RSS Feeds, and how helpful it is

RSS feeds are a helpful tool to use in libraries and for personal use. It could be useful for libraries to gather feeds or articles that are related to library like book reviews or articles that deals with the library. I have been using RSS feeds for a while now, so it is pretty common for me when I saw that our next topic is RSS feeds. I used RSS feeds and still actually do for world news related articles, foreign films articles and reviews, Entertainment news around the world. However, I have never used bloglines before. So it was a bit new for me but it was easy to add rss feeds into it. So far on bloglines, I just added BBC News, book reviews, another feeds that I found interesting as I was looking around what feed link to put.

Technology in Video Games and its Advancement

How technology has advanced throughout the years? I still remember when Socrates, an educational program that was released back in 1987 when I was just 6 years old. I still recall vividly playing with the system where it has different cartridges for different subjects like Math, English, and other things. How heavy that system was and you have to be staring on your TV in order to play it. The graphics was an 8-bit program and could hardly see the shape of the robot that was giving the instructions and questions for each different subject.
Now with the advancement of technology like the Leapfrog Pads that our libraries have, kids can enjoy the comfort of fun and education with an easy, lightweight machine that can practically do phonics skills, math skills, and other different skills that the pad can offer. Kids can even carry it anywhere they go since it doesn't have to be plug into a TV set .

As for the video games system goes, the advancement of the technology has gone far beyond that I as a kid could ever imagine. As a kid, I was big into video games especially Nintendo NES.
With this system, I can play different genre of games from adventure, puzzle, fighting, and family games. The graphics is moderately good but as opposed to what we have now, it is a totally different ball game. With the release of Microsoft Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii, everyone can access the internet and play the game with other people from different areas around the world. The graphics of these three systems are almost lifelike. It feels like the characters in the game are real and actually do exist in reality. As for the Nintendo Wii, I could not imagine or fathom that I can actually play a game using a controller that looks like a remote control. You could actually literally play the game by just waving the control left, right, up, down and could do different moves by a flick of the control.

In the near future, technology could go much more further than what it can do now. In Japan, even their technology is far, far more advanced than what we have here in the United States. I actually saw one technology on TV that just boggled my mind where one person can use the bathroom toilet seat by using their voice commands and the lavatory would actually do it for them without a touch of their hands. With the further advancement, technology could go far beyond on what it could do today.

Flickr Photo and experience

Originally uploaded by DrStrange1981

So far, this is the first time I actually played around with Flickr. Actually, the program is pretty simple and self explanatory. Posting photos is very easy to do. I have posted photos using different programs that is much more advanced compare to the Flickr before; the photo that I decided to upload on Flickr and post in the blog is the Tie Tuesday that we the guys at Southwest County have decided to do every Tuesdays of every week.

Blogging

How can blogging be used in libraries? Blogging can help a little with the libraries by giving us input on different ways each branch or other libraries from different states on how they operate. It can show us or we can get some information or tips on what other branches do with different situations that can come up in our daily activities. Blogging is mostly used not specifically as a quick help tool, but mostly to post anything you are thinking about that will be able to solve a problem or giving tips.

7 1/2 Habits

7 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Learning showed us different ways of achieving our goals. It shows us steps and ways on how we can improve our goals at work and other things in life.  I don't think I found any difficulty with the program that was mentioned in the 7 1/2 habits of highly successful learning.  So far, the steps are pretty simple and self explanatory. Therefore, I find it easy enough to follow through the steps of the program.