Sunday, October 19, 2008

#13

Del.iciou.us seems to really have possibilities for fun and study. After following the tutorials, etc. in the lessons, I was kind of lukewarm about it, but still feeling favorable. However, afterward I went directly to the del.icio.us site and explored for real. It was then that I really got a feel for how useful this tool can be. I started to do searches such as games and learn Spanish. I found some really interesting sites such as Livemocha where you can learn to speak Spanish. It even enables you to connect with Spanish speakers all over the world for practice.

This could also be a great reference tool. When a patron has a question you can't answer, ask him to give the subject a tag and try to look it up on del.icio.us.

# 11

It was really fun working with LibraryThing. I'm surprised at how many books I've read in the last three months. Of course my Library isn't finished. Now that I have an account, I have to go back and keeping adding more books as I remember them or as I read new ones.

Here are my URL's:

http://www.librarything.com/profile/LUMBRJCK

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/LUMBRJCK

#8

Doing the bloglines newsreader account just about drove me crazy. I had trouble distinguishing between this account and my blog account. It was just very confusing trying figure out the difference between the bloglines account and the rss feeds. Anyway, here is the URL to my bloglines account:

http://www.bloglines.com/public/LUMBRJCK@YAHOO.COM

When I tried clicking on hb's account in the exercise, I got an error: This is not a valid username. Here goes.

#9

I have added three blogs to my own:
Library Link of the Dayhttp://www.tk421.net/librarylink/
PublicAnonymous

Recent mashups Bookmarks on Delicioushttp://delicious.com/tag/mashups
PublicAnonymous

ResourceShelfhttp://www.resourceshelf.com

I found the exploration process quite confusing and hard to follow. I found some directions online and was able to put these on my blog. Quite exhausting.