aelurophile's f.o.i.r!

#23 - week 9 - DUDE I AM DONE!!!!

2007-03-28T13:19:00.000-07:00

this has been a fascinating journey. when i first started it, i really thought we'd be covering stuff i already knew...i consider myself moderately tech savvy...but i didn't know about a lot of the tools that have been popping up.

i'd never heard of rollyo, never subscribed to rss feeds, and had never had fun with an online image generator, among other things. as libraries move into the future and take advantage of what the internet has to offer instead of shrinking in fear, i think we will find that everything we learned about in 2.0 can be applied to libraries in some way - and at no cost!!! what could possibly be better than that?

as far as any improvements, well, i know people got overwhelmed early. i'm not sure how you could fix that. and then of course, there are people like me with terrible work habits, and i'm not sure how you could have any control over rebels like me. i guess all that matters is that i got it done and i, unexpectedly, learned so much in the process. i would definitely participate in the next iteration of learning 2.0.

#22 - week 9

2007-03-28T13:11:00.000-07:00

i've a fair amount of experience with ebooks and after looking at project gutenberg, et. al., my conclusion stays the same. i do not like ebooks. i don't like reading online. i much prefer the tactile experience.

remember when there used to be some many ebook vendors and ebooks were the wave of the future? i think a lot of those companies went out of business.

but, it was interesting to see the top 100 downloads and the like on the gutenberg site.

#21 - week 9

2007-03-28T12:45:00.000-07:00

i looked at several podcast sites. i found many different library-related pod casts, but many of them had not had any new additions for a long while. i also had a hard time adding any of them to my bloglines account. i finally found one related to sunnyvale library, and though it had an rss button, when i tried to copy its url, it did not translate over to bloglines, so i typed it in manually. i a little frustrating, i must say. but the end is near!!!!

#20 - week nine

2007-03-28T12:27:00.000-07:00

the glory that is youtube. i have been being entertained by youtube for quite a while. just the other day i was iming with a friend, reliving when i used to watch 120 minutes on mtv - you tube has all of the videos they used to show! here's one (i am going to try to embed it)

this video started a long love affair with the blake babies and their spinoffs.

even though the following video is one of the most popular in youtube history, i hadn't seen it until recently:

fun!

#19 - week 8

2007-03-28T10:12:00.000-07:00

i will finish this! why am i so determined? i know plenty of other people who have fallen by the wayside, and i'm crazy busy. ah well...on i go.

later the same day...

i am here at rosegarden where the lovely and talented christy aguirre is once again allowing me to spend some of my hours here working on learning 2.0 (thanks, christy!!). so, i created an account on library thing: http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=aelurophile. i added all of the books from james marsden's young adult series "tomorrow when the war began." many people don't know that there are not three, but seven books in this series. in addition, marsden has begun an "ellie" series, which deal with the protagonist after the war is over. i haven't read it - it's australian and wasn't available here until recently.

there wasn't too much discussion on these books - i don't think they are all that well known stateside, but they are AWESOME.

#18 - week 8

2007-03-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

i wrote a post in zoho writer and attempted to publish it to my blog. initially i did not follow directions, but then i checked the directions and learned that i had been doing everything correctly. but when prompted to log in to my blog via zoho, i get the error message the either my id or password isn't recognized. since i'm logged into blogger right now, there must some technical difficulty that, well, is not my fault. :(

here's what i would have posted had it worked:
i am writing my post on zoho writer. hopfully i'll be able to export it to my blog...if you can see it, i have accepted and met the challenge.

the advent of wordprocessing online, etc. is huge! i think about all the the research only computers we have at king with no word capability...with a tool like this, who needs word capability? it's just like meebo.com. which is chatting across the interweb and needs no downloaded software to run.

#17 - week 7

2007-03-28T08:30:00.000-07:00

i did my duty and added my blog to the wiki. i also posted my favorite young adult books in the favorite book section. time is tick tick ticking...

#16 - week 7

2007-03-27T22:15:00.000-07:00

i looked at several of the wikis, but i must say my favorite is the book lovers wiki. what an awesome tool/site/wiki!. to think that the average bear can contribute to something like this, or that this was such a collaborative exercise...wow.

i've worked on special projects for sjsu's slis classes using wiki technology. it is amazing how easy it is to collaborate using this technology. i'm struck by, as far as libraries, how useful this could be for answering difficult reference questions. as it is, several people usually use forms to answer one question - it gets passed around until a sufficient answer is found. i think using a wiki for this process would allow more flexibility than passing around a sheet of paper.

