I have completed the survey. This can be done online and results are sent anonymously to Zoomerang web site. So your answers can only be seen by you. Just click on the word
SURVEY to complete.
If you have any trouble with the link- here is the web address. Cut and paste this address into your browser window.
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22956DUENR9
I really have enjoyed reading all the blogs. The DCPL has a great staff and your willingness to learn continues to astound me.
Thanks for being the first in Daviess County to participate.
I am trying to find a way to show my appreciation. If you can think of a way just blog it and I will get more ideas.
Thanks again, Alicia
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Week 9 COMING TO A CLOSE!
Don't let your excitement get the best of you. There are exercises this week. But they are easy.
Also don't get real worried if you have not completed every exercise. There are catch up weeks built into the program. Officially the program ends May 1st, 2009.
Some weeks we investigated 3 different 2.0 products and that has allowed us to post exercises in 9 weeks.
Discovery Resource:
Also don't get real worried if you have not completed every exercise. There are catch up weeks built into the program. Officially the program ends May 1st, 2009.
Some weeks we investigated 3 different 2.0 products and that has allowed us to post exercises in 9 weeks.
Discovery Resource:
- Library Myspace account
- Library Facebook account- requires you to have an account and log in.
Discovery Exercises:
- Visit the Library Myspace account.
- Browse what you find on the site.
- Blog about how the site could be used in marketing our services or books.
Next week you will recieve a survey via the department mailboxes. After you complete the program please fill out the survey and place in mailbox marked Alicia in the mailroom or the office.
Thanks for going on this journey of discovery. I have enjoyed myself, learned a whole bunch, been burnt out and found the light at the end of the tunnel. I hope you enjoyed yourself too.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Week 8 ! Podcasts, Video & Downloadable Audio
Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.
Follow the Instructions in the links and post accordingly.
Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.
Follow the Instructions in the links and post accordingly.
Learn to Podcast!
OPTIONAL! OPTIONAL! OPTIONAL!
So in your spare time you want to podcast? Here are some resources that will help you get started.
(Optional Resources for those who want to learn create podcasts)
Once you have done a podcast- you can post it to the DCPLSandbox Wiki. That way everyone can listen.
Podcasts, Smodcasts!
The word podcast is used to refer to 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.
In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 24 months, it's easy to see why.
Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries (like the ones used in this Learning 2.0 program) to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.
iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options.
For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your Bloglines account as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.
Discovery Resources:
To find out more about podcasts start with Podcastalley: What is a podcast tutorial
There are many, many podcast directories and finding tools out there. Here are just three of the more popular ones that, unlike iTunes, don't require a software download:
Discovery Exercise:
In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 24 months, it's easy to see why.
Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries (like the ones used in this Learning 2.0 program) to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.
iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options.
For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your Bloglines account as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.
Discovery Resources:
To find out more about podcasts start with Podcastalley: What is a podcast tutorial
There are many, many podcast directories and finding tools out there. Here are just three of the more popular ones that, unlike iTunes, don't require a software download:
Discovery Exercise:
- Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news.
- Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your Bloglines account.
- Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here?
OPTIONAL What? You want to learn how to be a podcaster too? Click Here!
You too can YouTube
Online video hosting sites have exploded allowing users to easily to upload and share videos on the web. Among all the web 2.0 players in this area, YouTube is currently top dog serving up over 1 million video views a day and allowing users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also embed clips into their own sites easily. Do some searching around YouTube yourself and see what the site has to offer. You'll find everything from 1970s TV commercials and 80's Music to library dominos and kids singing about bloopers here. Of course, like any free site you’ll also find a lot stuff not worth watching too. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explore and see for yourself what the site has too offer. :)
Other popular video hosting sites:
Yahoo Videos
Google videos
NOTE: Videos, like music downloads, are bandwidth hogs. It is recommended that you complete this exercise during light internet usage times. So I wouldn't recommend after 3 pm to try this exercise.
Discovery Exercise:
- Explore YouTube & find a video worth adding as an entry in your blog.
- Create a blog post about your experience. What did you like or dislike about the site and why did you choose the video that you did? Can you see any features or componets of the site that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites?
OPTIONAL: Try placing the video inside your blog using the copy and paste code for the for "Embeddable Player.” Note: you'll need to use Blogger's Edit HTML tab when pasting this code.
Other popular video hosting sites:
Yahoo Videos
Google videos
NOTE: Videos, like music downloads, are bandwidth hogs. It is recommended that you complete this exercise during light internet usage times. So I wouldn't recommend after 3 pm to try this exercise.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Week 7 & Del.icio.us, Technorati, and Library 2.0
You have 3 different things to accomplish this week. Have a Great Week!
I am way behind. So glad this is among friends.
