#91 Fun with Photos ex2

I really liked this effect... I used Pho.to.com, this site has some really elaborate backgrounds to use for pictures. I think I can spend hours looking through them and trying different pictures in each background. I had lots of fun with this activity.

#91 Fun with Photos ex1

I have tried all the sites listed and had lots of fun with my photos. My favorite is face in the hole.

I used fotoflexer and befunky to make a photo into a cartoon. I thought I would get the same result, but they looked very different. The fotoflexer looks more like a picture than the cartoon on befunky. In the fotoflexer photo you can make out the people in the photo, in the befunky the picture looks very distorted. I definitely prefer to use the fotoflexer.

You Oughta Be in Pictures #90: Sharing Photos

Taking pictures is great fun for me. They tell me I take too many pictures. I also have family all over, and by all over we are talking about as far south as Mexico and as far north as Chicago. I keep my family updated by posted photos of the kids, because I don't travel much. The feature I use the most when posting pictures is the one about privacy, I only allow friends to view pictures of my kids. Many times we reveal information in pictures that shouldn't be for everyone to see. I have both a "Myspace" and "Facebook" account. I only use them for families members far away. I am not one to constantly check it or update it. As mentioned before I do use the privacy option. The site I use the most is "Facebook." Reason= This is the site everyone I know uses.

You Oughta be in Pictures #89

I have used picnik for a while now and never thought to search out other photo editing sites that are free. I have photoshop on my home computer, but it is a very difficult program to use. I really enjoyed the photoflexer. This program had many free services. I find that the features I use the most is cropping and adjusting color of photograph. I also really enjoy adding the funny effects.

#30 Spring Cleaning-Drives

I have previously used the different drives provided for us. I am currently in the process of moving all photos from past summer reading programs to flickr, as well as my personal photos. I did find that I had a few emails that I did not need to hold on to. I found one from December of 2006. I was able to look through it and delete and some of the other emails I put them in folders. My email is not so bad, but I do have to work on my drives. I have many pictures that I have to get rid of. That's going to take awhile, but in the end it will be alot faster to find what I am looking for.

#29 Spring Cleaning

I started cleaning out my email today. I already had a personal account and I have been forwarding anything that is non-work related to that account. I had some work to do on my work email. I went through and deleted many old emails and I also created folders for those that I needed to keep. I was able to sort my emails by themes. Since a big part of job has to do with the summer reading program I set it up to save all my information about my performers. I also set up a folder for things that just had to do with the children's programming. I really liked setting up the folders because now I can find information much faster.

#28 Spring Cleaning

I looked through the different list and my favorite was the google calendar. I set up an account and it only took a minute. I was able to add events to my calendar and set up reminders. It was that simple. The one called remember the milk was more of a to do list. I prefer to see the calendar setup. Once you have set your calendar that can be used as your to-do-list. I liked the google calendar because you can set it up to send you an email or give you a pop up reminder. Once you have all your information stored it will be easier to keep track of all the things you need to do.

Week 10 #23 Grand Finale

The 23 things was great. I was able to learn about many things I didn't know about. I had heard of mostly everything, but I didn't know much about it. My favorite exercise was the flickr and photo editing. I was somewhat familiar with flickr, but I was able to learn much more. I didn't know anything about the mashups. I think by doing these exercises it showed that we never stop learning. With technology changing all the time this was a great way learn about it. I was really surprised by the number of blogs that are out there. I also enjoyed listening to the different podcasts. I couldn't believe how many podcasts are out there. As far as helping our customer's I think this a great exercise for them to do. I also liked the Zoho program that we learned about because I think it will help our customers a great deal. Overall, this program was great and I hope that we get to learn many other things.

Week 9 #22

I have been using Overdrive since we first obtained access to it. I really enjoy the Overdrive software. The only thing that I wish for is more audio books to be available. There is a great selection on there, but there's many more that I would like to be on there. Otherwise I recommend this to everyone that listens to audio books.

Week 9 #21 Podcast

I went through the different podcasts and found a few interesting things. After some difficulty I was able to send the rss feed to my bloglines. It has been a while since I used the rss feeds and it had slipped my mind, but working with it a little I was able to get it. I found a great podcast about insider Orlando. It talks about the many attractions of Orlando, for example Disney World, Universal Studios, and many more. This is a good podcast for those planning next years summer vacation.

This exercise was alot of fun! It was easy to do and enjoyable. But just like anything you do on the internet you have to be careful, because some things are inappropriate. Youtube was very easy to navigate and I was able to find many things that was interested in. This is one site I could spend most of the day looking through it.

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week 8 #19 Zoho

Zoho writer is a great program for those that cannot afford to purchase the expensive Microsoft office programs. There are many kids that come to the library prepared to finish their work, but because of the library becoming busier and busier that's not always the case. Many times the kids don't bring disk and sometimes when they do the disks are damaged. The Zoho writer is a great way for them to save there work and print it later if necessary. This program will be a great for the library.

week 8 #18

I created a myspace account some time ago and I really like it. I was able to get in contact with friends from high school that I hadn't seen in a long time. I also am able to keep in touch with a friend that lives in Chicago. Even though we haven't seen each other in 7 years, we are to send pictures of our families to each other. I think this is a great way to keep communication between many old friends. The one the thing I don't like about myspace is that there is alot things that the teens put on there pages that are inappropriate. Myspace is supposed to block somethings, but they do miss a alot things.

Week 7 #17 Technology

Now it seems that we can anything with just the push of a button. Everything is on the internet. I am the type of person that would boxes and boxes full of photos, but now with all this new technology I don't have to worry about that. I created a flickr account some time ago and I have filled it with photos. Since getting a digital camera I have been storing cd as well. This helps because sometimes I don't want all the pictures printed and can always go back and look at them. I now know how to use Windows Movie Maker and have made several video picture shows of my kids photos. It's great because you can add music and different graphics. This is a program that comes free with Windows XP and Windows Vista. I know there's better programs out there but some are quite expensive and I am happy with the results of Movie Maker.

week 7 #16 Wikki's

I searched the different links that were provided for us. I liked the way they were set up. My favorite was the SJCPL because it had so many different subjects. It not only included books but also different websites that provide customer's with information. I was glad to see that they had a link for local scholarships, so are usually hard to find. I think that its a great resource for people looking for information. I also was able to add my blog to the favorite blogs page with much ease. This was a simple very informative exercise.

week 6 #15

As one of the articles said "Libraries are not just collections of documents and books" we now have computers and other services that are offer. With every year bringing us new technology our customer's or patrons change. We have customer's asking us different types of questions. We not only get the question "Where is the resume books?" Now we have the questions "How do I email or post my resume?" This information is great because it helps some of us that aren't used to using these types of tools to help customers. Our customer's now and days come in and usually learn something new about the different technology that we offer.

Week 6 #14

Technorati is a great way to search through the blogs. I was able to look through different blogs and videos. Some were very entertaining. I did the search for "learning 2.0" and for every box that you put it in you get a different result. There are many ways to look up things and I really enjoyed looking through technorati again.