Paper Hats

On September 9, at the Australian Breastfeeding Association Goldfields Regional Meeting I have planned a deBono Thinking Hats session to contemplate the issue of the cost of 2007 conference and training. I thought it might be fun to have coloured hats to wear while we think in each colour, so I went looking for paper hat instructions.

Using a large coloured sheet might get a little pricey - but perhaps the boys could paint some made from newspaper. CreativeKidsAtHome had suggestions to achieve the different shapes I'd like to use. Enchanted Learning offer an origami samurai hat. Then there is one way to make four different hats. Then there is the white chef's hat or, from about.com a green leprechaun hat or black top hat.

A green garden hat (from Playschool).

Not so usable for me, but fascinating: While the Smithsonian introduced the Mad Hatter, they don't have images online, so it is Mr Paper I thank for my first image of Moses' beautiful headware sculptures. I'm equally grateful to the student artists, their teacher and Dwight-Englewood School for displaying the students' Mad Hatter inspired creations.

Hot Library Smut

Hot Library Smut

For once I don't care how I found it - my night-time fantasties are fuelled for months. This is one I'll look at each night before bed, and fantasise about one day getting hardcopy.

Having Fun: How Girly Are You?

You Are 40% Girly

You are a pretty hardcore tomboy, and a very free spirit. Gender roles be dammed, you like to do things your way.

How Girly Are You?

Girls-Only Blogthings - How Girly Are You?

del.icio.us/moonflowerdragon

My latest Web 2.0 exploration is with del.icio.us/moonflowerdragon

It appears to operate a little more easily than google's notebook. With the notebook I can't organise the notes without opening a full screen. However I don't know how easy organising with del.icio.us will be as I am still unused to tagging. I cannot guess the full range of tags I will wish I had applied.

Obviously I'll tag to be able to find relevant content. But can I come up with nifty tags to help me refind the sites whose design or features I liked? I have tagged 'reread' and 'surfstart', for those pages I want to get back to, one day, when I have more time.

Impressive Libraries

Thanks to a feed from ALA Tech Source, I am once again distracted from program and agenda planning by the beautiful things some libraries are doing.

Princeton's web-face doesn't approach the best - but I love their physical presence and services from what I could see on Michael Stephens' Flickr show of his tour .

Darien's web-face is white and wordy - but I think those eight blogs are a great way to communicate with patrons.

For web-presence Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County is a hot competitor.  I'll need to spend lots of time, some other time, comparing it to others - I'll be viewing those multimedia tours, for a start.

But back to work for now.

Dewey Decimal Classification

I'm not sure how relevant the DDC will be to my sons.  Possibly they'll only need a basic appreciation of the system in order to use libraries.  I'd like to learn enough to classify materials myself.  There is an animated tour of the DDC at the Online Computer Library Centre. I wonder whether the notion or practice of classifying websites to DDC is at all useful.

World Breastfeeding Week is not in Wikipedia

World Breastfeeding Week is not yet listed in Wikipedia's International Observances page.

I don't have time to write something up at the moment, let me know if someone does?