Feb
25
Comic test
February 25, 2008 | 11 Comments
Feb
8
Wrapping Up - #23
February 8, 2008 | 21 Comments
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 | 22 Comments
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 | 12 Comments
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 | 25 Comments
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 | 17 Comments
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
Feb
5
WIKIs - # 16
February 5, 2008 | 19 Comments
I was intrigued by the Ohio University Library’s Business Wiki.
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_Page
The most interesting aspect for me is that students and faculty can add to the wiki. Unfortunately to do so, students need to sugn up and request an account from a librarian (due to spam issues). From my perspective this diminishes its usefulness.
For professional development - Library Success is a great wiki. http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page. In some ways, it is too bad that WIKIs are now requiring logins to deter Spam - note on Library Success wiki………
“Update! Because of vandalism problems, e-mail confirmation is now required. Please enter your e-mail address when you create an account and you will be sent a link to confirm your address (after which you will be able to edit the wiki).”
The reference wiki is a great success. It’s main contribution is that it allows us to search through our notes to help answer reference questions which have been asked in the past.
Feb
4
You Tube Revolution # 20
February 4, 2008 | 4,007 Comments
Is there a You Tube revolution? I thought I’d explore YouTube and its possible power for political campaigns.
You Tube has a Face the Candidates link on the bottom of their homepage http://www.youtube.com/youchoose. Very interestingly, a quick look at the hits on videos for Democrats is huge versus the Republicans. You can click on the links by subject (Energy, Iraq, Health Care, etc.) and see YouTube videos put up by each candidate about their stand on an issue. Example - John McCain on the war.
Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY
Has over 698,000 hits as of right now - 12:30 on 2/4/08.
Great YouTube video about how to embed YouTube videos into wordpress. It’s easy if you turn off th e WYSIWYG editor in the Users/ Profiles section.
Feb
2
Award winning sites - #19
February 2, 2008 | 10 Comments
Thsi is a great awards site. http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/short
I tried cocktail builder. No great shakes- pun intended.
I use Google maps all the time now. I like it much better than Mapquest and Yahoo maps.
I also use Last.fm quite a bit already.
Color Builder may be useful when I’m struggling to get the right html coding for a color.
http://www.peertrainer.com/ I had never heard of this site. It’s fascinating to think people are connecting online and supporting each other in getting healthy- without paying an intermediate service.
I tried Craig’s list for the first time. Very cool! I would definitely look there if I needed something from the classifieds.
Feb
2
Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 - #15
February 2, 2008 | 11 Comments
The sentence “it also a term that can be used to describe both physical and mindset changes that are occurring within libraries to make our spaces and services more user-centric and inviting.” really resonated with me.
In the AWAY FROM THE ICEBERG’S article, I was particularly intrigued by “The “just in case” collection Crazy as this may sound, the time has come for us to look skeptically at the very idea of a library “collection.” Building a comprehensive collection of materials that anticipates the user’s every need (without providing wastefully where no need exists) has always been problematic, but it was an approach that made sense when information was available only in print formats, and was therefore difficult, expensive and slow to distribute. But it no longer makes sense to collect information products as if they were hard to get. ” So often we are concerned with keeping the collection, preserving the collection where maybe we shoudl focus our attention on expanding our reach to the world’s knowledge and how we can connect our users to it.
I also was impressed with the rural Michigan article called the Ripple Effect where the librarian said, “The earliest and most significant first step to making this happen was our focus on using our interlibrary loan service (ILL) and providing access to a variety of databases. On the first teacher day in the fall of 1992, all 100 teachers, administrators and student were told two things: “that they would have access to all the resources in the world’s libraries” and “if you or your students need it, we will get it for you…period.”
My definition of Library 2.0- harnessing technology to connect our community with knowledge, ideas and each other.