Thing #8 Share your creations! Image Editing Fun

I have now added a PictureTrail account to store photos and share them with family. It is good practice. This thing requires patience to upload, and Diligence to sort and arrarnge. I want to add Library use to this. In my slideshow I have pictures of the route to the library in Blue Earth.
I added a diary to track my participation in the MN Voluntary Certificate quest. It is in livejournal.com. This is getting complicated, I am starting to feel like taffy, pulled in several directions.
Showing the ins and outs of the library seems to be my only library connection so far. I have pictures of the staff included.
http://flickr.com/photos/coriatlib

Thing 7 Communication Tools

IM has great connecting capabilities for kids with friends they need to talk to - constantly, Me? Not so much. Perhaps it could be used in larger libraries in some way? Tools we use at Blue Earth Community library...email is used for notices, holds particularly work well. Webinar attended here at library, hooked up with Minitex last October. I used the internet T1 connection here and telephone connection for sound. It was very worthwhile, I enjoyed listening to the discussion with everyone involved. Very valuable learning tool that we see used by schools and colleges.
We do have a website becl.org, on it we post our newsletter which is one year old this month. And we have a address to e-mail questions to our director, Eva Gaydon. Mostly we have received genealogy questions, which consist of requests for obituaries. This communication tool thing is the most exciting to me. Wish I could learn more. Well we did a google chat last Thursday so we got some practice. Lorraine and I chatted!

thing 6 online image generator

Now, I took the photo album and made a slide show out of it. I decided to delete the people's pics whom may not want photos online. Talked about privacy at the training meeting. Good info from LeeAnn. I took the image tool Warhohlizer and used it to create an image just for fun. I put it in the same flickr folder as my library images so you will see it in the slideshow. Cool. I do most of this online work at the library since the home is dial up. I am really excited about this Thing as I have many tools to use with my new Canon Powershot A550. I am making a video (30 sec.) to post.
I also made a Library id card. I want to link it here. Soon....

Thing 5 More fun with flickr

I uploaded some photos and made a card, framed a photo and created an album named library. The photos of library were taken in Blue Earth and added to a flickr account. Posted the framed photo. Had fun with that. Learned how to change the page elements in blogger, too. Now comments will be seen. Set up tags on the photos for access to others. Blue Earth Community Library.

Thing 4 What's fun about flickr?

Creating a photo collection on-line for public viewing and storage of all those digital photos! Looking at this thing on images, creating, collecting and editing is very exciting. I will spend some more time with it. So far I have shrunk and framed my photos, but there is more....

Thing 3 RSS feeds

I read the directions. Umm...good info in the links to librarians blogs. I like the idea of book reviews and events at the library posted for the patrons to see; that's the thing = visual is immediate. A poster at the door of the library is attention getting. RSS would accomplish that if people are looking at their tech device. This Thing 3, I must say, seems to be the same as setting up myyahoo or igoogle. I have feeds in my yahoo to news and websites. That works for me. If I need to add one to this blogspot account I don't see where to put it.
OK, here is an URL I want to add.

http://blogs.minitex.umn.edu/bats/2007/11/duluth_library_visits.html

Someone tell me where to paste this minitex tech link. Thanks!

Vocabulary (or it's all in the words) Revisiting Thing 2

Well, I was wrong on aggregator, it isn't just a blog, it is more like an automatic collector of web based media. Now to get the idea of Really Simple Synchronization (oops, Syndication), it's benefits and how to use it at the library. Visualize a desktop with shortcuts for any question asked. We do get lots of questions. Quick access to the answers is what I am always looking for. With repetitive motion issues my hands do not move as fast as I want.
PS: This is not simple! Do give me comments, I need help. I paste an URL in the RSS field (for Thing 3)but it doesn't accept it, I am still trying.