thing 21

This is the video I found on you tube about the Denver summer reading program. It is a cool little video.

Thing 20

I found several different sites that interested me. To name a few Stumble upon, LuLu and imcooked. I can see how some of these sites would be useful to our patrons.

Thing 19

Wow zoho writer is neat I enjoyed playing with it and seeing what all I could do with it. I think it would be very helpful either with our patrons or for my personal use. This thingy get 2 thumbs up!

having fun with 2.0

Ok let's see what this thing can do!

 

feeling like a dunce

Sorry I just saw that I had comments on some of my "things". One of the comments asked for the url on my flikr so they could see my accomplishments hope its not to late.
Sorry again!!!
Dana

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1stxmomat40/

Thing 18

OMG (oh my god) that was fun! I really enjoyed editing the wikis. I think this would be so much fun for an on-line book club for those members who can't not meet in person they can discuss and add comments about the book this way.
Happy Holidays!!!!

thing 17

I think that wiki's could be very useful to a library. For example they could be used for a book club especially if you have patrons that can not meet and discuss a book they can do it using a wiki. There could be a special teen one and a family one the possibilities are endless.

Thing 16

To be honest Thing 16 kind of scares me. I am a book lover, I love opening a book and feeling the paper and the smell of a book there is nothing like it in the world. With all the new technology will the printed word become obsolete? I have been seriously considering doing some drastic changes at home such as shutting off the Internet, getting rid of satellite TV and going back to the way things were when I was a child. Some people ask me do you do alot on the Internet and my answer is "yes", I send e-mails and chat with friends but, I want my child to be a strong reader and I do not want him to rely on hearing a book read to him at the age of 12 because his reading skills are poor. I feel that computers and Internet are introduced to children at to young of an age. Sorry if I went astray with this blog but Thing 16 really made me stop and think. My thinking was " Is all of this new technology making our children dumber?"