#15 - week 6

2007-03-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

i read a few of the perspectives and i am particularly struck by the emphasis on partnering and collaboration. this is an extremely important idea for libraries moving forward.

as the world, and libraries, move into the digital age, change is very fast in coming. it has been my experience that many are resistant to change, especially as the idea of being a librarian as a cloistered profession fades away. the new model involves a lot more patron interaction. this can particularly be seen in the san jose way. for those who worry about all of this change, i must point out that, as far as libraries are concerned, this is nothing new. libraries have always been on the forefront of embracing the latest technology. remember the microfiche & film controversies? the beginning of opacs? the current technological landscape may be changing faster then in the past, but it is, in essence, the same. embrace the new, i say. and who knows, maybe someone will unplug the internet someday and we'll go back to card catalogs. :)

#14 - (week six)

2007-03-21T14:56:00.000-07:00

the blog directory search on technorati came up with the most relevant results for learning 2.0. the tag search seemed to come up with the most blogs in different languages.

it's funny to see how quickly trends/fads of the internet spread - like that certain youtube video, or the dreaded forwarded email. with these tools, it's like a hyper-speed virus. it's also very voyeuristic, the public aspect of it. but i guess humans are pretty much naturally nosy, so it is definitely fulfilling a need, i suppose.

#13 - (week 6)

2007-03-21T14:41:00.000-07:00

#13 - del.icio.us is an awesome tool. i plan to organize (using del.icio.us) my raggedy mass of "favorites", which has pretty much been languishing on my computer for years, when i get home. thanks to the generosity of christy aguirre (thanks, christy!) i am working on this at rosegarden, where i spend 5 hours of my internship a week. looking at how other people have tagged and what they've tagged is fascinating.

i can definitely see the utility of social bookmarking for libraries. websites of interest to patrons, staff, etc, could be easily organized and made exportable. that's cool.

#12 - week five

2007-03-19T14:23:00.000-07:00

since i am interested in serving incarcerated youth, i put together a searchroll of publications, general interest and funding sources for/regarding said youth. it took me a while to figure out how to link to my searchroll, but i figured it out. here it is: http://rollyo.com/aelurophile/incarcerated_youth/. i am going to run some searches now...this is a pretty good idea. if only we could have something like this ALL of the databases that King has - but i know that's not possible because of permissions, etc.

#11 - week five

2007-03-17T12:50:00.000-07:00

coolest discovery yet! i checked out www.meebo.com, an award winner. i'd seen people instant messaging with it before, but i never quite knew what it was. now, i have one more thing to distract me when the reference desk is slow...hmmm, maybe i shouldn't have said that...anyway, it will be fun to i'm when i'm at work. it'll all be, ahem, work related, of course.

#10 - week 5

2007-03-17T12:38:00.000-07:00

i used www.comicstripgenerator.com to create this lovely work of art. fun!

#8 & #9 - (week 4)

2007-03-17T12:10:00.000-07:00

awesome! i subscribed to 11 feeds. i was happy to see dailykos listed without my having to search for it, but was disappointed that the superficial and gofugyourself weren't automatically listed. but that's ok, i found them upon a feed search.

#7 - (week three) - pod person

2007-03-17T10:52:00.000-07:00

it pains me to admit it, but i have turned into a pod person. i bought an ipod shuffle a few weeks ago and now i don't leave home without it. in theory, i think ipods are evil. americans already live in such a bubble world and being plugged in constantly just makes it worse.

that said, i got one. and now i don't understand why the plugged in kids aren't smiling ALL THE TIME. if i am listening to music i love (like devil doll) it's all i can do to not dance around be grinning like an idiot.

My creation

2007-03-17T10:46:00.001-07:00

My creation
Originally uploaded by aelurophile.

i made a trading card. how cool. i really need to edit this photo for better resolution.

color me lagging

2007-03-17T09:54:00.000-07:00

watch me attempt to squeeze in everything in the next two weeks. ah well, that's how i work. it's not procrastinating, it's working up to the deadline. hey, why do today what you can do the day after tomorrow?

#5 (week three) - i explored flickr, went searching for pictures of devil doll - a band i cannot get enough of these days. i found this : http://www.flickr.com/photos/heathershade/87977019/. the lovely "devil doll" is the one on the left. her actual name is colleen. i'm not uploading the pic, because i don't know the person who took it. instead, here's one of me that i just posted to my brand-spanking new flickr account.

#6 (week three) - (see above)

herein i will keep track of what i've done

2007-02-05T09:18:00.000-08:00

#1 (week 1) - i listened to the podcast a while back - mary nacu has a lovely reading voice
#2 (week 1) - the easiest habit for me is: viewing problems as challenges, the hardest: begin with the end in mind - when attempting to learn something new sometimes i get caught up in the i'm too old or whatever. i am not a good beginner. if i think only of the end result, then i want to rush to get there, but with activities that take practice, that is not a realistic way to go about it.
#3 (week 2) - here i am
#4 (week 2) - done

next on to flikr

la premiere

2007-01-17T13:49:00.000-08:00

my first post. have i crossed a line into bloggerdom and out of lurkerdom? only time will tell. but for now, f.o.i.r! in fact, i started a really good book today call heat by bill buford.