Jing! Jinga! Jingo!

OK, so in this continuing education course that we are taking "Beyond Two Steppin'" our method 8 is about capturing your screen but I needed to figure out how to do it for the presentations I am having to do for the library.  So today I downloaded Jing and tried it out.  It is so easy and I am so excited about the fun I am going to have with it!  Here is one of the screens I captured just for this blog!  It is our homepage...I am so proud of myself for learning something new and being able to do it on the first try!

Beyond Method (Step) #3: Map it!

Google My Maps was not as easy as the video made it seem.  I had to redo my map several times before I could get it just right.  I ended up with 3 maps that I made but only one that was, to me, really complete.  This would have to be an item that I would have to work with more before I could say with an amount of certanity that I was good at it.  My map of from Our City Hall to the Marion & Ed Hughes Public Library This is the link to the one map that I felt I truly completed.  It is simple but I have to start small I found out the hard way.  If I try to do this for the library itself, I would really have to take the time to "play" more with the function.

Beyond Method (Step) #2 Your Customized Window to the World (Wide Web)

The Truth is out there!

iGoogle and Netvibes look like great ways to keep up with the information that ONLY you want to see first thing.  You can even have your email fed onto the page so that when you first get onto the Information Superhighway you have all the news that pretains to you at your fingertips.  To me, this kind of looks and feels a little bit like RSS feeds page with the difference being that you don't have to fill your space with just blogs or things like that.  I think for some people this is the way to go, but for me I still love the hunt for the information.  It is thrilling!

Teaching Adult Classes at the Library: The People, The Myths and the Legends

I have been teaching adult computer classes here at the library now for 2 months.  This has been an interesting adventure for me.  Having taught children before, I have some classroom management and teaching skills in my varied bag of tricks.  But nothing can prepare you for the people that want to take free classes.  These people can be classified as the "need to get out of the house" people, the "have no idea what I am doing" people, the people that actually want to learn and have some idea of what people in a classroom setting should act like and then last night I got the first guy that decided he wanted to try and pick up the teacher.  Yes, Boys and Girls, he wanted to hit on me after he has already told me that he lives at home with his mother, has no job, and has no computer skills what so ever.  Let me just tell you that I should have gotten Teacher of the Year for the preformance that I had to put on last night.  Winning smile ... CHECK, Ready to Help Answer any and all questions ... CHECK and lastly Helping him look up EVERY county in the area so he could apply for government jobs because ... "It is really hard to get fired from those."  Yes that was a direct quote.  Even after all of that...I still love my job!

Beyond Method (Step) #1: Here we go again!

Well boys and girls...the adventures in libraryland have come back. I have started a new program and I will have to blog about everything I learn. It has been a while since I have blogged anything so I might be a little rusty so please be nice!