I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Great Flood of Dec. 2007

Now that Teresa has corrected the error of my ways in trying to post a picture on my blog, I wanted to see if I could do it at home without her! This is a photo of my downstairs hallway after we had the flooring and molding pulled up. These little fans were all over the house in addition to two monsters. It was so noisy, that I would come to the Lynnwood Library for some peace and quiet!

Lesson 13 - Online Image Generators

Okay - Now I understand that the reason I have been unable to post pictures from my desktop onto my blog is because I have been using the HTML feature rather than the COMPOSE feature. Online Image Generatoring is probably something that I will not take the time to use, but can see the value to it, especially for marketing - such as flyers for library programs.

Lesson 15 - Search Engines

I performed a search on various sites, including Dogpile, Rollyo and Mama. Kind of fun, as I had never tried anything before other than Google. However, when I returned to Google, the answer I was looking for ended up at the top of the page and was a lot further down on the other sites. I entered "sewing AND guinea pigs", just looking for a project to make a little gift for my daughter's newest foster child, Millie. All the search engines did come up with the same site, Guineapigcages.com, though. I liked that MAMA numbered the results - just seemed easier to track. Hopefully, I will make a cute little Cuddle Cup for cute little Millie soon! As far as surprises, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Google will remain at the top of my list for search engines. On to the next lesson!

Lesson 12 - OverDrive Downloads

I checked out 1 book and 1 music CD. I would really much rather read than listen to books, so will probably not use this Overdrive feature, but found it a useful lesson, as many of our patrons do use Overdrive and I now know a little more about accessing it. I didn't realize that there was a limit of 10 checkouts and that it is not possible to return one's items, but that one must wait for them to expire. I do intend to explore the collection a little further when I have more time, but probably won't actually check anything out as long as I still have my vision!

Lesson 8 - Facebook

Just had to make another comment about Facebook. I have been having so much fun viewing the photos that family members (who condescended to accept my invites) have posted. They are all so far away - Calif, New York and DC - it brings me closer to them. I even figured out how to transfer some of their photos to my site. This lesson alone has made the WEB 2.0 course very worthwhile for me. Thank you, Judy Sasges, for offering it to PSA I's! Of course, beyond the personal rewards, the whole process has increased my comfort level with the various internet tools available today. I can't say I fully understand what I'm doing half the time; however, I'm becoming more courageous about just diving in.

(Still worried about compromising my privacy though.)

Lesson 11 - Tag, You're It - Social Bookmarking in Delicious

Whew - That was a lot of work, but I think I have completed the lesson. I created a Delicious acct to manage my bookmarks, having imported (exported?) all my Firefox bookmarks to my new Delicious acct, so that I will be able to access them from any computer. This will come in handy, I foresee. I think that I added some tags; will check back on that when a little fresher. I searched for 2 things on the Delicious site and compared my findings to a similar search on Google. It did seem a little easier on Delicious - at least it instantly directed me to what I was actually looking for, without having to look at a myriad of shopping sites, etc. I found a simple breadbaking recipe and a simple pattern to sew a stuffed pig, exactly what I was looking for. I bookmarked both sites, using the new Delicious tool tag which I had added to my Firefox toolbar, as per the instructions on the Delicious website. That reconfigured not only my toolbar, but the look of my whole frontpage. Don't know what my husband will say about that, when he sees it. Again, I will revisit that when my brain is a little fresher. The other thing that I am a little unsure about is sharing all of my bookmarks; for now, am keeping them private.