MP3 Player

Thanks for my MP3 player. It's nice and easy to use and lots of storage. Very Cool!

Thank yous!

I wanted to take time to thank a couple of people for getting me thru my KCLS27things. They are - Paula, our advocate, she helped me get my blog started, Micheal, he was able to keep up with the lessons each week and so as I fell farther behind he was there to help me, and Christina, the Myspace goddess, of course helped me with Myspace. Thanks to you all for the help and because of you all I was able to help with the cram jams.

Another cram session

Well, we just had another cram session and this time we only had 4 people but it was another success. This time it was just for an hour but each person was able to finish at least 1 1/2 to 2 lessons.

Cram Jam

So we just had our cram jam session and I think that it went pretty well. Thanks to all that made this possible and to David for being here to help out. I think that everybody got a little farther. I hope that they all continue. Like Avis said, at this point it's not about the MP3 player but about wanting the knowledge of these services and the help. So I hoped that everyone had a good time this morning?

I've been done with my 27 things lesson but I'm continuing with some of the services. I'm actually trying to make my myspace look nice and having fun with it. I'm getting a lot of help from my coworkers and getting a Myspace for Dummies book to help me figure some things out. I'm also still playing with Flickr and uploading tons of pictures there. I also signed up for Picknic picture editing service and I like using it. I'm glad that my company offered this to us. I hope that they will continue to offer us things like this to help us with our jobs.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to broaden our minds so we can keep up with our patrons and also for making the system allow us the time. I feel that all this knowledge will come in handy not just at work but in my personal life too. I am glad that I participated. I'm also glad that you guys thought ahead and had in position "advocates" to help.

I actually like using some of these services that I thought I would never use. Like Blogspot, I've never kept a journal before and didn't like the idea of blogging about my progress. But now I actually like it because it helps me to remember what I did, liked, and disliked. I think that I just might keep up with this blogging thing. I love taking pictures of my nieces and when my co-workers ask about them I didn't have a way to show it to them because I didn't have a Myspace account. Will now I have a Flickr and a Myspace account and share all the pictures that I have taken. To think I use to hate Myspace...now I'm one of them. I also love the Librarything because people are always asking me what I've read and now I just show them my cataloged books on Librarything. The online applications and tools were really cool and handy. I never knew about them and I am a LTA. I think I spent a little more time then I was suppose to on Youtube. And now I'm a Youtube junkie. Just kidding. It's great fun watching all kinds of things on Youtube, informative or just for fun.

At the beginning I was a little hesitant to do this because I was thinking to myself, how will I ever make time. I also didn't want to sign up for all these services because of the all the info they want you to give them. But as it turned out...most of them only wanted a user name and password. That was easy. I think that we definitely need to keep this kind of training on going as library-relevant technologies emerges because this is only helping us to offer better services to our patrons.

As a LTA, I'm always trying to keep up with the patrons and the world technologically and reading some techie magazine was not enough. Having hands on training was much better. So thank you all for this opportunity and I'm hoping that you all will find more stuff for us to play with. Oh, and yes, thank you for the mp3 player too.

I don't know what to suggest for more training because most of these things were new to me. I hope that other more tech savvy staff will have ideas for you. I will go back and play some more with the other services that were on the awards list and in doing that I hope that I will encounter something new and maybe I will be able to share that with you all. Thanks again.

Oh my gosh! I'm addicted to Youtube.

It was cool to see the Summer Reading Program Promos on Youtube. I think you guys got the right idea for Youtube usage for our library system.

I thought that Podcast.net was the easiest directory to use. You just search and click on play and it goes right to it. It was easy to subscribe to the feed too. It was easy to play podcasts in Yahoo Podcasts too but when I tried to subscribe to the feed it wanted me to download some software and I didn't see a RSS feed link on it for my particular search. With Podcastalley.com it wanted me to download a podcast aggregator in order to listen. Didn't like that.

I did a search on knitting and it brought back a ton of podcast on this subject. I think that it would be fun to listen to one of these podcast on knitting while I'm knitting.

I think that if we did podcasts of our meetings it would be nice for those that missed the meeting to be able to listen to it and it would be easier than taking notes.

As a LTA I'm suppose to teach other staff how to use new software or products as we get them and downloading audio books was one of them. I've done audio books, videos, and music. I know that we are not suppose to download the media console onto our staff pcs but I did it because I need to be able to teach staff. So I've been doing this downloading thing for a while now and it's really nice. I love listening to audio books while driving so I think that that is what I will download onto my mp3 player. I also love listening to music while working around our AMH machine so the other half will be music. We also have a couple of the new pc build public stations with the writeable cd drives and the audio download application so I've been helping patrons with that too.