Maps #32 Current Events

Activity 1: My query would be "Looking at the clouds". The website you can use is: http://www.daylightmap.com/clouds/

Activity 2: I tried exploring the suggested sites. Unfortunately you can view some of the items but you have to sign up for a subscription. Which I was not going to do. However if I did I would get this one: http://www.terraserver.com/samples.asp. I like the idea that it has the sports venues places to look at.

Optional Bonus Activity: What a cool thing to look at. Interesting to see what the satellites are seeing. I enjoyed this site.

Maps #31 Have Map Will Travel

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This exercise was interesting in looking at the different map applications that can be used. I have always used Map Quest. It was interesting to look at the aerial shots and the close up views of a persons house. Kind of scary in a way.

Sound: #26 Making (or listening to) Music Together

I looked at the sites and enjoyed Project Playlist. It took me a little while to get to understand what I was doing. The one that was the most fun was JamStudio. You can have a ball with this one. Although my song sounded like it was skipping. I had to go back and change a few of the beats. This one site that could help me learn my chords maybe that is a big maybe. The another big maybe I can finally play my guitar.

#25 Sound: Am I a music pirate? It's hard to know.

I have learned the process of burning CD's. It gets a little addicting for me. I have the IPOD that I place music on but don't have the capability to hear the music while I am driving. So in order for me to hear a few of my favorites I burn them to a CD and play them in my car. Recently I burned a few what I call exercise music for fitness instructors to use in class. Now I did not sell them for a profit. I gave them as a gift. I think musicians do benefit from sharing music online and are protected by copyright laws. I think it helps in their popularity. And they still are making profit. It's nice to just buy one song rather than having to buy the artist whole CD just for one song that you like.

#24 The Sound of Music

I received a IPod for Christmas and have downloaded different songs from different sites. My favorite is Itunes. Mainly because that is the first site that I tried and I find it easy for me to use. It took me a little while to understand it but now I enjoy looking for my music to exercise too. My favorite radio station is 92.1 Praise. I listen to this station when I get a chance to at work. I also listen to 99.1 Sunny.

Spring Cleaning #30 Take a Load Off our Drives

I do not have access for the S: drive. For some reason if you computer is on the county domain side the drive cannot be viewed. As for the P: drive Support Services uses the H: drive. Files are created there for Support Services staff to use or share. It contains databases that the staff uses every day. As for adding material to the drive I have done that. But it is usually a copy and paste of a folder from the previous fiscal year. As for spring cleaning my supervisor is in charge of the drive and would have to go through it to determine what can be deleted.

As for the Z: drive. I use this one constantly. I did have some personal photos which I have now moved to a USB. Most of my photos consist of coworkers and staff events. I save them in case I need to use them for a future scrapbook or in case we need to look at a past staff member to remember who they were. My Z: drive really needed to be cleaned up. This exercise gave me the opportunity to do that. I guess I really didn’t think about what I was really saving to this drive. But now I will be more cautious of what I save. The USB’s really are helpful and saving material to clear up drives. The oldest file I had was one I created while working in Acquisitions. It was six years old. Truthfully it was not very important why I kept it saved I don’t know. As for being organized I guess I need to do some fine tuning on myself.