Week 9 -- Exercise #23

It was very interesting to work through these exercises with my teenager. The timing for this program was not good for us.

My teenager was busy with her school works and I was busy with my work. However, we were committed to complete the tasks. We did manage to work with each other in such odd hours. She would have a few minutes here and there to concentrate on this program. It is extremely nice to work on these exercises with my daughter. Every chance we got, we worked together.

I have learned so much from these 23 exercises, and I also learned so much from my teenager. I must admit again that some teenagers are far more advanced in their knowledge of technology than me.

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This project has been pretty fun, pretty interesting. At first, I really didn't want to help my mom because I have been extremely busy with everything going on in my life. It's actually been pretty hard to fit in time for my mom. Even so, it has been a really fun and bonding experience, mostly because we can laugh about all the problems we went through. For example, agreeing on a good color for the layout of the blogger seemed easier than it actually was! Yeah, I dont think something like this is gonna happen again with my Mom, especially since I'm going to college so soon. I'm glad to have done this with her. [=

Week 9 -- Exercise #22

Ebooks and Audio Ebooks

Wow, there are more than 500,000 ebooks available through World ebooks Fair Site and they are available in more than 100 languages. That is impressive to me. We are lucky in Silicon Valley where many library system carries materials in many languages. Some non-English speakers in a small town with a small library budget may find this site very useful.

At SJPL, we are fortunate to have a nice collection of ebooks and audio ebooks for our customers.

Week 9 -- Exercise #21

Podcast is a digital recording of audio content that is downloaded from the Internet and listened to on either a computer or a portable media player.

http://podcasts.magic.co.uk/magic/interviews/josh_groban_podcast.mp3

Small samples (few seconds) of Josh Groban's voice:

http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=x5viiqck7os4xmq2au8g25e&z=MP3&r=20.asx

http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=v8tj8xqymmjft78t0juvhga&z=MP3&r=20.asx
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the only podcast i know of is mugglecast. and booyyy is it fun! i love being able to hear so much about harry potter and the book and their predictions about the last book! ohh who is RAB?!

Week 9 -- Exercise #20

It is not long ago that my conversation with my teenager when something like this:
"What is going on with this YouTube? Watch what you do with this "TUBE-thing."
You need to know about safety first. There are so many crazy people out there. Your phone or address should not be there, etc..."



From zevyanovich
Festivities in Medellin, Colombia during the flower festival in August.

Festividades en Medellin, Colombia durante la feria de las flores en Agosto.


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YOUTUBEEEE! FINALLY, FINALLY, Mom enters MY world. Youtube is the coolest, best invention of my life. sorta. Well, I record sooo many videos. My friends acting crazy, me falling on my first day of snowboarding.... and now I can publish it for everyone to see! Not to mention, its awesome when I find all those crazy music videos people make. Fergielious? yeaaaah.




[this was my first day/time snowboarding. yeaaah it was fun, but i was horrible!]


[my two best friends at my school. awww theyre so funny!]



[my favorite song, EVER.]

Week 8 -- Exercise #19

Library Thing--

It is simple to create a profile and add books.

I selected four books by the same author. This author's four books have the number in 3030, 3981, 4267, and 8526.

This is the link to 5 of my favorite books.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=blossomingorchid

I will definitely go back to look.

Week 8 -- Exercise #18

[Orchid by Pradeep]

Zoho Writer gives option to make the file into a pdf file. This option will be useful when making monthly calendar for the library customers.



Other Zoho Services

Zoho Creator
Online web applications creator.

Zoho Show
Online presentation tool

Zoho Sheet
Online spreadsheet service.

Zoho Planner
Online organizing tool.

Zoho Chat
Instant messaging and group chat tool

Zoho Wiki
Online Wiki with public, private & group permissions

Week 7 -- Exercise #17

I added two favorite restaurants to SJPL sandbox.

Week 7-- Exercise #16

I just looked at Wikipedia in English and looked up random words. There are lots of information, but how accurate can they be when anyone can just edit them.
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Wikipedia is one of the most useful website ever, especially with AP US History last year. We were super tested on vocab or events, and it was sooo useful to have that website with a summarized version of everything. I remember hearing about the "problem" with Wikipedia in that anyone could submit info about the topic, so it basically had a lot of misinformation and stuff. What I found out was that Wikipedia could be easily be edited by both people who are extremely educated and people don't know anything, but there are other people who go through these entries to make sure everything is accurate. What's funny is that this website is EXACTLY what most teachers won't let us use as a resource for most research papers!

Week 6 -- Exercise #15

I liked "Away from the "icebergs" by Rick Anderson. I liked that each of us is like a little boat that each must power to move to the right direction. Every employee must make an effort in learning new technology to be proficient in assisting customers. SJPL is making its part in allowing staff to learn at their own paces with this "23 things." I am glad that I found ways to learn and enjoying every moment with my teeanger.

Week 6 -- Exercise #14

Blossoming orchids -- Technorati





Orchids -- Flickr

Week 6 -- Exercise #13

Del.ico.us is good to synchronize bookmarks. You can have it at various locations. I couldn't figured how to create a cloud tag. It turned out to be simple once I clicked the right button!



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Delicious is one of the most useful websites ever. I had to use it for my Stats class last semester because we were writing a research paper, but I used it for like all of my other classes. It was pretty fun though, especially since I could just tell others to go onto my delicious account to see the websites I marked (I think this was for my UN debate in gov). The best thing was that I pretty much could access it anywhere, so I didn`t really worry too much. It was terrible how it was really hard to sign on and book mark it, it took SOOO much work. I guess it was worth it in the end.

So I showed Mom my account and the things I had bookmarked. Pretty nice!