Ok. I'm going to try this post again. My other post is wandering around in cyberspace somewhere where I can't quite conjure it up to send it. It got lost when I tried to preview it. Anyway, I viewed several YouTube selections including one on how to create video for YouTube, one on the Big Island of Hawaii and videos on how to shelve books among others. We'll see if I can successfully embed a video on how to shelve Library of Congress books once again. I can see using clips like this to train students and volunteers. They would be an improvement over the system we currently have and much more entertaining than my talking head. I could see loading how to use the library clips on a web site for staff as well as videos on how to search the electronic databases we subscribe to. Ok here goes a try at embedding again:
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Online Productivity Sites
I have played a little bit with several of the sites recommended by Learning 2.0 instructors. It was pretty easy to figure out how to post to a blog in Zoho. But Google Documents didn't seem so easy to figure out for posting to my blog. I had previously used Google Documents for the MLA sponsored Digging Deeper class and was pretty impressed with the features I used for that class.
I spent the most time playing with Snipshot. We have had occasion to take digital photos for going away celebrations and memory books and for library activities. Snipshot would have been very useful for cropping out store signs when we took a picture in front of our hospital sign for a retirement memory book.
30 Boxes looked like it could be fun to use also. But I use Outlook Calendar and Task features at work already. I don't see that 30 boxes would have many features I don't already have with Outlook calendar functions.
I think there are security and privacy concerns for all of the shared sites we have looked at. Those concerns crossed my mind last week as I requested an account for flickr and allowed flickr to communicate with my google account.
I spent the most time playing with Snipshot. We have had occasion to take digital photos for going away celebrations and memory books and for library activities. Snipshot would have been very useful for cropping out store signs when we took a picture in front of our hospital sign for a retirement memory book.
30 Boxes looked like it could be fun to use also. But I use Outlook Calendar and Task features at work already. I don't see that 30 boxes would have many features I don't already have with Outlook calendar functions.
I think there are security and privacy concerns for all of the shared sites we have looked at. Those concerns crossed my mind last week as I requested an account for flickr and allowed flickr to communicate with my google account.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Window Arch Moab Utah
Ok. After a couple of evenings trying to figure out where the Blog This tag was to send this to my blog, I have finally accidentally found it. I had given up and was going to copy and plaste the sucker into my blog. But when I clicked on the picture to copy it, up popped the Blog This tag along with a number of other options.
This photo of Window Arch was taken on a hike to Corona Arch in the Moab, Utah area. I am posting this because this is the time of year my thoughts turn to hiking in the desert around Moab where natural arches abound.
But back to Flicker. I have not played with any photo web sites. It was on my list to do. I am very impressed that Flicker can tell you when your photo was taken. Currently I have a project going to just arrange 40 years of home photos in choronological order as they are shifted from some old furniture to a new location with the arrival of new furniture. And it's a pain trying to guess the year the photos in unmarked envelopes were taken. So how wonderful to have dates identified at flickr as well as what camera took the photo. Amazing!
And I love the tagging aspect of flickr.
As far as library applications, I could see storing photos here for promotional brochures and digitizing historical photos of library interiors, etc.
By the way, if you would like to see a picture of Corona Arch, several photos are in the public domain on flickr. I haven't got mine uploaded just yet but there are some beauties already there.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
WIKIS
I'm not as familiar with WIKI's as I am with Delicious and RSS.
I can see an application for a WIKI though. Two other librarians from other facilities
in other states and I have been planning a poster for the MLA poster sessions in Honolulu. We have spent months having weekly conference calls and emailing our suggestions back and forth. We have each offered corrections to the work of others to make the submission a better quality product.
Messages from the two other participants have been misplaced in my voluminous emal inbox from time to time. Improving on the documents sent out becomes interesting at best after we have made numerous suggestions and changes. It's hard to track all the generation of changes. But a WIKI looks like it would improve that process.
And we have a bibliography we have created as a handout at the poster session. On a WIKI each of us could have edited and added to the bibliography without one person having to do all of the compilation of the bibliography
I can see an application for a WIKI though. Two other librarians from other facilities
in other states and I have been planning a poster for the MLA poster sessions in Honolulu. We have spent months having weekly conference calls and emailing our suggestions back and forth. We have each offered corrections to the work of others to make the submission a better quality product.
Messages from the two other participants have been misplaced in my voluminous emal inbox from time to time. Improving on the documents sent out becomes interesting at best after we have made numerous suggestions and changes. It's hard to track all the generation of changes. But a WIKI looks like it would improve that process.
And we have a bibliography we have created as a handout at the poster session. On a WIKI each of us could have edited and added to the bibliography without one person having to do all of the compilation of the bibliography
Friday, March 6, 2009
RSS and Delicious
I have listened to one hour sessions on RSS feeds at least three different times since last May. But I had not followed through, set up a reader and signed up for feeds. I have now set up a Google Reader and signed up for three feeds. It was easy to do both.
I tried using the Google Reader search box to search for RSS feeds. I didn't have much luck. But I am impressed with the Ebling Library's list of RSS feeds listed on their web site. I did select a Medscape feed from their list as well as a couple of NLM RSS feeds.
Now I need to learn much more about how to manage the feeds once they are on Google Reader. The Medscape feed has a large number of postings.
I found another use for Delicious this week. I have been running between about four computers to get my assignments done since the computer in my office is heavily restricted. I had been forwarding the Learning 2.0 assignment email to my home email several times a week to access the links on public access computers in the library as well as my home computer. But now I have the link on Delicious. And voila, it appears whenever I call it up on Delicious from any computer.
I tried using the Google Reader search box to search for RSS feeds. I didn't have much luck. But I am impressed with the Ebling Library's list of RSS feeds listed on their web site. I did select a Medscape feed from their list as well as a couple of NLM RSS feeds.
Now I need to learn much more about how to manage the feeds once they are on Google Reader. The Medscape feed has a large number of postings.
I found another use for Delicious this week. I have been running between about four computers to get my assignments done since the computer in my office is heavily restricted. I had been forwarding the Learning 2.0 assignment email to my home email several times a week to access the links on public access computers in the library as well as my home computer. But now I have the link on Delicious. And voila, it appears whenever I call it up on Delicious from any computer.
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