I emailed Crystal and received the invite key....which worked to allow me to edit the wiki as per Thing 17. I worked on the Wikis page. After entering my 2 suggestions, I could not resist change the text size to all one size. Some was in large, some small, some x-small. I find that distracting. I changed it to all small so that it looks cohesive....and intentional... Hope that is ok. This is a great tool. Not as forbidding as I had imagined it..
However, that said, the line between wikis and Google docs is beginning to blur in my mind as both are tools for collaboration...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Week 9 Thing 21 Podcasts
The link to the Yahoo: What is a podcast? tutorial site does not work. There is a written description at http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/what-is-a-podcast.htm bu the author wants you to sign up to his newsletter. About.com also has a tutorial-http://radio.about.com/od/podcastin1/a/aa030805a.htm.
Podcast.net is also not loading.....however, podcastalley.com is....
The resulting 146 titles included:
1. The Library Survival Guide ...
Tips, shortcuts and techniques for library research from Woodruff Library at Emory University.
Now I need some help on how to download and play them......
Podcast.net is also not loading.....however, podcastalley.com is....
The resulting 146 titles included:
1. The Library Survival Guide ...
Tips, shortcuts and techniques for library research from Woodruff Library at Emory University.
Now I need some help on how to download and play them......
Week 9 Thing 20 Video sites
A search for library in Google videos brought up silent libary, quiet library, Mr. Bean, wine library TV, etc...a hodgepodge....You can sign up for a Google alert when new library videos have been added.
Week 9 Thing 20 YouTube
The YouTube for the monk learning to use the book was humorous...I have indeed heard myself say the same things about the computer when I was beginning...
The end of The Machine is Us/ing Us points out that we will need to rethink copyright, access, authorship, identity, commerce, etc.
User-based is the theme of the manifesto...moving forward...being willing to try and to modify...
March of the Librarians- re the ALA-a fun look at the conference..."noble creatures"...."possibly to mate"...tactics by vendors for luring unwitting librarians....."male librarians with fabulous facial plumage."...
The one that was supposed to be Jack O'Connell somehow became "Jesuit Trained: The Tin Whistle Duet"- oops!
I watched Super Librarian- a public library PR piece- from the New Jersey Libraries?- cute and attention getting....It was listed as related video on the sidebar when iwatched the suggested videos. The Adventures of Super Librarian was also a promo from a public library. Something like these could be used on the school television morning announcement show...The Library Ninja was able to silence the student swearing on a cell phone in the episode I watched. Then the ninja demonstrated how sometimes books are better than computers- for a crossword puzzle...
I Want to be a Librarian has some great songs....wish this had been around when I was in grad school.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1R4vxlGYtY. Here is a link for Marian the Librarian from the Music Man. I see the place under layout and settings to Edit HTML- but the only space given is the template...and I don't think I want to mess with that. I am open to further instructions for embedding the videos.....
The end of The Machine is Us/ing Us points out that we will need to rethink copyright, access, authorship, identity, commerce, etc.
User-based is the theme of the manifesto...moving forward...being willing to try and to modify...
March of the Librarians- re the ALA-a fun look at the conference..."noble creatures"...."possibly to mate"...tactics by vendors for luring unwitting librarians....."male librarians with fabulous facial plumage."...
The one that was supposed to be Jack O'Connell somehow became "Jesuit Trained: The Tin Whistle Duet"- oops!
I watched Super Librarian- a public library PR piece- from the New Jersey Libraries?- cute and attention getting....It was listed as related video on the sidebar when iwatched the suggested videos. The Adventures of Super Librarian was also a promo from a public library. Something like these could be used on the school television morning announcement show...The Library Ninja was able to silence the student swearing on a cell phone in the episode I watched. Then the ninja demonstrated how sometimes books are better than computers- for a crossword puzzle...
I Want to be a Librarian has some great songs....wish this had been around when I was in grad school.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1R4vxlGYtY. Here is a link for Marian the Librarian from the Music Man. I see the place under layout and settings to Edit HTML- but the only space given is the template...and I don't think I want to mess with that. I am open to further instructions for embedding the videos.....
Week 8 Thing 19 LibraryThing cont
Sorry- forgot the link- http://www.librarything.com/catalog/khomer. The site offers a blog, etc for students...Will have to see if this is blocked at the school.......
Week 8 Thing 19 LibraryThing
Library Thing is also amazing. At first I moved the radio button off Amazon.com to "690 other sources", to English, to US....but it didn't seem to make sense to pick a university when the top choice for records was amazon.com still, so I went back to that. I put in 5 titles from David Balducci that we have in our staff library. I see the bookcovers are pictured and the list forms quickly...
The Balducci books were pretty popular-1.031, 920, 921, 759, and 905 other members had them.....
So I clicked on a discussion under "talk" about Cliched Books by Teenage Book Nudgers....it was a bit immature, I thought, with back and forth about swearing and vampires and what to do with a book they did not like......doesn't really interest me to read these messages...Now I've found comments about the books in my list under "your books"...it tells which book and the username of the person who posted the message. This interests me...in fact, I read all the way through the zillion posts to one thread...."crime, thriller and mystery books- what are you reading?"
In the book talk section under "Topic- Pick a Game" they challenge each other to pick a book from a previous poster's library...etc.
This site is definitely a way to keep track of what you read and how you rate it. I could do this for audio books as I can't remember which ones I have checkked out of the library already.....
The Balducci books were pretty popular-1.031, 920, 921, 759, and 905 other members had them.....
So I clicked on a discussion under "talk" about Cliched Books by Teenage Book Nudgers....it was a bit immature, I thought, with back and forth about swearing and vampires and what to do with a book they did not like......doesn't really interest me to read these messages...Now I've found comments about the books in my list under "your books"...it tells which book and the username of the person who posted the message. This interests me...in fact, I read all the way through the zillion posts to one thread...."crime, thriller and mystery books- what are you reading?"
In the book talk section under "Topic- Pick a Game" they challenge each other to pick a book from a previous poster's library...etc.
This site is definitely a way to keep track of what you read and how you rate it. I could do this for audio books as I can't remember which ones I have checkked out of the library already.....
Week 8 Thing 18 cont.
Zoho Writer was easy and quasi miraculous in how it can find the blog and post to it...
Google Sites tutorial was interesting. Sites.google.com. I think the features were more intuitive in Zoho Writer, but I always need a lot of visual help.....Google Docs has a tool bar, but Zoho has a more extensive one...I like that.
Google Sites tutorial was interesting. Sites.google.com. I think the features were more intuitive in Zoho Writer, but I always need a lot of visual help.....Google Docs has a tool bar, but Zoho has a more extensive one...I like that.
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