Week 5 #11

I spent many hours on Craigslist...especially on lists from other countries.
City Guides & Reviews (Yelp) was very interesting...who has that much time to write or read about so many things...amazing!
After reviewing 10 more sites I find that 3 hours have gone by.
Most of the information on these sites are great for current information but I feel many of them are personal opinions and you still need to find reliable sources to support a project.

Week 5 #10

Image Chef is a great online image generator site.
http://www.imagechef.com/ic/product.jsp

I edited many images in minutes. I'm sure I'll use this site on a regular basis.

Week 4 Thing #8 and #9

I set up my bloglines. Very easy to set up but spent many hours subscribing to feeds. Also signed up for a new blog : http://techunited.ning.com/ Library Technicians United!
When I was on Feedser.com I had a hard time linking the feed to my bloglines and I'm still trying to figure out what a widget is?
I believe my next purchase of technology should be an Ipod so I can understand the whole audio concept
As of this morning I had no idea what an "RSS" was...now I have a new wrinkle in my brain. :)
Thanks

Week 3 Thing #7

Technology is always great ...WHEN IT WORKS.
I love all the free web site with reliable sources for students. But it seem like every time we really need it... it's as slow as molasses.
Our district this year enlarged the broadband network but any web based program is still slow. Many times it can't handle the volume and knocks our library program off line. We're not allowed to video stream during the day. It's very frustrating.
Especially when you have a class in the library with only 45 minutes for students to complete their assignments and the web pages will not load.

Now that I read this it sounds so negative.

On the positive side of it, technology is great. Digitals camera's are a must but I find that I'm always buying my own technology out of pocket...

Haha. Guess what my computer just gave me the blue screen of death... I guess it was mad at me for writing this! Luckily my genius daughter found it in drafts... and here I am again! Take that computer!!

Week 3 thing #6

Mappr : was very interesting but would not load all 6 pictures... At least one loaded. You can find it under a california or placentia search. Now I realize how important the wording on a picture tag is.
Flicker Color pickr : Neat idea but all I could do was view pictures of a certain colors... nothing was usable. What was the point of this site?
Montager : Would only let me do a search (I did my search on Placentia) and only showed me one picture when their were others (1 of 2). I tried to click on other options (e-mail me picture) and nothing worked???

Week 3, Thing #5

"Flicker" I've entered a photo of an item that is displayed in the Tuffree Library. The program has many steps and it still feels clunky. Not sure if I'm doing everything in the right order. My daughter keeps telling me to play around with it and maybe I'll feel more comfortable after awhile.
It's taken me 2.5 hours to sign-up and enter pictures on Flickr.
Now I have to figure out how to put a picture on here. Oh...There is a picture button on the top! That helped!
Jackie I hope this is what you needed to finish week 3, #5?
Lorena

Week 1, thing #1 and 2

This is probably the easiest part of the whole process.

Week 2, Thing #4

Added Avatar and registered.
Thank goodness I have young people to help me navigate the sites or this would be an all day project!!!!

Week 2, thing #3

Just created blog. Still confused.
Now trying to create an avatar.