Evaluation--Thing #23!

All in all, I found this to be a very worthwhile project, although much of it was done on my own time. There simply wasn't enough time to do it at work and do it justice.

I'd gladly participate in another program. Next time, I think it might be valuable to make it more collaborative in nature. In other words, setting up Division or Community Library blogs would be more work-productive and might get more people involved who otherwise wouldn't pay it any attention.

Thanks, Hood and Hat! You've done a terrific job!

The End is Near!! Thing #22

Spent some time exploring EMedia, looking for an audio book called "The End is Near." No such luck. Closest thing was "Grave Endings," by Rochelle Krich. Which I would certainly download. If. I. Owned. An. Ipod. Alas.

Peas in a Podcast--Thing #21

Found a podcast I liked--"All About Books," a weekly NPR show--and subscribed via Bloglines. Easy as pie. Easier than just going to the NPR site and listening there? Prolly not. But certainly the directories are a good bet for finding podcasts with which you may not already be familiar.

ITube, YouTube

Who, outside of people living in caves, doesn't know about YouTube! While it's hardly cutting- edge anymore, it is fun. Now, which fave can I embed here? Not the Justin Timberlake one, or the parody of same from a female perspective. I think I'll go with "Hey Little Sparta."

Double Avian Homicide--Things #18 & #19

I've combined numbers 18 and 19 by registering at ThinkFree and exploring a bit. This is a terrific idea for collaborative work and also for doing work away from your office pc. ThinkFree offers Microsoft Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software which can all be used online or off. Now you can work on a pc that may not have Microsoft Office installed and still edit and revise your Word and Excel documents. How cool is that! I'm not at all surprised that it won a Web 2.0 Award.

Now I'm a Believer! Thing #17-1/2

I never really got the Facebook and MySpace thang. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer socializing in person. But the LibGuides are worth the price of admission. I've just found two really good websites for the Internet Resources Team directory, and I've only scratched the surface. I'll have to go back and check it out further but don't have the time today; gotta get to the end of the 23-1/2!

Thing #17--Wiki work

OK, finally found something to add! I became a member of Wikiquote (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/) and added a quotation to the Love in the Time of Cholera page. "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." Tada!