We were very fortunate on our team day at TVNZ to sit in on a rehearsal of the Fair Go programme. After they left to go to make up we had our photo taken in front of the "Wall of Shame" where people won't front up for their companies. A fantastic experience.

The New News Team

We were very lucky and had out Team Day at TVNZ where we learned so much about their operations and libraries. We saw the editing suites, media exchange and watched the 12 o'clock news go to air via the control room. We visited the NVR Library, Research Library and Programme Traffic. All in all it was a very successful day and the team really enjoyed their visit and got so much out of it.

Wikis

I found the Princeton Public Library wiki fantastic. The book lovers wiki with the 5 star reviews was so inspiring. I wanted to read so many of the books that were reviewed.

The SJCPL site was quite plain and uninspiring but easy enough to navigate.

The Library Success site was equally plain but very easy to follow. Loved some of the links they had on their site.

It would be a full time job to keep these updated I would think, as changes are taking place all the time. Very interesting exercise.

Wikis

I had look at Princeton Public Library Wiki and absolutely loved it. The book lovers wiki and 5 star reviews were so inspiring and you found several books you wanted to read. The layout was easy to read and navigate.

PB Wiki

I had a look around this site and posted a favourite in the movie area.http://manukaulearn.pbwiki.com/Favourite-Movies

Technology

I can't believe how far I have come over the last few years. I have purchased a cell phone and learnt how to use it, text, add numbers etc. My other was a Digital Camera I got for my birthday last year. I take photos, put them into my computer, edit them and print them out. I nearly forgot that I have laptop computer that I am doing most of this work on. Besides all the computer programmes I have had to learn I am very proud of myself. I hope everyone else has a positive experience with these tools. I have been having a few problems with some of the Blog Programmes but have hung in there and spent quite a lot of time at home trying to nut them out. Let's hope it gets easier. Many thanks to my colleagues at work when I get really stuck.

TRADING CARD

I had a terrible time trying to transfer the image directly into my blog. This was a library picture and I had trouble trying to transfer it straight from the trading card I had made into the blog. I then saved it into My Pictures File, and then I found I was able to transfer it from My Pictures File into the blog.

Blue-coloured Rose

Blue-coloured Rose
Originally uploaded by casillero

I thought this rose was just magnificent. I hope you all think so too. I love roses and this is one of my favourite colors. I had a bit of trouble with flickr but my lovely co-worker Lucy was able to help me out. Many Thanks.

Rollyo Scrollo

I found this exercise quite difficult. I spent half a day at home trying to do this. I did achieve quite a bit but I had trouble transfering the search tool across to my blog. Lets hope this time it works after much frustration.

Select...ReadingBooksSearch The Web

Library Thing

I really enjoyed surfing on Library Thing. I did get it across but could't see the covers so have changed it to a link to My Library.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/TrendyGran

Hollywood Sign

As I watch a lot of movies with my family I thought this sign would be quite appropriate to put on my blog. I think everyone can relate to this sign and know what it means. I thought I would have a bit of fun with it though and change it's name. Hope you enjoy the play on words.

bloggins

http://www.bloglines.com/public/manukaulearn

Creation of my first blog account

This is TrendyGran and this is the first time I have had anything to do with blogging. I just followed the instuctions on Blogger.Com until I needed help. I also managed to set up a Gmail account. I am most impressed at how easy it was this far, but hope it will be this easy in the future.