Adding your blog to the BM Library blog roll

In week 2 of Learning 2.0 Vicki has asked that we post our newly created blogs in the Blue Mountains Library Manager's Blog - this one. The blog roll is located on the right hand side of the blog, between Staff Tools and Interesting Websites.

Here's some instructions on how to do that.

First you need to be signed in to blogger.

Open the BM Library Manager blog using the Layout tab, or you can click on the crossed spanner and screwdriver icon below the blog roll area (illustrated below). If you go to the layout area, click on the Edit link in the BM Staff Library blogs section.

The following illustration shows you the window that opens. You will be able to see all the other blogs that are in the blog roll. To add a blog, click on Add to List.

Another little window opens. Enter your blog's URL (web address) in the box provided and click on Add. Now click on Save in the Configure Blog List window.

If you've gone in to the Layout area you will need to click on the Save button at the top of the Layout window to save all the changes.

That's all there is to it. Your blog should now be added to the blog roll. You can call me if you get stuck.

Heidi

Handy info

Can I suggest that you have a look here : http://www.blogger.com/features for some handy info on how to do stuff in Blogger. Starting at the beginning and getting more adventurous.

I've set up ANOTHER blog

It's over there in the blog roll - on the right hand side.

Scientific Proof! Reading fiction really is good for you!

I just thought I would share some fabulous news. New Scientist (28 June 2008 p.42) reports a study that confirms what we all suspected... reading fiction has psychological benefits. The study suggests that fiction acts as a kind of simulation of the complexities of social life, and by reading we gain greater empathy and better "interpersonal perception", and that these effects are immediate. The study doesn't discount that movies and games may also have these benefits.

If you have the time you can go to http://glennrowe.net/baroncohen/faces/eyestest.aspx and undertake the same test that participants in the study used to detemine their ability to read expressions.

Anyway, now we have an excuse for staying up late to read. It is preparing us for the social onslaught of the following day. Or is it just because I am the daughter of a scientist that I needed a study published in a peer reviewed journal before I could justify those late nights??

Library 2.0 weeks1,2, 3 & 4

Hi folks, this is my new library 2.0 blog: http://jackos-shed.blogspot.com/ for week 2; I will be looking for contributions - in character please and on topic...

Week 3 was fairly uneventful as I have had a Flickr site for over a year now, it's here if you want to check it out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8822983@N08/

Week 4 and on to RSS fodder, definitely a case of information overload before I revised my feeds from the bulk subscriptions and spent time searching for more relevant stuff. I do appreciate the principle though and would use it if I really needed that much news. I am still deciding whether to add it to The Shed blog.

Cheers, Merryjack

Flickr

I've done the Flickr activites and love the program. I've opened my own account and am now putting my families photos onto Flickr. I know that they are safe if my computer crashes (which it frequently does because it's getting old) and I have named them and written descriptions. They look good and I'm going to give my children access to them so they can look at them too.
Enjoy

To read or not to read....

We all have "rules" as to how far we will go in a book before we give it up as a lost cause. I thought you might enjoy know my rule. I loved the book The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Naturally I then devoured the Postscript to the Name of the Rose which is Eco's musings on how and why he wrote the book. In this essay, Eco explains that while the first 100 pages of The Name of the Rose are quite dense and detailed - the rest of the book is your reward. This has always stuck with me and I now read the first 100 pages of any book to see if the rest of the book is my REWARD!

What do others think? There have been some thoughts on this matter posted on the Library's Readers in the Mist blog that you might like to compare:

http://readersinthemist.blogspot.com/2008/07/to-slog-through-book-or-not-to-slog.html