FUN things - the last week...Wrap it up

Wordle. Might use it somewhere, sometime.
LibraryThing...tried to make it "road trip" related. E-books, audiobooks, stuff that could be used on a mobile device. Since I'm just embarking on the mobile journey, I'm not being very selective about additions...anything FREE in the netbook arena makes it to my consideration list. The book I added is one that I was able to get access to for a 14 day loan period from Saskatoon public, so I started it on the drive to Alberta, makes the stretch btween Rosetown and Hanna bearable, but just barely! Anyway, if I don't have need of it (or want to finish it) it'll "expire" after 14 days and I pay no fines. So LibraryThing might give me some guidance for this kind of stuff. Not much available yet. Or I don't know how to find it yet.
The Smilebox looks like a blast! I might try that at home and "wow" my kids.
I hate computer games.
Wrap-up
I'm sorry that it's finished. I'm hoping to go back and fine-tune or polish some of the stuff I wasn't comfortable with or that I feel I rushed through. I also want to spend some time reading other participants' blogs. I really didn't do that yet.
Party, party

Online Mapping

Community Walk was fun. I did Tim Horton's (only 4 of them) and then made a path between them just for fun.
I'd had a bit of experience with GIS, we have a GPS that has been handy on more than one occasion. I especially like the fact that driver husband can't get annoyed with (used to be) navigator wife! And Google Earth is way cool. Google Map has got me into trouble in cities where there is big construction changes going on.

Bookmarks!!

so this is the answer to bookmarking overabundance! when I find a great site, I want to be able to get back there again....you can't imagine how frustrated I get every time my bookmarks get "disorganized"... which happens every time we change computers or have to have our stuff reloaded by LS&IT. I don't check on them often enough to make sure they're all working :(  but each time they revert back to alphabetical listing I swear I'm going to look after them better. now I can. well, at least at home I can.

later in day...have explored diigo, added it as favorite and signed up for a diigolet (smaller version) account....misspelled my name...I'm Par instead of Pat in diigoland...added a few bookmarks and tags, notes, ....and I've had enough for today.

Widgets
Part two of Week 11 is easy, but I'm finishing it a week later so had to reread the whole thing. added the countdown, think I'll look at HTW's Worldcat gadget later.

Twitter

I now have a Twitter account, my name is bibliopeeps. Haven't tweeted yet, saving it for tomorrow. Took a while to find a name that wasn't in use. Early bird gets the best tweet!

No Flickr for me. My own library picture "Biblioteca Varadero"

No cardigan-loving library workers in here!

Didn't find a thrilling library photo in Flickr, didn't want/need a Flickr account so used one of my own (credit photographer/husband). Have looked at Picasa previously, think it would be good to get SOME kind of organization going with all our photos. Trouble spot...my photographer/husband doesn't organize in the same manner as I do, we'd spend too much time switching photos in and out of groups we "strongly feel" they belong in/or out of.

Wikis

I wasn't very wiki wiki with the wiki, but I'm slowly catching up. Like Wiki for group effort, want to use it in ILL.

Prezi on music

Done! http://prezi.com/qpvu7icvkbok/i-love-rock-n-roll/
Had seen Prezi working as part of LLDP presentation, but this was just for fun, so I had some fun.
Did the weeks out of sequence, so this one is a little late.
Looking at clip art was interesting..not something I've done before,have to remember to take it off of my desktop now that I've finished using it.
Yes, this would be a nice way of presenting ideas.

Podcasting

Using the directories, I found a site on book reviews. I opened my blog and chose the Design tab. I added a gadget for the RSS feed. Back to the book review podcast I looked for an RSS feed button but couldn't find one so I clicked on share with a friend and an email message screen opened. I copied the url which was in the email and pasted it into my blog and hit SAVE. It showed up and when I clicked on it, it started talking. How cool is that.

U-Tube

Google Docs

Now this will be really useful!! I have no problem seeing this as a helpful office tool. And fun too.

Maybe I'm getting this...

I've now added my own blog to my iGoogle page. So now I have to repeat the RSS thing using my own blog. I guess the "feeding" thing would be good if I want to follow a specific kind of information without looking for it every time or if I wanted to know what someone specific was blogging about without going and checking their blog every hour. I wonder if there is anyone I know who has such wonderful thoughts that I'd ever want to do that!!!

Argh!....

OK, I set up the feeds and I think I added my blog as an RSS feed, but I was just following the words of the commands, not really knowing why I was doing what I was doing...so maybe I missed something. Or maybe it was because I had alreadyy added Blogger to my iGoogle? or maybe it was because I'm going on vacation in 3 sleeps and I just couldn't concentrate properly...or maybe...

adding my Blog page to my iGoogle

Yeah, it worked. I created a tab for Blogging and added the BLOGGER site as a gadget so now I don't have to bookmark the BLOGGER site. (Way too many bookmarks in my life)

Have registered my blog with 23things people-I think.

23 things

Thing 2 - creating blog and posting. Done. Have already learned that the Blogger service doesn't come up when I login to IGoogle. Wonder if I can make that happen. Blogging might be fun.
Thing 1 was building IGoogle, that was a lot of fun! Gadgets galore. Finally had to stop scrolling or there would've been more.

23 things is a great way to get familiar with Web 2.0 applications, I like the way it talks about the application and then gives you a chance to play, customize, embellish. 

Naming my blog

Wonder why "Musings" was so heavily used. Anyway... pm-musings will work.