SUE'S SITES FOR STUDENTS

I loved this week's work. Sites for Students could truly be a godsend.

I toured 4 of the sites as I just couldn't get enough of them and wanted to see as much as time would allow. I loved Zoho Writer and Backpack and signed up for both of them. It seemed to me that Zoho Writer was so intuitive and could be a great help to anyone with a computer but not able to afford purchasing Word. It was so simple and fun to use! I am hoping that I will be able to spend some more time on Backpack. I am a person who loves to make "To Do" lists, so this is right up my alley. The other 2 sites I visited were OpenOffice and Stikkit. Neither of these appealed to me very much. OpenOffice might be nice, but it just seemed way more difficult than Zoho Writer.

I think that both Zoho Writer and Backpack would be useful to almost anyone--students on up to anyone still able to use a computer. I know that I will recommend them to my patrons.

I FEEL LIKE A TWITTERING OLD FOOL

I think I had the most trouble with this one. I did the assignment, but so much of it is still unclear to me. I guess I just have to remember that these lessons are just introductions to the various forms of social networking and not expect to be proficient.

I must admit though that I do like the short and sweet messages and not having to write long essays.

I found Annabelle at unionforge and also others in the generic kitsaplibrary account. It sounds like TS is quite busy changing the itypes on all of the large print books!

I am not sure how Twitter could help us here at KRL.

TO FACEBOOK OR NOT TO FACEBOOK

After taking the Facebook tour and reading the article by Meredith Farkas, I am still not so sure if I like the idea of this particular site's place in the library. I have always been a rather cautious person and the whole idea sounds a bit scary to me. The other social networking sites didn't have this effect on me. In fact, I readily signed up for most of them. I did not sign up for Facebook.

So, I guess I would have to say that at this point I would want to wait as I am just not so sure about it.

WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL WIKIS

Today I added 2 sections to our branch wiki. Time permitting, I will enjoy finessing this a little at a time. So far, I have worked alone with the additions, but I would like to have all of my staff have input, especially concerning their skills and hobbies.

I am enjoying the whole krl2.0 curriculum although at this point I am a few weeks behind. There is just not enough time for everything and sometimes this gets shoved to the back burner.

I would really like to see all of the branches have info about their branches in their wikis. This is what I miss the most about our website. Years ago when we first had a KRL website, there was a little section of history, etc. on each branch. Since that part is now gone, maybe the wikis could be an alternate way of having a little branch history, etc.