#9 Exploring Merlin, etc.

Well, Merlin is very intersting, although not quite as important to me anymore since I'm not working in a library in Maryland. However, if I was still there I would be really excited about it! It was a great way to bring together learning information. For instance, I visited the Social Networking links and found many wonderful things. In fact, if SitePal was free (sorry, jumping to the gaming and avatars now) I would totally create one of those. Think of the library possibilities, you could have a virtual librarian talking to patrons who logged on to the library's website! And the Force Food game was very interesting, and could definitely be used by teachers. While at Merlin I also visited the HCPL Technology Plan.

Next I went on to using a couple of the feed search tools. I didn't like Topix at all, in fact, I couldn't figure out how to subscribe to a feed. I did find it interesting that it knew right away what city I was in though! I preferred Feedster! It was easy and I found some additional feeds to subscribe to, I'm up to 17 feeds now! I liked the Widget idea and am thinking of creating one and seeing if I can add it to my blog. If you see it appear, I was successful. As for other ways I found feeds, well, I did it the good old-fashioned way and just visited sites I usually go to and looked for the feed button and then added them!

And now it's time to take a break. More technology on another day!