Apr
10
test of paul rausch video
April 10, 2008 | Comments Off
Here
Mar
26
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Mar
20
Adding direct links in SIRSI
March 20, 2008 | Comments Off
From Susan - I thought I’d share with you one way to link directly to our titles from posts in case you ever want to link from a blog post so people can check the status and location in real-time: http://sirsi.fairfield.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X/0/0/5/?searchdata1=1933456000. You just put the URL http://sirsi.fairfield.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/X/0/0/5/?searchdata1= and then the ISBN.
Mar
12
National Library week - Julie Andrews test
March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Here is a PSA done by Julie Andrews celebrating National Library week
Feb
25
Comic test
February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Feb
8
Wrapping Up - #23
February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment
Banned Books Week Banner
Originally uploaded by DML East Branch, through their Flickr account
I think the best part of the project was that people from many different departments participated. I enjoyed reading other people’s blog.
I do think I learned many new technical skiils. I think the program is particularly powerful because it includes 23 things, not just one. This has helped me to alter the way I think in general about social networking and gives me more confidence with technology tools.
I have tried to apply what I have learned in practical applications. I have added quite a few new things to the DNL Report and I am pleased about that. I think the DNL is a more robust blog now, and I have way more confidence about WordPress blog software.
One way this program may have affected my learning goals is that it reminded me that to grow (in any profession) you need to spend time every day learning via experimenentation or reading professional journals or just bouncing ideas off colleagues.
I would like to participate in another program similar to this in the future.
Feb
8
Pass it on - #22
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This task motivated me to talk with Jin about the DNL blog and how she can participate in it. I made her a contributing author to that blog. We talked about some of the things she needs to know to make blog entries on this Wordpress software hosted at CNS. I was able to share with her some of the things I learned doing the 23 Things blog as relates to the DNL Report blog, such as
1. Posting images- use Flickr or another online picture hosting software (Jin suggested Google Pics as well) to post a picture to the DNL Report. Because this blog is hosted on a CNS server, the picture either needs to be stored online or it needs to be sent to CNS to be loaded on their server
2. I showed her the YouTube postings I put up on my own blog (not the DNL Report) and told her my blog has tips on how to do things in Wordpress blogs.
3. I showed her how to include tagging and also the tag cloud.
4. We did a test posting together which included linking to a website,selecting a category, tagging and also included a link to audio.
I really enjoyed working with Jin on this. It helped me to clarify my own thoughts and pull some seemingly disparate items together.
Feb
8
Web Based applications- #18
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Google docs and spreadsheetts are so cool- especially when you have a bunch of peole collaborating on a single document. I am strongly encouraging my ALA library cmte, where our members are scattered around the countrym to use google docs to aid our work. I did try it on campus here with a cmte I was on outside the library. It was not a great success. I expect the reason why is that people did not want to learn a new software and have a new account for just this one cmte alone.
I already have a google docs and spreadsheet account, so I tried Zoho. I tried sending this posting from ZOHO to my blog many times but was unable to. I wonder why? I tried the directiosn for publising to a custom server and still no luck.
The editing bar in ZOHO seem ssuperior to Google Docs, with more features.
I did not find the ZOHO planner very helpful. Too Clunky. I prefer Outlook.
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I inserted this picture using the ZOHO inster image icon on the toolbar. I already had the image on my C drive
Feb
8
PB Wiki - #17
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I found this interesting on the PB Wiki site _ “Why use a wiki instead of a blog or forum? _ Blogs are great for one-to-many communication, such as one person writing about personal finance.Forums are good for letting many users ask questions and letting many people answer. Wikis are excellent for collaboration. If you want to let students collaborate, add files, suggest links, and create a document that’s comprehensive and up-to-date, use a wiki.”
I put a posting on the PLCMC wiki about one of my favorite movies and I also added a link to my blog.
I find the wiki software kinda clunky. I prefer blogging software or WYSWYG html editors for webpages.
Jackie
Feb
8
Podcasts #21
February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment
Podcast alley - I foind it a very easy to sue tool for finding podcasts
Yahoo Podcasts - not as helpful
Podcast,net was down when I tried to use it
NPR - I love Story Corps - I listen to it on the radio. Here is a podcast of Judith Wilson, an african American woman, discussing the books that changed her life. http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510200/18246730/npr_18246730.mp3
This may make an intersting post for the DNL Report—-
Add a audio or video podcast to your presentation!
A podcast is a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. Most podcasts can be played directly on your computer, since podcasts use the MP3 file format.
There are many ways to find a podcast that will work for your presentation. Here are just three of the more popular directories that, unlike iTunes, don’t require a software download:
* Podcast.net
* Podcastalley.com
* Yahoo Podcasts