I have now found it all!

I was reviewing some of the award winners. I found Judysbook.com which had a multitude of money saving coupons for lots of different things - such as Sandals vacation, $25 off airline tickets, etc.

But the really big thing - and the reason I named this "i have found it all" was I found a website called cocktail builder which you list the contents that you have on hand and it will tell you what cocktails you can mix.

I have now seen it all - these activities continue to amaze me with the information avaialable.

Zoho!!! It has clicked!

Here is the link to zoho. this is something I really can see myself using!



http://writer.zoho.com/index.do?docId=what-I-can-do-with-zoho

Week 7 Wikis are a real possibility

This lesson has been frustrating. I couldn't get my blog to post to the sandbox (talk about not being allowed to play in the Sandbox)! I was excited to learn about Wiki's and can really see a way to use a wiki for a Central Office reading list. We are often given articles to read and they keep getting lost in the piles of paper that each of us have on our desks. A reading list on a wiki as demonstrated in the demo would be a good collaborative tool for A&S or Central Office or both.

Week 6 - coming down the stretch!

As I worked on the week 6 activities, I was struck with how the librarian of my childhood has really had to change and adapt to be today's librarian (although I doubt any of them are still working).....This tagging really went over my head Technorati....well I didn't do well with that either. But when I read the Library 2.0 and its stories about how the power for research is now in the hands of individuals, not the librarians, I was really struck with the changes that I have seen in my career. No longer do we have to search through pages and pages of print material - info is at your fingertips and you can tag and sort it at you leisure. And today's librarians have to be teachers - how to access all of this. No longer are you searching card catalogues hoping to find that "golden article" that told you what you wanted to know. And I wondered....have educators dedicated themselves to the same principles or are we clinging to teaching the same way we did 10 or 2o years ago?

Rollyo me over!

I went to the Rollyo site, not really knowing what to expect. I picked the "usual" searches for me: reference; business news; top news. But in keeping with my intent to try and "play" I picked travel and hotels and chic shopping. Amazing - I could not believe that I typed in "cheap Hawaii vacation" and got lots of websites and information....This is amazing and I can definately see me using it again.

Its is fun to play!

I have had so much fun playing with the online image generator. I created a really cool avatar....but I can't get the image to my blog. I found that I could play with the image for hours....it was almost the same fun I had as a young girl dressing my Barbie dolls!!! Wait a minute - did I say play....maybe I really did find some time to play around a little. I found this fascinating and could really lose myself in it..but reality and responsibilities keep interupting the fun!