Thursday, April 24, 2008

Intergenerational Programming

What a wealth of good ideas for programs -- Wonderful presentations and ideas

Very enjoyble and informative

Had a rough commute ( got lost) but very much worth the Trip -- Hats off to all of the crew

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Goggle vs MedlinePlus

Topic
Tourette syndrome
Goggle search netted

Results 1 - 10 of about 732,000 for Tourette syndrome [definition]. (0.15 seconds)



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Refine results for Tourette syndrome:
Treatment

Tests/diagnosis

For patients

From medical authorities

Symptoms

Causes/risk factors

For health professionals

Alternative medicine

Tourette syndrome (also called Tourette's syndrome, Tourette's disorder, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, GTS or, more commonly, simply Tourette's or TS) is ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome - 183k - Cached - Similar pages
Tourette Syndrome Association TSA Home Page
Develops educational information for patients, caregivers, and physicians, and agencies. Helps coordinate services for persons with TS.www.tsa-usa.org/ - 24k - Cached - Similar pages
Tourette Syndrome Plus - Home Page
Tourette's Syndrome, also known as Tourette's Disorder, is often associated with other conditions, such as Attention Deficit Disorder, Executive Dysfunction ...www.tourettesyndrome.net/ - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
Tourette Syndrome Fact Sheet: National Institute of Neurological ...
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and vocalizations called tics. ...www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tourette/detail_tourette.htm - 45k - Cached - Similar pages
1 .com – 4 .org 3 gov - 1 net

Notes from 1 goggle hit
First hit waas wikipedia - Encyclopedia information
Second -Information about support groups – news and events
Third hit – Home page – Misc - conditoins- behavior - education-
First good source of information – general
Second –not information about the disease ,
Third – Good source general information but very brief


Medline Plus is a wonderful source used it with my health module Far superior to Goggle –Medline offers Ency –Dict – health topics - seems to explain evaluate every aspect of the topic

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Dan Pink - Whole New Mind

Questions
Chapter 1 - Do you think a society can progress if only either right or left brain abilities are being nutured ?
Chapter 2 - Abundance - Seems nothing is too scarce , so will there in the future be no need for a public library, everyone will be able to own and have own private reading material .
Chapter 3 - What wil happen to the percentage of people who cannot adapt to high concept and high touch abilites ?

Notes
Central thesis is that we are shifting once again into a new age - a new age of commerce - learning and living. Developed nations are moving from an industrial worl ddominated by left-brain logical thinking to a right-brained intuitive world . The conceptual age - three forces driving the western world in this direction - Abundance - Asia - Automation
Abundance - abundance of material goods
Asia - vast pool of inexpensive labor
Automation - changing the landscape of work because machines can do it better and faster than humans
Heart of book is that humans need to and will be propelled to decrease their logical, systematic ways of being and develop more of the conceptual side of themselves. Power will eventually shift to people who possess strong right brain qualities.

Notes from Chapter 1
Left side brain was the crucial half that made us human the right side was subsidiary
left - rational , analytic and logical - Right - mute , nonlinear and instinctive
Language is what separates man from beast- Language on left side of brain
Right is the picture -left is the 1000 words - left hemisphere handles what is SAID AND RIGHT FOCUSES HOW IT'S SAID Left focuses on categories the right on relationships - right analyses the details - left synthesizes the big picture

Notes form Chapter 2
Knowledge workers are people who get paid for putting to work what one learns in school rather than for their physical strength or manual skill - Knowledge workers and their thinking style have indeed shaped the character, leadership and social profile of the modern age.

Abundance - for most of history our lives were defined by scarity. Today the defining feature of social economic and cultural life in much of the world is abundance . Our left brains made us rich.

Asia - Outsourcing is overhyped in the short term but is underhyped in the long term - Work moves to where it can be done cheaper

Automation - Changing landscape of work - all being broken down into a series of logical steps or actions is being automated because machines can do it better and cheaper

Abundnce has satisfied and over satisfied the material needs of millions

Asia is now performing large amounts of routine white- collar work at significantly lower costs

Automation has began to affect this generation's white-collar workers in teh sme way it did last generation's blue-collar workers

Notes on Chapter 3

What happens to us as our lives get clipped by autmonation and Asia and reconfigured by abundance
Humans need to and will be propelled to decrese their logical , systematic ways of being and develop more of the conceptual side of themselves

High concept and high touch aptitudes are moving from the periphery of our lives to the center
How can we prepare ourselves for the conceptual age

We must perform work that overseas knowledge workers can't do cheaper , that computers can't do faster and satifies the aesthetic level that answer is inadequate What do we do ?
Use the 6 senses - Design - Story - Symphony - Empathy - Play - Meaning

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Reader's Advisory

Enjoyed reader's module - had already had a previous workshop and have used the pointers and suggestions - one sugggestin was to read a YA/teen book and with the Lati assignment of reading 2 YA/Teen books I was surprised how much I enjoyded the YA/teen books I read

Read as YA selections - A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly and Three Littel Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Three Little words was very good , memoir of a young child and her sometimes terrible journey throught the foster care system -
A Norhtern light was so intersting I proceeded to read her current adult novel called , A winter Rose . It was great , one of those can't put down stories . Loved the character development .Enjoyed it so I plan to the Tea Rose by her
Other adult title I read was Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - amusing read about circus life the 30's and a wonderful ending !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, March 31, 2008

puppy talk

Tried to post comment - would not let allow me

Thought interview wa handled well except probing quesiton should have been asked sooner in the interview process

Puppy

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

search tools

Enoyed this module learned some great search options with Goggle

Monday, March 24, 2008

Intergenerational Programming

Answers to questions :
Question 1

Emergent Libraries -
Emergent literacy refers to the continuous development of skills that emerge beginning in infancy until a child becomes a proficient reader and writer. The library has a distinct and vital role to play in suppporting emergent literacy.

Question 2
Compnents of dev storytimes, etc.

Physical activity as well as auditory and visual astimaulatin of an appropriate nature is vital to early brain wiring.

Question 3
Programs for seniors and teens
Teens - Book clubs - Teen groups - Teen voulneters - Gaming - Spa night - Movie night - Guest speakers - career and sports subjects ( Karate demos)

Seniors - Book clubs - available LP and audio material - Gaming night for seniors


Question 4
Frost library going to have senior WII programming as our project starting in May and we have teen advisory committee programs schedules this summer are movie nights - gaming - spa night - bookmobile

IT's Thursday answers about Dog Questions

Think intereview about Chesapeake bay retriever was handled well because of elements such as greeting - taking patron back to books in stacks - asking if answer was answered completely and please let know if need more information --- flaw was should have asking patron questions about specific information earlier in the interview process - wopuld have able to determine what the patron really needed and wanted

Health resources

Enetered answers to HEalth question -- LIked the MedlinePlus site - was impressive with the amount and type of information - willl be an advocate of this site int he future

Monday, March 17, 2008

Dan Pink

Working on evaluating resources

Rec Copy of A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink

Monday, March 10, 2008

Reference challenge

Middle of working on Reference challenge - had a hard time finding information about 1995 Sierra pickup but I finally found it

Mystery shopping experience

Just finished reply to 2 in my Learning circle - Vanessa and Becky K

Some of the expereinces made me cringe and reinforce my good customer skills

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Mystery shopping

Rec two responses form my mystery tour experience

YA selection

Starting to read YA book Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

core refences

Just completed and submitted 10 core refernces

Friday, January 25, 2008

Learning quote

The learning quote I chose is "Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere". - Chinese Proverb

Reason for choosing this quote is because there are many treasures in life one of which is the treasure and joy of beign able to learn .