Monday, July 28, 2008

Big Changes

It's time for a new era in our family - Jon-Erik, the younger son, is moving to Portland, OR this week. No job, no permanent living arrangement, but when you're 25 these things aren't so critical. He's done a lot of research, arranged for a 30-day apartment, looked at the transportation options and applied for a few jobs. So he's all set, and we'll drive out in a month with his small accumulation of household items. I admit to being very envious of his adventure!

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Playtime for me too

Now that lots of staff have created their blogs and are really getting in to the Web 2.0 learning, I made more lessons available. When I first took the course myself I didn't spend as much time playing as I wanted, so this is a good opportunity to go back and do more!

Today I added a Library Thing widget to my blog, to display book titles on my shelf. I found the code easily enough but wasn't sure how to get it into the blog. I finally just decided to look at the Meebo widget, and pasted the Library Thing code in there. It looks like it worked!

If only everything was so easy - I tried to figure out how to add the Google widget Mike Price mentioned from MSC - personalized for our library - but couldn't find that anywhere.

Maybe I'll go make myself a trading card now!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Summer continues

More blogs from the staff - they are doing great! It's fun to see the learning process, and how they are able to see practical uses for many of the social networking tools in their personal lives.

I read today of a committee, spread out geographically, using Skype for conference calls to plan activities - that sounds like a great use of technology. Our family uses Skype too - it saves cell phone minutes!

Even more fun - my son and I can play some Nintendo Wii games online, just as if we are sitting in the same room. Another favorite of ours - online Scrabble. I won't even consider playing anyone else - we just play for fun.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Fun stuff!

It's really summer - we are enjoying the heat for sure! All sorts of visitors are here; the Wally Byam caravan folks seem to be gone now. They all appreciate the library and internet access, though.

Tomorrow we'll lose a stubborn computer - it won't shut off at night! So it gets a serious time out with the IT experts.

Staff blogs are coming along - I'm hoping more will start the lessons next week.