#20 Reflection

I can't think of a single 2.0 Tool I was not aware of or have not used and incorportaed or dismissed in my life. This was probably fascinating for some of our employees, but for me it was pedantic and dull and that is why it has taken so long to finish. I've been doing ALL of this for years. It's prety hard to get excited about revisitng Google maps. It was really neat to discover it, but after that it's just another piece of technology that sometimes doesn't work.

I'm not even very tech savvy and I found this to be kind of a waste of my time.

#19 Gaming

Miniclip.

Bookworm adventures.

Westward Ho!

Been doing this since Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego. Not sure what else there is to say.

#18 Maps and Geotagging

4 years ago when I returned from a trip to the west coast I used Google maps to show my parents exactly where in Spokane I stayed.

Later one of our library volunteers used it to find Naruto, Japan. Both seemed amazing at the time, but not so much in retrospect. The same has held true for all the 2.0 assignments.

#17 Avatars and Second Life

Been creating Meezes for 2 years now. Even did some for other librarains.

#16 Online applications

I use Google docs for my blog postings on Guys Lit Wire. We use Spreadsheet to keep track of what books we are reviewing. I am thinking about using the word processing to write fiction at home since my Vista laptop did not come with a functioning copy of Word and now I hate Microsoft.

#15 Search Engines

I've used Google, Yahoo, Dogpile, and even Netscape Navigator back in the day.

I use Google to kind of get a snapshot of sites that are available answers to reference questions before using my librarian skills to narrow down which might be appropriate for answering questions. I had a patron ask what i did differently than them in using Google, and it came down to being able to sort the usefukl from the not useful due to years of experience.

My Google-fu is strong.

#14 Podacasting

I've been to a couple of podcasting workshops and actually made a couple of podcasts in Iowa with my friend Librarian Bill. The podcasting actually ended our friendship. It was kinda tragic.

I really like the idea of teens being able to express themselves through podcast, but vlogging is much more cutting edge and teens are such visual creatures I don't think they buy in to the concept. I've asked about it in focus groups but have received little interest.

#13 Online Image Generator

I made this for one of my teens.

#12 Overdrive

I've downloaded from Overdrive, given presentations on Overdrive, and told patrons about Overdrive. That doesn't stop me from thinking Overdrive is kind of useless and terrible. At least from a teen librarian's perspective. It doesn't work on iPods so I lose 95% of my audience when I'm talking about it. And while it might be a last minute alternative for homework when the book isn't in the library, anything worth checking out requires a hold to be placed.

These were the two selling points I used in presenting it to teens and it fails at both of them, so I feel it is hard to recommend it as an alternative source of information for them.

Maybe it works great for older patrons though.

#11 Del.icio.us

I have always found bookmarking too daunting. It creates a list of things I feel I should check every day (in the same way RSS feeds and listservs get out of hand). And Del.icio.us just seems bigger than all of that.

That is probably something I have to deal with on my own, but del.icio.us is just something that doesn't interest me. It is nice to know it is out there though.

#10 Wikis

At another library I won't mention we had teen author John Green visit certain high school classes. Later that week we found out questions he had answered during his presentation showed up in his wikipedia entry.

Due to the transitory nature of the wiki this has, of course, been changed.

#9 streaming video

Proof of my maturity.

I went looking for this video earlier this year. Nate at Snohomish found it for me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SN-t_mA0pjU

Thanks Nate!

#8 Social networking.

The library has a myspace we use to let teens know about upcoming events.

http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user

Personally I am on Facebook because it is more mature. and if there is one thing I am known for it is my maturity.

Thumbs up for Slurpees

This is the best use for Flickr I've seen.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8060206257543341917

Anything else kind of pales in comparison.

#6 Streaming music

I've had a Pandora account for 3 years now. I've added a streaming playlist to the library's myspace page.

Pandora hasn't really recommended me any music I had to rush out and buy. And it never plays the songs I want it to when I want to hear them. I preferred the Yahoo Music channel even if it cost money.

myspace.com/monroelibrary

#5 RSS

I set up an RSS feed at my last library, but it became unwieldly with too many messages. I mainly used it for job searches and Onion articles. I don't have time to check my YALSA-BK messages so an RSS feed isn't something I need right now.

#4 IM

I've been IMing since 1994 when AOL came out. I've been using GoogleTalk since it was introduced. It wasn't any different than your average day for me.

I created a blog

It was easy.

And now I'm caught up on 2.0.

A great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.