Ready for the Half Time Show

Explored Rollyo and created a search roll called Lost Worlds. It will need to have sites added as we get further into planning the Summer Reading Program. It may prove useful. So, I'm half finished the Things. Will tackle the rest in April. No foolin'.

I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends (&Family)

This post should be about Thing #12 - Rollyo, but I couldn't wait to use the new MP3 player that I have been entrusted with. So, yesterday with much excitement and determined to figure it out for myself, I unwrapped my new toy and carefully reading the little manual, started the installation. Things were going great - thanks Marg for the tip about the "hold" button. I downloaded a book with just one part so it would be quick, and then hit a snag when I tried to transfer the file to the player. So, after many frustating moments, I bowed to a higher power and called Heather. She advised using Overdrive for the transfer and it worked! Now to find my file and listen to my book. Well, I looked everywhere, opened the online manual to search for guidance (thanks again Heather) and couldn't find the file. As it was time to head home, I knew who could help me find it - one of my two children who are still living at home and have MP3 players. I sought help from the first child I encountered - the youngest, Mark. He was really impressed by my MP3 player and despite being distracted checking all the features out, located my book in a file that I swear I had checked several times. He wasn't smug - bless his heart!

Thing # 10

Creating an avatar was fun. Imagine my surprise when I signed in to my Yahoo mail and there she was! Way cool!

Feed Frenzie

I set up my Bloglines account, choose some options and now have a plethora of feeds based on my interests. Some look good, could even be useful, but I think that some weeding is in order. I'm not finding the appeal of this feature. What am I missing?

Time Well Wasted

Well, tonight I linked all the V Team blogs to my blog and then of course I had to see if the links all worked. So, I've had a great time catching up with what everyone has posted, filling out a form, looking at pictures, following links etc. This is fun but I'm falling behind in the 23 things. So, on to Thing #8.

It's All Relevant

It's interesting how something grabs your attention once it becomes more relevant. This happened to me when I took another look at the latest edition of the OLA Access magazine. I thought that I had already read it, but now that I'm on the V team and registered for a course on Knowledge Ontario, the articles took on a whole new interest for me. Not only did I carefully read several articles that I had previously perused or passed over, but I also followed internet links provided. One of the links led to a radio interview with Peter Rogers as the guest speaking on Knowledge Ontario. It was fun to listen to. I also find myself reading more articles in the LFPress that are related to technology. I'm becoming technologically aware!

Flickr photo

Dorchester Ontario
Originally uploaded by kidddrunkadelic14.

Unfortunately, none of the digital photos I have in e-mails could be saved in a file that I could browse to post to my blog so I tried the Blog This option with a picture from Flickr. I searched Dorchester, Ontario and found some pictures of the Mill Pond.

I'm Blogging

Setting up my blog was not hard at all. Harder to find something profound to write. I will say that I was pleased to be invited to join the V Team to provide a branch staff perspective. I think that my participation has come at a good time for me. I've been feeling lately that my knowledge and experience of the web and advances in technology is woefully inadequate - a feeling reinforced by my attendance at the Yahoo session at OLA - so I'm excited by the opportunity to explore and expand my knowledge. Next step is to explore Flickr. Will comment on that in my next post.