I couldn't access podcast.net and podcastalley.com caused such problems for Internet Explorer that Windows Task Manager couldn't even end the non-responding programs. I forged ahead, like the Web 2.0 pioneer that I've become... I set up my Odeo account, and subscribed to an NPR Sports Channel , I think it's called Not just a game, anyway, I listened to a very interesting podcast about Kelso, The Horse of Gold.
I then explored YouTube. I found the frenetic video from U Penn which I put on this blog. And I checked out a few personal topics. Yes, the word horse was typed, I cannot tell a lie.
I would love to make videos for YouTube that we could use for training in our library system. Not that we don't like these face to face, or phone to phone meetings, but I think some very cool, like Lee LeFever's on the Common Craft show, and catchy videos could get the points across in a fun and memorable way. This, of course, is not going to happen anytime soon - still with the firewalls. Of all the new technologies that I've explored in this class so far, I think these videos have the greatest potential for library use. And I thank you for gently encouraging me to explore more... Bart, if you read this, you really saved your video this week with the Star Wars Pez dispensers - see? fun and memorable - thanks
Podcasting in my library isn't going to happen any sooner than videos, but I can see how useful they can be. The lecture series from the Claude Moore HSLibrary can be accessed over and over again by listeners around the globe. That's a good thing.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Week 6 - Online photo sharing
Well, the photo speaks for itself. I managed to get it onto my blog and onto facebook. tada! I think flickr is neat, but I see no future for it in my library as it operates now - that firewall is bigger than ever.
My daughter and my nephews seem to use the photo capabilities of Facebook more than anything else. I can't speak to the long term viability of such a choice.
I figure I'm doing good if I get the few photos I do take from the camera card to my hard drive, and then into some sort of order. I handle photos sort of like I handled gardening - good at planting, not so good at harvesting. I'm too busy riding...
My daughter and my nephews seem to use the photo capabilities of Facebook more than anything else. I can't speak to the long term viability of such a choice.
I figure I'm doing good if I get the few photos I do take from the camera card to my hard drive, and then into some sort of order. I handle photos sort of like I handled gardening - good at planting, not so good at harvesting. I'm too busy riding...
J & L
Another class assignment. Add a photo from flickr to my blog. Here it is. What a fun evening that was!
Monday, April 14, 2008
Week 5 - Web Office Tools
I just spent way too much time on Step #7, trying to publish my Google Docs document on my blog. I tried quite a few times, checking settings, etc. Ran the test button, it said the settings appeared to be correct, but no posting appeared. Sigh.
I don't think these products will be the future of office tools. They will have their place, but they won't totally replace standard PC office suites. Certainly not in institutions like mine - firewalls again. I can't even peruse these new tools without being on VPN. Don't see the powers that be dumping Office anytime soon for web based products. It's good that I now have some familiarity with these, so that I can at least appear somewhat knowledgeable when clientele arrive with questions.
At home, for myself, it may pay to investigate further, find the program I like best, and then start using it. I have no great love of nor loyalty to Microsoft, so I might give Zoho or Webex a whirl. For sure, I'm not going to bother with Google Docs, I just had a brainstorm, well, more like a brain twitter, but I thought I'd try to post to my blog from Zoho. Yeah, that took about 15 seconds, and success was mine!!!! Over and out for Week 5. Week 6, here I come.
I don't think these products will be the future of office tools. They will have their place, but they won't totally replace standard PC office suites. Certainly not in institutions like mine - firewalls again. I can't even peruse these new tools without being on VPN. Don't see the powers that be dumping Office anytime soon for web based products. It's good that I now have some familiarity with these, so that I can at least appear somewhat knowledgeable when clientele arrive with questions.
At home, for myself, it may pay to investigate further, find the program I like best, and then start using it. I have no great love of nor loyalty to Microsoft, so I might give Zoho or Webex a whirl. For sure, I'm not going to bother with Google Docs, I just had a brainstorm, well, more like a brain twitter, but I thought I'd try to post to my blog from Zoho. Yeah, that took about 15 seconds, and success was mine!!!! Over and out for Week 5. Week 6, here I come.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Week 4 - Social bookmarking
I've been using del.icio.us for awhile now, so I was happy that this week's assignment was pretty much done when I received it in my e-mail. As you can see, from the date of this post, I'm still behind with the assignments, and I was pretty much done when I started. Go figure. Blogging takes time, and I have precious little of that where I work. We have nitty gritty things to do here like literature searches, Docline, regular library maintenance, statistical record keeping (wow, has that mushroomed!), and more... Okay, enough whining.
I was thrilled to find del.icio.us because it meant having all my bookmarks available to me at all times from any PC. And I have to work in 6, count them, 6 different library locations. Plus home, if I ever feel like booting up. And, there's that added bonus of setting up bundles for friends or bosses or colleagues so when you come across something you think they'd really like to read, you can stick it there, and they can find it. No one has taken me up on that yet...
My library recently transferred all of its cool and useful (well, we think they're cool and useful) links to del.icio.us accounts and put them up for our patrons perusal. The transfer is going to make our lives as web tenders so much easier. Adding new items, and editing are soooo easy in delicious (are they going to get rid of these dumb periods????) as opposed to what we used to have to do in Content Management. I say amen.
Research assistance. Oh, yeah. That's a no-brainer. Click, add your stuff, bundle away, and then search for your stuff if necessary. Connotea I guess would be the way to go for scientists, but delicious would work, too.
I was thrilled to find del.icio.us because it meant having all my bookmarks available to me at all times from any PC. And I have to work in 6, count them, 6 different library locations. Plus home, if I ever feel like booting up. And, there's that added bonus of setting up bundles for friends or bosses or colleagues so when you come across something you think they'd really like to read, you can stick it there, and they can find it. No one has taken me up on that yet...
My library recently transferred all of its cool and useful (well, we think they're cool and useful) links to del.icio.us accounts and put them up for our patrons perusal. The transfer is going to make our lives as web tenders so much easier. Adding new items, and editing are soooo easy in delicious (are they going to get rid of these dumb periods????) as opposed to what we used to have to do in Content Management. I say amen.
Research assistance. Oh, yeah. That's a no-brainer. Click, add your stuff, bundle away, and then search for your stuff if necessary. Connotea I guess would be the way to go for scientists, but delicious would work, too.
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