Thing#23 The End?

Its all over,Learn&Play is drawing to a close. I'm ver happy to have particiapted in Learn&Play because it has taught me a lot of new thingsa I dodn't know about the internet. I've been using the internet for years and I am fairly confident in my abilites to get around. Even with the prior experience Learn&Play has taught me how to use RSS feeds, how to actually use twitter and what that site does, it helped me discover some fun new programs such some image generators and some cool free flash stuff. Thanks to learn and play I can now use sites such as delicous for bookmarking and flickr for finding reference images for my artwork. If the library ever offered another Learn&Play program I would gladly sign up. I though I knew EVERYTHING about the internet,but thanks to Learn&Play I now know there is so much more to learn and how to use it.

Thing#16 Learn&Play Sandbox Wiki

I found adding my blog to the wiki to be a little hard. If there wasn;t the editting tutorial I would have never seen the the edit tab at the top of the page. I wish this excersize let us edit a little more to the wiki so we could be better accustomed to adding and editting information on a wiki.

Thing#2 Lifelong Learning

Lifelong is important. I took this presentation to heart,especially concerning my college education. The thing that is easiest for is playing, I like playing and sometimes I do it a little too much. As for the hardest would be having confidence in myself as a learner. I've never been the head of the class and I'm known to slack off, so having confidence in myself towards learning isn't the easiest thing for me, I may be dedicated but it doesn't mean I always show it. I will definitely be using this presentation to help me get ahead in my schoolwork and in whatever may happen to me afterwards.

Thing#12 Twitter

Its taken 2 weeks to use twitter, their search function has been down whenever I try to use it. Now I can. Twitter is still new to me,I'm not one for online community stuff,my myspace and facebook pages are left untouched most of the time. Maybe I'm just a hermit. After searching I did come across a few posts, one brought me to a contest dedicated to horribly drawn game artwork, it was all good until I saw it was intentional,either way still awesome. My twitter name is Wake Up Sammy. As for the library using twitter as a tool I could see it being used as a non-library bulletin board. It would be a good place for others to post library news and a few other not-library related news.

Thing#10 Online Image Generators

I love online image generators. I'm more fond of the picture replacement generators,which website addresses escape me at the moment. Anyways it took me awhile to find a few good online image generators that didn't look like they were just text dumped in front of an image in a 30 second job in photoshop. The sites I did find were great, the first is a an online generator from http://www.redkid.net/generator/sign.php ( I would reccomend not straying too far on the site since it does seem to be linked to a few "NSFW" sites. The site contained quite a few image generators but I chose the Las Vegas sign generator.
The other was www.churchsigngenerator.com which allows you to make a ton of customized church signs.
Here are the results of my labors:

Thing #17 Google Documents

All I can say is holy crap! I don't care if one day google will own the entire all I can say being able to type a file online and being to work on and transfer to any computer is a godsend. As a college student this is a HUGE asset I've had many papers not works as I go from computer-to-computer to work on and finish a paper,especially since I'm going from PC to Macs constantly. This single program alleviates all of those problems,and for free! I will making google docs to help type and store my papers in the future. My only complaint with google docs? I don;t know where the double spacing feature is for formatting but since I can transfer these documents to word on any computer and then spell check them there, it doesn't matter. This will make typing papers so much easier,thanks Learn&Play for showing me this awesome tool.

Thing#22 Ebooks and MOLDI

I've never really been a big fan of Ebooks only because I don't like the idea of losing printed media as a way to convey information,plus staring at a computer screen hurts my eyes sometimes, especially when reading lots of text. Even though I feel this way I really do like the idea of MOLDI. After searching through it I'm very surprised with the amount of good books they have available. I assume MOLDI is free,since I couldn't log in because my library card number is apparently not found, but if it is a free service I could really see myself using it. I was happy they have a copy of Slaughterhouse Five, a book I've been trying to get around to reading for awhile. When it comes to older more classic books, I tend use Halfprice books for finding them since Barnes and Noble usually sells newer copies at higher prices. And being a college student and all I like to save money. With MOLDI I can find many books I've been trying to track down and read more easily and without having to go purchase it or hope that the library is open or having to reserve the book. As long as MOLDI continues to get more support I could see this service becoming an evemn bigger asset to not only our library but to other library systems as well.