tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27244324533830161202023-11-15T11:10:34.546-08:00Into the ether, kicking and screamingkicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-33205731557039198702008-02-06T12:53:00.001-08:002008-02-06T18:37:32.648-08:00...mission accomplished...!...our mission, if we chose to accept it, was to navigate through all 19? weeks of krl2pt0. I have mixed emotions regarding this accomplishment. I am relieved, validated, somewhat elated, still confused and....slightly sad. I think I'll speak to the sad part first. Somewhere around the middle of the assignments I decided that if I finished, I would go and read every one of the krl2pt0 blogs....and that is what i have started to do. I am somewhere in the "s's" right now, with about 30 more to go. The sad part comes about when I realize how many of my co-workers didn't finish, many never even made it past the first post. That very well could have been me. It was a huge struggle to keep up every week. I looked forward to our "rest weeks" when I could try to get caught up. I almost quit several times, especially when I was 3 weeks behind. I used my 1/2 hour at work religiously, and that wasn't close to being enough time to slog my way through. Closest estimate...AT LEAST 30 HOURS OF MY OWN TIME went into working through the assignments. I've talked to several people who said..."I just didn't have the time to do this". Honestly, neither did I, so what did I give up to finish?<br /><br />...aye, there's the rub...kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-10019638125591424992008-01-27T13:07:00.000-08:002008-01-27T13:14:52.631-08:00....Sites for Students, redux......I did think that my college freshman daughter might find some of these sites useful, so I sent her some links. ( I must admit that is one thing I've learned to do during the course of krl2pt0!)<br /><br />My 15 year old son might also find some use in some of the note sharing sites, especially for his AP World History class.<br /><br />...so, the end is in site. I truly didn't think I'd make it this far. When I finish, I'm going to hoist a "wee dram" of a good single malt in celebration!kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-60500721642590540392008-01-27T12:47:00.000-08:002008-01-27T13:03:45.059-08:00...Sites for Students.......well, back again. This week's assignment was a bit more interesting to me, I must admit. Not that I really understand most of what I looked at!<br /><br />Instead of just 2 sites, I checked out 7...Zolo, NoteMesh, Notecentric, Stikkit, Backpack, CoMindWork, and just for the heck of it, Jobster. I have to say that I really didn't understand a good portion of them, probably because you have to join most of them to get the full effect. I found that to be a major frustration for me, the teasing with just enough info, then being expected to sign up. <br /><br />For future reference, I thought Zolo might be the most useful to me. I hope that someday I'll have the time to spend on really getting a good sense of what is available there. I generally feel to be in sensory overload mode in relation to our assignments, knowing that for me to get any real benefit I'll have to go back later and spend some concentrated time at sites that I feel may be useful. (Oh drat, looks like I'm out of room...how can I make this post longer...?)kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-44256209744788270182008-01-24T12:47:00.000-08:002008-01-24T19:01:18.437-08:00...what the Tweet...is Twitter all about??#! You've got me. Once again I've done the requisite reading of countless sights re: our current assignment, Twitter. I've added a "tweet" or two to the krltwitter, the latest just a little while ago, and I've signed up for Twitter myself as "stillkicking".... I can't for the life of me figure out how to make krl's Twitter one of my "followers", but if you go to the krl Twitter and search for "stillkicking", you'll find me.<br /><br />I was a bit nonplussed to find in some of the links I read re:Twitter that you can have twitters from your friends list go directly to your cell phone as a text message....so you can be "tweeted" 24/7...<br /><br />The mind boggles.<br /><br />As far as use in the library goes, do we really want to be constantly interrupting work to check email for a new Twitter, or even worse, have our cell phones "tweeting" all the time. It's bad enough with patron's phones ringing left and right at various volumes and imaginative ring tones. I mean really, wouldn't a phone call do just as well in most cases? (over the VOIP's of course...)kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-42629790740962233542008-01-20T12:02:00.000-08:002008-01-20T12:20:59.946-08:00...i don't think i have enough brain cells......to do this stuff. Facebook is the current assignment...so okay, I've read alot about it, I've toured the Facebook site, I've even gone to the Meredith Farkas "Social Networking in Libraries" link....honestly, my eyes are glazing over and my poor, feeble pea brain is in a whirl.