Coco's Request Screen Cast for 23 Things Kansas using Jing

I made a screen cast with my coworker Sandy Nuss who is also taking part in 23 Things Kansas. We chose to use Jing. After watching the demos we decided to give it a try. It wasn't really hard once we got the hang of it. For our project we decided to show how to make a suggestion to purchase an item for the library. Sandy played the library employee and I played the part of Coco the library patron. After some trial and error this is what we came up with. I hope you enjoy it!Coco's_Request__Starring_Sandy_and_Darla

23 Things Kansas Webinar

I just participated in the webinar and can hardly believe that 23 Things Kansas is coming to an end. We were given so many things to learn about it makes my head spin. I am one of these people who love to learn new things but easily gets intimidated. Everything was done is such a way that it wasn't hard to do.

I was always confused my cloud computing and really didn't know what it was but thanks to 23 Things Kansas I understand it! Blogging was not my thing but I'm starting to like it. Facebook and Twitter were things I was already doing. My computer crashed a few months ago and learning more about Flickr and Picasa prompted me to put my pictures on those sites. I was using Flickr and have since switched to mostly using Picasa. I find it more user friendly. Shelfari and Delicious were fun to learn about. I'm not sure how much I will personally use them but I now know what others are talking about. I haven't done the screen casting yet. I find that assignment really is scarry but tomorrow I'm going to bite the bullet and do it! Check back to see what I've done with it. I dabbled with Ning but they have now changed and are starting to charge you to use it.

The thing I enjoyed the best was slide sharing. I used Animoto and fell in love with it. I've made slide shows of my coworkers, my dog, of get togethers with friends, and flowers. I have posted a lot of them to my blog but have also sent them to friends. Since I'm having so much fun with it I now am thinking about paying for the "pro" package for it. I want to find more sites like it and try them out.

I hope everybody had as much fun with 23 Things Kansas as I did!

Lillie

I have had so much fun with Lillie. Today we went next door so she could play with the neighbor's dogs. I have got to get a video camera and tape them all playing. It really is entertaining. I am so happy to have learned about Animoto from 23 Things Kansas. I have made lots of "videos" from my pictures. Here is one of Lillie. When I first saw her I fell in love with her ears. We say they look a little like the flying nun.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Where has the time gone-23 Things Kansas

Wow, has this gone by fast! I don't know about the rest of you but I've had so much fun taking part in 23 Things Kansas. You have opened my eyes to things I didn't know about and showed me how to do things. I will have to say my favorite parts were slide sharing with Animoto and learning how to use Flickr. I will have to say that I am moving away from Flickr and going to Picasa. I think it is more user friendly. There is only one project that I haven't been able to do yet and that is #12's Screen casting. I plan on doing that as a group project and hope to get it done and posted in a day or two. Without taking part in this I would never have discovered these services or tried them. Thank you so much!!!

Wiki

I have to admit that editing a Wiki was a little scary but I took the bull by the horns and tried it. I went to the Wiki site for Def Leppard to see what I could add. I am a big Def Leppard fan. I will admit to owning all their recordings and then some. I have seen them almost 10 times over the years starting when they were the opening act for Billy Squire. I read through what was written for them and added to the listing for the cd Yeah!. Even though this was a cd of covers they did I really like it. I found out it wasn't that scary after all. Thanks for the boost in confidence!

It's Not What You Think...Slide sharing for 23 Things Kansas

Wow, this was really a fun week. I decided to use Animoto to do my slide show. I had so much fun doing this. My only problem was choosing the pictures to use and then the music. I finally decided to use the Halloween pictures taken of my coworkers. I hope you enjoy them. As you can see we are a fun bunch of people and we like to liven things up a bunch.
I have a friend who always sends me emails with a slide show from her vacations. She always told me it was very simple to do but I had my doubts. I will now be sending her and others my own little slide show videos.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

23 Things Kansas-Video on the web

I love watching YouTube so this wasn't new to me. I will admit that I've never made a video myself to post so that might be in the future. My favorite videos to watch on YouTube are music videos and videos people have made from concerts. Just this past Monday night I went to the Bon Jovi concert with 2 of my co-workers and my next door neighbor. It was the first time for one of my co-workers and my neighbor to see him. I had gotten my other co-worker to go with me two years ago to see Bon Jovi so this was her second time and for me it was at least my seventh time to see him in concert. Bon Jovi is a lot of fun to see in concert and I must say he gets better every tour. He played for 3 hours straight the other night. I've said before that I am a concert junkie! Here is a video that I found on YouTube that someone has posted from that concert. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the concert!

IM part 2

I moved to my desk computer at work to try Meebo there since it was blocked on the the other computer. It worked!!! I found it very easy to use after staring at it for a few minutes in bewilderment. I really shouldn't be leery of trying anything like this. I signed on through my Facebook account but unfortunately none of my buddies were on line at this time. While I was at the other computer I did IM with buddy who was on Facebook. I will try to keep signed on to Meebo during the remainder of this week and next in case any of you would like to IM me!

Cloud Computing

I was a little intimidated with this idea. After watching the videos and reading all the information I'm not as scared. I decided to do a slide show on Google docs. I've sent a couple of invites to two of my 23 Things Kansas buddies and to another co-worker. I've decided to do a slide show of my co-workers and how much fun we have together. At first I had a little trouble figuring out how to set up the slide show but after just taking a couple of deep breaths I jumped right in and found out it wasn't so hard after all. So far I've added pictures of us at work, of us just getting together after hours, at a rock concert, and dressing up at work for Halloween. I can't wait to see what the others add!

Twitter

Wow, things are really moving along with 23 Things Kansas. I choose to use Twitter. I've been tweeting for over a year on my own. What I found I liked most about it was at first it was really easy to see "live" tweets. I really was amused at what people would say. If something really amused me or I liked what I read I would choose to follow them. I'm slowly finding some of my fellow 23 Things Kansas tweeters and will be added them to my list to follow. So far I've found angelalovesart, hbraum, smnuss. Twitter is just another way of staying in touch with others. I've enjoyed using it. Happy tweeting!

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I'm having fun with this weeks photo sharing lesson. I think I could spend all day just looking at all the pictures that have been posted. I decided to share my two favorites. Of course this one and the one I have in another post. I like flowers and I've planted them every year in my garden. This is the one flower that I haven't tried but I'm going to try for the following reason.

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Originally uploaded by kat carney

I've lived in Kansas all my life but it wasn't until this summer that I saw my first field of sunflowers. It was a wonderful sight. My grandparents were farmers so I'm very used to seeing fields of corn, milo, and wheat. Both of my grandparents have passed away but I think they would have got a kick out of my enjoyment from those sunflowers. They would be the first to give me seeds and offer any advice that they had and that I would need to see them grow.
photo by Kat Carney

Week One Blogging

Hi! My name is Darla and this is my very first blog. I work at the Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence Kansas. The Lawrence Public Library is a fun place to work. With a wide range of users there is never a boring day to be had. I've been here for over 25 years and I still come across something new everyday. I was very excited to take the class 23 Things Kansas. It sounds like a very exciting thing to participate in. I heard there are over 500 of us doing this. Wow! That number just blows my mind. I was a little intimidated at the thought of doing my first blog. I was really surprised at how easy it was to do this.