Wednesday, February 25, 2009

week3 Book jetty and more...

http://www.bookjetty.com/people/nagem/books

I went and had a look at litlovers as I was interested in seeing the tips regarding the bookclubs. I was a lil' disappointed that there was no teenage stuff on it which I could have used or put into practice within the bookgroup I run.

I had more fun with bookjetty as I managed to find books that I read when I was lil' was still available. I quite liked the alphabetical and specific age group searches eg children teens and adult book searches options. However you should beable to mark these upon tying in your search and not after the search has been conducted .

Twas sad that there was no pic of the Dip the puppy book on book jetty though, as it's a gorgous bright pink and black cover . My fav part of this story is the poem that goes:' One with a pancake, One with a drum, one with a pancake stuck to his bum.' , as I've remembered from when I was about 6.

I would recommend this to customers who are looking at starting a bookgroup for children and and Bookjetty more than autors and books for those interested in seeking out book titles.

Had fun making the book lists on this one.

I asked google the question ' What is a widget' ? When it fired me back a list of 15-20 definitions I wasn't sure what was exactly required so I've probably if I've done it unintentionally not done this option.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

her family tree from Geni.com



I had fun creating a family tree on both the my heritage site and the geni site. The only site however that I could find that you could embed you family tree on to another was the Geni one. I'm not sure if My Heritage had the same option, but if they did it's not easy to locate. The only part I couldn't do on the Geni site was post it to side bar, as by having this option ticked it failed to upload it due to sidebar options not being made avaible on my blogsite. I would recommend both of these sites to patrons who may be interested in creating a family tree online, but as the Geni one is a tad bit more user friendly, over the My Generation one, this one will probably get my recommendation first. All an all in which one is recommendable depends on what the user is looking for and their site preferences. I was also suprised that it accepted and allowed me to create bogis/ficticious names or in this case allowed pet names to be accepted. Also as birthdays are not mandatory it also surprised me that not until you attempt to add a creators birthday that may be under 13 that it tells you that the creator has to be over 13 years of age, which by then it too late as one may have already been created. Now my cuurent cats and the ol' dog, that I use to have, now have the beginnings of an online family tree which Coolioiglesias and my cats say is just puuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrffffffffeect:)

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

web 2.1

In general don't particularly like doing things like these, as I'm not really a computer savvy person as such, but the blog spot I was most interested in having a look at is books and authors one regarding bookclubs. In last years one I enjoyed having a look at ad uploading video clips from other sites, as I'd had no idea how to do this till then. As you can see I've also got rid of the ones that I didn't enjoy from 2.0 to make room for the ones in this one that I do. I'm also looking forward to week four when we get to do making and creating our own animation. :)