Saturday, November 17, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Thing 24
Thing 24 is really cool. I think this is one thing that would be very usable in my life and at work. How quick and easy it was converted. I couldn't belive it. I did it and it was emailed right to me. Took me longer to type the email address and password than it did for the file to come through. Really a neat site.
thanks.
thanks.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
One more thing
Just one more comment. On my home computer I have windows xp. There are two tabs at the top. I thought how silly why would anyone need 2 windows open at once. I do! I learned to use and love this feature. See I'm even learning about my home computer. What a great feature.
Thing 23
This incredible journey has come to an end. It was a scary, at times frustrating and at times fun journey. It was a very good learning experience. There are so many demands for my time that I don't play with my computer like I probably should. You showed me how to play and how to learn things. With my fellow workers I stayed with it, their help was great. I no longer feel as "dumb" about the computer as I did. I think maybe I could have played around more than I did. Sometimes my blog looks very plain and unadorned. I am amazed that after the first few struggles to post it came much easier, I could remember when to edit Html and when to compose.
I don't know that I really had life long learning goals for some of the things that this involved. But I'm very happy to have had the chance to look at many of these places and idea's. Some of them really do make you think about how to use them for your own self and how could we use them here at work. Can we teach them to our public? I would like to think that we could, if the public was willing to learn.
I am surprised at what I did learn and what I did accomplish. This was very new ground for me. I think some of my fear of the "new" is contained. Not gone, but less than it was before. I am surprised that I actually did struggle through the hard times and accomplished this whole program. For that I am grateful to all who have helped me along the way.
I would probably participate in another program like this. It's where the future is and I certainly want to be part of that future. For myself, and my loved ones and for the public. We are YPL and we want to give the best service possible. It's reward to tackle something new. Maybe I haven't learned as much as there was to learn, but I did try and I would try again. Any thing that is taken from this and put to use in my life is a good thing.
Thanks to all who worked so hard in getting this set up. Life is all about learning.
I don't know that I really had life long learning goals for some of the things that this involved. But I'm very happy to have had the chance to look at many of these places and idea's. Some of them really do make you think about how to use them for your own self and how could we use them here at work. Can we teach them to our public? I would like to think that we could, if the public was willing to learn.
I am surprised at what I did learn and what I did accomplish. This was very new ground for me. I think some of my fear of the "new" is contained. Not gone, but less than it was before. I am surprised that I actually did struggle through the hard times and accomplished this whole program. For that I am grateful to all who have helped me along the way.
I would probably participate in another program like this. It's where the future is and I certainly want to be part of that future. For myself, and my loved ones and for the public. We are YPL and we want to give the best service possible. It's reward to tackle something new. Maybe I haven't learned as much as there was to learn, but I did try and I would try again. Any thing that is taken from this and put to use in my life is a good thing.
Thanks to all who worked so hard in getting this set up. Life is all about learning.
Thing 22
I explored netlibrary. Wow! I am a great fan of audio books. Keep one in the car all the time. My trips to Cleveland go so much quicker when I listen to a book. There are so very many titles there. It's very exciting to see so many favorite authors, where does one start?
I have downloaded one of the fish books and read most of that on my computer. I did this when we first got book's. I'm afraid that I just can't curl up with my cup of tea and a blanket and read the way I can when it's a book in hand. But for books that we don't have that circulate it was ok. I find that my eyes got tired much quicker reading off the computer screen.
I also download an eaudio book when we first got them. Unfortunately my cd burner wasn't working and I never got the book burned. I'm lucky because my van plays cd's and cassettes, so I can usually find the audio I want in either format. I am going to be brave one of these days and try burning an audio book. There are so many books and I have so little time.
These audio's can really help time pass. So many of our patrons really like and use them not just for drives in the car, but while they are cleaning, ironing (does make that chore go much quicker)or even at work. What a great service this is.
I have downloaded one of the fish books and read most of that on my computer. I did this when we first got book's. I'm afraid that I just can't curl up with my cup of tea and a blanket and read the way I can when it's a book in hand. But for books that we don't have that circulate it was ok. I find that my eyes got tired much quicker reading off the computer screen.
I also download an eaudio book when we first got them. Unfortunately my cd burner wasn't working and I never got the book burned. I'm lucky because my van plays cd's and cassettes, so I can usually find the audio I want in either format. I am going to be brave one of these days and try burning an audio book. There are so many books and I have so little time.
These audio's can really help time pass. So many of our patrons really like and use them not just for drives in the car, but while they are cleaning, ironing (does make that chore go much quicker)or even at work. What a great service this is.
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