Quest 4 Whine and Roses

Phew!

Quest 4 has taken us on a discovery of RSS feeds and adding the feeds we choose to Bloglines. Bloglines is like a pantry to store all of those fun newsfeeds in. All of your feeds are in one place and it makes it easy to find. Part of Discovery exercise was to add at least 10 newsfeeds to our reader after we created an account in Bloglines. Adding the feeds was the fun part - I added 14 feeds - I choose Library related feeds for the purpose of training but later on I may add feeds just for my own interest, like gardening or recipes.

I added Tech Trek and Branches on a Blog to my feeds. Then, decided to add my own blog - (that was a challenge). I had a hard time getting my blog to go public so it could be added in bloglines. I checked my blog settings and everything looked o.k , tried resetting it twice, and still couldn't find my blog on the web.

I emailed Jim and Susan and whined a little- I thought for sure they knew something that I didn't. Closing time rolled around and I went home. After a great cup of She Crab soup from the local diner, I checked the web for my blog - there it was - Yeah! Guess I just needed to be patience and wait for it to do it's stuff.

Time to fill the tub with Rose water and soak awhile-

My day of Whine and Roses has come to an end-

My URl address to my public Bloglines account is:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/PatsLearning

I found the spell check!

Instant Messenger

Hi,
Today I set up Instant Messenger and had a good time playing. Susan Bednar, Melisssa Christakos and Main's CCPL's Ask a Librarian have been added to my Buddy List. Susan and Ask a Librarian were on line. Michael answered CCPLhelp. I was really surprised to see how fast the response time was. It will be a pleasure to recommend "Ask a Librarian" to our patrons. I know the request they are looking for will be acknowledged right away. CCPL's IM Reference is truly a great service to our patrons. I enjoyed using instant messenger. The only improvement I would make is the addition of a spell check so I wouldn't make so many "oops". I sent Susan some word that Webster never heard of - oh well - we're all entitled to a "oops" or two.

It was a fun day -
Movin' on to Quest 4
- Pat

7 1/2 Life Long Learning Habits

Of the 7 1/2 Life Long Learning Habits , the easiest habit for me is to accept responsibity for my own learning. I like to jump into uncharted water and just give it a go.

The hardest habit for me is setting goals. For some reason, I view goal setting as a waste a of time. As a self starter, I would rather just jump in, sink or swim, and not give up until I master it. It's too easy to give yourself unrealistic goals and find yourself feeling poorly about not meeting a deadline or not striving hard enough because to goal was so vague.

This is a test of TechTrek 2.0

I hope I'm coming through

- Thanks and have a good day
-Pat