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Yummy! Image brings back memories of  childhood Christmas, with my Italian grandmother frying these up Christmas eve.

It took me a while to go through  this week's "thing". It was easy enough to find images I like, but trying to understand all the creative commons stuff had its challenges.

I like that there is so much out there, you name the topic you'll find an image. I suppose what I don't like is you normally have to "join", some even download the app to use.

Images could be useful for library signage and small displays, but in my day to day role I doubt I'd really use many images.

RSS feeds

 This week I explored the world of RSS feeds. I can't say I'm a total convert yet, but I do like the fact they are updated almost instantly and you don't need to continually go into say a news website for continual updates.

I took a look at the feeds discovery and found a few extra feeds of interest that I have since subscribed to.

How can I use this technology? I can't really say it's useful to me work wise yet (exception being Library Biz of course), but the personal feeds I've subscribed to look interesting and focus more on parenting issues.

I can see some benefits of RSS being used in Higher Education, especially useful for Research students, higher degree students, even employment vacancies.

Unless you're raising two pre-schoolers at the moment, I couldn't really recommend many RSS feeds.

I have used Google Drive on occasions for documents and sharing photos.  I find it similar to dropbox and prefer it to drop box as it runs off the google platform and has more features from what I can see.

I had fun using the drawing tool. I delved into my creative side and created a colourful abstract and sent it to a friend for their comments.

I probably still prefer the old email attachment for sensitive documents, I'm not 100% certain how secure Drive is. I can see it working for students and academics though, a different way to submit assignments or group work

Google is the main product I use for emails, photo sharing, youtube and google maps for a very rough guide (but never rely on the maps). I never explored the news tab though and did that today, can't say that I'll use it again though.

looking forward to Thing 7 & 8 after a week's holiday.

This week's thing is all about "wiki's".

Although I've only ever really used wikipedia before, and that's because when I've normally done a google search that seems to pop up in the first lot of retrieved records. I do find it fairly reliable for those trivial questions.

I took a look at some of the linked wiki's in this weeks exercise, the "Library Success" wiki does have a lot of information. It resembles wikipedia to me though. It's something I might go back to in the near future and have a better look at the content.

When I search for personal interest wiki's I didn't have much luck at first, but after a couple of attempts I found a lot of perhaps useful wikis to browse through during my spare time.

23 Things - Thing 4

It's been quite interesting setting up a blog, I never in million years thought I'd be doing one.

It was really easy to set up and found the instructions clear.

I actually never thought I've ever read a blog before, but realise just as I was setting up mine that I do.

Being a mum to 2 young preschool boys I subscribe to a weekly newsletter "Essential Baby" some of the articles I read are actually blogs, they just have a layout like a regular online news article.

Sarah.

Thing 2 of 23 things

How will I make time?

As I’m a part timer, I want to tick my 23 things off at the beginning of the week. I’m pencilling in every Monday after lunch to spend an hour focussing on my things for the week.

Strategies?

Food? I won’t do it on an empty stomach, definitely after lunch! I’m lucky to have Vicki here in the Library for a mentor. She is friendly and approachable.

Goals?

I hope to learn a bit more about web tools. There is so much out there, I only seem to use the common ones. I’d like to see what all the others are about.