Open Source week

Well, since I began in OCLS and specially after Learn 2.0 I learned a lot of new ways of finding information online. Just recently I took the Novelist Database training and I find it quite good. It's a fast and specific tool that can help you find any kind of fiction or series book, along with ideas even for book clubs. When patrons ask me anything I inmediatly "google" it. Everyday we are just becoming more and more dependable on technology to learn. It's the same thing that happened when everybody got access to e-mails. Now who writes paper letters?

In the future, I think the Library will continue to evolve and meet the technology standard as it has been doing. We even have playaways, and tons of online databases just to mention some. The Open Source software can help us develop software applications that are going to be useful for us individually here at OCLS and for our public needs. So we can customize everything we offer or use online or on the computer itself.

By the way, I "googled" myself and one of the first results was a class here at OCLS that I presented. And I didn't even use the keyword FL or Orlando. I just searched by my name.

It's just a little creepy, that you can be found so fast these days.

Technology + Wellness

Well, I definitely love the Wii, and since I hate doing exercise I think wii Fit could be very good for me and my health. gimme20.com it's an awesome tool to find workouts for you without the need of a special trainer, it will help me to design an exercise routine in which I'll feel comfortable. And the graphs that nutritiondata.com builds according to what you eat really helps in creating awareness of how healthy or how much certain food will fill your stomach. I need to improve my meals!!!

A nice Rss feed

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For those who don't know me

Hello, I'm cyber_butterfly. I am looking forward to learn the most I can from this course. I enjoyed a lot the 2.0, even finding some of the tasks hard to do or understand at first. But I'm here... And I am looking forward to finish it, like I finished the 2.0!!!

week #10

What will I do with my MP3 player?
Lots of things. I plan on downloading audio books about language learning so I can learn languages. And of course have my favorite music with me at all times. I will also use it to study, recording my own reviews in podcasts (now that I know how to), and listen to myself while I do something else! This learning course is very nice I've learned so many things...

Week #9

About this copyright debate what can I say? I think the law is the law. It is usually to protect, so I think we all need our hard work to be protected and to be worth our effort. These people had to go through a lot to create these songs and music, most of them is their career. Every career has a salary so I think everybody that uses that persons career's should pay for it's use unless they authorize you can use it for free. Even though the way technology has evolved has allowed millions today to break these copyright laws and almost nobody really pays attention to who breaks the law. Even here at our libraries, I know for sure more than 90% of the patrons that check out CDs, are making copies of them; and nobody will do anything. So I'll let the lawmakers and the people who don't like their laws to decide what to do. Meanwhile I'll just stick to the current laws.

Week 8

I definitely agree with online learning, I think that at some point everything can be learned this way. I like it because it's more accesible, you can learn from the comfort of your home, at your pace whenever you want. If you are shy you don't have the pressure to deal with new students in a classroom and participate in a class in front of others. I did help others, we are divided by teams but I've also helped a bunch of times others that are not in my team. I have learned so many new things in this weeks, and since I'm working as a team that has also help in knowing better my coworkers. So it's fun and as Tom said: "everyone benefits".