Thing #14

Technorati did not interest me as much as other sites--maybe I'm just not interested in searching out other blogs. I did look for a cousins' blog, but couldn't find it among any of the tags. She discusses her art work and art classes on her blog, but maybe she doesn't know about Technorati. Also, I did not "claim" my blog,--for now want it to be a little more private.

Thing #13

Delicious is very useful! It took some time (more than 45 minutes) to figure this out, as many of the tutorials did not work. After looking over some of the bookmarks posted, I set up a "23 training" bookmark for myself. It includes all of the various sites that I've registered for during this training. The sites are now easily accesed at home. Here is the link for my delicious bookmark:
http://delicious.com/23training

Thing #12

Rollyo is a little more difficult for me to figure out. This site requires more time to explore fully. I set up a search engine for Online Shopping and Condos.

It searches all the sites I listed in each of these, but it includes the entire web. I have been unable to limit the searches to the sites listed on my search engine. It's great to search all of these sites at one time, but need to figure out a way to limit the searches. Here is the link to my search engines:
http://rollyo.com/dashboard.html

Thing #11

Library Thing is another useful tool for librarians. I am using Library Thing to keep track of some of the books I have recently read--instead of notes in a folder! Of course, I still have to explore all the options available and different ways to use Library Thing.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/glatsb

Thing #10

The online image generator was fun to explore. I used Yahoo Avatars because I have a user name and password to start using it. Look at my profile to see the image I created. It was tempting to design a different image--pink spike hair and slinky gown--but designed a more conservative image. Here is the link to look at what you can do with your own image.
http://lookup.avatars.yahoo.com/ewimages?enc=VtSzDQpFScHdXB5mkt1UvntuJrO37jg-&size=large&type=jpg&.intl=uk

I would like to experiment with some photos from our albums and see what outrageous images I can come up with.

Thing #9

Librarian blogs were easy to find and both useful and fun to read. School Library Journal has several blogs and the most useful are:

Good Comics for Kids: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/540000654.html

Heavy Medal: A Mock Newbery Blog http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/560000656.html

Good Comics for Kids and others that follow it are useful to help me keep up with Graphic Novels. Heavy Medal is a discussion of best bets for the Newbery Award. This blog helped me to focus my reading on the most likely contenders for the award.

The Lipstick Librarian is a fun blog to read--it makes fun of librarian sterotypes and presents another side of the librarian personna.

Days & Nights of the Lipstick Librarian

http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/blog/00656/post/730051673.