Thing 18

I am quite familiar with Youtube and have a couple of accounts. Not only do I frequently search Youtube for videos, I have posted videos as well (Good luck finding the one of me playing my guitar and singing...).

I often use videos from You Tube to help teach my Internet classes. I really enjoy the video series 'In Plain English" produced by Commoncraft. They have many videos relating to web 2.0 and they are easy to understand. I show their video 'Blogs in Plain English' in my Blogging workshop. I think libraries could use online video in a variety of ways (promoting programs, online library tours, poetry reading, and bibliographic instruction).

The following video is quite nostalgic for me. I used to get so excited as a tot watching Saturday morning cartoons (in my pajamas eating my Honeycombs) when this one would come on sometime between Super Friends and Spiderman and his Amazing Friends...


Grace does not care much for online video or You Tube. I have tried recording her doing cute things so that I can post them, but she never seems to want to perform when the camera is on. Kinda like that singing frog from the Bugs Bunny cartoons...

Thing 17

Well, I registered for an account in EBSCO and created a web page using Page Composer. It is kinda cool, but not quite sure what the point is. I was able to email my page to myself and then view it, but after I saved it to my computer, all I got was a blank white page when trying to view it. I can, however, view the page after I go back into My EBSCO page. Hmmmm. I will keep experimenting. Some of the features that you can add to your site are cool, though. I uploaded a photo and added a search box to the page that will search articles in the MasterFILE Premier database. I am going to try the RSS Feeds next....

I must say, I am having a bit of trouble. I tried subscribing with an RSS Feed from MasterFILE so articles containing my keywords would appear in my Bloglines aggregator, but it does not seem to be working. I notice that others have been reporting problems as well. Perhaps I will try again later. The News Alert function is excellent for anyone researching a topic using the EBSCO databases.

Grace could care less about Thing 17.

Thing 16

...is finally done. These two 2.0 tools are pretty cool for students. I love the idea of an online step by step guide for research projects. I am a very structured person and often set goals (in outline form) for work projects. This is really right up my alley. I also like the email reminders for the different steps. Cool idea! I will certainly show these resources to students who might be struggling with research papers or who are having trouble organizing their projects. I also think we should link to them from the library's website.

Grace is sleeping in a sun beam. I am sure she is tuckered after throwing up on the white rug.