and memos that might benefit from this site. It might engage kids in a fun way to practice writing. Not the overwhelming 1500 words or 6 pages double spaced kind of writing.

Google doc: A Bit of a Document or Album

Well, I've been playing around with Google docs and I'm finding it quite interesting. I can see how sharing documents from a common place would be excellent when you are not all working in the same room.

I didn't exactly have a thought as to what to try for a document. So I explored the website a wee bit and came across templetes for albums. Now we're talking. I went to my Flickr account and found some photos to play with. The templete had a few quirky things but I'll be visiting Google docs in the future to play around with some more ideas.

This photo is part of my Rose and Iris album. I'm just taking advantage of reviewing what I learned yesterday to make it stick a bit in a piece of my brain.

The Sandbox Wiki Bit

I'm probably confused but am starting to think this is a normal state of my being anyway. I've just been playing with the CML wiki. I added my favorites to a couple of the "Favorite" categories. It felt like I was having fun, adding my own and reading what other staff have as their favorites. It was, well like playing in a sandbox with friends. The Infoline/Rovers are using a wiki instead of a thousand bulletin boards and notebooks to look through for information. I'll have to suggest that we add a "fun" category to help me figure out how to use it more easily.

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Wiki A Hawaiian term meaning bits and pieces

Ok, I don't think that is really what Wiki means in Hawaiian. But a wiki certainly seems to be full of bits and pieces of useful information. The infoline/rover team has one set up and it appears to be very useful. I think it's a good idea. Unless of course, my more cynical nature coming out, the computer doesn't work.

I hope that the wiki will be useful no matter what location I am at, to be a one stop shopping as it was for information.

The photo that you can't see is a photo from Hawaii, the place where the word wiki comes from. Perhaps I will be able to fix it soon with the help of my mentor. Well of course the brilliant Type A Librarian helped me put the photo in. It is on the Road to Hana, Maui, Hawaii.

I believe I have just successfully added by blog to the CML wiki. I'd like to add at this point how relieved I am that the timeline has been extended for this. It's all so new that even with the great directions that I am given, I still spend my "20 minutes" searching around for which button to click on next.

Library 2.0 what a piece

I read it all. All of the articles, and my eyes are bugging out and my heart is pounding. I'm pulled back and forth by my thought of what a library was when I was a child, what it is now as I work at one and what it will be in the future. I am overwhelmed and feeling totally behind in all that is and may be involved.

My first "iceberg," the just in case collection, from the Rick Anderson article http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/2.htm makes me wonder. I have heard or read that a physical book may not be in my future and that makes me sad. I try and think if curling up on a winter's day with a cup of hot chocolate and the snow flakes falling outside the window would be the same with some electronic format. If it will evoke the same sense of satisfaction that I have with a print book. That being said, I don't usually go to a book format for information until after "doing a google".

The barriers that prevent customers from being able to use new technoloiges need to be removed. It's a concept I have of a bending tree. The limbs bend to fit the customer. Not a rigid fixed tree that requires customers to fit into the tree.

The article by Wendy Schultz I will need to reread serveral more times to see if I can wrap my mind around it.

I have the sense from all of these articles that life is moving on and I need to get on board or get left at the station. I'm running to catch the train before it leaves the station. Maybe that isn't a bad thing. I can still run and it might turn out to be a great bit of fun to catch the train.