tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72328424995610326222024-03-13T11:40:49.955-04:00OCLI have decided to dedicate this blog to everything Disney. I will put up pictures I have taken of Disneyworld as well as my favorite Disney movies and memorabilia.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-14308848670516579972008-05-08T21:34:00.002-04:002008-05-08T21:49:04.445-04:00Wrapping UpI have finally completed the OCL Webthings challenge. I feel like I learned so much that I did not know and what I already knew was reinforced. One thing I really liked about the challenge was the flexibility of the challenges and how we competitors were given a great amount of time to work on any one specific challenge. Some of the first few challenges were pretty easy to me since I have other blogs, but I understand that all of the steps were necessary because not all competitors have had blogs before. One thing I thought was really cool was the Sandbox I had a lot of fun in there. Before the challenge I did not know what GoogleDocs is because there was no need for me to use it, however I definitely see how it can be used by people running businesses or who do programing. Delicious is great! I downloaded it onto my computer and just tag websites I like. It is almost like a better version of favorites.<br /> I think the one thing I love the most and will share with everyone is World Cat. I just love to read everything I can get my hands on. At Ocean County we are lucky to have so many different materials in our system. And if we don't have them we can go on World Cat which I love because sometimes I must admitt I read kind of strange books. Recently I saw that a link was added for World Cat on the OCL Page under the Library Catalog. One thing I shared with others is library thing. I told my mom about because she also reads many books so it is a good way for us both to keep a list of the ones we have read.<br /> My only difficulty with the challenge was not having access to a scanner because Whiting Reading Center does not have one.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-11803768872075718452008-05-06T09:50:00.003-04:002008-05-06T09:51:52.858-04:00backgroundAfter searching for a few weeks I finally found the perfect background- Disney Princesses. I know it's so appropriate! I was having a problem with the code because I had not update my template bar to layout so the html code would not work. Now that I finally figured it out it is a piece of cake!CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-5761215879641850462008-05-05T22:02:00.002-04:002008-05-05T22:16:27.447-04:00Thing 22 Listen NJI love the whole concept of listening to books on cassettes or cds. I really hadn't listened to a book on tape until a couple of months ago. I read and fell in love with Stephen Colbert's book <em>I Am America and so Can You</em> and I knew I would have to listen to it on cd so I could hear Colbert read it. Then naturally I found Jon Stewart's book on cd. Currently I am listening to the Harry Potter series spoken by Jim Dale who is AMAZING!!! So I was very excited in learning more about Listen NJ. First I looked for popular authors; of course they had James Patterson. The actual website is easy to navigate and they either have the material you are looking for or they don't.<br /> What I do not like about Listen NJ is all the stuff you have to download on your computer to get the book you want downloaded. First I had to download the software for OverDriver for my selected book title. Then when I went to download the book I had numerous error messages which led me to upgrading security of windows media player which they recommended. After that I finally was able to download the book. The download was so slow but eventually became faster.<br /> The book I downloaded is Sacajawea:The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Joseph Bruchac. I love Native American culture which is why I chose this story and then I saw who the author was after downloading it and was very pleased. He writes many Native American stories and one that we have in Whiting called Code Talker (in YA) is excellent. I encourage everyone to read it!CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-4823864212638674862008-05-05T18:36:00.004-04:002008-05-06T09:50:08.667-04:00podcastSince the theme of my Blog is Disney of course I looked up Disney on podcast.com There are some great stuff out there like Radio Disney which I loved as a kid. I found a podcast called "Everything Disney Podcast" which of course I figured would be perfect for a Disney lover like me. So I started listening to the Podcast and the podcast is merging with another disney podcast into one major podcast. They did give us listeners a temporary website to go to until the main one is completed. This is where they told us to go: temp.poddisneycom.officelive and when I tried to go there I could not find it or anything close to it so I searched google