Thing 20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7BsGBpMD2w

Great video. I can't see myself ever posting a video on youtube, but I certainly enjoy watching them.

Thing #19 CML's toobox

I found worldcat.org at the bottom of the cml toolbox. I've heard about this, but never really looked at it. It might be just amazing. Is this the entire content of Worldcat? It is a much more attractive format. The ability to make lists and the blog are nice. Either I'm missing something or I don't have to go back to the old interface any more.

Thing 19 Cml's web 2.0 tools

My experience with CML's tools has been really positive. People love the ability to see new items in the drop-down menu. The search box is handy. Also, the extra tools listed are all handy. The best thing for me was the free worldcat through google. It's just amazing.

Web 2.0

Thanks to the web 2.0 awards, I found a seriously fun site called http://colorblender.com Oh, it is fun, fun, fun. And I have been wanting to paint some of the rooms in my house, so this is the perfect site to try. I wonder if I can find a web 2.0 site that will help me get all of the furniture into the middle of the room so I can paint the walls. My experience with this site is pure joy. My other experiences with web 2.0 have been good also. I used to play games on facebook.com. I even convinced my 80 year old great aunt to sign up so we could play scrabble. I like all of this stuff, but very little of it can be used for work. Perhaps knowledge of it will help me in my career. I suppose that it the point of learn and play.

Web-based apps. -- online documents and word processing

Ok, I tried google docs and Zoho. I liked google docs better as far a being able to figure things out, but it froze on me. Zoho did not freeze and also made it easy to create and save a document. I have to say that if I were buying a new home computer I don't think I would pay the extra money to buy Microsoft Word or Office. But, since I've already got them, I'm not going to stop using them. My internet is faster at home, so I could probably try it there with better results.

Google Docs

Hi, Google docs has a significant delay here at the reference desk, especially when I try to insert a chart and move it around on the page. I'm not sure I like it. I will try the other one mentioned in the Learn & Play blog.

Staff Wiki

I enjoy adding things to our wiki. I have contributed to and relied on the information in the knowitnow wiki. Wikis are my new rolodex. They are a large well-organized favorites list. I want to create one for the Gahanna staff but I am not sure how it work. What information could be put on it and what couldn't? Passwords couldn't, but most other things we keep in the reference desk notebook could. What about the rolodex? It contains a wealth of information that was updated until a year ago. If it was in wiki format, would we use it? Would it be too annoying to have to go one more place to check for updates and information? Daily news like assignments and displays and popular questions are conveyed easily enough verbally as we switch on and off the desk? Would we use it?