23Things Reflections
This was a great learning experience for me and it is hard to put down in a few words what I thought about this endeavor but I will try.
1. Blogging is easy and a great way to spread the my library news.
2. I like using Blogger better than Tumblr.
3. Online Communities is where everyone is at
4. Made a Facebook fan page and that was THE BEST thing that happened with the 23Things.
5. I like the Online Meetings. I will use this more to cut down on travel expenses.
6. I now have Picasa & Flickr accounts thanks to the Photo Sharing lesson. I hope I can remember all the logins and passwords.
7. Patrons love pictures. Staff helpers like being able to access websites to dress up the web pages.
8. RSS & Feed Readers - The hardest thing for me to make myself do is go and keep up with these. My email takes forever and I struggle to find time to go look at other sites during working hours.
9. I was already Microblogging a little with my Twitter account. I’m not into sharing all my stuff on all the different sites. Facebook is about as far as I go.
10. Working with the staff on some of the Cloud Computing processes was fun. I will try to use the google docs more often and collaborate with staff and board on the web.
11. Instant Messaging isn’t something that I will use much at work. Some days I am the only one here. I would use it in a setting with more people.
12. I have used IM for years to keep up with family. I showed several of my patrons how to use Meebo to access more than one account. The younger people love it.
13. Practice makes perfect and that was my learning experience for Video Sharing. I forget that not everyone likes every part of the story like I do. EDIT will be a key word for the future.
14. Screencasting intimidated me. I put this lesson off because I felt so lost. After I bit the bullet and started to play with it I found it fun and see where it would be useful in the library
15. Slide Sharing - Animoto is so fun to play with. It is easy and the patrons thought that I had spent hours putting a slide show together. (my secret) It really jazzes up a web page.
16. I also played with ZOHO
17. Shelfari is on my web page and this has been the 2ND BEST THING that I learned with 23Things. Patrons love the pictures of the new books that I just put out as the library owning.
18. Wikis - I don’t feel comfortable adding or editing an already existing resource unless it is blatantly wrong. I didn’t find any that were. Confession, I didn’t look real hard. Our town doesn’t have a good web resource so I didn’t really want to start something there. I did add to Eric’s Wiki for the 2nd activity.
19. Summary - A good project that I am glad I participated in.
20. I expanded my knowledge about many online resources that can be used in the library and my personal life.
21. Would like to see this available to more of the general public.
22. Biggest drawback was lots of accounts and passwords and time to play with every gadget. I tried to keep it simple and stay with a main source such as google but couldn’t keep myself from trying other things. I will continue to experiment with all of the sources in the lessons.
23. Congratulations to the creators of this project. You did good. Thanks for your time and support to all of us across the state. I’d jump on board for another round sometime.
Update 4-23
I have done a lesson on each week of my 23 Things Kansas. This has been a great learning experience. If you see a week that you want an explanation about leave a comment. Next week we have wrap-up webinar sessions. I am looking forward to finishing.
Week 12 - Screencasting
I’m having trouble having this post. I hope that I can get this accomplished. At the bottom of this post I will have a link to my screen cast. This was fun to make.
I have tried two time, two different ways to get this to post to publish to my Karen’s Klips. I don’t know why it won’t work. Let’s hope that the third time is a charm.
Week 15 - Wikis
I just added a post to the 23 things Kansas participants wiki. These are easy to navigate. I signed up for a Wikipedia account but am hesitant to add or change anything. I looked up Osborne but wasn’t for sure what to add.
I can see where a wiki would be a good place to coordinate events and not have to send out so many letters or emails. This way everyone would be on the same page each time they signed in.
I’m not sure I would use a wiki for the library but I might. This might be something that the YA kids could do for summer reading.
Update 4-19-10
I’m am on my last two lessons. I need to get caught up with week 11 or 12, the one on screenshots, and this last week on wikis. This has been a great learning experience.
Week 13 - Slide Sharing
http://show.zoho.com/public/osbornepubliclibrary/Kids%20After%20School%20-%20Kids%20Walk%20Kansas1
This is the URL for my Slide Sharing presentation. These are pictures of our after school program. We are walking across Kansas and each week I have the kids doing different physical activities. We have walked 358 miles and we need to get to 433 by the end of the month. I know we can do it.
Update 5-24-10 - I put another slide presentation show on my web page. This one is for summer reading and has all our information for our programs on it. Our web page is www.osbornepubliclibrary.blogspot.com
Additions
Week 11 was a catch up week and we didn’t have an assignment. I need to get caught up with week 12 & 13 now. I have started on both of them but they are ready to publish.
Now that I am home from a great time at KLA maybe I’ll get my loose ends tied up.
Week 14 - Library Thing, etc
I made an account on Shelfari and added to my blog. I also put it on the library blog and am going to try to use it to show the latest additions to the library. Visuals are a good thing for patrons.
Shelfari was very easy to use. It let me rate books, mark them as read or want to read, mark them as owned (which is useful for the library) and it lets me make a wish list. This might be a good tool for others to rate also.
This will be much easier to use than typing out all the titles on the library blogspot.
Bookshelf →
This will take you to the addition of books to our library
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