I'm not particularly excited about web conferencing, but it's a tool that works rather well in the right circumstances. I read the WebJunction article for Thing #7. Since I've participated in web conferencing activities, I'm not going to attend a webinar specifically for this Thing.
I have a Twitter account and post occasionally, but I check my account most days, often several times a day. Today I learned that my son was on a train from Prague to Munich; my daughter was scornful about fellow students lining up in body paint for seats at a basketball game; my daughter's friend was lamenting the snow; and my nephew was in pursuit of a Pink Martini!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Thing #7
My library has had e-mail for years and I have a couple of personal accounts. I use folders at work to archive important e-mails and try to keep my inbox at less than 300 items. Most of my home e-mails are advertisements from retailers or jokes forwarded by friends and family. It's easy to keep those accounts down to almost nothing.
I've been using IM for several years now, mainly to communicate with my college-age kids. It seems pretty commonplace to me. My 78 year-old father and my 79 year-old mother-in-law use IM.
My library system offered staff IM accounts last year. It's a great way to communicate between buildings and to reach staff working on another desk or a different floor. We don't offer IM reference for the public yet, but we use IM in the reference process. We'll IM another library to ask them to put a book on hold for a patron. We occasionally do group brainstorming on a tough reference question via IM.
Text messaging isn't my preferred method of communication, but I use it. I probably send one or two text messages a week, often to respond to a message someone has sent to me. I find it useful when I want to contact someone but one of us is not in a good place to make or receive a phone call. I find the auto-spell feature on my phone annoying to use, so I type every word, letter by letter, and I use very few abbreviations.
National Treasure is on TV in the same room as me and I'm having a hard time concentrating on Thing #7. More later...
I've been using IM for several years now, mainly to communicate with my college-age kids. It seems pretty commonplace to me. My 78 year-old father and my 79 year-old mother-in-law use IM.
My library system offered staff IM accounts last year. It's a great way to communicate between buildings and to reach staff working on another desk or a different floor. We don't offer IM reference for the public yet, but we use IM in the reference process. We'll IM another library to ask them to put a book on hold for a patron. We occasionally do group brainstorming on a tough reference question via IM.
Text messaging isn't my preferred method of communication, but I use it. I probably send one or two text messages a week, often to respond to a message someone has sent to me. I find it useful when I want to contact someone but one of us is not in a good place to make or receive a phone call. I find the auto-spell feature on my phone annoying to use, so I type every word, letter by letter, and I use very few abbreviations.
National Treasure is on TV in the same room as me and I'm having a hard time concentrating on Thing #7. More later...
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Thing #6
I found the trading card activity more fun and more intuitive than some of the activities in Thing #5. I managed this one on my own without any assistance from my son.
Thing #5 in Progress
My work on the 23 Things has been delayed by a week of vacation followed by a cold. I'm trying a few of the Thing #5 options today with occasional assistance from my son. My current groggy state and my lack of interest in the topic are making Thing #5 the most challenging one, so far.
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