Poem

HINTS FOR MIDDLE YEARS

You want to get

to where you're going

even if you don't have a map

or a torch

or a long piece of rope

for emergencies

let alone a Band-aid.

The thing is to do the journey.

Enjoy wherever you pass

be it city

or shore line

or paddock

or people.

And tune your breathing

to the rhythm of soul.

Annon.

This was done on Zoho Writer and then published to my blog. So clever.

Zoho writer is so easy. Better than Word. You can access it from anywhere, create and edit the way you want and load your existing documents onto it. It even allows more than one person to write or edit at the same time.

Penultimate week!

Hasn't time gone quickly? We must have been having fun.
I looked at a couple of wiki sites this morning and having been to e-Fest and seen what Otago Polytechnic do with WikiEducator I can see how useful a wiki can be - other people do all the work for you! I looked at Book Lovers Wiki and Library success: A best practice wiki. The first one was great - full of reviews of books you have been meaning to read. Now I don't have to. The best practice wiki is like WikiEducator. You post ideas and information about policies for libraries and the ideas are shared and refined until you get a "Best Practice" policy. Some of the items I looked at were Management and leadership, Selling your library and Technology. Lots of interesting ideas. Out of all the "tools" we have looked at I like wikis the best.

Oh, so delicious!

I have had a look at Del.ici.ous this morning and can see that it could be very useful as each item tagged has more information on it than a normal bookmark or favourite. You can also access it from anywhere so it's like a travelling document. Richard could use it as he bookmarks all sorts of things with his genealogy research and if at another family member's house and wants to show some of the sites he uses - hey presto it's on Del.ici.ous.

We spent the week end at Turangi and I would like to share this photo with you. It is of Mt Ngaruhoe taken from The Chateau.