Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket,... (I almost said, "Oh, my!")

Do you like Flickr or Picasa? Check out Picasa vs. Flickr by David Israel. He compares the two from his point of view and then by others in the comments.

And, since I'm getting ready for Follow the Yellow Brick Road (I will be dancing as part of the rainbow and the tornado and will also be Aunt Em) Here is some info about Rainbows > http://eo.ucar.edu/rainbows/

see pictures from the performance

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Sent to you by Sarah via Google Reader:

Networked Learner’s Bill of Rights

via Tame The Web by Michael on 4/30/09

Stephen Abram notes:

I think that this list from the Blue Skunk Blog is worth reading:

“Personal Network Member Bill of Rights and Responsibilities

1. I have the right not to be social 24/7 - either online or in person.
2. I have the right to time for reflection and responsibility for doing so.
3. I have the right to use only the tools that suit my learning style.
4. I have the right to stop using a tool when it is no longer useful.
5. I have the right to not be on the cutting edge all the time or feel I need to always know all there is to know.
6. I have the right to choose those with whom I learn in my personal learning network and responsibility to learn from those with whom I don’t always agree.
7. I have the right and responsibility to disagree and the responsibility to do it professionally.
8. I have the responsibility to become familiar with a tool before sharing it with others.
9, I have the responsibility to share my knowledge with others in my network.
10. I have the right and responsibility to not let online activities keep me from my friends, my family, my workplace, or my community.”

I’d add a list of responsibilties too:

1. I have a responsibility to keep up.
2. I have a responsibilty to learn new things.
3. I am responsible for my own learning, I am not a child of my employer.
4. I am responsible to learn when I need to and not to wit until it’s an emergency.
5. I have a responsibility to understand that technology evolves and evolves with my feedback.

I appreciate the original lists and Stephen’s additions. I’d add these:

1. I have a responsibility to respect all members of my network.
2. I have the responsibility to never stop learning.
3. I have the responsibility to understand and consider everyone’s POV.
4. I have the responsibility to interact, disagree and debate without making it personal.
5. I have the responsibility to present myself to my learning network - online and in the physical world - in a genuine, professional manner.

What would you add?

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Library 2.0 stuff

Abram, S. (2006). 43 Things I might want to do this year. Information Outlook. Retrieved February 26, 2009 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_2_10/ai_n16133338

Abram, S. (2008). The 23 Things - Learning 2.0. Stephen’s Lighthouse. Retrieved February 28, 2009 from http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/02/the_23_things_l.html

Blowers, H. (2008a). Learning 2.0: Lessons Learned from “Play” Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/hblowers/learning-20-lessons-learned-from-play

Blowers, H. (2008b). “Ten tips about 23 things.” School Library Journal. Retrieved February 14, 2009 from http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6600689.html

Blowers, H. (2009). WJ hosts 23 Things summit. LibraryBytes. Retrieved March 5, 2009 from http://www.librarybytes.com/2009/02/wj-hosts-23-things-summit.html

Casey, M. & Stephens, M. (2008) “Cheers and Jeers.” Library Journal. Retrieved February 26, 2008 from http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6539361.html

Hanly, B. (2007) Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the Stacks. Retrieved February 12, 2009 from http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2007/03/learning2_0

Hastings, R. (2007). “Journey to Library 2.0.” Library Journal. Retrieved February 15, 2009 from http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6431957.html

Lewis, L. (2008). Library 2.0: taking it to the street. Retrieved February 16, 2009 from http://www.valaconf.org.au/vala2008/papers2008/35_Lewis_Final.pdf

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.

Library 2.0 Challenge - SDSL blogs

Learning is Forever
Quynntessentially Me
eriwyn-blog
South Dakota Library 2.0 Challenge
Dakota Grown
Fabric And Books
SoDakMeylor
Day Trippers
Ms. Kitty
Kingdom by the Sea
PubPlace
The Game is Afoot
Plains Jane's Place
What did i get myself into??
disastercarol
Family Searcher
Three cats in the house
Birder1

Library 2.0 Challenge - SD

Accepting 2.0 challenge
Batty for Books
Book Arts
bookbyer
booklady
Cheerful Bookie
dykstra2008
Freeman Public Library
gotbooks
Humphrey Dixon
ILL find a book
I'm Not Marian
June Circ
Letters and Fetters
Library using the 2.0 Challenge
Library
Library Class
Library clerk
Library Worker Bee
http://lizatthelibrary.blogspot.com/
lyricbookworm
M.I.A.
MaryLibrarian
Ms. Z's thoughts
Mustangs Media Center Musings
New Librarian Insight
New Tricks for the Older Dog
Notes from Marian the Librarian
NWRL
OFFWEGO
Prairie Librarian
Q at the library
Reading Rocks!
RunningReader
Serial Reader
South Dakota Book Woman
spokes and quilts
The Future @ Your Library
Wilde Librarian
SharonHenry
Myster Manor
Here it goes

treasurehunterthersia15
Bookworm1983
Brenda's Bookstand
Gregory Library
Hannah's Daily Grind
kblacklibrarychallenge09
lee's blog
jgrewing
Rock N' Read
Library Time
chitchat
Library 2.0 Challenge
Potter County Library
The Book Bag
dlueb
lines from the library
Musings of a Librarian
hotspringscrm
Faith Public/School Library
media and more
Slow Movin' Mama
country girl bri
Navigating L Space
netterscraps
Aberdeen Bibliovore Blog
Library Aurora
SDL2.0
Moon's Musings
Miss Nancy's Notes
Jan
Dogs and Chinese Food
Becky's Blog
Dakota Doll
Bad River Librarian
dariasdalliances
lw's blog
Rhema
Somanybookssolittletime
bookbuddee
Mitchell Tech Library
Novel Thoughts
Miss Information
Do They Ever Let You Outa This Room?
Down-Lo with A-LO
mi2old
Jenny's Summer Blog
The Timid Librarian
kay's blog

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.

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.

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.

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).

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,...

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,....

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

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

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.

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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