That was fun

Whoa, this image generator thing is pretty cool.  Kids would have too much fun with this!

thing 12

Week 5 thing 11 Ick

 Gee, kids don’t want to friend their mothers . . .   can you imagine why?  I had to change my picture (couldn’t deal with the real me I guess) and haven’t done much with the page at all.  I’m finding it all so time consuming, but do see advantages  for the library having it’s own page.  Maybe we’ll get to it someday.  Soonish.

First real step to web 2.0 at WPL

Please visit Windsor Public Library BookYak to see our latest effort to drag teens into the library’s realm! It only took 3 people and a couple hours. . .

Week 5 Thing 10

O.K., I might have thrown a minor fit about a year ago when I found out both my kids had accounts (facebook and yahoo 360) even though I had said it probably wasn’t a good idea. Which in my mind meant “NO! Some crazy kook will stalk you.” After looking over the pages and reading their (and all their friends) stuff, reading up on social networking, and attending the Teens and Technology workshop, I’ve lightened up.

So much so that I’m actually going to create an account in my own name. Trepidation!! No really, I’m going to do it.

Social software would be great to bring awareness of the library to the community. Seems like it could take a LOT of time though! We’d have to hire another librarian or have a volunteer willing to spend many hours to reach all target groups (children, teens, homeschoolers, moms, the list goes on forever).

Am I frustrated????????

After hours trying to embed a really cool site, I’m giving up. How depressing. The link is on the sidebar Lookybook.com Time to move on. . .

Things 8 & 9 RSS feeds

New feeds: the weatherchannel, Unshelved, ListenUp! Vermont, The Shifted Librarian, and Kids Lit.  Saving 10-15 seconds per search by using RSS is rather nice! So convenient to have the local weather at my fingertips .

A Google Reader acct was easy to set up and will come in handy when not at home.

Week 3 Thing 7

Write anything about technology that interests me? I’m overwhelmed and my brain hurts. Every one of these 23 things is fascinating, and I find all this information SLOWLY seeping in and out and back in again. Eventually this will become second nature?

Sign of spring

Sign of spring

Originally uploaded by goraiders.1977

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