Lesson 8 Part 1 Challenge

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Lesson 7 Part 1 Challenge

This ain't no Glamour Shot ... Yikes!!

The selfie wouldn't email from the iPad, so I posted it to Facebook, then copied and pasted, then uploaded. Do I get extra points for knowing how to do that?:-D

Lesson 6 Part 2 Challenge

Sadly we've all heard about women and men who were killed after a face-to-face with a person they met through an online dating site. Pedophiles target children. A man disappeared after answering a job ad posted on Craigslist. These are examples of the worst aspects of social networking. Sadly, too, many people want to substitute online chat for personal interaction. There are hoards of men and women who would rather text than sit down with a person and have an actual conversation. Yes, social networking has broadened our worlds, but in some ways social networking has given some the ability to create nameless, faceless relationships.

Lesson 6 Part 1 Challenge

This article felt like a walk through history. My first exposure to computers came in mid-1970s when I worked for Baker & Taylor. The mainframe was housed in a huge room and the building had to be kept ice cold so the mainframe would not over heat. Now I hold the equivalent of that mainframe in my hand - my smartphone. I became a Facebook users when SAPL completed 23 Things. Admittedly I started the page for the challenge, but over time I began to use it more and more. Now it is a constant in my life. Yes, I have connected with a lot of folks from high school and college and former workplaces. It is nice to keep up with their lives through FB. I get to see photos and short videos of my nieces and nephews and of my great-nieces and nephews. They are growing up virtually. My three-year-old great-niece can work a smartphone as well (or better) than I can. There's a big difference in how to access information today versus using the old clunker CompuServe way back when. I had a subscription to CompuServe in the early 1990s and let's just say using it was clumsy. Several years later I would sit and chat with foodies on aol.com. Can any of us forget that horrid modem squak? At the time we lived in rural Northeast Oklahoma, so our connection was long distance. You couldn't stay online for very long. Today we're connected 24/7 almost everywhere. There are a few places on the map where coverage is spotty, but those are few. Today using the internet is so simple and so seamless that many people can keep a running patter during the Grammys or Oscars or Emmys. It's like having a viewing party, but not really.

Lesson 5 Challenge

What an humbling exercise this was. I've always prided myself in being able to find things on the Internet that others cannot find. Co-workers have sought me out for help because I'm good at it. Ouch. I scored 60% and 50%. Enough said.

Lesson 3 Part 2 Challenge

This challenge I can do without going to the LibGuides, or what I refer to as web design lite. I absolutely LOVE creating LibGuides. We have LibGuides on Fiesta, Hispanic Heritage (courtesy of Celebrate Diversity), art, online resources, Holocaust, gardening, read-alikes, health concerns (thanks, Sally Bauer for the ebola info), you name it. LibGuides are sort of like Pintrest - a good place to put a lot of information about a subject, making it a good place to put stuff. Essentially we do the research and point you in the right direction. A collection of library items on a subject, articles about a subject, photos. You can also make it a bit interactive by linking to YouTube videos. THREE LIBGUIDES TO WHICH I COULD DIRECT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC Holocaust for information about Yom HaShoah Fiesta for the history and culture of the local event Hispanic Heritage for information about how the Mexican Revolution and the War for Independence influenced music.

Lesson 3 Part 1 Challenge, or Let Me Show You Something

Learning Express Library + Academic Search + Chilton Auto Repair Library Where are your ASVAB books? Oh, let me see. Those usually get checked out and never returned. Yes, I had 100, but 98 of those were never returned. Do you have Internet access at home? Yes. Do you have a library card? Yes (Check card to determine its status.) Let me show you something. Librarian then shows patron how to access the ASVAB test modules in Learning Express Library. Librarian is still a bit miffed that the professional test prep modules are no longer available. Lots of potential real estate agents used that database. Next patron who walks up wants a copy of an article from a 2013 edition of Consumer Reports. Let me show you something. Usually they try to explain that Internet access to articles on the Consumer Reports website is available only via subscription. Librarian is persistent and patient as she logs into Academic Search Complete and enters the relevant information. Patron is still talking about how he couldn't get to it online ... Librarian is explaining that SAPL subscribes to a database that provides access, all the while clicking the keyboard to get that one specific article. Voila! Patron is sufficiently amazed and appreciative and properly informed now that librarian has his attention. Librarian looks up to see a man wearing a shirt covered in motor oil and grime. The man says he needs to find the firing pin order for a 2010 Chrysler Sebring. Where are your Chilton books? Let me see if I have one here today on the 2010 Chrysler. No, I am sorry I do not, but let me show you something. Librarian walks man over to a catalog computer and shows him how to get to Chilton's. Man knows soooo much more about vehicles than librarian, so with a couple of words of guidance, man is able to fine the schematic drawing he needs. Man says thanks and walks out happy. Man comes back next week with another problem and goes straight to computer to find his answer. Man says thanks and walks out happy.