Digital Photos Class Review

I completed the 3-week digital photo “boot camp” and have to say it was a curate’s egg. The first class focused on hooking the camera up and transferring photos. That one went over well and I think the students were very pleased with it. Everyone brought their cameras and transferred a photo to My Pictures. [...]

Awesome Online Word Processor (And More!)

My previous post — the one so imaginitively titled, “Test” — was a trial run of using Zoho Writer to publish to my blog.  I’ve been a loyal Google Docs user for sometime now (I think Google has brainwashed me, but I’m not complaining!) but how incredibly awesome is it that there is now a [...]

Test

I have been looking for an alternative to Google Docs ever since my account got a little wonky.  From what I could tell, though, most online word processors didn’t have the collaboration features Google Docs did.  This is why I was so thrilled to see Zoho mentioned on Lifehacker.  I can’t wait to give this [...]

How to Hook Non-Web People on 2.0

I taught a class not long ago called “Getting Organized Online”.  The idea was to show the various Google apps and how they can help one get, well, organized.  I showed Calendar, Reader and Google Docs.  Everyone flipped over Calendar and how easy it is to use.  Everyone oohed and aahed over Reader, although I’m [...]

Thoughts on Library 2.0

I haven’t been posting much here since I’ve technically “completed the challenge”.  I’ve covered all of the specific tasks, but somehow I don’t feel like I’ve finished anything.  I’m guessing this is because (at the risk of sounding really corny) I’m not ready to stop learning!  But since the time-frame for the challenge is coming to a [...]

Teaching 2.0

One of the tasks for the CJRLC Tech Challenge is to teach some 2.0-ish stuff to someone else.  In 2 weeks I’ll be teaching several staff members at MPOW about blogging, but in the meantime I thought I’d write about some more impromptu teaching I did not long ago.  I was happily minding my own [...]

Cool Flickr Project

Forgive the non-library-ness of this post, but my brain is still reeling from Computers in Libraries!  I have a lot to say about CIL, but that will have to wait until I’ve gotten my mind around everything I learned.  In the meantime, I’ve been basking in the joyous glow of the NHL playoffs.  There’s a [...]

Wish me luck…

I’m off to Computers in Libraries!  I’m completely freaking out, as this is the first major conference I’ve attended in my short 2 years as a librarian.  I’m hoping I’ll have an awesome time and that I’ll learn a ton.  I suspect I’ll have a lot to say when I get back!

Taking Netvibes for a Spin

Early on in this blog I waxed poetic about Bloglines, my trusty feed reader.  However, enough people were telling me about using other newer, better aggreagators that I started to get nervous.  Some of my subscriptions weren’t coming through — was it the site’s fault, Bloglines’s fault or my own?  I couldn’t quite tell, and [...]

Click! Fun with Flickr! (Part II)

I’ve had a blast fiddling around with Flickr (even though I’ve been using it for searching photos for some time, I’d never actually gotten an account [I'm not much of a picture taker] so I had no idea how much fun it is to play with!) but now it’s time to get down to business.   [...]