Learning is Forever: 2008

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Postponed - Joyland Christmas

Joyland Christmas postponed until Sunday, Dec 21, at 4:00 pm due to weather (doors open @ 3)

Friday, December 5, 2008

Joyland Christmas Special

A Celebration of Christ

Joyland Christmas Special

Dec 14 ¤ 7 p.m. ¤ Riggs Theater

Performed by MainStreet Dancers, Suprise Package, Stephen & Lynde Rockwell, Chuck Easter

Lighting: Steve Witcher ¤ Director: Sunny Holloway ¤ Sound: Steve Sarvis

John 1:1-5

Creation Improvisation -- Music: Stephen Rockwell

Advanced Dancers: Sarah Easter, Jenna Goehring, Caroline McVey, Emily Plumage, Carolyn Trethaway

John 3:16

Oh Come, Oh Come Immanuel -- Surprise Package & Jenna Goehring

Luke 1:26-33

Mary, Did You Know? -- Jenna Goehring & Moses Bowers

Luke 1:35

Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem -- Kaitlyn Bruns, Alexus Foss, Mayce Mikulecky, Morgan Garber

Luke 2:4-7

Away In A Manger -- Music: Stephen & Lynde Rockwell

Dancers: Delaney Choate, Laura Eisenzimmer, Leah Irving, Abigail McCarthy, Meg Maher

Isaiah 9:6

Unto Us A Child Is Born -- Josh Easter, Sarah Easter, Jenna Goehring, Liz Fickbohn, Jonathan Nold

Luke 2:8-11

The First Noel -- Ashlynn Geuther, Naomi McCarthy, Molly Neyhart, Ain Peterson, Dadra Scott

John 6:38-40

Silent Night -- Music: Surprise Package

Dancers: Lindsey Bishop, Natalie Hove, Aliana Kell, Kaitleyn Klave, Marcella Lees, Abbey Nold, Sarah Nold, Dana Trethaway, Kylie Varns

Col 1:15&16

Jingle Bells - Delaney Choate, Laura Eisenzimmer, Leah Irving, Abigail McCarthy, Meg Maher

Rev 1:8

Oh, Holy Night -- Stephne Rockwell

Luke 2:13&14

Angels We Have Heard On High -- Music: Suprise Package

Dancers: Jenna Goehring & Emily Plumage (Point I & II)

Psalm 139:7-16

I Am Not Forgotten -- Josh Easter, Sarah Easter, Jenna Goehring, Liz Fickbohn, Aliana Kell, Marcella Lees, Jonathan Nold, Emily Plumage, Dana Trethaway

Luke 24:44

Children Go Where I Send Thee -- Kaitlyn Bruns, Alexus Foss, Mayce Mikulecky, Morgan Garber

Luke 2:15

Go Tell It On The Mountain -- Aliana Kell, Marcella Lees, Emily Plumage, Dana Trethaway

Psalm 46:1-3

He Is The Answer -- Stephen & Lynde Rockwell

Zechariah 9:9

The Trumpet Shall Sound -- Moses Bowers, Josh Easter, Jonathan Nold

1 Cor 15:57; Psalm 149:1-3

Little Drummer Boy -- Ashlyn Guether, Naomi McCarthy, Molly Neyhart, Ain Peterson, Dadra Scott

1 John 4:19; Phil 4:4-6

The Lord's Prayer -- Music: Suprise Package

Advanced Dancers: Sarah Easter, Jenna Goehring, Caroline McVey, Emily Plumage, Carolyn Trethaway

Psalm 105:1-3; Rev 1:7-8

Sing Joy Finale -- Stephen & Lynde Rockwell & All Dancers

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

One of the many books I loved when I was 12: Scottish Chiefs
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/porter/chiefs/chiefs.html#1

http://video.ap.org/?f=&pid=sp9EY03O1rCudarlwd0MSXd34Chm8Q2d

Monday, December 1, 2008

This is kinda wierd

Sarah Easter's Dewey Decimal Section:

351 Public administration

Sarah Easter = 91818519058 = 918+185+190+58 = 1351

Class:
300 Social Sciences

Contains:
Books on politics, economics, education and the law.

What it says about you:
You are good at understanding people and finding the systems that work for them. You like having established reasoning behind your decisions. You consider it very important for your friends to always have your back.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Sarah Jean Easter's Dewey Decimal Section:

189 Medieval western philosophy

Sarah Jean Easter = 918180514519058 = 918+180+514+519+058 = 2189

Class:
100 Philosophy & Psychology

Contains:
Books on metaphysics, logic, ethics and philosophy.

What it says about you:
You're a careful thinker, but your life can be complicated and hard for others to understand at times. You try to explain things and strive to express yourself.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Have a Happy Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving Day Parade

By Jack Prelutsky

Thanksgiving Day is here today,

the great parade is under way,

and though it's drizzling quite a bit,

I'm sure that I'll see all of it.

