Snakes in the library

Week 5 Thing 10 IMAGE GENERATORS

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10. Play around with an online image generator. Blog about your experience(s)

This is a short slide movie created at slide.com to provide a slightly humorous look at my recent trip to New Norcia. I had the pleasure of being able to accompany the library manager, team leader and a few of my fellow work colleagues to New Norcia for the 2007 Library Lecture.

I find Slide.com to be EXCELLENT in providing short little photo albums to put on a blog or homepage with little fuss. You can add different effects and it always looks good once it's in place.

Week 4 Thing 9 Useful library links or feeds

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9. Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds.

I found this blog

BlogBib: Select Librarian/Library Blogs

It isn't actually a library blog but it does have some very useful tips on blogs within the library and how to create a blog that is functional for a library.

Week 4 Thing 8 Rss News Feeder

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8. Learn about RSS feeds and set up your own Bloglines newsreader account.

My bloglines RSS Feed :

I really like the idea of putting all the subjects I want to know about in a blogroll where I am access the updated information all the time.

RSS feeds is an optional part of a webpage that allows you to subscribe to it and receive updated information as you like.

Google Reader and Bloglines are two web based applications that allow you to access the feeds, and create an aggregator (a functional list) that alerts you to updated information and allows you to access the parts you want.

What book am I?

2007-09-10T11:21:00.001+08:00

You're One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

by Ken Kesey

You're crazy. This has led people to attempt to confine you to a safe
place so that you don't pose a danger to yourself or others. You feel like you pose a
great danger to the man (or maybe the woman) or whatever else is keeping you down. But
most of the time, you just end up being observed. Were you crazy before you were
confined?

Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

2007-09-05T14:37:00.000+08:00

Idiots and Slinky's are the same. Neither are much use but both make you smile when you push them down the stairs

2007-09-04T11:48:00.001+08:00

Week 3 Thing 6 Flickr Mashups

2007-09-03T09:00:00.000+08:00

6. Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites.

"Mashup (web application hybrid)
A mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into an integrated experience. The etymology of this term derives from its similar use in pop music, possibly from the hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more songs. -
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"

The mashup I had a look at was the ability to turn one of your flickr photos into a trading card
I'm quite happy with the result. It was very easy to use and only took about 2 minutes literally to set the whole thing up to create and then post it on the blog.
I'm discovering there's a lot of simple tools out there that allow you to create some pretty cool things relatively quickly and easily.
I often like to create my own pictures and layouts so I don't often get to encounter these sorts of web applications simply because I'm not really looking for them.

Week 3 Thing 5 Exploring FLICKR

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5. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.

I've used flickr previously to host photos for personal use. I find it quite useful and easy to use especially with the flickr uploader tool.

Here is a picture of the crew at my library!

The picture now has a tag of 23thingscentral so should be searchable under that.

Week 2 Thing 4 - REGISTRATION!!!!

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4. Register your blog and begin your Learning 2.0 journey.

Ok I'm sending an email off to 23 things to register this thing - I guess the journey has begun.

Week 2 Thing 3 BLOGS!!!!

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3. Set up your own blog , add your first post, add an avatar.

So It begins, here it is, my blog and my avatar.
Well Maeve did request that it didn't have a black background but I have to disagree as I feel black really suits my particular blog and the colours of the links and text are such that it will not put strain on the eyes.
I enjoyed spending some time creating a banner and tinkering with my yahoo avatar so as to start off styling my blog in the way I would like it to look.
Some frustrations I had were mainly with sizing the pictures just right and finding a template that I felt fitted in with my theme. I ended up picking a minimalist template that I think works well.

Week 1 Thing 2 LifeLongLearners

2007-08-31T10:17:00.000+08:00

Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process.

Having watched the lifelong learner's slideshow I'm aware of the 7 and a half habits of lifelong learners.
I think the easiest habit for me is Viewing Problems as challenges. A lot of the time when there is a problem I feel excited about helping to reach a solution.
The hardest habit is having confidence in myself as a competent, effective learner. I often falter because I am unsure I can do things, most of the time I push through this and come out the other end unscathed but sometimes the fear of being unable prevents me from trying.
I'm journeying onward to week 2.

Week 1 Thing 1 The Beginning

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Read the first blog entry to find out about the program and make sure that you are ready to participate.
Remember: to take our challenge you must be on Central TAFE’s Library staff

I've been late to the starting line but here I am beginning my journey through the 23 things a week late but I've read the blog entry and I'm rearing to go!