Trying to catch up

This week have been crazy! I finally finished my 1500 words book review number three and posted a discussion on OSS and finished creating two tag clouds. Whew!! Of, course by July 2nd I have to create a web page and judging by the amount of technical questions on the discussion board it's not going to be easy. I copied and pasted "helpful hints" in MS office, so I can read on the train and hopefully avoid the mistakes made. Once again, thank God for discussion board!

Can't get into My Portal

I have to post a discussion thread by tomorrow and I can't log in into My Portal. This is so frustrating: I am used to logging in at night and doing my homework, with my daughter gone to bed and my husband watching TV or working on his boat. It's very convenient to jump between discussion board and an actual assignment to see what kind of obstacles are there and how to troubleshoot.

Wiki

I am relieved that I work in the library and can apply some of the suggestions at school right away. On ILLiad(Interlibrary Loan management till) list serve we received an email from Katie from University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign with a web site for ILL borrowing wiki (see links) That's a terrific idea: you can post all the training documents for the office, instead of keeping them in paper or in somebody's folder. This is just one of the examples how new technologies work. We were also discussing RSS feed and I do not believe our library has it?? I checked UCLA and their home page lists RSS feeds and podcats in nice and bright orange.
Since I am done with delico and Scout Portal I was able to catch up on my reading. "Content is not the King" article is really discouraging especially if you compare it with "Leonard's Laptop", which inspire you to invest in learning.

Plugging away

I feel like computer gradually becomes my best friend: when I come home from work I get on it and post tags or post discussion topics or listen to podcasts or catch up on announcements. Somebody on discussion board suggested to take a day off for relaxation. Great idea! I read a paperback murder/romance novel and felt my mind clearing up. I am all up and ready for the 1500 words review of three books. Two of them I really liked: Social life of information and Leonardo's Laptop. The laws of the web seemed to be to full of mathematical formulas and not so easy to read for me.

Overwhelmed

I am finally done with delicio and half way connotea. The good news again is that Scout Portal is due this Friday. Of course I also had to post a discussion topic on the group page and write a book review due on Monday. This is insane, there is so much information to digest, but this is also very exciting: to be able to learn all the new trends: RSS, blogs etc. This entry again is going to be short since I have to rush and work on SP.

Back from vacation

I just came back from vacation and have to catch up on my home work. Apparently the due dates for delicio and connotea have been changed, so I still have some time to get my tags in, so this entry is going to be short. My Kuhn's book review was back and to my surprise I got 8 out of 10 points :))))))
Oh, and vacation was terrible: it was snowing and it was freezing cold and we had a bear raiding our cooler and drinking my baby's milk.

Vacation

I have finally turned in my second book review and am done with postings for this and next week. Again, how do people with children do graduate school? We were having an online chat last Wednesday and I told my family that for about 40 minutes I am not available. Yeh, right! Just as the discussion began, right on cue my 18 months daughter jumped on my lap and tried to play with a mouse, my husband, ignoring my daughter got on he phone discussing last minute changes in our multi families get together in Robinson Creek and my husbands grandma came for a visit to see the baby. So, when Sue asked if anyone had questions and I had a lot, I tried to type them and sent out, but there were SO many misspelled words. I felt like crawling under the rock, this was so embarrassing!!
I am looking forward to this trip: roast some mashmallows, feed the deer, drink some beer, take our daughter on the bass boat for the first time and hang out with friends. Yes!! Of course I also packed my required reading for the two classes.

Trying to get assignments in

Like I mentioned before, I am going on vacation this Friday and I am frantically trying to get all the discussions and a book review in. This is not going well: I got distracted surfing through other people blogs and lost valuable time. The last discussion I posted was for LIS 2600 about digital divide and the libraries. I wander what do you do with people who do not want to use computers? We have a patron who makes others fill out online forms and if we need to get in contact, somebody have to send a fax or call, and there is nothing we can do about it!

Stressed out big time

I and my family are going on vacation next week, so I have to turn in one book review, two discussion reviews and two replays to those discussion reviews by this Friday! This is SO crazy. I do not feel that I am on vacation right now: between trying to get to the computer and type something half-intelligent and trying not to ignore my 1,5 year old daughter and play with her outside in the mud and in the pool my days evaporate so fast!!! Oh, and I still have to pack our bags. How do people with children do school?? I am hoping that my mom will come and visit in September, so I can catch my breath!
I read in Wikipedia that emerging Semantic Web can,for example, find and book an appointment for you with the manicurists. When, when can it be done?? I can't wait!! After starting school I do not book any more: I don't know when I'll have time and when I do have time I just walk in, no appointments.

Adding links

After numerous tries I was able to add couple of links and I am so proud of it!

TGIF!!!

I am so happy it is Friday!! This week was very "exciting": one of my now former co-workers was arrested for urinating in public, running from University security and pulling a gun on them! After being released on bail he came back to work and got arrested for trespassing, causing campus libraries to shut down and campus security planted everywhere... and who said that libraries were boring, ha-ha! It must be all that heat here in CA.