Thursday, October 30, 2008

DNL Technology Student Assistant Wiki / FrontPage

DNL Technology Student Assistant Wiki / FrontPage

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Dancing in the Library

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Library Techisms

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Thing Twenty-three: You Got What You Needed!

Participating in the Twenty-Three Things was an exploratory adventure... not quite like an Alice in Wonderland Adventure but non-the-less just as exciting! Don't you think you found some curious things?

Discovering what seemed like old technology turned into something new a "redesign" ... Google Docs and zoho are similar and creative for community communications. I can see this evolving right in front of our eyes.

Blogs, Blog Readers, RSS Feeds and the mashup of a Blog into Blog Talk Radio- which is in my Blog- I will brag here was just the best! We are on Yoko Ono's website too!

Podcasts alone suffice for what they are created for, but finding the PodBean website was truly a treasure! MORE than just a Podcasting app, a synthesis of Web 2.0 "things" enabling iTune, RSS feed, downloading and even more accessibility at just one click! I will brag again! I loved it and will use it to volunteer my skills sometime in the future for a library production. (see Post 21 Mummy Found @ Your Library)

As not to bore you with all that I have learned and enjoyed here, thanks to everyone who showed the wherewithal and determination to the Finish Line! I have first place ribbon and Gold Stars! As a member of the Tech Team I am very proud!

Kudos and Hooray for you!

As Mike Jagger would say: I hope You got what you needed! I did too! Let's go for more!

Roxann

Monday, February 4, 2008

Thing Number Twenty-Two: Share and Sharon , Devin and Grace

What a collaborative thrill to create our "own" BlogTalk Radio session back in December 2007.

Grace, Sharon, Devin and I engaged in a lively Blog Talk Radio session about the anniversary of John Lennon's death(December 8th).

Together we experienced a blog... in a "non-traditional" Blog format.
It became an archival mp3 forever... i guess!

To find it and hear it you can locate it on our personal blogs.

It was a truly enjoyable experience!

Thing Number Twenty-One: Podcasts with your Mummy!

Mummy Found @ Your Library:
In the 21st Century we are "Time" challenged. Edgar Allan Poe wished he knew who would be president in 2045. Don't you? Listen to an excerpt from Some Words with a Mummy.

http://rriskin.podbean.com/


PodBean.com is where I am premiering a few short teaser MP3's for a series of You Have a Voice @ Your Library ---from various Free Public Domain Classical Book sites. A major goal is to bring Back the Classics in a new venue and to encourage reading the Classics electronically. Having total control over content allows for titanic creativity and experimenting with this new library Web 2.0 idea!

Two Channels are currently available: Fright Night Classics: Edgar Allan Poe
and Existential Experiments: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dreams and Nightmares: Lewis Carroll
with more content to be added soon!

I hope you send me some feedback!

Thanks,
Roxann

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Thing Number Twenty: YouTube, You Can't Always Get What You Want...

If you have noticed anything at all on this Blog it might be the You Tube video of House...the Television show starring Hugh Laurie. HL is an acerbic Doctor at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, in New Jersey. Each episode is truly based upon extremely unusual medical cases.

House and HL have won many awards ---BTW now in it's fourth year.

A special episode of House will air right after tonights Super Bowl!

And the infamous song from the philosopher/musician Mike Jagger:

"You can't always get what you want...but if you try sometimes, you get what you need."




I Have Great Faith in a Seed

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.-
Henry David Thoreau

The Second Coming by David Gelernter

RSS Reader

Seeds of Genius...


Imagine all the people Living Life in Peace...You May Say I'm A Dreamer...

But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us and the World will live as One.

John Lennon

planted seeds for peace around the world using his musical and lyrical creativity. Although he didn't see the dynamic growth of the Internet, his timeless and inspirational message of hope for our world living and communicating as one lives on.

Johnny Appleseed---

wandered west planting his apple seeds, communicating and personally inspiring many.

Legends

John and Johnny's vision of communication is kept alive by us as we plant and water seeds of genius in new and emerging Web 2.0 technologies---Blogs and Wikis.

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Burbank Library BLOG
Tribute to John Lennon 2006

http://burbanklibrary.blogspot.com/2006/12/john-lennon-remembered.html

To: Roxann From: Yoko Ono Sent Dec. 7, 2007

-----Original Message-----
From: Yoko Ono [mailto:yoko@imaginepeace.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:23 PM
To: Riskin, Roxann D.
Subject: IMAGINEPEACE.com

Dear Friends

This December 8th is the 27th anniversary of John Lennon's passing.
You are welcome to visit http://www.imaginepeace.com/ <http://www.imaginepeace.com/> at any time on Dec 8th for a special message & video.

Send in stories & photos of what you did on December 8th to stories@imaginepeace.com for us, the family of Peace and Love, to tell us and tell us of your experiences. That would be lovely!

With deepest love
Yoko Ono Lennon