Thursday, February 14, 2008

Book Baby trading card

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deck2632257, originally uploaded by aawikstrom.

Thing SIX

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Lots of fun stuff with Thing 6! I tried my hand at creating trading cards. I'm sure the kids will have a blast with these if we can create some for those participating in the Summer Library Program.


ImageChef had some neat stuff on it. I can see where this stuff would be great for a library's website (which we don't have.) Makes me wish we had one for our small little library. I don't know if our patrons would use it much, but we'd have fun with it.


I don't know that I'm "creative" enough to come up with anything/way we could use ToonDoo. Okay; I probably am creative enough, but I can't think of anything right now.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Thing FIVE

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T glowing too Copper Lowercase Letter h I tapas n G 5
F Bead Letter U letter n
P1020028 coloured card disc letter t U F F Graffiti exclamation

What fun this stuff is! I could play around with this for hours (not that I haven't already!) We've already thought about using some of these tools to make a magazine-type flyer for people in our area. Trading cards may be in the cards for the up-coming summer reading program. I think the kids will have a blast getting trading cards featuring themselves. The mash-ups are fun to play around with, but I haven't exactly figured out how we may use them in the library. Perhaps just as an addition to our magazine.

I still don't feel completely comfortable having all of my pictures online for any Joe Blow off the street to peruse. But, I'm getting used to the idea.

My creation

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My creation, originally uploaded by aawikstrom.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Reading to little sister--sepia

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Friday, February 8, 2008

Thing FOUR

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Reading to little sister, originally uploaded by aawikstrom.

Two of my favorite library patrons. (Okay, my two youngest daughters.)



Thing Four:

I don't know what our library would use Flickr for. We're small and I don't think we'd have time to do some of the really cool stuff that other libraries have done with it. (How fun to scroll over the books in a picture and be given a link to the library to see if they're available!)

I'd heard of Flickr, but never really explored it before now. How handy to have a place to download and share all those pictures that are stagnating on my computer. I'm sure I'll slowly download a bunch of them in the weeks and months to come for my own personal use. The only other place I've downloaded pictures to is Snapfish--you know, then get them made into actual hand-held photos. Although you can share your pictures there, it doesn't have a space for others to post comments about them. I sent an invite to my Mother-in-law who is spending a couple cold winter months down south. What a great place for me to send her photo updates on how her grand-girls are growing! I think Flickr is great!

It was a bit intimidating to try to come up with tags for the public photos though. I must admit it does make me a bit nervous to have them out there for the world to see. At the same time, I do wonder if anyone would have anything to say about them or if they'd think of other tags that should be added.

I played around with Picnik. Fun options there for things to do with your pictures. I do still need to figure out how to get the picture I want onto my blog in the way I want it. What fun! This is my first experience with messing around with photos, so I don't have any cons on this one. I set up a picture to go along with my name and postings. I doodled over a picture of myself. I didn't have the steadiest hand, so it didn't come out exactly the way I would have liked, but in the end I guess it's something like abstract art.

I went to the Picasa and SmugMug websites. Picasa is another free offering from Google, and I found it a little difficult to figure out. SmugMug has some fabulous shots on it, but from the looks of it, it seemed more geared toward professional photographers than rank amateurs like myself.


I put some of my pictures into sets on Flickr. Great tool, now I can find all the pictures from January 2008 in one spot. I'll be sure to use that more in the future.