Week 10 #23

Flickr, Zoho, Podcast, Overdrive, Pixer.us and Bloglines were some of my favorite web programs. I am enjoying learning the technologies about the emotion icons
in Zoho Writer. I am very excited about the image generator. It has been a great
learning experience, and I will look forward to learn more about these technologies.

I wish I had more time to practice using the above programs.

Week 9 #22

I listened to portions of these ebooks / eAudio clips on the LibriVox site : LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection, An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats and By The Arno by Oscar Wilde . I would consider downloading any of the above. Also listened to The Ugly Duckling in portion at this site : http://hcpl.lib.overdrive.com. I think the Overdrive site of HCPL is user friendly - more so than the Librivox site.

Week 9 #21

At Podcast.net I listened to the Lone Ranger 1938 show. Also looked at the Library Channel too. Both are very interesting! I posted to bloglines.

Week 9 #20

I saw Italy, both the Venice Film Festival and the Venice Canals clips.

Week 8, #19

I tried Zoho Writer and Zoho Sheet - no problems !

Week 8 #18

I visited Myspace, Yahoo360, Infieldparking, Xanga, and Dogster social sites.
All had their interesting social interactions with one another. I liked Dogster because I like dogs very much.

Week 7 #17

I find the digital camera technology very convenient. It makes it very easy to distribute the photos to friends. One issue is that the photos can be edited so that the result is not so true to the original!!

I posted a comment on the djcputek.blogspot.com blog page.

Week 7 #16

Tuscany is definitely a place I would really enjoy visiting in my future travels. I posted this link on the iHCPL wiki.

I also added my blog link to the iHCPL Favorite Blogs Page.

Week 6 #15

From the Icebergs article : .....it can be equally disastrous when a profession fails to acknowledge and adapt to radical, fundamental change in the marketplace it serves. At this point in time, our profession is far closer to the latter type of disaster than it is to the former. We need to shift direction, and we can’t wait for the big ship of our profession to change course first. It’s going to have to happen one library—one little boat—at a time. I agree with Rick Anderson
on this matter.

Librarianship article :Michael Stephens on Librarianship says,"he does not create policies and procedures that impede users’ access to the library. This librarian tells users how resources and funds will be expended. Decisions and plans are discussed in open forums and comments are answered. This makes the library transparent." Also he says, "This librarian seeks out information and news that may impact future services."

I think he is on the right track. Libraries need to provide updated and complete information from all available resources.

Week 6 # 14

I looked at some popular blogs - some were interesting ( blog links to YouTube - humor ) and exciting. I did 2 types of Advanced search - results vary a little - some formatting differences but similar info.

Week 6 #13

Delicious is used as a good organizer of social websites. Tutorial not very good - bad ..... poor quality video !! A very boring speaker. I viewed the bookmarks on internet safety and an interesting ( Simpson ) link at Delicious. Viewed some sites via tags on photos.

Looked at a tag on a China mountain issue.
I saw a story about a woman soldier in Iraq helping children - she want to compete for Miss America in 2008.

Volcano

The volcano looks very peaceful!

Week 5, # 10

Week 5, #12

I am very concerned about the lack of security of LibraryElf Website. But I did
register.

Week 5 , #11

I enjoyed the Library Thing Catalog,

and here are my choices.

Week 5, #10

I enjoyed the Comic Strip Generator.

elephant dancing

elephant dancing
Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

Elephant is very intelligent., sensitive and fun-loving.

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Sage%20w%20puppy
Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

Mother and daughter talk!

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Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

This is Tianchi ( sky lake ) which located at the northeast part of China.

It is the Great Gorge.

Flicker & Pixer

I need lots practice on Flickr and Pixer, since I am umfamiliar with both.

RSS Searches-Week 4 # 9

Feedster search engine is very poor. Topix city news search is OK. Syndic8 user interface is too plain. Not user friendly but has good search results.Technorati is user friendly - nice layout-very good !

white labrador-Week 4, # 8

white labrador
Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

She look happy and healthy!

I did the 10 RSS Newsfeeds and some staff blogs.

Sichuan-Jiuzhaigou-01

Sichuan-Jiuzhaigou-01
Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

The lake is not polluted and the water is so clean !

pug

pug
Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

This is the practice, I need to do more.

pug

Week 3, # 7

I edited the picture using Picnik which was connected to Flickr.

A beautiful lake

A beautiful lake
Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

I cropped this picture in Picnik.

Week 3 #7

The beautiful lake photo was edited using Pixer.

Week 3, #6

I enjoy the Colorpicker. It's fun.

A beautiful lake

A beautiful lake
Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

This picture I got from Dr. Smith.

Week 3 #5

Pucci_Dog_Parka_Jacket

Pucci_Dog_Parka_Jacket
Originally uploaded by jojo27tpe

My hero dog!

the dog with gray jacket

The dog with gray jacket

Online Safety and Sharing

According to the article on 09-14-07 Guardian (London, England), "It's said the everytime
you use a credit card, your details are passed through 6 different countries."

The internet enables anyone anywhere to public anthing anytime. We appreciated all the information we got from online . We have to be very careful to protect our confidential information.

Lifelong Learning

Life is a continuous exercise in learning and learning is what most people will do for a living in
the 21 century. Learning how to learn is the most important skill for everyone .
Confucius said " Learning is like rowing upstream, you have move forward otherwise you
draw backward".

I am very excited about iHCPL and glad to create my own blog; since I enjoy reading the articles and comments in blogs.
.