WEEK 9

WEEK 9
October 3 – 10

YouTube

I explored YouTube and posted to my blog two of my favorite videos: an award-winning Argentinean commercial and a famous Spanish singer performance. It was very easy to post the videos. All you have to do is click on the video to download, and then right hand click on Share Video, Send To, Blog This Page, and it will link it to your Blogger.

A good way to apply the YouTube technology to the library world would be to tape a teen meeting or event, and upload the video to YouTube. Teens love technology and social networking, so this would be a very interesting way to encourage their participation and involvement in library activities.


Podcasts

I explored Podcast.net, searched for “libraries” and accessed The Library Channel. The Library Channel covers News, Information, and Announcements at Arizona State University Libraries. You can join staff, students, and friends in lectures, roundtable discussions, announcements and tips in the latest trends for research libraries.

Then I added a podcast that will appear in the Podcast.net directory after a approval process. Topics of interest in my podcast include: Art, Society and Culture, news in French language, and Storytelling.


NetLibrary

I established a Netlibrary account by accessing Netlibrary through the PLCMC site. Then I accessed NetLibrary directly at http://netlibrary.com , and explored some eAudiobooks. I located “Friends, Lovers, Chocolate: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery” by McCall Smith, Alexander that I will download when I am on vacation and have more time to enjoy it.

Wow! I’m done!! I’ve reached the 23rd thing!!!

Reflections on my learning journey:

• What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
To be able to create my blog.

• How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
It is self directed and the key is self motivation and perseverance.

• Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
Many things surprised me, for good. I hated to have to create so many accounts, remember user IDs and passwords. But it is worth while. I learned a lot. It is a mind opener.

• What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?
Probably, have more time to be able to better share and interact with my fellow Web 2.0 learners.

• If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you again chose to participate?
No. I learned a lot, but it is very, extremely time consuming. I was constantly stressed out to reach dates and respond to my commitments.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Web 2.0 Social Software for Teens

I am taking this training on social softwares and how they can be used in the library to increase teen customer's attendance to library services and programs.

This class complements our experience with Web 2.0 Learning 23 things.

We are introduced to MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga, blogs, avatars and the virtual world.

Highly recommended!

Diana

Week 8: Online Applications & Tools

I took a look at some online productivity tools.
I visited Google Docs, and decided to explore Zoho Writer.

It's great to be able to create and share your work online, and collaborate on presentations.

Zoho Writer is an online Word Processor. You can use this tool to write, share, collaborate, create documents, edit them your way, and share with anyone.

• I had to create an account with Zoho
• I created a document
• I shared my new document with myself at my SDCL account in Outlook
• I gave myself permission to read/write, because this will allow me to open the document from my SDCL account and edit it. It is good to know that you can change your mind anc cancel sharing.
• I exported my document as a Word document and it immediately opend from my SDCL profile.

This means I can access my drive from any computer, from any part of the world. I think it functions in a similar way to Plone (from SJSU) where you can keep all your projects and papers in electronic format, organize them, and make them available across the Web for faculty, other students, and prospective employers.

Week 7 - September 19 to 26

I took a look at some library wikis and blogs. I checked a few examples to get started: SJCPL Subject Guides, Library Success: A best practices wiki, and further explored Book Lovers Wiki..
I am now creating a blog post about my findings.
Book Lovers wiki from Princeton Public Library is very informative. It has a list of FAQ about this wiki and our Book Lovers Summer Reading Club, a review of diverse genres, a collaborative and recognition page for wiki contributors.
The Pbwiki community can actively interact, post blogs. Booklovers need to log in with a password to proceed. You can also log in with your PBwiki Identity. Well, I had to create an account, another one!!!! That’s what I paid for being curious and and wanting to experiment with posting to this wiki. I could create my PB wiki. To be totally honest, I did not create my wiki. I got some experience with creating and editing a wiki in my Information Retrieval class in MLIS school, where we created a wiki of the most current search engines.
This was a good enough learning experience.

Cheers!

Diana

September 12 - 19, 2007

What I learned this week:

I took a great idea from Elizabeth McKenty, and posted a list of fellow bloggers to my blog page. The good part is that I could "copy and paste" from her blog page on to mine! This list is very useful because you just click on any of the names, and are taken right to their blog page!

I feel I am, perhaps not in the very formal order required by the contract, learning so many things! I now feel very comfortable posting new messages, checking other people blogs, even signing up to mine and remebering my user ID and password. Practice makes perfection.

Now I have to work on a rss feed so I am "notified" when the new content is posted.

Diana