**#12 - Gaming in Libraries**

I didn't spend much time with Second Life but I'm going to show my 15 year old granddaughter. The Info Island Archipelago Tour was very cool. Maybe we could do a tour of all our branches in Second Life. It seems similar to SimCity, which I've never played but watched my granddaughter play last year.

My 13 year old grandson was briefly interested in Speed Stacking a few years ago. I think it would be a fun summer activity at the library with several practice meetings before the final contest.

I've spent many hours on Just For Kids with my 3 year old grandson; mostly at pbskids with Clifford, Curious George and Boobah.

Well, I guess this is the last post for my learning blog. I really enjoyed this experience, but my husband will be glad to get me off the computer. I never spent one minute on this blog at work since I've been busy putting in an honest eight hours a day!

Thanks Library 2.0 Team! Let's have more of this kind of training.

**#11 - Online Applications & Tools**

Here's the address of my ThinkFree document which will explain why there's no FlashPAINT image:

http://member.thinkfree.com/show.se?f=0588d700da7aa264c531da3cdf006974

#10 - Social Bookmarking, Tagging & Folksonomies

I signed on to del.icio.us and found some cool websites to help grandchildren with last week of school projects which had been left until the last minute, of course. How cool to be able to access my bookmarks from any computer.

I tried to use Fiction Connection with a customer and didn't find it helpful, mainly because I had no idea how to use the tags. I was more familiar with NoveList, but it looks different now. So, I'm glad I'm getting to know both when I'm not with a customer!

It's that time of year again when the Corpse Flower is blooming. So here is the new crop. The first pics were from June 2007.

#9 - Personal Relevance (aka Online Personalization)

I made my search engine at Rollyo with the list of 25 respected sources-When Wikipedia Won't Cut It. I'm calling it wwww (When Wikipedia Won't Work) on my page. I tried to add it to my blog, but it didn't function so I edited it out.
I signed up with Library Elf a couple of months ago. It worked very well and I have told some of our borrowers, especially those with more than one card to keep track of, about the service. I cancelled my account since , uh, I am always on time and don't need the reminders. Yeah, that's it.
To make our catalog more twopointopian, there could be local professional and reader reviews, recommendations of what to read next, links to author sites, and sequel and series information.
The matter of privacy along with all this personalization and collaborative filtering is setting off inner alarm bells with me. It sure would make it easier for the Terminators to find Sarah Connor.

#8 - Peer Services: Comments, Ratings & Reviews

Posting a review to a book on Amazon would be outside my comfort zone. The whole world judging my inadequate book report? I don't think so. But, I like to read the book reports of the brave. Voyeur? Oh well, that's one reason I read instead of do.

We already have links to Barnes and Nobles and Amazon for titles in our catalog where professional and customer reviews may be accessed. But maybe we can add "What do you think? Rate/review this title." for our borrowers.

#7 - Wikis & Social Networking

Posted a comment on the hcplc=Lib2.0 page.

Last post I mentioned that the roll-over note didn't post along with the pic from Flickr. I did get a response from Flickr Help about a week later saying that the note is not part of their website.

#6 - Photo Sharing & "Mashups"

Pineapple guava flower
Originally uploaded by Jimi K

Here is another plant in our yard. It had a rollover note at Flickr, but it doesn't appear on posting. The Help wasn't helpful at Flickr. They basically said to ask everybody (Group Forum). But the same question had been asked in 2006 and still remains unanswered.