for it and found a different Disney podcast called "Zip-A-Dee-Doo" Podcast from another podcast website...here is the link to the podcast I found http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/9723 <br /> I then looked on odeo.com for Disney and also came across a few interesting ones. There was even a podcast for Disney cruiselines!CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-68502089564616418632008-05-05T17:57:00.003-04:002008-05-06T09:49:06.125-04:00I love youtube!I am quite familiar with youtube and have used it before. I have a video on my myspace of Ronald Reagan that I love. He was my favorite President! Youtube is really simple to use and has videos of everything you could possibly think of. I was writing about the Christmas tsunami of 2004 for a sociology assignment and I found some great footage of it to help prove my paper because the video included news brodcastings and statistics. The video I choose to put on here I absolutely love. First of all, I love the song used and I just love Disney movies and Disney Princesses. I love this video because it shows how creative people can be.<br /> After seeing this video I looked at the side and saw related works that also included Disney scenes set to popular songs like "Everytime We Touch." I could watch these videos all day long!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vXA9DGWsCX4&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vXA9DGWsCX4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-37718183616221914422008-04-30T12:03:00.002-04:002008-04-30T12:17:02.929-04:00web 2.0 awardsHere are some of the services I like:<br />-One Sentence<br />-43 Things<br />-Yahoo Answers<br />-Color Blend<br /> The service I would like to become more familiar with is Yahoo Answers. I have a yahoo account already and love yahoo. Next to Google I use Yahoo all the time. Sometimes I am kind of reluctant of using online question and answer websites because many of them like about.com have more advertisements than information. However, yahoo may have a few advertisements but not as many compared to other sites.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-84736603640033285082008-04-30T11:48:00.002-04:002008-04-30T11:57:41.273-04:00Google Docs and ZohoSince I work at the Whiting Reading Center we do not have programs really because we are so small. However, I think this would be a great program to recommend to our patrons who forget to save their stuff and wind up losing it. This is a great way for them to be able to save work online with being able to access it any time they go on the internet. I like both Google Docs and Zoho because they are very similar to Microsoft Word so for younger people like myself who have been taught Word in elementary school.<br /> These are both great programs for the library system to utilize. One of the advantages of both websites is being able to work on them anywhere with internet connection. I know if computers do not have powerpoint this would be an excellent way to do a presentation.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-51012889635198538812008-04-19T14:50:00.002-04:002008-04-19T15:01:33.261-04:00Having fun in the SandboxI had so much fun playing in the sandbox! I found it was really easy for me to use because I have sites such as myspace, livejournal and even this blog that have similar features. I have also created other webpages through aol which is why I did not have any problem linking my blog to ocl webthings blog. Pbwiki is a great site for employees to keep informed on what's is going on. Last year I volunteered in an elementary school computer lab. I think pbwiki would be a great program for computer teachers to use with students. As part of my volunteering I would update websites of any of the teachers that had them. It would be a lot easier to have all updates on one page. Plus it would be a great activity for teachers to do with students.<br /> Pbwiki is very similar to programs that colleges have for teachers to share information with students. Right now I have some professors who post assignments on what is called "shared files" that they can control. This would be great for libraries to use. For instance: instead of having to email everyone we can just put an attachment online that way everyone can get it.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-45117799325080851632008-04-19T13:59:00.003-04:002008-04-19T14:50:14.266-04:00WikisI must admitt I am a big fan of wikipedia just to look information up real quick however, I was always taught in school not to use the website as a source for research papers. Now I know to check the history and discussion tabs to see if the information is copyrighted. I looked at the OCL article on wikipedia and checked the history and discussion tabs. Wikipedia used the ocean county library website as a source. Someone also corrected a mistake, they changed country to county. I never really knew the history of the OCL until I read that article.