# 22 What Did I Learn Today?

#22 Thing: The main thing I plan to keep up with is the archived Minitex webinars. I actually was able to help a patron with something I learned from the Ebsco webinar. The webinar style of teaching is extremely helpful to me. Since I work half-time, I have to careful about the tools I use because of my schedule.

The "thing" has to have some relevance in the librarian's life or it won't be an activity that an employee will keep up with.

Many of the "things" are activities that are controlled in our library system and there would be no point in my continuing to learn more about them. Library announcements is an example of a controlled activity.

# 5 More Flickr Fun

#5 Thing: I played with Clokr, Flickr Color Pickr, Big Huge Labs (used this for the trading card), Spell with Flickr, Splashr and the Puzzles sites. I particularly liked how Splashr created a slideshow for me. Again, my problem is trying to upload to my blog.

Our system is careful about who can advertise library programs. Not just any person is allowed to create announcements about upcoming events. I assume the library's publicist might enjoy using the mash-up tools.

#1 Setting Up a Blog

#1 Thing: I ended up setting up two accounts which I am not supposed to do. I realized that I did not understand how I was supposed to access my first account. With the help of a colleague, I finally figured out how to get to my second account. Well, I tried following the "how to export an avatar" but I failed. I spent a lot of on-the-desk time trying to paste an avatar.

P.S. This is actually the second time I tried to complete the avatar assignment. I feel like such a failure!!!