Beyond Method #12

I have been trying to complete the evaluation form , but the site will not open up. I will try to do this at a later time.

I enjoyed the "Survey says" the most because it was explicit and gave good directions.

I believe it is always good to stretch oneself. It's the only way we grow.

I wish I would have had some of the equipment to do a better job on the last of these exercises.

Twf the exercises gave explicit instructions. A few of the others were not quite so easy, but I managed to stumble my way through.

I will definitely take another course like this if it is offered.

Beyond Method #11

I thought this was perhaps the easiest of the lessons. It was not hard to create a poll and I am hoping this will post to the blog.

Replace audience response hardware with Poll Everywhere

Beyond Merthod #10

I have never personally used any online conferencing tools, nor has the Carl & Mary Welhausen Library that I am aware of at this time.

The staff and patrons have not expressed a desire to learn this and it is not one of the areas I feel we need to focus on at the moment. I believe this could be a useful tool, but I am not sure how I would incorporate this into our library or if we need it.

My daughter came home last night from college after I had phoned her and said she had a friend whose webcam I could borrow for the weekend. She told me I had to install two things first: Yahoo Messenger, and the disc from the webcam. So, we installed these and then attached the USB cable to the hardrive and the webcam. I then signed into yahoo and then clicked onto Messenger tab, then scrolled down to "My webcam option". My picture came up and she told me to click the broadcast button. My daughter called her friend on the phone and told her I was ready and then when her friend came online , Christina told me to click accept and we were able to view each other. Then we began to type texts back and forth to each other. I think this would have been more fun if I'd have had one of my friends to talk to instead of hers, but it was interesting.

Summation of Beyond Method #9

I have found this to be the most difficult of all, since I do not possess the equipment to do this discovery exercise properly. Most of this was confusing to me and I just tried to do the best I could with the resources I have. If I get the opportunity to have someone help and loan me the equipment I will try to do a better job and post it on the blog.

As to the question which method did I use: I took the path of least resistance (pictorial) with a few captions telling about the Carl and Mary Welhausen Library. I would have liked to have had all the picture s on one blog, but was unsure of how to do this, so they are on 3 seperate postings.

Do I see a use for digital storytelling? Yes. I feel this would be a good electronic, visual of all the many things your library can offer to the patrons; with a cool fun kind of edge, that would be more engaging to to our patrons.

Beyond Method #9

City officials offered the old Municipal Power Plant Building to the Friends of the Library after the building had been deemed to be of historic signifigance and worthy of adative reuse. The plant had been used as the City's mechanic garage for twenty years.

Renovation began in 1988 backed by financial donations from the citizens of Yoakum, the primary donor being Carl and Mary Welhausen for which the library was named.

Other funds for the project were a matching federal grant for $100,000.00 and $50,000.00 from the Meadows Foundation. The facility was completed in 1991 and the opening dedication was held on Sunday, April 21 1991.

Beyond Method #9

City financial support began in 1942; however, the library was officially accepted as part of the City's organization in 1971.

librarian Virginia Ferrell was hired in 1975 and served for over 29 years, her leadership was essential in the development of the Library as it is today.

The library became a member of the South Texas Library System in 1976 with the Friends of the Yoakum Library being organized in June of 1978. Today the library is directed by myself, Lynn Mixon.

Beyond Method #9

The Yoakum Library was organizedin 1933 by the Philomathic Club with the help of the Works Project Administration.

J. W. Cook offered space in back of his office to house the newly organized library. In 1955 the library was moved to the old Beck building on Nelson Street where it remained until 1968 when it was relocated into the old City Hall building on West Hugo Street.

