Coming down the homestretch and what a fun THING to do. YouTube is an amazing phenomenon. My daughter posted a video on YouTube to announce her second pregnancy. The video featured my first grandson prancing around wearing a T-shirt that said I'm the big brother.
I watched a video that was included in the I Love My Library contest. It was entitled Thank You Note. I emailed it myself because I loved the message that was contained in it.
I will be thinking about how to include videos of happenings at the library on YouTube with links from our library blog. Our upcoming Strawberry Festival might just be the place to start.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Week 10 - Thing # 20
I will definitely go back and spend more time with this award list. I went to the short list of Web 2.0 awards because of time constraints. My first journey was to .docstoc where is searched through the education section. I found several documents; one for spring bookmarks and a collection of poems called Celebrate Being a Kid which was published by an elementary school. I emailed both documents to my school email address and will share them with my job share partner.
My second journey took me to imcooked where i watched a video about eggs benedict. Yum.
Definitely will go back to this site again.
My second journey took me to imcooked where i watched a video about eggs benedict. Yum.
Definitely will go back to this site again.
Week 10 - Thing # 19
For this week I created an account in GoogleDocs. In my other job as a classroom teacher, our school is using GoogleDocs to allow more collaboration among teachers and staff as we create documents that may used by many people.
I have used many different word processing software such as Openoffice Writer, Appleworks and Microsoft Word. GoogleDoc functions much the same way. I found it relatively easy to use.
I have used many different word processing software such as Openoffice Writer, Appleworks and Microsoft Word. GoogleDoc functions much the same way. I found it relatively easy to use.
Week 9 - Thing #18
This seemed challenging to me. Vermontlibrarieslearn.pbworks thwarted my best attempts at creating a link to my blog. However as I just wrote this, I thought of another way to change what I had done and lo and behold it actually worked. Yippee!!
I also worked in wetpaint and added to favofite blogs and favorite restaurants.
I also worked in wetpaint and added to favofite blogs and favorite restaurants.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Week 9 - Thing #17
Wikis
In moments of sheer boredom and needing entertainment, I have pursued and enjoyed the "Random Article" component on Wikipedia.I have often found myself going off in search of information listed in the random article. I learned a lot of interesting things this way. Other than that I have not have much exposure to wikis.
The collaboration inherent in a wiki is interesting to me. It opens lots of possibilities for group projects allowing and encouraging many perspectives and accumulation of knowledge. I think it might be interesting to do book group wikis like Nancy Pearl's Book Lust group. It allows people at long distances to discuss books, rather than in a small community or one area of a community, as it is in my library.
I did sneak a peek the Simpson's wiki - fun! Colbert's "wikiality" maybe become my new word. and I also loved piece on book clubs.
In moments of sheer boredom and needing entertainment, I have pursued and enjoyed the "Random Article" component on Wikipedia.I have often found myself going off in search of information listed in the random article. I learned a lot of interesting things this way. Other than that I have not have much exposure to wikis.
The collaboration inherent in a wiki is interesting to me. It opens lots of possibilities for group projects allowing and encouraging many perspectives and accumulation of knowledge. I think it might be interesting to do book group wikis like Nancy Pearl's Book Lust group. It allows people at long distances to discuss books, rather than in a small community or one area of a community, as it is in my library.
I did sneak a peek the Simpson's wiki - fun! Colbert's "wikiality" maybe become my new word. and I also loved piece on book clubs.
Week 8 - Thing 16 - Web 2.0
Thinking about library Web2.0 and its implications is on one hand exhilirating, and on the other hand is overwhelming.It opens many new avenues and goes beyond the concept of libraries as collections and librarians as caretakers of those collections.
Our small rural library has been a place for community members to come in and chat, find a new book and talk a little town politics. Few of our patrons are asking for or expecting the kinds of web connections that are discussed in these articles. For me that means I need to take on the role of introducing and promoting other possibilities.
Our small rural library has been a place for community members to come in and chat, find a new book and talk a little town politics. Few of our patrons are asking for or expecting the kinds of web connections that are discussed in these articles. For me that means I need to take on the role of introducing and promoting other possibilities.
Week 8 - Thing 15 Technorati
…”there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day.
This quote really says it all for me. I don't have time or the interest to pursue these possibilities. This much news and information scares and overwhelms me.
I feel impowered to know that this exists and that I can help my patrons use this, but on a personal level I may not get to this for a long while.
This quote really says it all for me. I don't have time or the interest to pursue these possibilities. This much news and information scares and overwhelms me.
I feel impowered to know that this exists and that I can help my patrons use this, but on a personal level I may not get to this for a long while.
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