Overview of Quests

Overall I'm glad I participated in Techtrek. The journey was not always easy, but learning new technology is sometimes difficult for me. I learned things that I might never have encountered, such as delicio.us and rss. Some of the things I know I'll never use again, but I'm glad I now know a little bit about a number of things!

Quest 12 Part 2: Podcasts

There were a number of library podcasts, but unfortunately a lot of them wouldn't play. Also they were all about a year old. I didn't find anything current. I found lots of categories that interested me- gardening, crafts, books, sewing,travel, etc. but again, some of them wouldn't play, the quality was not good, or they were not current. I generally don't listen to talk radio, so it would be unlikely that I would listen to podcasts.

Quest 12 Part One: You Tube

I enjoyed looking at some of the You Tube videos. I did look at some of the library videos. Some of them were very original, but not very well done. The one on Library Aerobics could have been much better, but the idea was great. I know these are not professional actors. I found a few book reviews, and even one from the Topeka Libray about Big Read. It was fairly well done showing books burning.
There were other videos about Big Read. I think that is one way our library system could use You Tube to promote programs.
I tried watching Lonelygirl, but I just couldn't get interested, and didn't finish it.
I found a clip of my son-in-law, Graham Elliot Bowles, talking about the restaurant where he is the chef in Chicago. Really neat!

Bob Dylan and advertising

I was impressed with the Bob Dylan web site and being able to type personal messages. I sent several, but only one arrived. I tried sending one to myself, and it did not arrive.
As for the library using advertising, I'm not in favor of that. When big business gets involved with something, there's always the risk of corruption. Since we're a government agency, I think it's best to keep business and government separate.

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Experimenting

Quest 11 Zoho

Well, if you look at the previous blog entry "untitled" you will see that I published this from Zoho. I was pretty impressed with this, and can see that using Zoho will be very useful instead of saving to a floppy or USB drive. Some of the new computers do not have floppy disk drives, and I don't have a USB drive. We have a new computer here at MTP that does not have a floppy disk drive, and sometimes it's the only one available. Anyway, this would solve my problem of moving from computer to computer at work. I will definitely try to become more proficient in using Zoho.

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Well so far this seems pretty easy and convenient.  I could have used this for the Staff Organization Online Auction instead of typing it in Word. 

Maybe for our Word Classes we should start teaching our students to use Zoho? 

Now I'll experiment with colors and fonts.  There are lots of things on the tool bar to try out.

Now I'll maybe try to publish this.