This picture shows Spartacus, gladiator and leader of the slave revolt against the ruling authorities of the Roman Empire...Oh dear Co-Blogger slaves!! Revolt!! but first give me your attention and support...for I am your Spartacus!! I am stepping forth to lead you in overthrowing the rulers of Thing 17. Don't let them crush your Web 2.0 spirit!! Fight back against their library-induced oppression...step out from the reference desk, step out of your cube (where I live), and raise your downward eyes and your voice, and shout out as loudly as you can--NO MORE OF THIS, EVIL RULERS!!!---for NONE of this stuff works...no, you are not the problem, the evil rulers and their reliance on this blasted computer machine are at fault...
This has been the only Thing so far where I truly had to seek out the 23 Things Blog comments shown at the bottom of Thing 17 to regain my sanity (and there wasn't much to start with)...to begin, none of the explanitory videos work for each item on the list...that is unless you try a download of however long your meager patience holds out...very frustrating...then there's the example that requires all the potential Spartacus followers to build a little web site on EBSCO using their ridiculously clunky and extremely out of date, web site building tools...and here, when you want to place a simple graphic on the site, they unkindly leave out a "Browse" option to find the picture. So, after frantic searching and copying and pasting of the location of the picture, and as you contemplate Spartacus' ability to balance his sword even while riding a galloping horse, you're left in the end with a little blank graphic with a red X through it...
So I picked up my sword, and thought revolution...especially when my ego was hurt by EBSCO having a link to a sample nicely designed web site made by elementary students and their teacher...oh, you push me too far, EBSCO... nations are overthrown for less than that?!! To suggest that I am already behind the 3rd graders!!?? Come here, horsey...lets get a Biblio-mob together...we've got some issues to address...
Anyhow...since I can't follow the suggestions for completing this assignment..I went old-fashion, maybe back to Web 1.025...and tried actually just reading on these sites instead of doing all the graphic stuff and using the web site creation tools...I point out to everyone that there's a lot of interesting stuff in these data bases that might be quite good to know...You might want to study up on the search tip pages of each of these sites...did you know, for instance, that ProQuest has 15 pages of explanitory notes on how to search their data base (I know because that's how many pages came out of the printer), and Gale is no small slouch either...they had another 15 to 20 pages of interesting reading on searching tips to go through....so if your EBSCO web sites don't pan out, and you can't get those darn videos to work...there's an ancient Roman trick called reading you can still do...even Mr. Spartacus would like that...
1 comment:
LOL! You are much funnier than the original Spartacus. That guy didn't have the best sense of humor . . .
I actually think it is great to remmeber that all these tools are works in progress and that it isn't a bad thing to go back to something that worksd better for you when you feel frustrated with something! It is always good to be exposed to the new stuff, but that doesn't mean we have to embrace ALL of it.
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