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Give Yourself a Pat on the Back! May 2, 2007

Filed under: ETG — vanmaars @ 11:21 pm

Learning 2.0@ Mac is coming to the end (at least for me with this post) after a very interesting and enjoyable learning experience. I must say that I had a great time with the activities (well… most of the activities) and feel that the topics covered allowed the user to experience what that feature could do.  I agree with Renu about the pace. Having a week plus additional time and help to finish your activity really made it easy to get things done.

Bravo to those who have finished all the activities, and for those who haven’t Don’t fret! (Audrie!!!) there is still time! That MP3 player is just out of reach, just think of all the music you can listen too!

A standing ovation to the ETG for a fab program and for opening the minds of the library staff to the world of 2.0 technology. You all did great work! You should be proud!

 

Firefox is hot! May 2, 2007

Filed under: ETG — vanmaars @ 11:18 pm

The final assignment by the ETG is to explore FirefoxFirefox and add-ons. I installed Firefox (super easy to do!) and after exploring its features have changed over from Internet Explorer. I really like the ease of use, better protection and features that Firefox provides. I thought it was cool that you could change the theme of your browser! Had this activity not been assigned I probably wouldn’t have thought to check out other Internet browsers. I have always stuck with IE. So thanks!

We were also asked to download an add-on and with so many to choose from it was hard. I love the adblock! It works really well and was easy to download. No more pesky ads that slow down the web page! I’m new too the whole extension feature. I never really explored them or what is available and I was pleasantly surprised.

So thanks ETG for opening my eyes to other possiblities!