Okay, since I've previously posted on my love for Bloglines, for Thing 8, I'll talk a little bit about how Bloglines helps me as a librarian. One of the things I use Bloglines for is to subscribe to sites that help with RA/collection development. Some of them are "professional" and geared specifically toward libraries and librarians (like Early Word: The Publisher/Librarian Connection) and some are just ordinary people who post reviews and comments on the books they read (Citizen Reader). These give me a chance to explore books and media I might not come across regularly. And reading the posts of someone who loves, say, Regency Romances, keeps me up to date in a genre that I don't read a whole lot of myself, making it easier to do RA.
I'd also like to point out that if you are a children's librarian or a teen librarian, there are a host of people out there blogging their ideas for children's and teens' programming. Plug them all into Bloglines, and you have a wonderful programming resource.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Oh.
Had I looked ahead, I would have realized that the next 23 Things project was about RSS feeds. And maybe I would have blogged about something different!
But I still love Bloglines!
But I still love Bloglines!
Technology Blog--Bloglines!
My personal favorite bit of technology right now is Bloglines. I love it. Before I knew about Bloglines, I had all the blogs I read saved to my favorites list on my laptop, but that didn't really help me if I was trying to read them somewhere else. While I'm probably not exercising my memory as much now, since I don't have to recall the web addresses of several different blogs, I do love the fact I can just input a blog address into Bloglines, and it will keep track of it. Bloglines allows me to access the blogs I'm interested in all from one address (www.bloglines.com), and allows me to see right off the bat which blogs have new posts. The one problem I've had is that on a couple of blogs I've added, it only shows the first few lines of the blog post, and you have to click on it to read the rest. For most blogs, though, the entire entry is available on the Bloglines page.
I've been using Bloglines for about a year now, and I'm up to 47 (!) blogs. I could have never kept up with 47 blogs before! (Honestly, I can't keep up with them now, since I only check it twice a week, but the nice thing about Bloglines is it holds up to 200 posts new, so you can always go back and catch up.)
I've been using Bloglines for about a year now, and I'm up to 47 (!) blogs. I could have never kept up with 47 blogs before! (Honestly, I can't keep up with them now, since I only check it twice a week, but the nice thing about Bloglines is it holds up to 200 posts new, so you can always go back and catch up.)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Picasa, Take Two!
Boo! My last link didn't work. At least, it didn't take you to the picture I wanted to use. Let's try this instead. This is a picture of the hill behind my parents' house. It's labeled "Poteau Mountain" but it's actually called Cavanal Hill, and it is the world highest hill, according to the plaque.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=poteau+oklahoma&psc=G&filter=1#5062462161320989378
It's weird, because that picture had to have been taken somewhere near my parents' house, which is sort of off the beaten track.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=poteau+oklahoma&psc=G&filter=1#5062462161320989378
It's weird, because that picture had to have been taken somewhere near my parents' house, which is sort of off the beaten track.
Kat Kong and other Picasa comments
Well, I have no idea if this is cat is really huge or if it's the pose and the camera angle, but for sheer size, this fella reminds of me of my own 21 pound cat monstrosity at home: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=cats&psc=G&filter=1#5289730563282530674
Toota mishka Jabba du Hutt?
Picasa has some neat features that I haven't explored before. I'm especially interested in trying out the collage feature with some of my pictures at home. Also, the "Where in the World" game is a lot of fun!
Toota mishka Jabba du Hutt?
Picasa has some neat features that I haven't explored before. I'm especially interested in trying out the collage feature with some of my pictures at home. Also, the "Where in the World" game is a lot of fun!
Monday, February 23, 2009
7 1/2 Habits of highly effective learners
The easiest of the 7 1/2 habits for me would be play, of course...although I've found that as I get older it gets more difficult to drop all that "important" stuff I'm supposed to do and find time to play. That's something I need to watch out for. When the laundry becomes more important than having fun, you may be in trouble.
The most difficult of the habits is probably #7. Teaching and training is not my forte--I tend to jump all over the place and be just generally scattered. Which is why I am now a librarian, and not subjecting classes of freshman to long, rambling, disorganized lectures on the works of Flannery O'Connor. I really have to work at staying focused, and I need lots of feedback from those I'm working with to make sure I haven't skipped over or shortchanged anything important.
The most difficult of the habits is probably #7. Teaching and training is not my forte--I tend to jump all over the place and be just generally scattered. Which is why I am now a librarian, and not subjecting classes of freshman to long, rambling, disorganized lectures on the works of Flannery O'Connor. I really have to work at staying focused, and I need lots of feedback from those I'm working with to make sure I haven't skipped over or shortchanged anything important.
Success!
Aha! I have created my blog, meaning I am one step closer to completing 23 Things and receiving TS con-ed credit! And also possibly winning a prize of some sort...
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