Decidedly Delicious

After a week of searching I had to give up and recreate my delicious account.  Why the site doesn't allow you to search by e-mail I have no idea.  Silly site.  Anyway, I started looking at webjunction and the ALA websites.  I was surprised at how much was available on the site.  I had known that it was popular, but it was hard for me to understand why.  I looked up other things and it is amazing how much is available.  It will be an interesting site to explore.  While I have decided on sites to look at I have not started the actual project.  That's a task for next week.  Honestly, I wanted to get familiar with the site again before attempting anything further.

This is the picture that delicious chose for me.   I like cats it fits.  Sorry about the black and white, but I'm still trying to get the hang of this picture thing.  I'm just thankful the picture copied all right.

I must admit though that I've never really understood the purpose for bookmarking a website.  If it's a site one frequents wouldn't the person in question have the site memorized anyway?

I'm still trying to figure out how the delicious site works.  I was confused the first time around and I'm about as much in the dark this time too.  It should get easier but it is a lot of material.  I expected as much, but yikes comes to mind how to get everything done.  I'll be looking at webjunction and the american library association websites.

Who decided to call this site delicious anyway?  It sounds like a cooking website not a reference site.  Any tips from the peanut gallery would be really helpful.  Good luck all.

Take 2

So my earlier post can be disregarded to a point.  I was doing it wrong.  I'm still confused.  I still don't quite understand what we're supposed to do (hence the sanity of the same picture), but I've been able to find the articles and go from there.  Please excuse any late entries, which hopefully won't happen.  This assignment is driving me a little bit bonkers.

Wicked Wiki

I've used Wikis before in class, but in those cases all we had to do was add vocabulary words.  I've used wikipedia as well, but I can't say I have always cared for it.  It's nice for quick information, but there is no certainty that the information provided in the free site is accurate.  I've supplemented the information I've gathered, but I refuse to use it for school or legitimate research.

The wiki assignment was horribly confusing.  I had planned on writing on Friday, but hadn't figured out this assignment yet.  It's taken two more days.  I'm still confused because all I've managed to do is look up texts that are apparently not in any library in the Ivy Tech database.  There's no way that's accurate.  Obviously, I'm doing something wrong, but I haven't any idea what.  On the plus side of this crazy week I learned how to add pictures to my blog so now they won't be so barren.  I'll keep at the whole thing, but I have a bad feeling I'll be running behind for awhile.  Anybody have any ideas I am all for it.

So the picture I chose seems completely random.  It's not and here's why.  Water helps me relax and after fighting with this thing for the last few hours I needed something to help me stay sane.  Hopefully others find it cheerful as well.

Competency

Basic Computer Knowledge and Skills 100% 100% 100%

Word Processing 100% 100% 100%

Spreadsheet 100% 100% 100% - but I’m not sure how accurate this is

Database 100% 100% 100% - but I’m not sure how accurate this is

Presentation 83% 95% 91%

Internet 99% 95% 97%

Web Development 85% 75% 80%

While familiar with spreadsheets and databases there are a lot of things that I do not know or do not know well.  I’ve done very little with Powerpoint other than reading presentations and almost nothing with web development.  While I know about the presentation handouts etc and can I look forward to the challenge of learning about these things.

I have no idea how accurate this information is as I am familiar with the terminology not the application of a lot of this material.  I am willing and ready to learn though.

Greetings all

Hello, my name is Susie and I live in Muncie with my two cats Topaz and Geebes.  I am an avid bookworm and am looking forward to this class even though I've taken it before.  I say that up front because I want to be fair to everyone.  I remember bits and pieces, but to be frank I didn't do very well so who knows if foreknowledge will actually help me.

I grew up in Wisconsin and moved here in 2007.  I went back to school for a library science degree, but had to transfer since Ball State stopped the library science program.  This is my second degree.  I graduated from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.  I am utilizing one of my majors (English with an emphasis in Creative Writing) with this degree.  I am hoping that I will be able to find a job in a library.  Having just the English degree was not entirely helpful.  I got to read a lot of wonderful books, but it didn't give me any practical skills. I just finished Black Beauty, have started to read Jane Eyre, and enjoy a variety of genres.  I always look forward to reading new books and authors.

I have a younger brother who lives in California with his wife.  He got married this summer.  I've never seen my brother happier.

Good luck everyone.

Good luck to all