Blanca Nieves y El Tao Tao

Week 9: #20 Discover YouTube and other video sharing sites

I really enjoy youtube. I share children's action songs with co-workers and friends so they are able to sing a song along with the movements. I found "A Tooty Tah" the kid's song for a co-worker who coordinates toddler programs. I can see how videos and clips can be useful for my job and social networking.

Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops

Zoho is an awesome web-based word processor. I think this is one of the best applications I've been introduced to throughout the duration of this training.

Week 8: #18 Social Networking: Making friends in the comfort of your own home

I think social networking sites are good. I've never used one myself, but I allowed my teen to create an account on myspace, but I also monitor occasionally in fear of preditors. I learned recently through a selfdense class that some of these social networking sites can be accessed eventhough they are set as personal or invites only restricted. One that appealed to me was the ratemyspace site.

Week 7: #17 Blog About Technology

I believe technology is becoming so advanced that, at times, it's hard to maintain a level of consistancy with it's usage. However, there are many advantanges for this in the library field. Advanced technology will revolutionize a new form of networking within libraries. With this growing form of technology, the library will have a staggering amount of avenues for connecting to other professionals. Which may lead to innovative ideas for premier library programs and services that our communities will embrace.

Week 7: #16 So what's in a wiki?

The hcpl library wiki is interesting. I like the fact that the library staff could post favorites on it. This may be a good tool to use for reader's advisory as well.

Week 6: #15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

All the articles provided were very insightful and informative of the future of libraries. To me, Library 2.0 means, "the virtual library". How are we as library and information professionals able to serve our communities if we are not aware of all the advanced communication technology surrounding us? The library environment must keep up with technology in order to provide quality service for our communities. Since libraries are one of the major forunners of information providers, it should strive to offer library services with Library 2.0, the premier virtual library.

Week 6: #14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

I found that under a keyword search for blog post about learning 2.0 resulted in 15,017 hits. Under tag field searching for the same subject the results came back with 725 hits. Under a blog directory search for learning 2.0 the search results were 862. Some hits resulted with identical blogs.

While searching under popular blogs, top blogs the search results include information about technology on the web.
Under popular blogs for top searches resulted in searches about hollywood figures and sports stars news. The information contained in Top videos discussed current events and news.

Week 6: #13 Tagging makes the web 2.0 world go round

This is one of my favorite reference tools thus far. I created an account an have bookmarked several helpful websites to my page.

Week 5: #12 The "Library" Elf will remind you!

This service is a great way to have a personal reminder that sends you updated status about all your library items.

American Indian Heritage Month

Don't forget to celebrate American Indian Heritage Month. If you present preschool or toddler programs you can alway incorporate bits and pieces of this culture into your storytime. Today during my Spanish storytime I decided to introduce the storytime using colors. I announced that this month is AIHM and since colors are significant in the dress wear of American Indians, we read books about colors. For the craft, we made an indian head dress with feathers. We also sung and danced to the song "Ten little indians" in Spanish. If you have instruments for your audience, this would be a great time to use them with your songs.