You Tube, Thing 18

Thing 17, Elm Productivity Tools

I explored ELM. What an amazing resource. I looked up some nature articles in Kids Infobits in the Gale/Cengage Learning Data Base. I looked at some e-books in NetLibrary. (I had been to NetLibrary earlier in this adventure!) I searched "Canoe" on the Proquest Newsstand Complete and set up an RSS search alert.

These are wonderful tools, made available to all library patrons in Minnesota. Students, especially, need to know about them and haw to use them.

I also went back and played puzzle pirate some more. I'm still not good at all. Still "learning"

Thing 16-Tools for Students

These are great tools for students and for teachers. Wish they'd been around when I was writing papers. I liked that they did timelines and tips for videos and presentations and that they linked to resources. The email reminders are cool too!

Online Games-Thing 15

Wow, this thing really frustrated me. I downloaded Second Life because it looked fun and interesting. After waiting for a very slow download I was informed that my computer didn't have enough power-graphics, whatever, so I uninstalled it and tried Gaiaonline which was mentioned by another participant. After waiting for another long download Gaia sent me an email so I could verify my registration. The email went straight to my spam file and stayed there. So I downloaded Puzzle Pirates found out that I'm pretty bad at puzzles and there ended my online gaming career.

Library Thing-Thing 14

This was the easiest thing ever! I signed up for an account and added books to my "library." Then I added LT to my blog. It was fun to see how many people shared books and authors I liked. It's a good way to get recomendations for new books also. It would take a long time to enter all the books on our shelves, so I'll start with a few favorites. I put Barn Dance on my list. I'm the only one so far!

Online Productivity Tools-Thing 13

I spent so-o-o much time on this thing. I chose the iGoogle option. It took a long time, and some coaching from our head librarian, before I learned to personalize my home page. There are still some things I can't get on it. I set up a calendar, but haven't shared it with anyone yet. It could be a good family tool to keep track of soccer, and other grandchildren sports, as well as family travels and events. I won't make this my permanent home page, but I'll keep a link on my computer.

Backpack was cool, but not useful enough to pay the monthly fee. Maybe if I was still out in the working world. Stickkit didn't do much for me at all.