tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35023381503819845782012-02-16T10:44:24.907-08:00me learning how to use technology.... be afraid, be very afraidmatt lopezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15813428381273175955noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502338150381984578.post-70427723746685130892007-02-27T15:18:00.000-08:002007-02-27T15:27:07.964-08:00

All done!! or am I? I think in reality, this is only the beginning. This whole program has given me the boost I needed to do more exploration. What I liked best? Flickr, hands down. Close second are Bloglines and del.icio.us. I use all three daily, but flickr has help the most because me and my friends are always sharing pictures. What I disliked (even though no one asked) was eBooks. I

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I have to say, that of all the Things we have done, this is my least favorite. I wasn't too crazy about netLibrary and while I managed to find a book of interest on Overdrive, reading it on the computer got tiring very quickly. My eyes were killing me after about 30 minutes. Now, I could print it, but printing out a book is probably more expensive then buyting, so why bother? And quite honestly,

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OK, I really liked this lesson. I have never really done much with podcasts unless it was something sent to me by a friend. Seems like it could be useful in doing research, but I think it would require more equipment than the library has available to it's customers at the moment. Overall, an interesting lesson, I found a great podcast that I will hopefully listen to often.

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Getting the video to post to my blog was simple thanks to YouTube, all you have to do is give them your account information. No HTML editing necessary. I have used youtube before, mainly when friends send me links, I have not really searched it. It is fairly easy, the only thing I didn't care for were the really long videos (short attention span here).

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I did a search for library and this was one of the videos that came up. Thought it was interesting because it shows a different side of what goes on in a library. Granted, it is not an everyday occurance, but libraries are not always the quiet, tranquil places that every thinks. Everyday, the real world comes into our libraries and it is not always the good stuff. I actually left a comment

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I really enjoyed this task. I found some good groups and it seems like a really convienent way to find material I would be interested in. No more roaming around B&N or scrolling through Amazon to find stuff, I can just search here and find out what other people who have similar tastes are reading. I added some books, but there are still lots more to come, I may even splurge and buy the

matt lopezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15813428381273175955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502338150381984578.post-61384648776969944562007-02-22T16:17:00.002-08:002007-02-22T16:21:51.610-08:00

As you can see below, not only did I get to use Zoho, but I also managed to publish it straight to my blog!! (applause applause!) Actually, this is a pretty cool tool, and as I don't have Word, Excel or Outlook on my home laptop anymore (virus, no more fileswapping for me!) this will be a very useful tool to have around. I am going to check out the other similar ones, such as the Google one,

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Ok, so what can I write about??  Well, so far, this whole Learning 2.0 has been a lot of fun and very useful.  Love the Flickr and Bloglines and am slowly the other tools as time allows and as I need them.  As far as Zoho goes, seems to work just as well as MS Word.  I was able to not only create a document, but was also able to edit a document previously created in Word.  This will be

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Ok, this was a lot of fun and relatively easy. I added favorites to books, vacation spots and tv shows. Also added my blog to the favorite blogs area. This might be a good way to share information among staff, esp on the branch level.

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I admit, I had never used Wikipedia. I tried it a little today, but mostly followed the other links provided. Seems that there are a lot of pros and cons to using a wiki, you just need to be sure a wiki will work for your needs. It's nice that you can control the content, but on the flip side, it does kind of defeat the purpose of a wiki. Spam and vandalism are just some of the problems you

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First, let me tell you, Friday afternoon is not the time to try and read a screen full of text. I actually read 3.5 of the 5 links, but started getting too drowsy. Not because of the content, but because the week is almost done and my mind did not want to let my eyes read anymore. Of the ones I did read, I liked the first one the best. I could relate to what he said, esp the part about the "

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This wasn't too hard, still a lot to explore. I did the search, it was interesting to see how different they were. I tagged and claimed my blog, so it will be interesting to see if it shows up on anyone elses search when the get to this point. More later.

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Technorati Profile

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I liked this. It works really well and now my bookmarks are the same at home and at work. I can see how this will be helpful when it's time to replace my laptop, I won't have to go and find all the sites, this will keep them all in one place for me. As to how it will work for the library, might be useful, I'll have to keep using it to see.

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OK, so this was pretty fun. I did a roll about travel, since I have it on the brain right now. I can see how this would be pretty useful in the library and I think customers would use it if we offered it. I think I attached the roll, so let me know how it works.-matt Select...Matt's SJPL Learning 2.0 blogSearch The Web

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OK, so the cool thing about this is that some of the sites that got awards are sites that I already use. Craigslist.org is a great site for all things classified. From concert tickets to apartments, I've used it for everything. Flickr, well, what more can I say, I love that site. It's a great way to share pics with friends without having to send email. Anyhow, almost halfway done!! Wish me

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This was a lot of fun.. I did a cartoon one, just cause it was one of the better ones I found. I posted the image to my flickr account, but here is a link just to make it faster. Also added a link to the generator...http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjmatt/361203523/http://www.comicstripgenerator.com/

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Ok, so things 8 and 9 were pretty cool. Now I have to break myself out of the habit of going to all these websites to see whats happening and instead letting them come to me. I am sure there are many more feeds I would like to track, so it will def be some work for me. Till next week...

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Thing #6... Lots of fun here, mashups are pretty cool and I think I may spend some more time trying to mash up some of my pics in the future. Thing #7.. anything technology related.. hmmm... Flash drives... Love them!!! I put 30 (yes 30!) floppies worth of pictures on a 256 flash drive.. and still had room to spare!! At home, it is so much easier to share pictures with friends that way, esp

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Ok, so this Thing forced me to do something I have been seriously lagging on... using my Photoshop software that I bought months ago and never really messed around with. So, I went home and spent some quality time with all the pics on my laptop and PS. Can you FRUSTRATING? Granted, I didn't really read the manual, but I guess I just with is was more intuitive to the beginner. Did a lot of

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Ok, so I started a bit early, but since it is a slow time here at work, I thought I would get started. So far there is a lot of good content and it seems to be pretty easy, but I am guessing it will get a bit harder as I go along. It looks like there will be a lot of cool stuff to learn and it is really nice that we get to learn this as part of work, especially since it will be a benefit both

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