Flickr with a side of Mashups

Continuing with the play of exploring Flickr, I had a lot of fun with the Flickr Color Pickr. It amuses me that I could bounce around on various color choices and the pics matching that color shade would appear. The Montagr disappointed me actually. I love photo montages, and was curious to see how the application worked. I realize the difficulty in finding images that match the various shades in an image in order to create the montage but in very few could I make out what was supposed to be the original image. Thinking about it now, maybe I should have stood a few feet away from the computer screen in order to “see” the image. One part of the app that I liked was the ability to scroll over the images and have individual ones “pop up”. My favorite of the ones I looked at, though, has to be the Trading Card Maker, in which one of the groups is the Librarian Trading Cards. No, I have not created one for myself (though I briefly entertained the idea) but enjoyed clicking on them to read about others in libraryland. Oddly enough, I didn’t see any library folk I know though….

Flickr!

I could just get lost in Flickr, bouncing from one thing to another. I have been on Flickr before, but only for looking at family and friend's uploaded photos. I have never really felt the need to upload images there. I have a personal myspace and facebook account, and usually upload images to share on those. The image I chose to upload to my blog was of the annual hot air balloon festival held in my hometown, uploaded by gilesclement. I do not own one, nor do I actually ride in one (my fear of heights keeps me from doing that) but the simple beauty of lighted ballon against the background of the night sky is magic beyond words.

7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners

I'm a little behind in posting. One of the things to be done for the first week was to watch a tutorial entitled "The 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners" and decide from those habits which was the easiest and which was the hardest for ourselves. The following week we were to blog about it once we created our blog. I'm finally just getting to writing about it. I would have to say that the pace of the tutorial was a little slow, so I fell into the group of viewers who turned off the sound and paged my way through it on my own. The easiest habit for me personally is to accept responsibility for my own learning. I was raised with a natural curiosity and have learned over the years to be proactive in my learning. If want to know more about something or learn a new skill, it is really up to me to find out all the details on how to get that done. Oddly enough, the hardest habit for me personally is to begin with an end in mind. Not because I don't think it is important, or that I don't think about it at all, but that sometimes I am not always clear when I begin how far I really want to go with that learning.

Why is there a KK in KKBookmom?

Wow, I have already had a question (face to face) about what the KK in my name means. The K's belong to the two kids mentioned in the About Me section. They are Kory and Krysta. That's all.

Learn & Play @ CML

Two posts in one day.... The library system I work for is encouraging staff to Learn & Play with Web 2.0. I am very excited for the opportunity this presents to staff to be able to actually dive into some of the things the web offers, especially the ability to practice (ie, play) at work. No feeling guilty just for trying to keep up with new developments in technology. It's been really cool to see so many staff creating blogs, searching for pictures on Flickr and learning what an RSS feed is. More than anything I am exciting to see the seed of curiosity that has been planted. Visit the website at columbusmetropolitanlibrary.wordpress.com/.

Hello World!

If you are reading this already you are probably a family member, friend or coworker who knows that I just started blogging again. I’m excited that I have finally jumped back in. I used to blog on Xanga for a couple of years, mainly because my own kids had Xanga pages. But also to keep up with their friends and such. Why did I decide to blog this time? For my own creativity. I like to write. I like to keep up with friends and family. This is a way to do both. You will find me talking mostly about what I see in my day to day world. Family. Friends. Pets. Work. And stuff I like to do in my spare time. Camping. Gardening. Cooking. Hiking. Reading!! Can’t get enough reading in. So, welcome to my world.