23 Things n'@-- Reflections Week 11

Podcasting

I subscribed to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Podcast "Pittsburgh Hear and Now Tech Talk" using feeds in Internet Explorer.

I also downloaded a couple Podcasts from Angie's list: "How to Switch to Organic Lawn Care" and "Medical 'Gag Orders' for Patients".

This was a very interesting "thing" and I know that I will be subscribing to even more podcasts.

23 Things n'@-- Reflections Week 9

Happy 4th of July! This is a photo on flickr taken by a friend of mine nightshooter09.flickr.com

Here is some Sway by Dean Martin embedded from YouTube.

And some more Sway by Rosemary Clooney

23 Things n'@-- Reflections Week 8

For my Week 8 assignment I set up a Twitter and a Facebook account. I previously did some work on Northland's twitter account--added the picture and linked it to our library blog. I'm not sure how I feel about twitter in the library but as far as for my personal use I think it is dumb. I did like Facebook but I can see where it could be very time consuming but also a lot of fun.

23 Things n'@-- Reflections Week 7 (R & R time)

My cat has declared my Boyd's bear on my bed as HIS property. As you will see in this video he is protecting his bear from mommy thief !

23 Things n'@-- Reflections Week 6

I have to admit that I picked databases that had some interest to me because I just couldn't wrap my mind around some of them.

The first database I choose was the Science Resource Center. I searched Clinical Microbiology since in my former life I worked as a Medical Technologist for almost 30 years. The articles are marked as Basic, Intermediate or Advanced. I also (in my former life and a city girl) worked in research in Agricultural Microbiology and among other things sewed canvas sheep feces bags. We also worked with cows so I had to look up Rumen Microbiology. You can download an mp3 of the article if you wish.

Next I went to EBSCO Animals and using the basic search entered Shark as my search term which gave me a list of different sharks. Since I am a visual person I went to visual search and got a listing of sharks in a column. You can select columns or blocks to display you information. I liked columns better. When you click on the name of the shark you get a summary in another column but if you click on more you get the entire article. When I added photographs to my search for sharks I didn’t get any returns. I didn’t like that there were no pictures of the sharks especially since it is geared toward school age children. I guess you have to go to Google images to get the pictures.

The last database I went to was Grove Dictionary Music Online and searched the Beatles and Bach. I know totally different genre but they both start with "B". You can print or email the information.
I just want to mention that I love NoveList especially the Read-alikes and Recommended Reads. If you haven’t been to that database then check it out.

23 Things n'@-- Reflections Week 5

I downloaded an eAudiobook from NetLibrary —“Plato and a platypus walk into a bar” by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. I downloaded it to my computer. I also downloaded a video—“Red Skelton: Christmas Dinner”. Ok, Ok I just gave my age away on the last one. Hmm, would you believe my parents told me about Red Skelton?
Anyway, I did this on Monday but I’m just getting around to posting this comment-told you I was terrible at keeping a “diary”.

23 Things n'@-- Reflections

Well I’m all caught up and ready for Week 5.

· I set up RSS feeds with Google reader
· Social bookmarking on delicious
· Wiki account and wrote my 6 things I love about my library and also made a comment

Yippee bring it on cause I am ready!!!

My First Reflection

Actually this is the third Blog I have created. I designed two blogs for Northland Library an internal private staff blog and an external blog http://northlandlibrary.blogspot.com/ but this is my first personal blog. I’m not sure how I feel about this since I never got past a couple entries in a diary when I was a kid but I will try.

I think 23 things is a wonderful learning tool and I know I will enjoy participating in it.

Hmm-- I think it's time for tea!