Great balloons are floating by,

cartoon creatures stories high,

Mickey Mouse and Mother Goose,

Snoopy and a mammoth moose.

Humpty Dumpty,

Smokey Bearhover in the autumn air,

through the windy skies they sway,

I hope that they don't blow away.

Here comes Santa, shaking hands

as he waddles by the stands.

It's so much fun, I don't complain

when now it really starts to rain.

The bands are marching, here they come,

pipers pipe and drummers drum,

hear the tubas and the flutes,

see the clowns in silly suits.

It's pouring now, but not on me,

I'm just as dry as I can be,

I watch and watch, but don't get wet,

I'm watching on our TV set.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Joyland Christmas

Update 12/14: Joyland Christmas POSTPONED due to weather

it will be at Riggs next Sunday, 12/21/08, at 4:00 pm
doors open @ 3

A Celebration of Christ

Joyland Christmas Special

Sunday, December 14th * 7pm * Riggs Theater
Pierre, SD

Singers, Dancers & Musicians Join Together in An Expression of Joy!

MAINSTREET DANCERS

Suprise Package * Steve & Lynde Rockwell

Free-Will Offering

Program

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Dance Your Ph.D.

I thought this article was rather interesting - from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Daily Report

Dancing Science Ph.D.'s Twirl on YouTube (See item) http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3465/dancing-science-phds-twirl-on-youtube
American Association for the Advancement of Science is sponsoring the project, 2009 AAAS Science Dance Contest
“The human body is an excellent medium for communicating science — perhaps not as data-rich as a peer-reviewed article, but far more exciting,”

FUZZY BRAIN?

I found this mental exercise interesting; it;s supposed to help improve your focus. Take a piece of paper and two pens and sit at a table. Draw a circle with one hand and, at the same time, draw two squares with the other while tracing a circle on the floor with one foot. Not so easy, but are you feeling more focused?

Fuzzy Brain? Improve your attention span - CNN, Real Simple
Why You Focus

Monday, November 17, 2008

favorites:
Web Resources

Web Resources - MCPL via kwout

Based on the Book – Stories, books and plays that have been made into movies
Juvenile Series and Sequels – Books in series or sequence for kids and teen

Geneaology News Bytes

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Totlol is a video site created especially for young children. Totlol is a community-moderated video website designed for kids. Totlol is based on parent participation and community moderation. The videos have all been screened and rated by parents, so the “bad” stuff isn’t here.

Featured Project (Google Code / YouTube API)
Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites (2008) by PC Magazine

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Learning

I came across the following at the Mission to Learn blog; it's kinda interesting - something to contemplate
Five Themes for the Web 2.0 Learner
Consiousness - be on the lookout for learning opportunities
Self Knowledge - what is your learning style, how do you interact with information,...?
Insight - critical thinking and problem solving
Connection - network, let yourself be heard, branch-out
Validation - goal completion, acknowledgement from others,...
5 Traits of the Super Learner comments on the article "Secrets of the Super-Learners”
Wonder "the capacity to be grabbed by something and really want to pursue it"
Humility "Taking advice requires a bit of humility."
Synthetic Thinking Take what you learn and apply it
Patience " A lot of the best learning is slow and methodical."
Relishing Mistakes "Good learners make lots of mistakes, just as poor learners do, but they learn from their mistakes."

More than 50 Web Widgets for Your Learning Mix

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

I am experimenting with Google Sites (you can create websites or group wikis). Right now I have it so it isn't open to the public. It is like Google Docs - you can invite people as owner, collaborators, or viewers or make it public (anyone in the world can view).

Monday, October 6, 2008

More learning --- Yeah!

I came across this blog that continues the original Learning 2.0/23 Things project. Learning 2.1 gives you a few new things to explore each month. They are on Thing 65 already. It looks like they have already covered things like Twitter, Scrapblog, Clipmarks, and Tastespotting (looks really neat). It all looks fun and it gives you more new stuff to learn about.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Science News from the Reed Library - Linda Maddux's blog is an excellent example of what you can do in a "solo" setting (in this case, a solo science librarian). It's a Blogger site, of course, but she's using the FTP function. This not only allows Linda to use her library's URL as the address, but it also saves everything she's writing to her library's server. This is a good model for creating a Blogger page: she has links going back and forth between the blog and library website, and she's indexing her entries to compensate for the lack of categories.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

hmm...

PrintWhatYouLike.com {beta}: Save money and the environment printing only what you want.
Have you ever printed a webpage only to find your printout consisted mostly of empty space, ads and other junk you didn’t want? Then you try to copy and paste into Word and print that way - a lot of time & energy spent. PrintWhatYouLike is a webpage editor that lets you control how webpages look when printed. You can add the PrintWhatYouLike bookmarklet and click it when you are on a page you would like to print and the page will automatically open in PrintWhatYouLike. Sounds interesting.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Learning is...

