Week 5 - No. 11 - Play Week : Library Thing

I joined LibraryThing and added five of my favourite books - I could not find the correct edition and cover picture for some of them. This is interesting but not something I would do in my spare time - some people have added around 14 thousand of their own books.

Link to my catalogue of five :

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

Week 5 - No. 10 - Play Week - Online Image Generators

This is a chocolate letter I added from the Chocolate Bar Generator

http://www.kessels.com/Downloads/choco/Chocolate.html?Naam=Naomi+Hinks

This is a link to my whole name in chocolate

Week 4 - No. 9 - RSS Feeds - finding feeds

I had a look at some of the search tools for finding feeds such as Feedster and Syndic8 - I did find them slightly confusing. One of the easiest ways to find them was through Bloglines - i looked at the favourite feeds list and other topics such as news feeds etc. A lot I just added by going to my favourite site and looking for the RSS feeds icon. I found it difficult to find feeds that were library related that were in anyway useful.

Week 4 - No. 8 - RSS feeds

http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?html=1&id=NaomiH
- This is the link to my Bloglines page with my RSS feeds.

I had some problem trying to find 10 feeds that I was interested in. In the end most were on subjects that I have a personal interest in - movie, animals, sport feeds. I found most of my RSS feeds on the list of the 200 most popular, but for some I just went to the website and copied and pasted the address in. I added one on quotes of the day, celebrity gossip, utube and news headlines. I also added two library related feeds.

Week 3 - No. 7 - Blog post about technology

Create a blog post about anything technological that interests you this week
The newest technology (to me) that I am using this week is the new DVD maker software that has just been purchased for the library. It allows you to copy old VHS tapes to files and then burn them to DVD or store them. I know this software has been around for a while but I am new to it. It has been interesting looking at what you can do and how you can maybe improve the picture from the tape by adjusting settings.

Flickr - Photos from naomi.hinks

Flickr: Photos from naomi.hinks My photo I have saved to Flickr - Ginger cat on rug

Week 3 - No. 6 - Trading Card Maker

The Trading Card Maker site was very interesting and I made a card of

my garden with a photo I had saved on the network.

The Flickr Color Picker site was also interesting and a fun way to waste time by choosing a color and getting photos from Flickr that matched the color.

Week 3 - No. 5 - Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Dos PP on Flickr - Photo Sharing! I tried to follow the instructions on Flickr and post a photo straight to this blog - it did not appear to work as all I got was the link and not the photo itself. I did not find the Blog this button on any photo as suggested in the intructions. Some of the Flickr site is not available to us - there are a lot of red crosses on the pages. I don't know what the problem is.

Week 3 - No. 5 - Flickr

This photo is called "For me" - I copied this photo from flickr onto the network and then added it to the blog with the add image icon

Week 2 - No. 3 - Blogging

This is the second post to my new blog. It took me longer than the three minutes suggested to set up this blog, because I already had a Google account that I did not remember the password for - I do not remember setting it up at all. Also it was difficult to find a blogspot address that was accepted. We all had trouble with logging on when we were all trying to use Blogger at once - you could not log on as yourself if someone else in the library was logged on already. We kept being logged on as that person. (This has since been fixed)
Maybe because it is so popular Blogger takes time to upload posts and often says it cannot do something or comes up with an error message the first and second time you try to add something to it.

Week 1 - No. 2 - 7 1/2 habits of lifelong learners

The easiest habit of the seven is No.1 "begin with the end in mind" - because if you have a reason for learning something new you are more likely to be willing to learn. The hardest is No. 4 - "have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner".