Am I certified?

My top ten list so far

10 - Games
9 - Second life
8 - Flickr
7 - Snipshot
6 - Zoho
5 - Firefox
4 - Rss
3 - del_icio_us
2 - Wikis
1 - Blog

Crossed the finishing line!

I learned a lot of web based tools that are useful not only to my job but also to my personal life (I did not expect that much at first) through this entire course. Now I'm much confident with the new terminologies, web based searching and technologies. I'm very grateful that I had an opportunity to upgrade my knowledge with the help of many people!

Firefox - My new Browser

This is an exciting tool. I always needed a separate browser because I lost my web pages by mistake so many times and had to start all again. Not only that this browser gives me many options and tools to set up my own browsing function (Not yet fully explored). I downloaded several functions from Firefox add-ons and Internet explore added-ons and began to use them.

I found bookmarklets are very useful. I love my del.icio.us and installed Morris book marketlets page. I do not use Morris marketlets a lot since I'm in tech. service at the library. It could be very useful at the reference desk (I guess...)

Game Week

Very Busy at work since I have to face my real life - fiscal year ending clean up. Another reason to delay my post - I never liked to play games not even simple puzzles even though I always collected game CDs in the cereal boxes for the kids. I needed some motivation to start learning some games.

But finally, with the help of Amanda's instruction and Alex's kind demonstration, I explored some games;

Most of the games needed some installation on my computer, I tried Sudoku. Alex showed me how to create his hero to defeat his enemy in his own game account (I believe it's "Dungeons & Dragons"?) Then tried to understand how the "Second life" works. But again, without buying the properties there it's hard to taste how it really works. But I could see the basic idea. Free logging on does not seem to give you much privileges.

My biggest question remains: Games and Academic library - How will it work?

After one week Break...

*Google Docs & Spreadsheets ... Did not know such tools exist on the web! But one problem - Why would you use the product on the web? I would rather use them in my computer and save them there safe. At first I thought it will be useful for our dept. Wiki since I could not edit the spreadsheet there. But Debbie showed me how to do them on the wiki page easily.

*Snipshot ... Nice tool for editing the picture before I got the message "too big" like this one left.

*Redkid and Library thing ... Surely they will be very fun and useful. But do not have time now. So many things to do around my desk. Just bookmarked them.

*Facebook ... Figured out how it works! Who is whose friend... who is in what group... networking... connecting each other... and many pictures...but getting hard time to enjoy them. Instant, unlimited exposure of yourself on the web... I need time to adjust myself, but probably not for a while.

Del.icio.us / Flickr

Finally, I organized my web-related links using this tools. My side bar looks cleaner and easier to look for the links I want to open. Thanks to the technologies and the teachers.

Mark helped to make this page look fancy

Wikis Week

Setting up one PBwiki for my daughter and her friends (grade 6-8) who are staying Guelph during the spring break. But it took me for a while to figure out how the things work properly. Understood the basics. I think it is a great tool for the educational use and the community building on the web. Not sure how will it be useful in my working area in the future. I like the clean look of "PBwiki" (sidebar). But I found Wetpaint is easier to edit the page and use the tool bar. Thank God that Amanda will give us a kind of break for two weeks soon!

Feeding Week

It's an eye-opening! Again I chose the "Google Reader" since it's easy, simple and clean. Established my web based news-stand-station for myself. Might be good to check wherever I'm. My work station (luckily 7 Explorer) makes it easy to organize all the FEEDs. Great tool to check publisher's web. and other's blogs. All I have to do is to click once in a while. I logged on the "Photopage Web. interface" which Alex kindly introduced. Not tried yet. But I sent one to my daughter. She might have been using it long ago? I don't know.
My Question;

How do you publish your own RSS?
When I searched other's sites, if they have RSS, then I know right a way because it highlights my Feed icon on my computer. Buy many publishers do not seem to have RSS function yet. I noticed that all Mac families have already.

Blogger vs Wordpress

Wordpress looked promising to give you detailed and pretty page. Therefore I opened one.
Soon I was curious about the Blogger ... What's the difference? Ummm... It's easy to use, simple and it's from the Google. (even I figured that out!) For now I will stick on to the Blogger as my official one... but I will use the Wordpress for personal posting

HOLLIS

Top 10 reasons why I like HOLLIS (Harvard University intergrated online catalogue)
http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/3K7VK5X21A2GJFEUTIGQ3JTPS5MM32X853565BBU4VRJFTSY25-24465?

10. You can start searching without pondering much
9. You can sort easily after you see the search result
8. It gives you original language
7. Detailed, correct, many useful bibliographic information
6. Indexed well
5. Easy to use even though you are a stranger
4. Do not have duplicate records
3. Clean and well maintained
2. All infor. intergrated in one page that you don't need to flip over
The number one reason I like the site is ;
1. The site has a clear logic

Will it Work?

2005 - Cancelled print journals and buy online products
2006 - Consortia purchase and tossed out prints... prints
2007 - Creat blogs and checking other bloggers
2008 - Chatting and walking rather than e-mailing in my global cyber world?

I have a young (guy) friend who is the 1st year Engineering student at our University. I asked him " Why do you come to the library?" He replied "To escape my computer and games at home and find a quiet place to study for an exam" I asked him again "What if you find the game room at your library?" He looked at me said "It freaks me out!" (whatever that means!)