Hands Off the Internet

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Koha

The Koha assignment seems to be fulfilled. Thanks to the rubric, assorted notes from collegues and professor, patience with intermittent Koha crashes (only experienced at point of attempt to deliver item to shelf, by the way), my own rhythm was established, and I seem to have fulfilled the goal. I love the look of the virtual shelves. They beg to be utilized. I do not, however, feel that I have much comprehension of all that is available with this tool (Koha that is)! It seems to be a tremendously useful application, but there is so much there that we didn't even touch upon--though I certainly do not mean to invite another assignment at this moment in time! Heaven help us with Kompozer!!!

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Grazr

Amazingly, I seem to have succeeded in getting the Grazr Widget in place today after all. I'm pleased. Wish ZoomClouds was cooperating. The ZoomClouds site surely has its share of downtime. Since I can't proceed with adding my individual clouds tonight, I will conclude the day's entries (let's hope) with the URL for my widget. Here 'tis:

http://www.grazr.com/read/ValerieM/export.opml.xml

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Aggregated, UnAggregated (DISaggregated?) and Other Notes

Now the odd thing is I perceive MY cloud as aggregated, but I've read on the discussion boards that we're not able to aggregate our feed for the cloud so we can "just make three individual clouds." Say WHAT! I'm insecure enough, quite ready to accept that my sense of success is in fact inaccurate, i.e. I only THOUGHT I'd done what I thought I'd done. But in fact, I'm not done at all. SO, I will make three more clouds. No moving on to Grazr today, still stuck here up in the clouds. Still having fun with this, very curious about trying out some things in these clouds, so I'm game for three more, but of course I'm growing increasingly uneasy about running out of time. Ah, well. It's only Wednesday.

As I was working last night, I was also wondering how in the world this adorable stuff could be academically useful. My guess is not real much. But, I AM thinking today that these clouds could be put to wonderful use on public library websites. Of course I well know I only have primitive understanding of this tool at this point, so I might alter this view in time. Right now though, this is where I imagine the clouds being effective and put to good, sensible employment.

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