<br /><br />Then I go check out the directions to start a Facebook site and I revert to total brain death. Woe is me...! Sure, i can see some benefits to having a Facebook page (i think?), but once again, I'm not sure that I want to put the effort into starting it, let alone maintaining it. <br /><br />Both my 19 year-old daughter and my 15 year-old son have Facebook accounts, neither of which I am privy to. When I mentioned to my daughter that part of the new krl2pt0 assignment was to join Facebook, her comment was rather startling..."so, are you going to stalk me on Facebook now?" Wowza, that gave me pause. I hope her comment was tongue in cheek, my gut tells me it wasn't.<br /><br />So, once again, I leave here <strong>very</strong> conflicted...kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-12366520897690179132008-01-16T12:36:00.000-08:002008-01-16T12:46:08.057-08:00....wikis2...UFF DA!!!!........ye gods and little fishes!!....after three tries and much confusion on my part, I think I finally managed to add to the Poulsbo Branch wiki. WHEW!!!! I found it to be way more work than I''m interested in doing on just about any basis. As I've said from the start, I am really not very computer savvy, and while I did manage (I think) to add to the wiki, I really don't have a clue what I'm doing....and I'm not sure I could do it again. <br /><br />I don't have any great ideas about adding to the general KRL wiki, either, or even why we as an organization would want to do this. I guess some folks might get a real charge out of it and contribute alot to it. Me???? I just don't have the time or the desire to become proficient.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-50041067436518473192008-01-06T11:26:00.000-08:002008-01-06T11:42:12.415-08:00...here, wiki, wiki.......hmmmm, well I think I've managed to do a very simple post to the fake wiki, I've read about wikis and looked at other wikis and I just don't see what all the fuss is about. It just seems to be one big blog that anyone can mess with. All this virtual socializing seems so "cold" to me. Anyone can say anything about any subject, true or not, and there's no "warm-body" contact...no body language, no facial expression, no tone of voice to add to the message. I must truly be a dinosaur, 'cause i just can't seem to warm up to this virtual social network craze. I think it's a cop-out. Without the accountability of face-to-face interactions, people are "allowed" to say anything to anybody.... I fear that the "human" race is on the verge of losing it's collective conscience, and I fervantly hope that I will never live to see that actual day come to pass.<br /><br />The thought makes me want to cry.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-13079213287608751752008-01-03T15:50:00.000-08:002008-01-03T16:05:19.070-08:00...well, life's been interesting lately.......hence, the fairly long lapse since my last post....<br /><br />sooo, I've done "the youtube thing, finally, and here are some thoughts....it's an interesting concept, but again, I just don't see myself getting all wrapped up in it. <br /><br />I watched several of the assignment videos; "The Evolution of Dance" was clever, "Pachebel Rant" was hysterical (one of my favorite musical pieces, by the way), "Library Dominoes" was mildly amusing, and "March of the Librarians" pretty lame. I dutifully searched for and found the KRL "fish" story....<br /><br />I also did searches for subjects I have an interst in, such as Grand Prix Jumping, Fancy(pet) Rats and telemark skiing.<br /><br />Visiting Youtube is kind of like watching America's Funniest Home Videos. I might do it when I felt I had nothing better to do....<br /><br />I think, just for kicks, I'd like to figure out how to embed a video in my blog sometime, but I'll save that for later, like when I'm caught up with the assignments...onward to wikiskicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-6445658174679050892007-11-26T11:25:00.000-08:002007-11-26T14:11:44.168-08:00...this just might be my thing...Library Thing, that is!...finally!! Something I can eally get excited about on "the Net"! LibraryThing really caught my imagination. I've only posted about 10 books so far, but I can see how this could get addicting, as well as informational. Imagaine my surprise when one of my all time favorite books, a book my mother had and passed down to me, showed up as a choice of other folks, too....I own an original copy of "Mrs. Mike The Story of Katherine Mary Flanigan. I probably first read this book as a young teen, and have re-read it every few years since over the last 35 years or so....It always makes me laugh and cry, everytime! Just a few years ago, while I was paging no less, I discovered that there were 2 (or maybe 3) more books in what I'll call the Mrs. Mike series. I hunted them down and read them, too.