What do you think a digital library is?
 A  digital library is an electronic library built around predetermined  information on given topics.  The information is stored in a digital format so that more information can be stored in     a small space somewhere  in never-neverland (smiles)

What did I learn today?
Today I learned how to make a web page using Composer?   I also learned that a mind is a dangerous thing to leave at work. (more smiles)  I think that I am going to like this class.

Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Today I am linking to WIT,

Known as Web Institute for Teachers.  This was a good lesson. Based on today's activities I decided to incorporate some of them in my Journal.   I did a review for myself about terms common to the web, like HTML.   Realizing that you really need to know these terms if  you are preparing to share this experience with your coworkers and/or students.  The modeling of the web site for the day was informative.  I am looking forward to using these sites as well as sharing them with others.  I feel that creating a web site is not as easy as it appears to be while working with our instructors.  But I am willing to try to do this thing because our department at "The Board"  should have it's site updated,  At this time  we do not have a person maintaining the site.  

Thursday, July 10, 2003

Working with librarians in developing book list we have used the web site developed by Peggy Sharpie.  I share sites used to get information on books to consider adding to their books list.  These books are reviewed and short summaries are provided for each title. Then various links can be followed to acquire additional information on the books and/or order.  Some of the site provide book activities for the librarians.  Peggy Sharpe can be found at :

The email situation is still a problem for me, I hope that it will be solved by tomorrow.  Overall this was a good institute day.

Friday, July 11, 2003

Today was an interesting day.  Wit provided a really nice "free"  lunch.  The whole Wit group, all the Greek Letters, shared the same space to hear the keynote speaker,  
Diane Joseph, share her project entitled "Harnessing Learner Passion".  We also had a spill from the Collabatory Project  folks from Northwestern University.  This project appears to be great, as projects are when the developer shares his/her info with you.  I also found it of interest that this same group will be presenting this project to two groups of librarians (60-75) on two different days.  The first  session  will take place on July 23 & 24  and the other 29 & 30.  These will be day long sessions.  The class game was great fun and it allowed the class to see their strengths and weaknesses.

Monday, July 14, 2003

Worked on fpt and ecuip.  I was still confused about the process for ftp.  I also had a problem  installing the programs provided for the course onto my laptop.  I finally gave up the ghost at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.  I finally got my email working.   I setup an account with  Yahoo and now I can join my fellow classmates on the list serve. If you're happy emailing, just do it.  The best part of the day was finding a parking spot directly in front of the library.  Yes you can be happy about the little things in life.

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

I have discovered that I am not  an on-the-spot type of person.  That which I think I know seems to go "South".  I just may have to work on this little quark in the development.  I have become comfortable with ecuip and  will share as well as use this site with other librarians.  I am a little slow getting started but I think I just may be on a roll (not a real fast one).  The activity today was interesting and it made you use the site.  Sharing the answers and how different persons arrived at their answers was interesting and will help moving around in ecuip with a degree of  efficiency.  An observation:  you can kind of tell when various classmates were in school by their willingness and speed at doing the Witdelta activities

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - July 16/18, 2003

Melva Samuels not in class for these three days but she had class on the brain.  I looked at some web sites using ecuip and some other web directories.  I looked at some Civil War sites while looking for information on Abe Lincoln.  This proved to be  somewhat involved and enlightening.  I worked on some of the bells and whistles to use in constructing a web page.  Some of the things one can do with these bells and whistle is indeed interesting.  I also learned that you just have to play around with some of the things concerning constructing a web page.  Just make mistakes and redo, in other words, "just do it!".  It helps to have a logic head on your shoulders and instructors who do  not get upset with the varying paces of the students..  You also have to work on this project daily.  

Monday, July 21, 2003

Today is a catch-up day.  I still have a problem with FTP.  I seem to always forget one of the steps.  I guess I need a cheat sheet to put next to my computer.  We had a brief  break for ice cream, then we worked all the way until 5:00 p.m.  I learned about gardening from Deborah Norwood today when she introduced her web site from last year.  Christie showed the class how to link our email to our web sites. I also learned how  to link web site from my email.  When the instructor is showing you what to do, it is a piece of cake.  I also started my home page with information about me and I added my picture to the page.  I am sure that all of this is very easy, I just make it hard.  I'll have to work on this during the next week or two.  I really like getting the web links from my fellow Wits.  Well tomorrow will be a new day.   Oh, I got a chance to share my problem about the CD we were given with the person who did the work.  I really appreciate the time that it took for him to do this but three littler problems that we may have enchanted should have been part of a warning statement.

Tuesday, July 22, 2003

I finally got the hang of the process of ftp and how to link web sites to a page in Composer.   I also learned how to find clip art on the web and how to save and insert this art into my document and resave the document.  I finally decided on my project and now I can really get started.  The name of the project may change but the concept will remain the same.  The web site shared by my fellow classmate was a good cite for librarians as well as teachers.  I will use this cite as one of my links.  \

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Today I learned how to build an "Inquiry" page.    We went to the UIUC site and became members of the inquiry unit.  We were walked throught the steps in creating this page.  We also learned how to edit a unit and then how to spin off  from a  unit.  Today I presented an educational database called "FactsforLearning.  This site is not free but you can get a free trial .  This is a great site for research purposes at the elementary school level. We also had to decide on a topic for a test inquiry unit.  I decided to use the same question that I am working on for my digital library.