2010 Family vacation @ Oregon Coast

Greatgrandma Patty playing with girls.

Lily has a horsey ride on Greatgrandma leg.

Greatgrandma Patty playing with girls in rented beach house in Oregon.

Completion

I enjoyed doing these exercises for the most part. I don't have direct public contact so a lot of these exercises don't apply directly to my job, but I can see where knowledge of these lessons would be vital in a community library.

The best part for me was getting familiar with Flickr. I've had so much fun looking through people's albums. Our adventurous friend who does a lot of vacationing posts his pictures on Flickr and has been after us for years to check out his pictures. This is a picture of his latest trip to South Carolina...I can almost smell the soft sea air on the Battery in Charleston.

I got the most out of instant messaging and Flickr. I do almost all my communicating with instant messaging at work now. No need to use oxygen talking. I had hours of fun at home looking through Flickr.

I had the hardest time with the image generating. I’m still working on that. I hope the 20 for 20 page stays up for awhile for future reference.

#19 Gaming

This assignment was fun. I never realized how smart I could be when I could google every question on a crossword puzzle. Mensa here I come.

The kids games were fun, but I got extremely frustrated with Poptropica. Guess you have to be a kid to play it.

I don't have contact with the public so I don't see how I would use this in my job and I imagine my bosses would take a dim view of me playing games on the job.

I babysit my granddaughter who is three. It amazes me that she can already use a mouse as well as I can. I have Disney Playhouse bookmarked @ home for her use. http://atv.disney.go.com/playhouse/mickeymouseclubhouse/index.html

#18 Maps and Geotagging

I was already pretty familiar with the internet satellite and aerial maps. I've been using MapQuest for years which has both aerial and street views.

I took a look around Google earth and it's pretty interesting. I went to addresses that I lived at one point or another. I also got some directions.

My son was working on electrical systems in remote Alaskan villages last summer. My husband and I followed him around the state using MapQuest. This is a photo of a float plane in Elfin Cove, Alaska. My son's got some stories about white knuckle flights into these remote villages, especially the flight into Elfin Cove. I don't think this is the same plane...it looks to be in too good of repair.

#17 Avatars & Second Life

I had fun creating my Avatar. I especially like the skull & crossbones shirt. I didn't forget my headphones either.


I don't already live in second life and don't plan to. I don't need to add something else to do and it doesn't really apply to my work.


P.S. I found Ms. Dewey extremely annoying and when I typed in a medical term, she took me to a bunch of porn sites.

#16 Online Applications & Tools

These two programs are really neat. I had no idea you could do collative document writing without sending the document back and forth. I found the Google program a little more intuitive and therefore, easier to use. I wasn’t able to find the spreadsheet program on Zoho, but I didn’t spend a lot of time looking for it. Necessity is the mother of invention and if forced, I’m sure I could find it.

I probably wouldn’t use these programs in my work. I’m kind of a control freak about my documents and spreadsheets. I don’t like to let anybody near them until they are finished and I have marked them read only.

I can see where these programs would be useful for people working collaborately in far-flung locations.

Technology is moving so fast that it is hard to keep up.