<br /><br />When I've got some time on my hands (yeah, right!) I'm fairly sure that I'll be cruising around LibraryThing!<br /><br />Here's the link to my LibraryThing page <a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/kickingnscreaming">http://www.librarything.com/catalog/kickingnscreaming</a>kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-68928942532392895642007-11-25T17:16:00.000-08:002007-11-25T17:29:21.222-08:00flickr: i'm not ready for this...Ok, I've been putting this off as long as I can....I've gone to the flickr site at least three times now, and I still can't really get my head around all of the possible applications. We all know by now that I'm am an internet dinosaur, in that I've spent years "kicking and screaming" against joining the flood of web ether "junkies". How else can I describe all you wonderful folks who spend so much time floating around "out there" and loving it?? I'm honestly trying to love it, but I don't, I just don't, and it still makes my head hurt. <br /><br />I think the concept of sharing your photos with everyone in the known universe is kinda cool, but (yup, here it comes...), I just don't have the time in my life to even begin to figure out how to "make it so"....maybe someday, sigh.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-9892773501395733402007-11-08T21:33:00.000-08:002007-11-08T21:36:06.009-08:00Etherial musings 1.0A...I received my "krl2pt0" t-shirt today and promptly gave it away to my "extrinsically motivated" co-worker...<br /><br />but I kept the chocolate that came with it. lol.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-56632559058602822402007-11-07T09:07:00.000-08:002007-11-07T11:01:09.977-08:00Etherial Musings 1.1...well, I decided to see if i remembered anything about tagging by adding another link to my "cloud"?...is that right? Anyway, I added a link that is about something very near and dear to my heart. In early August of 2002, my daughter and i were present at the foaling of my best friend's mare, Chantares, aka Chance. Less than a week later and after two emergency trips to a vet clinic across the water Chance was dead and the filly, dubbed "Kanga" due to an exclamation by my daughter(...Oh my god, look at those kangaroo legs!), was an orphan. It was a long, hard road we went down to keep that foal alive, accomplished in no small part by the frequent (hourly feedings) and unselfish (night and day) help of many local horse people in Poulsbo and the surrounding area. It truly<em> does</em> take a village.<br /><br />In spite of her early setbacks, Kanga has turned into a beautiful, coming 6- year- old sale prospect, and that is where the link comes in. There is a nice write up about her on the website along with still shots and a short video. Check her out at <a href="http://www.toplinesporthorse.com/">http://www.toplinesporthorse.com/</a> in the sale prospects under "Bequest". Why Bequest, when you thought her name was Kanga? Under the rules of the registry (can't remember which one), foals must be officially named using the first initial of their sire. Kanga's sire is Beech Grove/Big Boy, so her name must begin with a "B". My friend chose to register Kanga under the name I suggested, Bequest, as she was Chance's gift to us.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-83042356924038777322007-11-04T10:06:00.000-08:002007-11-04T10:18:35.537-08:00...RSS, a snap......well, maybe not a snap, but definitely easier for me to grasp than the previous assignments. This was truly the first time I got excited about something to do with krl2pt0 "...you mean i can subscribe to NPR or the BBC and read stuff when i have time!" That got me. I have to admit that one of the things that I miss most since going back to work 3 years ago is listening to KOUW's <em>Weekday </em>every morning while I puttered around the house or drove children in various directions. The sad part, though(yes, I'm still kicking and screaming about all this), is that it means I will have to spend more time in front of the computer screen to catch up on what i may have missed...sigh.<br /><br />And I still had to spend hours reading and re-reading to "get" it.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-90255665782816480432007-11-04T08:48:00.000-08:002007-11-05T11:18:30.203-08:00Etherial musings 1.0...well, I meant to make a post on the subject of "internal" vs "external" rewards as soon as I saw the post about incentives for doing the week 3 extras...but I was so wound up in actually trying to figure out how to do week 3 (tagging) and then bound and determined to complete the extras, just to prove to myself that I could, that I just ran out of time. I would have said something along the lines that external rewards can be effective, but generally only over the short term....if the desire to even try to learn to something new or do the best that <em>you</em> can at some task doesn't come from within, eventually the "where's my treat" attitude will take over, resentment will begin to permeate when the "reward" is not forthcoming and the learning/drive to perform will stop, etc, etc...