<br />So of course I was curious and had to look up some wikis. Here are some I found:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page">http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page</a></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets</a></li><li><a href="http://www.digitalscrapwiki.com/?t=anon">http://www.digitalscrapwiki.com/?t=anon</a> </li></ul>CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-86462595872392589632008-04-17T11:22:00.002-04:002008-04-17T11:42:14.732-04:00Library 2.0 / Web 2.0Away From the Icebergs<br /><br /> I thought for the icebergs "Row your library boat into the Web 2.0 environment" was a very cute and catchy phrase. The article has some great points such as libraries having more resoures available to patrons that they don't need to get a "just in case collection." I know some books or movies we get numerous copies like any of the Harry Potter books, or any movie that just comes out on dvd. I remember when the last Harry Potter book came out all branches, I just looked it up and we have 142 copies in the system! I know from working at Whiting we do not have a lot of kids come in our branch due to heavy senior citizen population and I have not seen one of those books get checked out since they were on hold for everyone last year. I know a great way to prevent mass amounts of movies is to have a movie night at the library. If we have programs the one of the first days a new dvd comes out then not as many people will have need to put it on hold.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-7852415079737257052008-04-17T11:11:00.002-04:002008-04-17T11:20:18.925-04:00Getting Familiar with TechnoratiI set up a Technorati account which I thought was really easy. They only ask you for an email, password and username. First I searched around the site and searched for "disney" and "ronald reagan" (he is my favorite President) I found a lot of interesting blogs a few Disney ones were about peoples' vacations in Disneyworld and best places to stay. I was surprised to see how many blogs about Ronald Reagan were related to the upcoming Presidental election.<br /> I claimed this blog on my technorati account and titled it "ocl webthings" so if it will show up if anyone types in ocl webthings. I added two sites two my favorites so far, one about Ronald Reagan and another about Right-winged Politics. There really is some cool blogs out there. I was not sure how to delete a blog on favorites because I accidentally added all of the blogs from the website the Ronald Reagan article was from. So I clicked on the help button and went to FAQ. Then I put in the word favorite and the question came up how to delete a favorite. It is really simple all you have to do is click on a little red x when you open up your favorites.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-76093954905602784512008-04-17T10:52:00.001-04:002008-04-17T10:52:46.837-04:00Claim for Technorati<a href="http://technorati.com/claim/25d9f8rrv" rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-6478329491353312612008-04-12T12:37:00.002-04:002008-04-12T12:42:31.233-04:00Thing 13 del.icio.usThere were things that I did and did not like about del.icio.us I was so suprised to find that there are over 27 million blogs which has doubled in the last five months. I wonder how many blogs there will be in 5 months from now. I think it is very easy to find information by tags. I also like that I can make a shared reading list.<br /> The one thing I did not like about del.icio.us was having to download the toolbar onto the computer. I don't mind downloading it onto my laptop but I did not want to download it on another computer. I did create an account but am going to have to wait until I get home until I can set it up. Luckily, Desiree already made an account and showed me how it works.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-29464894366080824362008-04-07T17:28:00.003-04:002008-04-07T17:43:27.251-04:00NetLibrary and World CatThe one thing I really like about NetLibrary is the site is easy to navigate. I searched for a couple of things: including politics, some Presidents from the past and my favorite F. Scott Fitzgerald. I also looked up popular authors like Mark Twain and Victor Hugo. I was not surprised to see we had a lot of Mark Twain's writings as ebooks. If anyone came in the library and needed assistance on NetLibrary I feel pretty confident that I would be able to show them how to use it.<br /><br /> The first book I searched on World Cat was 7th Heaven--James Patterson's new one. I knew we have it and I figured a lot of other libraries would have it to. Ocean County library popped up first and then Monmouth County. When I typed in one of my college text books, the closest library that had the book was in ENGLAND!!! That was really suprising to me. I think World Cat would definitely help people fill out Inter Library Loans. I think if we taught more people how to fill them out properly more people would use them.