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Super Bowl Snack Recipe

2009-02-04T19:22:00.001-08:00

Game-Day Munchies SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!!

Easy Party Snack Mix

Makes about 10 cups Prep:10 Min.

Bake: 7 Min.

1/2 Tbsp. butter

1 cup salted almonds

1 (9.9 oz) can wasabi peas

2 cups garlic rye chips

1 (8.5 oz) package sesame sticks

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a 9-inch cake pan in a 350 degree oven. Add nuts, tossing to cot. Bake 7 minutes or until lightly toasted; remove from oven.

2. Toss together nuts, wasabi peas, garlic rye chips, and sesame sticks in a large bowl.

Store in airtight container up to 1 week.

Conclusion!

2009-01-28T18:54:00.000-08:00

At the conclusion of the Internet Technology class, yes we can do more then just ordinary email and searching. In the ten years I have used a computer, as they say, we have come a long way. I am amazed at all of the new 23 things I have learned in the last nine weeks. I hope to use at least some of the programs I have used during the class.
Thank you for the opportunity to improve my computer knowledge.

NetLibrary

2009-01-26T20:01:00.000-08:00

I downloaded a book from NetLibrary to the desktop on my computer.
The book I am downloading as I post this message on my blog is, "Forever Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy Jr. by Noonan and William Sylvester and Robert Huber.
Our Llano Library has a subscription to NetLibrary to download eAudio books.
The NetLibrary, eAudio books are very popular with our patrons. Patrons who have to drive long distances, download eAudio books to their computers and then sync the eAudio books to their MP3 players.

Pod Casting

2009-01-26T19:31:00.000-08:00

I visited the Librarian Live, listened to Librarian Live Episode 66- The Boomer Generation: What are they looking for: boomers have higher standards, library must be clean and bright and library must look nice. Informational messages via podcasting can promote our libraries.

I found the site http://www.cnn.com/services/ podcasting to be very interesting and will subscribe to this podcast.

YouTube Tennis

2009-01-24T14:16:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOP2IBdPn28

I posted an instructional video on my blog. Yes, tennis is also a hobby and we can all improve our games.

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2009-01-24T13:49:00.001-08:00

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A day at play in the park.

A day at Lost Maples State Natural Area

2009-01-24T13:37:00.000-08:00

Photos from a trip to the park. We love to hike and watch nature, while on a recent visit to the park, a Tufted Titmouse was very entertaining when it ate Girl Scout trail mix out of our hand.

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2009-01-24T13:36:00.001-08:00

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A day in the park.

Web 2.0 Awards

2009-01-24T13:05:00.000-08:00

MAPS, the site I was not familiar with was Live Maps, maps.live.com I especially liked the Birds Eye view on this site. It will be a site I will use in the future.

TRAVEL, the site boo.com was new information for me. It has maps and reviews of hotels.
I will probably use this site to comparison shop for hotels when we are on vacation.

PHOTOS AND DIGITAL IMAGES, we have worked with flickr and picassa during our exercise but I thought the site picnik.com was an interesting site and would let you edit your photos and appeared to be easy to use.

Zoho Writer and Google Docs

2009-01-24T12:12:00.000-08:00

I have an account in Zoho Writer and feel this would be a good tool to use for storing documents and the features of sharing and publishing appear pretty easy. Although I am having a problem getting my Zoho document put on my blog. I can not seem to get the correct username and password. Will keep trying!!
The Goolge Doc is also good, but may not have as many features. I copied a recipe on to Google Doc and Zoho writer and would like to add them to my blog.

CTLS 23 things favorite wiki

2009-01-13T20:26:00.000-08:00

This was very easy to set up an account and edit on a Favorite vacation spot and music.

The Sandbox is a cool term "for playing in the sand", an area of the website used for play.

I had no problem with the Favorites wiki, but on the Favorite Blogs page, I was very confused about where to put my blog address. I may not have my address under the correct list.

