"Merry Christmas"

I am back reusing some of those skills we learnt to publish my Christmas card photo.

Hope you all have a good one.

(May try the elf again now)!!!

My electronic christmas card

I thought I was done for a while until a friend directed me to elfyourself.

Merry Christmas http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1114173816

Christmas is coming!

Its almost here -

Instead of the old single photo of my kids in the Christmas cards - look what I can do now. Just a few of the things they have been doing this year.

Its not goodbye - its hello!

The end has arrived -

It has been an interested experience, I have embraced some of the sites and I hope I will continue using them. Some I had no use for but at least I know how to use them. I would have liked to sit down with other participants and discuss the experience, a phone call every now and again helped. That is the down side of working in a single person branch.
I will continue to use my blog and my blogline, Flickr is now a favourite as is Del.icio.us and I enjoyed the online generators. I'm sure that the online application tools will be useful, YouTube was also fun. Wikis could be a useful tool for the library (and for me).
The only sites I found that I doubt I will have a use for are LibraryThing, Podcasts and eBooks.

The Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learning - I'm sure that I approached this experience with them in mind.

• 1 begin with an open mind - check
• 2 accept responsibility for your own learning - I got a bit confused and stuck at times but I persevered.
• 3 view problems as a challenge - and very challenging they were at times
• 4 have confidence in yourself - I have succeeded
• 5 create your own learning toolbox - check
• 6 use technology to your advantage - yes my life will be easier now (at work at least)
• 7 teach and mentor others - any questions just ask if I don't know the answer I will find it.
• 7 1/2 - PLAY! Have fun! - sometimes this can be overlooked but overall that's what life should try to be about.

and the curtain comes down!!

Short Attention Spans Don't Help

This will be something that you either embrace or you don't. There was an impressive range of books available so that I'm sure everyone could find something that interests them. I do feel that ebooks could be handy in some situations, but I'm afraid I like my books just how they are now.

Podcasts!!!

This was one of those exercises that I haven't decided if I would find (at my library) a use for. The have been a great tool as I have progressed through Learning 2.0 but ...... ?

Photographs (videos) and Memories

What a laugh - I did enjoy this site. I'm sure the library dominos would be something all of us could do in our down time.

I have included the 1999 Melbourne Cup, this was the last time I managed to get to Flemington, my son was born the following Tuesday.