"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." Perelman

"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn." John Cotton

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." W. B. Yeats

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." Abigail Adams

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." Henry Peter Broughan

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." Carl Rogers

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." Sir Claus Moser

"True education is a kind of never ending story - a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness." J.R.R.Tolkien

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Joseph Addison

"I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me." St. Augustine

"The question is not, how much does the youth know when he has finished his education but how much does he care and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him? …....In the end we shall find that only those ideas which have fed his life are taken into the being of the child........" Charlotte Mason

"For all our lives we are human beings, in an active state of learning, responding, understanding. Education extends to all of life. In fact, an educational system that says, one bright summer's day in the dawn of my youth, 'There. Now you are educated. This piece of paper says so,' is doing me a gross disfavor. The truly educated person has only had many doors of interest opened. He knows that life will not be long enough to follow everything through fully." Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

Monday, September 8, 2008

Wrap-up time!

Our weekly lessons have come to an end but hey! we can keep on playing and learning... and playing.

Sarah's Musings:
Using RSS feeds and the state library listservs are great for keeping up on what's happenin' in the library world. Delicious is still one of my one of my favorite things. And I have met a new friend, Google Docs; it has shown it's usefullness when sharing documents with others.
And, a person can have way to much fun with Flickr and YouTube.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Wikis

Wikis are neat! I saw a lot of examples of what you can use wikis for and have a few ideas of my own that I'd like to try sometime. I liked the Libraries of Stevens County wiki and that it isn't only about the library but they are gathering information about the whole county. I think it is great for the library to create a community/county guide. I also looked around at places you can create your own wiki - PBwiki, wikispaces, wetpaint, and some others. PBwiki for Libraries seemed interesting; you can create an intranet and a public website.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Social bookmarks

I've used Delicious for awhile. I started out in Dec 2004 adding links for library newsletters that I had to print off online and have since branched out. The thing I like about Delicious is that you don't have to be on a certain computer but can access your favorites from any computer with internet access. And when you add the Delicious buttons it is so easy to add new bookmarks. I also like that using tags instead of putting everything in folders makes things a lot easier to find.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Social Networking

I found this post on the blog iLibrarian: Hottest Facebook Groups for Librarians. It lists some librarian groups, association groups, conference/event groups, and web application groups (like Library Thing). Might be something to check out.
I also came across Social Networking for Book Lovers in the post 80 Online Resources for Book Lovers; it mentions using places like LibraryThing, Shelfari, Good Reads and some others, to network and share the book reading experience with others.

I don't have a lot of experience using Facebook or MySpace - actually practically none. I signed up for Facebook, probably only a month ago, to see what it was like. Then, I thought I'd see how MySpace compares. I know people that use both, but so far I haven't done much with either one. It isn't very convenient for me to use since I don't have internet at home.
My brother was my first friend on Facebook. He had to sign up for it for a class he took at CUC and since then he has found a lot of people he knows, and some he used to know in Missouri.

As for libraries using these social networking sites, I suppose libraries could make the link to the sorts of services that are provided in the library world - maybe it could be used for research, marketing, support and development of new stuff,... an idea exchange perhaps. Let the word out about what libraries can do.

Wow, it's hard to believe we only have a few weeks left of library 2.0 challenge. How time does fly.

The simplicity of Google Docs

Wow, I think this is a great way to have more than one person working on a document. There it is, everyone can work on it, no emailing back and forth, . . . It is also great that you can access your documents no matter where you are as long as you have, or can find, a computer with an internet connection.

However, the one thing I've found that I don't like is that you are limited to very simple formatting. While creating a document, there were things I wanted to do but didn't have the option to do. I also worked in the spreadsheet area - aah! frustration - one area had been formatted but when I went back to that spot in the document the formatting was gone and when I tried to do it again it wouldn't do it. Oh well, I still think it's a good thing (just call me Martha).

Friday, August 8, 2008

Podcasts

I haven't found a podcast that really interests me yet. I did find one podcast called Library Lady Audiobooks - this lady reading books like Anne of Green Gables and Pride & Prejudice.
I have added a RSS feed for a podcast to Bloglines. I guess I'll see how it goes.

Videos

There are some videos from TeacherTube highlighted in this post from Smart Teaching: 100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques. There are video ideas for classes, using technology, blogs in the class, students blogging, and some weird funny stuff from both teachers and students. I kind of liked The greatest teacher using The Sound of Music to show teaching technique.

I found this video in YouTube ineresting. It is from Anneheim Ballet. They also have videos on how to make a ballet bun, tie your point shoes,...

