Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Week 9: Podcasts and Audio
Book reviews and introduction to new resources, marketing of new projects and advising of special events could all be useful for our library. We need to meet the market where the people are, and I can see podcasts are the way to reach the teens in particular.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Week 7
I found this one less useful than most units. I enjoyed Sutherland shire library's tag cloud it was very interesing and the designer very talented, but would not have the skills to create such a thing for our library. I joined delicious but can't say I have found a need to go back to it yet. I will say that I am now quite a handy blogger and I know this is because I have to post a blog every week. so I know if I use any of these sites or tools enough I will be proficient with them, too.
I found this one less useful than most units. I enjoyed Sutherland shire library's tag cloud it was very interesing and the designer very talented, but would not have the skills to create such a thing for our library. I joined delicious but can't say I have found a need to go back to it yet. I will say that I am now quite a handy blogger and I know this is because I have to post a blog every week. so I know if I use any of these sites or tools enough I will be proficient with them, too.
Week 8
Slam the boards is a wonderful concept and I would love to be confident enough to have a try, but it takes me so long to get into a site (I need to find where I wrote my password etc etc) I just don't seem to be a 'natural' - yet - for going into sites like this. In my library we have a technology guru who is -her words - addicted to Yahoo answers, and she has great success with already 12 best answers to her credit. she is a 'child of 2.0' and is doing Learning 2.0 for her is like a walk in the park (for me it is like wading through mud ) and she uses the technology all the time. I am still at the point where I use what I have to. But maybe next month I will have a look a slam the boards. :)
Slam the boards is a wonderful concept and I would love to be confident enough to have a try, but it takes me so long to get into a site (I need to find where I wrote my password etc etc) I just don't seem to be a 'natural' - yet - for going into sites like this. In my library we have a technology guru who is -her words - addicted to Yahoo answers, and she has great success with already 12 best answers to her credit. she is a 'child of 2.0' and is doing Learning 2.0 for her is like a walk in the park (for me it is like wading through mud ) and she uses the technology all the time. I am still at the point where I use what I have to. But maybe next month I will have a look a slam the boards. :)
Monday, September 8, 2008
Week 6
Videos Online
I would probably not want to put a video on line in my workplace, at least not in the foreseeable future. I still have trouble remembering how to access and post to my blog (!) The videos available to view are interesting,but watching a video on a tiny screen does not appeal to me at all. The only use I have at this time is for information. I have found the videos in this course very helpful and can see videos are the way of the future for how-to instructions and information.
Videos Online
I would probably not want to put a video on line in my workplace, at least not in the foreseeable future. I still have trouble remembering how to access and post to my blog (!) The videos available to view are interesting,but watching a video on a tiny screen does not appeal to me at all. The only use I have at this time is for information. I have found the videos in this course very helpful and can see videos are the way of the future for how-to instructions and information.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Week #5 Wikis
I found it fascinating that the Learning 2.0 Discover section gave us so many United States wikis; are we so far behind in Australia? I found the most interesting was BookLovers at the Princeton Public Libary, it has appeal for me in our Library but I don't feel ready to offer to set it up just yet :) I am still too new at these to offer a suggestion as to what types of applications within libraries might work well with a wiki, I find the wiki I most use is inter-library loans Weekly Digest which I try to find my way around each week with increasing success.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
RSS feeds
RSS feeds has been easier than I expected to work with. I can see uses for this when I select sites which will be used regularly for my work in that it will be convenient to have the last news come to me rather than me going looking at all my favourite sites. I selected the powerhouse museum photo of the day, ABS, publishers weekly, NYT>books, USATODAY.com.books for my five sites. I can see that in time I will subscribe to other sites which will be more useful to my work , such as sites which relate directly to my duties. As I go onto sites now, I will be looking for the RSS feed option.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
2008 Olympic Games countdown on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
2008 Olympic Games countdown on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
With the olympics coming up we are sure to have lots of reference request and enquiries so I thought a look at the Flickr photos would be interesting, and this one with the chinese language interested me.
With the olympics coming up we are sure to have lots of reference request and enquiries so I thought a look at the Flickr photos would be interesting, and this one with the chinese language interested me.
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