My Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14087912@N03/

So far nothing has been too difficult. Wonder what the next few weeks will bring.....

Still Flickr ing

Well back into Flickr to see if I could find any other LCLS PTL photos. I now can see 3 from Carrie and 10 from Kathleen. Mine are not showing on the "everyone's" search. I have added Carrie and Kathleen to my contacts. I used photos I had from work for this exercise, but hope to bring in some from home and add them.

If it is Week 3, it must be Flickr. I had been before just to poke around. Interesting concept. Today I uploaded a picture from my days at EC. I gave it the tag LCLS PTL. And made it public. Then I searched for others with the same tag. I know one of my co-workers at SC has already uploaded 10 pictures. I can only find mine. When I search LCLSPTL in everyone's photos - none show up. When I search the same tag in my photos, mine is there. I searched for my co-workers photos under her name and found them. Tomorrow I will have to play around with this a little more. I did watch a slide show from one of their tags and that was fun. I kept clicking on the right arrow to go faster and a little message popped up, What's Your Hurry?

avatar corrected

With a little help from my friends, my avatar is now in the correct proportions. What would we do without our techie friends?

Today was the day to add my avatar. With a lot of time and effort on my colleague's part, it is up, but it is squishy. For some reason, we could not get it to look the same as the avatar I created. Another day perhaps!

I didn't discuss the 7 1/2 habits that are easiest for me. Accepting responsibility for my own learning is not and never has been a problem for me. I have confidence in myself as a competent learner - but a little less in the technology area than in traditional areas. Playing is a given.

This is my 2nd blog. I created one about shelling in SW Florida a couple of months ago, but I haven't posted to it very often. I plan to be more regular in my posts to this blog.

There are still some things I need to learn about blogging. I need to learn how to make my template more fun.

I have done the first week's assignment. On the 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners, I feel everyone in this profession has to be a lifelong learner. Things change too rapidly not to continue learning. Mostly it is fun and exciting.

One of the hardest things for me in the 7 1/2 Habits is viewing problems as challenges. When we are helping a patron at the reference desk or on a public Internet station and the technology is not working, it is difficult to see that as a challenge rather than as an obstacle.

I probably could also use technology to my advantage more often. Sometimes it is "easier" to continue to do things the old way than to take the time to learn a new way.

I am looking forward to participating in this activity.