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Web 2.0 blog

I found an interesting blog today called Go2Web2.0 blog. Here is a post from that blog - 39 web based tools that don't require registration

One of the tools listed is kwout. Kwout lets you quote a part of a web page as an image and then you can save the picture to Flickr, post it in your blog,....

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Flickr mashups

There are a lot of intersting Flickr tool thingys but it sure can take

a lot of time to wade through them all. Here are some of the ones I looked at.

Mosaic Maker would be good to use to make a collage of photos for any project - perhaps pictures from a workshop or special event.

The Palette Generator is really neat. It will create a color palette using whatever photo you choose. It would be great for any project where you want to coordinate colors or decorate a space using a photo as a starting point.

There are multiple photo finders search by color. With the Multicolr Search Lab you can search for pictures with certain colors; you can pick up to ten colors to search. The Color Fields Colr Picker searches for pictures using only one color. The Flickr Color Selectr also finds pictures by color.

And HEY we could all make our own cool badges with the Badge Maker.

Warholizer

Jigsaw

Bead Art
looks kinda like a chart for cross-stitch or latch hooking

Great Idea: National Park Trading Cards

Friday, July 25, 2008

Flickr

Flickr doesn't seem too hard to use. I don't have an easy way to put my pictures in Flickr since I don't have internet at home and no, I don't have a camera phone, but it is easy to blog about a picture you find on Flickr.

I've been able to find photos of places I know that I can blog about. I just wish there was someway to blog about a place with say two photos. So far I haven't found a way to do that by going to the Blog This Photo feature in Flickr.

Downtown KCMO

Power and Light Building, 22 May 2008
Originally uploaded by Rock Chalk Jayhawk Cartographer

I found this picture taken downtown Kansas City, MO. When I was a kid I loved to watch the color changes of the top of this building. And, as a bonus, the glass building on the left with the lights around the top is the tallest building in KC and all Missouri - and my dad worked there for years when he worked for Sprint.

Kansas City Power and Light Building
Originally uploaded by gwENvision

One of my favorite buildings downtown - composite of the changing colors.

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Kansas City has various nicknames. Some of them are:
The City of Fountains
The BBQ Capital of the World
Heart of America
Paris of the Plains
Monument City
The Home of Jazz
CowTown
K.C. or KCMO (Missouri side) or KCK (Kansas side)

Evening on the Plaza, 28 June 2004
Originally uploaded by Rock Chalk Jayhawk Cartographer

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Make blog browsing easy with Page 2 Rss

While looking for blogs I came across this one: Popgadget/Personal Tech for Women. It mentioned a free service for sites that don't have RSS feeds. Page 2 Rss checks the site or blog for updates and sends them to your feed reader/aggregator. Neat!

Monday, July 21, 2008

RSS

A person sure could get carried away pretty easily with this. I set-up a folder for the library 2.0 challenge blogs, another for library stuff, one for wait-and-see. . . I can see how going to one place to see everything that's new could save time. Unless you went wild and subscribed to so many feeds you couldn't keep up.
I do like how you can save a post to look at later in both Bloglines and Google Reader. The only thing about them is you don't get to see the whole blog look; of course it is easy to click on the link to get to the actual blog.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Blogging

Creating a blog can be fun. It wasn't really hard to do except for all the decisions that needed to be made. I had a terrible time trying to decide what to name my blog and what url to use. I made a list of ideas, words, combinations of words - I was brainstorming. But lo and behold I didn't have to decide. I was going through my list and checking which urls were already taken, there were a lot, when all of a sudden my pinkie finger reached over and accidentally hit the enter key. And that was the url that I got. I have decided to stick with my accidental decision; otherwise I'll have to decide all over again.

I've read other people's blogs but I never had one of my own til now. How will I use it? Well, I think I'll just start with the Library 2.0 Challenge and see where it goes from there. Who knows what ideas I might come up with.

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7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners

Learning is . . . acquiring a new skill or knowledge.

We should never stop learning: remember that it is never to soon or too late for learning something new, life is learning, if we aren't learning we are probably dead - and even then I can only Imagine.

After listening to the 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners tutorial. I decided that the hardest habit for me would be Habit 7: Teach/mentor others or Habit 1: Begin with the end in mind -- making decisions wasn't on the list. While I can and do teach things to others I am not really great at the whole talking and presenting thing. But stepping out of my comfort zone has been great for my personal development and the process of helping someone else learn really does help reinforce it in your own mind. As far as beginning with the end in mind I have a hard time determining what goals to have. I like learning all sorts of things and deciding what to choose takes a while - I guess making decisions was on the list.

The habit that is easiest for me? Well..., that would be Habit 2: Accept Responsibility for your own learning; or would it be Habit 4: Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner. Decisions, decisions, decisions. For me the two go together in a way - If I want to learn something I will.