Week 7 Wikis

2009-01-13T20:10:00.000-08:00

A Wiki is a collaborative website which allows users to easily add, remove and edit content.

The movie example, "Wiki in Plain English", explained the use of a wiki as a useful tool for organizing an event or program.

My favorite wiki, is wikipedia, the online open community encyclopedia. I do question the information on a wiki of this sort, is it correct information. I would use the site for information and research but refer to other sources as well.

I looked at all of the wiki examples in the exercise and felt the ALA wiki had and endless supply of wikis for every subject imaginable.

Inside our library we could use a wiki for sharing ideas for programming. Our Friends members could have a wiki to correspond with one another on fundraisers for the library.

I thought this exercise was very interesting and a valuable learning experience.

Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

2009-01-05T18:33:00.000-08:00

Library 2.0 is a term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivering library services.
Web. 2.0 Interactive user participation, collective intelligence, self service, Flickr, MySpace, delicious bookmarking.
Web 2.0 Our patrons will expect access to everything digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasting.
The OCLC Newsletter is very informative http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/3.htm

Delicious

2009-01-05T18:28:00.000-08:00

I have created a delicious account and I have bookmarked several topics of interest to me.
I can use my delicious bookmarks at home and at work. I have tagged each subject.

Blogging on MySpace

2009-01-05T18:14:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the wonderful world of MySpace. Check out my Blog on MySpace

Merry Christmas

2008-12-21T17:18:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas to everyone who is viewing my blog.

May you have a wonderful holiday.

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Merry Christmas

Games

2008-12-21T15:05:00.000-08:00

I had the most fun with the www.allgirlarcade.com

This was an easy site to participate in, and I played several different games, Spot the Difference, Leaf Rider, Jessy's Dress up. For children these would be excellent games to learn mouse skills, I enjoyed the music that accompanied the games.

Games teach skills for the 21st century.

My husband has played many hours of Solitare on our home computer.

My 85 year old mother-in-law plays games on her laptop computer. Games are for all ages and skill levels. Entertaining and educational at the same time.

Gaming in libraries provide a place for socializing and education as well.

Instant Message

2008-12-21T14:58:00.000-08:00

We used Yahoo Messenger to communicate, via typing real time messages within the library.
More fun then picking up the phone. A little "ding" and I have a message.

NewsReader Account

2008-12-08T19:28:00.000-08:00

The News Reader account has been set up in Google, Google Reader.
One of the RSS Feeds I subscribed to is http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_tech.rss
I found the RSS icon at the bottom of the web page for this subscription.

This was very easy to copy and paste in the address line of my account.

I have added another address to my News Reader, it is the government agency the Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/rssPress.xml

The third News Reader site I am adding to my blog is, and this is so exciting! I am adding the Library of Congress digital preservation RSS http://www.loc.gov/rss/osi/digpre.xml

sign-generator

2008-12-04T19:32:00.001-08:00

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Originally uploaded by cmh-llano

The website for this generator is www.signgenerator.org

The Bridges of Madison County

2008-12-04T10:42:00.001-08:00

My creation
Originally uploaded by cmh-llano

Photo taken on our vacation last year.

This photo was generated thru FD Toys and the website is http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

Technology ---- Mashup

2008-12-02T06:08:00.000-08:00

Mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool, mash up means--- easy/fast. A Google Map is a mashup.

Aspens with yellow leaves

2008-12-01T20:52:00.001-08:00

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Pretty yellow leaves.

Moon Flower CTLS2.0

2008-12-01T20:46:00.001-08:00

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This is the first photo I am sending to my Blog.

Week 3 Flickr online photo management

2008-12-01T20:29:00.000-08:00

Sharing photos on Flickr

Google

2008-11-24T18:38:00.000-08:00

Google Book Search

Find the book, fast, with Google.

Life Long Learning

2008-11-24T18:15:00.000-08:00

Life long learning,attitude is everything!

Learn by the 71/2 habits.