Beyond Method #8

I chose this video by Lynda Weinman as a good representation of what I might have done myself if I would have had a video phone, video camera or a camera on my computer and downloaded it to my computer. This is consistent with the length of time specified; however it only gives a general overview of technologies one can learn.

http://www.lynda.com/landing/msofficetutorials.aspx?AWKeyWord=Powerpoint+and+Microsoft+Office&KeyWordVersion=&Brand=Microsoft&CourseURL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.lynda.com%2fhome%2fViewCourses.aspx%3flpk0%3d791&Ptitle=Courses+for+Microsoft+Powerpoint+and+Microsoft+Office&_kk=tutorials%20on%20PowerPoint&_kt=9f76b52b-cb08-4cdf-8095-a594ef7dd615&gclid=COeLiajJvagCFZRd7Aod_2DjFg

I hope this is ok. I think screencasting could be useful in the library. You could use it to help patrons find information by directing them on the web page to different areas, or services your library may offer, etc.

Beyond Method #7

I had difficulty in being able to attach the "fakepresentation.ppt" I did, however complete the exercise. I could not find a URL address to copy once I had finished and saved it.
I'm not sure I would be able to help a patron with this tool until I have more hands on instruction and am guided through the process

Beyond Method #6

I believe I could learn how to help a patron download an Ebook from this site.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

I'm not sure how one purchases an ebook and then creates a collection on the database they use such as Follet or some other automation system, or if this is something completely seperate and does not have anything to do with the other. Where is this information stored and how do you distribute it? I would like to find out. Do you have to buy the kindles, or do they bring their own?

I had a lady come in and ask if we had Ebooks. I had to turn her away. I didn't know really what to tell her at the time. Another patron came in and he had a generic Kindle purchased from HEB and started to tell me about Project Guttenberg. I found the web address and then called the lady back and told her the website and said these were free books she should be able to download. Most of these were classics , not current works we see on the shelves today, it is my understanding that they will introduce new books on this site and have a specific number they wish to offer to the general public for free and will continue to add to their content each year.

This is something I would like to offer our patrons; but honestly, I don't know how to do it.
Will our budget even allow for it? I'm clueless.

The video I viewed brings up alot of questions and I can understand where he 's coming from. Part of me thinks there will always be a place for books, no matter what comes along.

Beyond Method #5

This would be a good tool to tell readers about books they have read and will give them the opportunity to share their thoughts. There is a book that I ordered about an amish family who was murdered. The bio sounded great, so I ordered it.

I began to read it before it was put on the shelf and discovered that the first 45 pages were pretty greusome. Once I had gotten past this portion in the book I found it to be a very good read. However, I immediately began to warn patrons about the beggining of this book so that they would'nt be taken by surprise.

I believe this tool could be very useful in many areas by categorizing, rating and comparing books for others who might be interested in the same books.

Beyond Method #4

I loved this!!!! I'm not very good with computers and this really takes the time to explain to the average Joe just how things work, and it explains the terms that people seem to throw around and expect you to understand.

As to the information on how to write resumes and cover letters. I can honestly say I used this process to get the job I now have, as librarian. I didn't know squat, so I just googled " How do you write a resume?" and eventually I stumbled upon the pongo site. I also googled "interview questions" and practiced how I would answer them by writing down the ones I felt would be pertinent to me. So I think I can safely say that I feel a novice could do this with very little knowledge of how computers work.

As to someone who has never been on a computer? I think they would have to be taught a few of the basics first and then they would be able to find their way around.

I will defnitely be using some of these sites with our patrons from now on. I wish I would have had this information when I was seeking a job.

Beyond Two steppin' #3

The maps mashups was a good exercise; however, I am having trouble trying to get the map to come up on the link in this post. I have gone back and relistened to the instructions and will try to get this to attach itself to this blog . This exercise was fun and informative. I would use this in the future on a specific project, but I would have to make sure that I kept the instructions.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=210024825407313547800.0004a1c53e11d90866052&ll=29.291489,-97.150683&spn=0.012089,0.038409&t=h&z=15
I hope this link works

Beyond Two steppin' #2

This was really informative. Tine did a good job of explaining how the netvibes page operates.

My husband isnt a fan of changing our web page, so I tried to add a few widgets to my yahoo page like the weather and also an rss feed. I may try a few more if I can get by with it.

Dust off that blog (Beyond Two Steppin')

I have changed the look of my blog and am happy with it, but I would have liked to have seen more templates to choose from. This was fun.