Thing 23

I did most of this stuff very quickly and will (if it remains online which I hope it will!) be going back. Since I learn by trying I tended to go right into the very basic part of the assignment -- also because I had very little time.

Thought it was great to have all the resources consolidated. Now I need to go back and do the reading.

Thanks for having this! Hope it remains accessible for awhile.

Thing 22

I plan to keep up by going back over the material and SLOWLY try some of the sites! Obviously just getting started.

Thing 21

Signed up for the 23 things. A little difficulty posting picture -- did one with two small resolution.

Thing 20

Opened a Facebook account and managed to obtain 5 friends vs. the usual 360. I had joined one silly group and a very broad network. A little concerned about privacy (although I know you can change your settings, etc.). Our library has it. Keep finding new ways to personalize it.

Thing 19

Did the bloglines thing with the RSS feed for song of the day from MPR. That will get me started.

Thing 18

Testing the Youtube video


Just interested in trying this from Youtube.

Thing 17

Went in and set up the accounts. Will have to save the rest for after the course. I'm definitely doing "23 things light" but getting what I need out of it -- places to start.

Thing 16

Have seen students using this and can see the utility.

Thing 15

Pirate Thing either needed an install which I couldn't do at this library or it was too slow to load. Read some Second Life stuff and find it fascinating. Did not sign up because I have enough going on with the 7 of the 9 lives I've already used. The Pew study is interesting as was the article debunking myths about video games (especially the ones about girls and games). At a recent holiday get-together, instead of all of the males and females playing games like Risk (which we've done in the past) at one point some of the college age males and females were playing Webkinz.

Thing 14

Very interesting. Did a Library Thing. Am a little confused about where this will show up on blog. Anyway, here is my test

Thing 13

LOVED the PDF converter. Myyahoo preferences wasn't working in Explorer, but was in Firefox for some reason. Might have been coincidence. Will spend some time on the conversion stuff for times I'm not at the library which has conversions software.

Thing 12

Oh my gosh. More ways to spend time and communicate and search. I found out that baby boomers will flood the health care system. Also that there's a "new form of scar-free surgery in which diseased organs are pulled out through the patient’s throat" which may be a good thing since we boomers are notoriously vain -- if we can get treatment and cost-effective healthcare. Seriously, this rating of news reports is a great way to check out what's happening in society.

Thing 11

Did some tagging in blogger (had done so in flickr). Couldn't install http://del.icio.us/) on work computer, but may try it at home. Enjoyed looking at minn23's favorites which somehow diverted me to Youtube text messaging a librarian . How forunate that the answer to this texted question was such a short one! I now know how to spend the rest of my life: Youtube.

Thing 10

Edited the wiki. As always figuring out the password was key. Reading too fast as I try to get through these at the last minute. Fun! Someone was using the wiki (or had left it open) so was unable to get in until the 5 minutes was up. Hope I didn't mess up someone else's editing. Exciting to me that you can add video and chat.

Thing 9

Well, this is good for discovering what accounts I've already opened -- Googledocs account a few years ago. Looks very useful for collaboration. Am in a writer's group and it might be kind of fun to do a collaborative story.

Thing 8 Genealogy photos using Slide.com

Thing 8

Did a slide show with slide.com. Added it to my "fun wall" in facebook and blogger. Cool.

Thing 7

Didn't sign up for any meetings but know they are there now. Fascinated by all that is available otherwise.

Thing 6

Well, this wasn't so hard.

Thing 5

I think this is what was required for thing 5.

Took awhile.

Thing 4

Did Thing 4 with the earlier women with big hats photo, etc. Have used the flickr account frequently since I set it up.

Thing 3

Set up bloglines and was especially interested in the MINITEX and librarian blogs. Could see lots of uses for feeds internal and external.

Thing 2

OK. Fascinating. Evident that there is big change -- big psychological change in the world at large -- collective authority and self-correction, identity online vs. real world merging -- private public merging, same with libraries. Onward.