Thing 11: Collaborating with Google Docs Part II

Here is our collaborative slide presentation.  Please click on the blue square above the Fab Four picture to mute the music so you can hear the audio from the slides.  Enjoy!

THING 9

I finished thing 9,watched the video,took the google docs tour,very interesting.This would have been very helpful for my daughters, for all their group projects in school.I have to do a lot more exploring to see how I can use this in my personal life.

Elf Yourself

This is Nicodemus, Patty's cute doggie, doing some Hip Hop!!!

Thing 9

Google docs is pretty neat. So much better than attachments to everybody. I can not think of any way I could use it, I don't even E-mail people. But could see where if you were a big company and working with spread sheets WOW would that be helpful.

Thing 9 - Google Docs

After becoming familiar with Google docs, I am impressed.  I love the fact that it constantly saves your document as you are typing it in (which would be beneficial to those who forget to save and the computer crashes!) and the fact that the real-time collaboration feature allows multiple people (only ones that you invite) to make edits to a document and you would only have a single document with all the changes instead of having to incorporate changes from multiple documents.  The word processing software appears to have the standard document, presentation, and spreadsheet features you would need.  I think this would be very beneficial in that you can access your documents on any computer and you can set them to private so no one else can access them.  It also has a feature where you can drag and drop from your desktop into google docs, but I couldn't get it to work on the city system.  I think google documents is a good tool and I would recommend to patrons to use.

THING8

I finished thing 8: signed up for Diigo account,joined Largo library group, shared 3 sites : enchanted learning- Hamburger Morgenpost[my hometown newspaper] and the food network. I only use my computer at home , where I have all my favorites set up for easy use and I do not feel comfortable with public sharing , so I do not see myself using this for anything other than work. Gabi

Thing 9

I can see that Google Docs would be helpful to others and to me. Almost every day, people email copies of their resumes to themselves. If they would put that resume on Googledocs, it could be more easily edited and they could share it with others better than if they used email.

Thing 8

Diigo was interesting...I liked seeing the websites that my peers selected. I don't think I'll use this much, but it could be helpful for people who are looking for new sources of information.

Thing 8, Tagging and Social bookmarking

Well, I thought the video was helpful, I did have to watch it a couple times. I bookmarked the Drudge report (love that I can read news papers from all over the world) and UFC.com (love MMA) and shared them with the Largo Public Library group. I do see some advantages, but it is not something I would use. I also thought it was interesting that you can retrieve those websites from any computer and share them with others. As far as social bookmarking, like Barbara said it would be great for book clubs. My uncle is in a art group, bet it would be great for them.

Thing 8 - Tagging and Social Bookmarking

This was a relatively easy 'thing' to implement.  I bookmarked 'The Food Network' and 'Amazon' websites to my Diigolet and shared them to the Largo Public Library group.  I see the advantages of Diigo in as far as being able to view your bookmarks from any computer by logging into Diigo and reading comments from others that share your interests.  For the general public, being able to join groups and keep up with and share information on a variety of interests, for example a book club, would be beneficial.  I'm not sure I would use social bookmarking much, but I may change my mind after I play with it a little more. 

Elf Imposters

My family was too busy so we used our stunt doubles for the dancing.

Elf Imposters

Thing 7 Wordle

Just for Fun - My Wordle

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       Wordles are fun!

Thing 7 - Image Generators

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Do you think Steve would let us use this tactic?  I enjoyed Thing 7, I had a lot of fun playing on the image generator sites, there are so many of them - who knew!  I loved sign generator, which is where I made this.  I would use image chef a lot when creating videos and slideshows.

THING 7

to quote Forrest Gump "that's all I'm gonna say about that"

THING 6

I viewed flickrlight,flickroom, and flickrandom. I saw a lot of beautiful photos, but this was all very confusing to me. I do not think I will use this at home or at work.I do not like public sharing of my family pictures. There is to much personal information available online, so I feel the need to keep my family photos private.

Thing 7

It was fun, not something I would use.
ImageChef.com I Am Awesome

Thing 6

Well I agree with Barbara, after looking at several mashups my brain feels like mash. I did like some of the photo gallery apps like flogr and flickit pro but I do not own an Iphone or Ipod and do not plan to get one. The barbershop was kind of cool, but would also never use it. So i quess as far as using these in my own personel life it would be a big no. I have no interest in sharing photos on line. I have to admit I do like going into my newphews facebook page and looking at theres.

ElfYourself Challenge

Here is me and our cat Ichiro doing the Charleston.  This was a fun challenge to do.

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/M5QQUgLiJwLB8yct