15 Nov
I completed the survey.
I really enjoyed this whole experience. It is a great and fun training tool. I loved the tasks that introduced me to Lastfm, Clipmarks and PicNik. All of these are sites I bookmarked. I will use others that we learned about but these were my favorites.
14 Nov
I checked out all of the favorite blogs of Nancy and Cari. I really liked the tastespotting blog – the pictures were scrumptious looking. I also like pictures in cookbooks. I enjoyed lifehacker also. Yesterday when I was scouting it out I found a thing called DVD knife. It let you mark a section of a DVD with the stop and end points so you could insert it in an e-mail, or for a presentation. I could have used that when working on my Master’s degree. I’m very new to blogging and although I’ve gone onto blogs on my own I don’t really have any favorites. I will be reading other people’s comments to see what they like and maybe get some good ideas.
11 Nov
I loaded a picture from one of my cross country ski trips and added text to the picture to tell where it was taken. I like this site and will use it again.
11 Nov
Updated on 11/12. Yesterday I went back to the Mesa County website. I tried again to put my physical address in and discovered it works fine as long as I used Dr instead of Drive.
I went into the Mesa County website and found the Assessor link under departments. After selecting “Assessor Lookup” I put my address in but got a message of no search results found so I selected “zoom to” and selected Fruita. This brought up a general map that I could “zoom in” on and find my exact address.
On the State of Colorado website I did some searching under the “Services” tab for Unemployment Insurance Benefits. I had to file an unemployment claim with the state of Florida when I got laid off so I wanted to compare the Florida site to the Colorado site. I did a rough calculation to see what my weekly benefit would be if I had to file for unemployment. I found out I would get $60 a week more in Colorado than I got from the state of Florida! I liked the information that was available under the “How do I..” tab also.
I have used the IRS site, City of Grand Junction, City of Fruita and the Colorado Tax Forms sites before and got a lot of answers to questions and useful information.
1 Nov
I got 100%. Funny thing is, just last week I went out to the wiki and was just checking things out to see if there was anything new so most of the questions were familiar to me.
26 Oct
I converted a file on Zamzar and when I got the e-mail notification that it was converted I saw that the link was long so I converted it with Tiny URL to a 26 character link. Pretty nifty!
original URL : (100 characters)
http://www.zamzar.com/getFiles.php?uid=2468713746290001256574347&targetID=Qts8kW5aHFdpQS5O2kYYmQ_I_I
Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/yknzxpd
21 Oct
I couldn’t stop at just visitng 2 of the sites featured in this task. Of course I hit the Library Job Postings, not that I was looking for a job, but because it was the first one listed. Seems to be a good resource if you were looking for a job. I did find some broken links when going into some individual state sites. Resource Shelf seemed to have good info. I went to WatchNow to see if the videos for kids being offered on it might be something my teacher friend could use but the site seemed rather “unfriendly” to me. I looked at the Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. Then I looked on the CLiC website to see if they had any good classes coming up. I did a little extra searching on cataloging on the delicious site and came up with some sites that might be good reference tools.
13 Oct
I’ve always worked for big companies that always had Microsoft Office loaded on the machines we used and since I did some work from home I always had Microsoft Office loaded on my personal computers. I never knew there was anything else. I’ve only known about Open Source Software since working for the library and I have been pleasantly surprised with Firefox – so much so that I also use it at home now. I read the definition of Open Source Initiative and I downloaded Open Office and took it for a ride. I was surprised that the functionality of it was so close to Microsoft and I used the “Open documents” function to open both Word documents and Excel spreadsheets I had saved and they opened up just fine. I’ll play around with it some more. It’s good to know that this available and free is always good.
7 Oct
Well, this was a whole new thing to me so I was game to try it out. I watched the tutorial and it seemed easy enough so I hit the install button and followed all the instructions and got my little green clip button. I moved the little orange box all over and selected a few things and got the “clipped” green box however I then realized I did not have the menu bar where I was supposed to select “done clipping”. So, I couldn’t go much further than that. I’ll be checking other people’s blogs to see how this is used because at this point I’m not sure what I would use it for. I’m sure there are some good uses that I’m not aware of.
3 Oct
I downloaded a book from the MCPLD website through OverDrive a few months ago. It happened to be the only way I could get a popular book in a series I was reading and I really really wanted to read it at that moment. I downloaded it to my laptop and listened to it that way. I am not an audiobook fan – give me a printed book anytime. I can’t stay focused when listening to a book. I know that medium is very popular with others.
As for NetLibrary, I am familiar with this also. My previous employer made eBooks available to us through NetLibrary and I had an account with them so I did not create one for this task. I did go to the MCPLD website and go through all of the FAQ to be familiar with what a patron would be seeing if I had to help someone.
