Sunday, November 25, 2007
# 23 Is this really the end? Or just the beginning ...
Now the things I've found most interesting and useful were Blogs, Flickr, RSS feeds and Bloglines, Del.ic.ious and Wikis. If I had more time I'd put my personal library on LibraryThing (maybe one day), and YouTube is a great place to have fun and waste time!! (Oh yes, and I must get back to that Suduko generator).
This has been a great opportunity to learn and try things that I would probably not have done on my own, and while it has been quite time consuming, it has been very worthwhile. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Signing off Sunshine Daisy
# 22 Audiobooks (or "The end is in sight")
On a positive note, the variety of material in the "other collections" of the World EBook fair site is extensive and diverse from music scores to text in other languages, classical material to technical manuals, and fiction for children and adults. An extremely valuable reference collection. Certainly some of those works would be worth the $5.00 download fee. (Subscription to the service seems pretty cheap?) Listened to some of the free downloads from the Gutenberg Audio e-Book Collection. Easy to download and, on some, there was a huge selection of formats available.
# 21 Podcasts, Smodcasts
I could see podcasts as a way to extend our audience for library programs. Children could listen to a podcast storytime at home. Special library activities, author visits, etc, could also be podcast for those who couldn't make it to the event. A library could also have book reviews podcast, a useful alternative for those with poor eyesight perhaps.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
# 20 You too can YouTube
No cookies in the library
I viewed lots of videos I liked but decided on this one as I felt I should at least have something library related (but still fun!) This one could be used in a library training session for some light relief. I don't think there was anything I disliked about YouTube apart from the fact that you could waste an awful lot of time playing around. The "Help" section, arranged in A & Q style, was very helpful with clear instructions. (I easily embedded this video). The 'history' function was useful and searching was easy using keyword or browsing categories. Another site with social networking capabilities. Videos of Library activities on the Library Website? Could be interesting. Links to videos regarding particular books in the library's collection, ie Book Club reviews, another idea?
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
# 19 Discovering Web 2.0 tools
# 18 Web-based Apps...
Joined "Zoho" and checked out Zoho writer (the results follow) and Zoho planner. Easy to switch between applications. With planner I would have to remember to log in each day. Have put in an appointment with reminder. It will be interesting to see how that works - must remember to check tomorrow!
The following was posted from Zoho Writer to my blog.
Well Zoho certainly looks really interesting - so many applications! Typing this has been fun. I love the idea of organising your documents under tags instead of folders, so much easier to find documents and get the most out of them.
Going to try and import a picture now.....
....mmm that didn't quite work. Imported a picture but went to a new document.
OK I've worked that out now. You have to 'insert' not 'import'!