Completed!

Finally finished the TLC 2.0 BCL 23 Things!

OverDrive

Overdrive is a nice tool to use. Its nice because you can get books or videos online and it is returned automatically so don't need to worry about being late. NO LATE FEES! Well not right now.

Take the tour: BCL OverDrive Tour

Podcast

Interesting! Useful! Direct!

It can be used in many ways. Mostly what I'm thinking is to use it as a marketing tool. Since it can be directly subscribed to using RSS feeds.

VIDEO's!

Oozing your brain one video at a time!

Lots of videos to watch! One or many for every type of interest! It can be used just for fun or just for serious fun like keeping up with sports from around the world!

PIPES

This is a good tool. You can use it get mashups of different news topics at a central locaiton. It can be filtered to your preference. It seems to be a easy setup. I will try some more

ZOHO

ZOHOWriter

http://www.zohowriter.com/

• Cool!
  
• Need to get a little deeper and see how it really is!
  
• Seems to have the basic options!
  
• Will have to go thru each one and see what can be done!
  

WIKI!

• SJCPL Subject Guides
• Book Lovers Wiki
• Library Success: A best practices wiki
• ALA 2006 New Orleans wiki
• The Bull Run Library wiki

Viewed all these Wiki's. Some were informative and others were .

Something to keep in mind when creating these pages, Explanation (what is it?) and Functionality (easy to move around).

ROLLYO

Nice tool!

Many uses for this tool. This can be used when you don't have the time to look thru those thousands of search results.

Select...PC PARTSSearch The Web

My Library Thing

Nice!

I have my own library!

More Image Generator

http://metaatem.net/words/

Image Generator

http://www.imagechef.com/ic/word_mosaic/

Library 2.0

The Future!

Library 2.0 can be simply put as the future of libraries. If libraries does not move forward to use the new technologies that are out in the world today and tomorrow, then customers will no longer talk to the librarians, because they will not have any need of them.

People are using the the new technologies and are searching for newer technologies everyday. Libraries need to implement and adapt into these new technologies and have staff trained to assist customers in using them. Reference questions can now be answered by any number of search engines. Search engines that Elementary School kids are able to use.

As the old saying goes "Get with it!".

Del.icio.us

First I thought

Then, I explored the site, and found it to be interesting and useful. It's useful, because I go to a lot of webpages related to technology and if I find something interesting I like to come back to it. I could use the bookmarks of the web browser but the manual organizing.

Using Del.icio.us would be easier!

Technology

All things technological - computers, phones, cameras, audio/video players, chips, circuit boards, ....!

How much technology do you have in your home, car, pocket? If you have a lot, this doesn't make you a technologicaly estute, and if you don't have a lot or don't have anything that doesn't make you a untechie.

If you have a lot of gadgets but don't know how to use them, only thing you are is rich!

If you know how to use the gadgets but don't own them, this makes you smart, because next week its another new gadget!

The best technology you can learn use is the one thing you have with you all the time, your BRAIN!

Learning, adapting, memorizing, consious/unconsious, the brain is the "it" in technology!

ID

Rubber Tree

Check out this link!

It is a pic of a Rubber Tree Estate from my hometown in India! The sap of tree is taken to make rubber sheets, which then is sold all over the world.

RSSssssssss+

Added some more RSS feeds to myblogline. So I need to go out get some more caffine to stay up and read all the feeds.

RSSssssss!

Learned RSS feeds today!

Talk about information overload.

(not learning about RSS, but reading all the RSS feeds)

7& 1/2 habits of lifelong learning:

1. Begin with the end in mind.

(Easy - I like to think of what I can do with what I learned)

2. Accept responsibility for your own learning.

(Kind of hard - I will setup everything to learn, but ... usually never find the time to stick with it or finish it.)

3. View problems as challenges.

(Hard - Usually time is the main problem for me.)

4. Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner.

(Easy - I like to learn no matter what it is)

5. Create your own learning toolbox.

(Easy - I usually get everything setup to learn)

6. Use technology to your advantage.

(Easy - I love technology!)

7. Teach/mentor others.

(Kind of easy - I like to learn from others and discuss about topics.)

7 1/2. Play.

( Easy - I have a one year old at home.)