1. I chose two
of my favorite hobbies that I never have any time to do. The first was
scrapbooking. There are a lot of articles on scrapbooking through a three
different periodical choices. My closest library, Lewiston Pubic Library, does
not have any of these three choices listed. The second hobby I chose was
photography. I love to take pictures, but never time to learn more about my
camera and its abilities. There are two periodicals listed on Marvel, Popular
Photography and Shutterbug. Popular Photography was one of the periodicals
listed for my nearby library so it did have some of the same periodicals, but the hobbies and craft resource center offered more.
2. I looked at projects for scrapbooking and they were
awesome. Two in particular that I would love to try are Chalk Ink Technique
Triple Play and Incredible Archival Inks. I love the way they use chalk to
create some great background pages in the first project. The second project has
ways to create pre-made stamp sayings for your scrapbooking page. I love the
way they make the letters so bold and loud. The photography search did not
offer any projects, which I thought was too bad. A lot of teachers would be
able to use photography projects that they could do with their students or
better their photography skills on their own.
3. On the help section I looked up Wildcard and
Truncation. This information was very helpful because they will search for
information without having to know the exact word you are searching. The
wildcard choice allows you to put a ? where you don’t know the letter or
correct spelling for a word. If you put the word co?t It will return results
for words like coat, cost, colt, etc that have the same letters with the
question mark replaced by a different letter. The truncation allows you to put
a * on the end of a word so you will get all results for the base of the word.
For example, you can write construct* and you will get results for constructed,
construction, constructing, etc with the same base word you searched for. I also
watched the tutorial on using the Hobbies and Crafts section and that’s where I
realized that I could have searched for photography as my hobby, also. The
tutorial was very good and showed how to use Boolean and advanced searches.
I really enjoy your information!! At this point in my life scrapbooking is at the bottom of my list But....I'm intrigued by the Chalk ink, hummm maybe I should bump this up on my "to-do" list.
ReplyDeleteYour investigation with the Help section was interesting, again I've now learned something new! I'll have to go check the Wildcard and Truncation for myself. Thank you so much for sharing!! mary04001 :)
Carol-
ReplyDeleteI did not know you were a fellow scrapbooker! I can't wait to look at the two projects you found interesting.
I really enjoy doing it, but with RA it is hard to sit and scrapbook for hours like I use to. I want to pick it back up again.
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