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-70087157173444642882008-04-05T14:52:00.002-04:002008-04-05T14:56:39.761-04:00Library thingI love the Library Thing website. I actually have a little journal that I keep a list of all the books I read. Now I am going to upload them all onto Library Thing too. What a great website. I like reading other peoples' views on books I read and see if they like them or not. One of my favorite books is the Great Gatsby and I saw that some people did not like it. Then there are books that I do not like that other people love. It is really interesting.<br /><br /><br />Here is my website. Check 0ut some of the books I added.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/getouttahere13">http://www.librarything.com/profile/getouttahere13</a>CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-6495711399177827882008-04-05T14:18:00.002-04:002008-04-05T14:21:47.167-04:00technology related blogTechnology is wonderful! I got one of my favorite gadgets this Christmas for my laptop. You hook it up to the laptop and can put various sized memory cards from cameras. So now I can upload all the pictures I take onto my laptop by connecting the memory card to my laptop. If they did not have this device then I would have to upload the pictures on to my house computer since we have a hp printer that has a built in memory card reader. It is just easier for me to do it directly onto my laptop since I always use it!CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-46519515762315510312008-03-28T14:46:00.002-04:002008-03-28T15:01:29.241-04:00Finding FeedsThe three websites: Topix.net, syndic8.com, and technorati.com are great. The sites are all very similiar but have certain things about them that makes them individual. I really liked the photos on technorati.com. I searched on each website for the same topic and each site had a same amount of feeds. I didn't realize there were so many rss feeds in the world!CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-73743606549888855952008-03-28T14:24:00.002-04:002008-03-28T14:33:55.472-04:00RSS FeedsI love the bloglines website. I was not really sure what RSS was before this challenge. As the saying goes "you learn something new everyday." Some of the feeds I added were: the Asbury Park Press, Facebook, Amazon, BlogLines, Google, NHL, The Weather Channel, The Ocean County Library Events, Unshelved, Wikipedia and Stephen Colbert/The Colbert Report. I like RSS feeds because I can pick the ones I want to read when I want to.CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-68187155394898292092008-03-22T12:31:00.007-04:002008-12-10T02:13:18.839-05:00OCL Web things<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitAEY5nwzPVvIEqHsMKsAQDmeecRq5BHJdEUnWz4NYF_Vbs8VkLwX0cBiTUZM3_m7mWizXDnp8iY8iuGsZHwEynMXVPYR0KGeabDomnx-pl7ug2aLojMTKysgVb5XwRw0CNILFI8YpGLHN/s1600-h/HPIM0882.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180605331083380482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitAEY5nwzPVvIEqHsMKsAQDmeecRq5BHJdEUnWz4NYF_Vbs8VkLwX0cBiTUZM3_m7mWizXDnp8iY8iuGsZHwEynMXVPYR0KGeabDomnx-pl7ug2aLojMTKysgVb5XwRw0CNILFI8YpGLHN/s320/HPIM0882.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br />This is our Kids' section of DVDs. Ironically we have more adults check out movies than kids. Since we are in Whiting we have a great number of senior patrons. A lot of the seniors check out Kids' films for their grandchild to watch who are visiting. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24967536@N08/2352516990/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/24967536@N08/2352516990/</a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24967536@N08/2352516990/"></a></div></div>CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-51613599990424765432008-03-22T12:23:00.002-04:002008-03-22T12:28:56.617-04:00Return from DisneyworldI just came back from Disneyworld and it was awesome! The weather was so warm and perfect. Suprisingly it only rained once the whole time we were there!CinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232842499561032622.post-56266036615362424172008-03-08T11:41:00.000-05:002008-03-08T21:29:13.935-05:007 and 1/2 Habits of Life Long LearningNumber 7 1/2 is my favorite habit. I think playing puts everyone in a better mood. Playing also makes us think of our childhood and I don't know about you but childhood was a bundle of sunshine for me.<br /><br />I think the hardest habit for me is having confidence in myself. I usually am a very confident person but I get easily frustrated if I am not instantly good at something. A person could do something their whole life like play a certain instrument. I would want to learn it as soon as possible and then get mad that I couldn't play as well as them.<br /><br /><br />EMMCinderellaL0VE13http://www.blogger.com/profile/12761366775238366450noreply@blogger.com0