<br /><br />Boy, was I surprised to find out I "won" a week 3 extra. When I shared my "moral dilemma" with a co-worker, I was really surprised at the vehement response I received..."External rewards absolutely do work" I was told. "How would you like to give me YOUR paycheck!?"<br /><br />Wow. Hmmm and wow again. I'm going to have to cogitate about this for awhile...kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-87884037929918860962007-10-31T21:44:00.000-07:002007-11-01T08:33:18.910-07:00a funny thing happened behind the circ desk today......a patron came up to check out, and during the time I was taking care of them, they mentioned that they used to be able to keep track of books that they were interested in or had already read...B and I both commiserated with her over the fact that with our new system we could no longer do that. When suddenly, out of my wondering mouth these words popped out..."Well", I said, "I can't believe I'm even going to suggest this, but you could always open up a del.icio.us acct. and keep track of the books you were interested in that way...". Her response? She made a funny face and replied, "Huh, I want YOU (i.e the library) to do that for me!".<br /><br /><br /><br />Two important things happened during that conversation. I realized that some of this "stuff" is starting to coalesce in my feeble brain re: 2pt0, AND, maybe more importantly, it was brought home to me that people still want us (read libraries) to provide the information they want/need WITHOUT PUTTING OUT THE EFFORT THEMSELVES! To me that means that many of our patrons still come into the physical space that is our library expecting US ( the warm bodies) to find the answers for THEM. Alot of them, like myself, are still kicking and screaming when it comes to all this whizbang stuff on the internet...<br /><br /><br /><br />My "breakthrough" today, if you wish, which was figuring out how to actually create tags for different sites and deposit them on del.icio.us, came after many, many hours over the last several weeks, <em>on my own time</em> of trying to sift through all of the 2pt0 info to date that has been presented to us. I feel that there are still countless people out there who have neither the desire nor the time to learn this stuff. The wave of the future ??? I'm not sold yet.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-25588214198471775632007-10-29T14:29:00.000-07:002007-10-29T14:38:09.383-07:00del.icio.us...my head is spinning!Yikes! Am I having fun yet???! Not too sure, to be honest. After a week of reading and reading and reading again the info re:del.icio.us, telling my husband( the compute nazi) that I needed to download some"buttons" to our home computer in order to continue with this project, then spending over 1 1/2 hours yesterday doing the project, I was all done in. I went well beyond sensory overload. <br /><br />However, I think I actually managed to make a tag....<br /><br />Outta time, more later.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-9593477456481769862007-10-21T09:43:00.000-07:002007-10-21T09:56:51.840-07:00Wowza, sensory overload...Ok, I'm back for another try. I've just gone and re-read 3 of the first weeks assignments, and while I did find some interesting points, I'm truly feeling sensory overload. I find the whole internet format to affect me that way. I want my information to be right in front of me, something i can touch, feel, fondle, hold....in other words, a book or books. I find it difficult to process information from more than one "window" at a time. The opening and closing of windows, layering, etc, leaves me reeling. Maybe it's that I just don't enjoy looking at a computer screen....? (I think I feel a migraine coming on.) However, I guess I'll go check out some other folks blogs and post a comment or two.<br /><br />Andiamo.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2724432453383016120.post-86058618488818315592007-10-18T14:04:00.000-07:002007-10-18T14:12:14.763-07:00I've joined the dark side...a work in progress.I can't believe I've actually done this, the preliminary steps to making a blog...I am sooo out of my comfort zone right now that I should have a nosebleed; but I promised myself, kind of a New Years resolution, that I would try to become more comfortable with "the Net". I'm sure that I will do alot of stumbling along with the requisite kickinag and screaming...we'll see.kicking and screaminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458788406050648226noreply@blogger.com4