What is this week all about??This week is a little bit deeper. So I have broken it down a little more. This week we will explore together. I don't feel comfortable with my knowledge of these things. We are getting close to the end. Only 3 more weeks after this. Be sure and visit the links to find your Discovery Resources and Discovery Exercises.
Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati Learn about tagging and discover a Del.icio.us (a social bookmarking site)
Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.
I am way behind. So glad this is among friends.
What is this week all about??This week is a little bit deeper. So I have broken it down a little more. This week we will explore together. I don't feel comfortable with my knowledge of these things. We are getting close to the end. Only 3 more weeks after this. Be sure and visit the links to find your Discovery Resources and Discovery Exercises.
Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati Learn about tagging and discover a Del.icio.us (a social bookmarking site)
Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Where do Libraries fall in Web 2.0?
Library 2.0 is term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivering library services. The name, as you may guess, is an extension of Web2.0 and shares many of its same philosophies and concepts including harnessing the user in both design and implementation of services, embracing constant change as a development cycle over the traditional notion of upgrades, and reworking library services to meet the users in their space, as opposed to ours (libraries).
Many have argued that the notion of Library 2.0 is more than just a term used to describe concepts that merely revolve around the use of technology; 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. Others within the profession have asserted that libraries have always been 2.0: collaborative, customer friendly and welcoming. But no matter which side of the debate proponents fall, both sides agree that libraries of tomorrow, even five or ten years from now, will look substantially different from libraries today.
Discovery Resources:
OCLC Next Space Newsletter – Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries?
Five Perspectives:
Many have argued that the notion of Library 2.0 is more than just a term used to describe concepts that merely revolve around the use of technology; 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. Others within the profession have asserted that libraries have always been 2.0: collaborative, customer friendly and welcoming. But no matter which side of the debate proponents fall, both sides agree that libraries of tomorrow, even five or ten years from now, will look substantially different from libraries today.
Discovery Resources:
OCLC Next Space Newsletter – Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries?
Five Perspectives:
- Away from Icebergs
- Into a new world of librarianship
- To more powerful ways to cooperate
- To better bibliographic services
- To a temporary place in time
Wikipedia – Library 2.0
Library 2.0 Discussions (list of great references from Wikipedia)
Discovery Exercise:
Read two or three of the perspectives on Library 2.0 from the list above. Create a blog post about your thoughts on any one of these? Library 2.0 - It's many things to many people. What does it mean to you?
Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries
Library 2.0 is term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivering library services. The name, as you may guess, is an extension of Web2.0 and shares many of its same philosophies and concepts including harnessing the user in both design and implementation of services, embracing constant change as a development cycle over the traditional notion of upgrades, and reworking library services to meet the users in their space, as opposed to ours (libraries).
Many have argued that the notion of Library 2.0 is more than just a term used to describe concepts that merely revolve around the use of technology; 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. Others within the profession have asserted that libraries have always been 2.0: collaborative, customer friendly and welcoming. But no matter which side of the debate proponents fall, both sides agree that libraries of tomorrow, even five or ten years from now, will look substantially different from libraries today.
Discovery Resources:
OCLC Next Space Newsletter – Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries?
Five Perspectives:
Away from Icebergs
Into a new world of librarianship
To more powerful ways to cooperate
To better bibliographic services
To a temporary place in timeWikipedia – Library 2.0Library 2.0 Discussions (list of great references from Wikipedia)
Away from Icebergs
Into a new world of librarianship
To more powerful ways to cooperate
To better bibliographic services
To a temporary place in timeWikipedia – Library 2.0Library 2.0 Discussions (list of great references from Wikipedia)
Discovery Exercise:
- Read two or three of the perspectives on Library 2.0 from the list above.
- Create a blog post about your thoughts on any one of these? Library 2.0 - It's many things to many people. What does it mean to you?
Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us
Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content (webpages, pictures & posts). Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines (i.e.Library of Congress subject headings), tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want.
In the past few weeks, we’ve already explored a few sites – Flicker and LibraryThing to name two --that allow users to take advantage of tagging. This week, in addition to exploring Technorati tagging, we want to also take at popular social bookmarking site called Del.icio.us (typed in as http://del.icio.us/).
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to categorize your bookmarks.
Many users find that the real power of Del.icio.us is in the social network aspect, which allows you to see how other users have tagged similar links and also discover other websites that may be of interest to you. You can think of it as peering into another users’ filing cabinet, but with this powerful bookmarking tool each user's filing cabinet helps to build an expansive knowledge network.For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a look at Del.icio.us and learn about this popular bookmarking tool.
Discovery Resources:
Otter Group Del.icio.us tutorial (8 min video) - Highly recommended!!!
Us.ef.ul: A beginners guide to Del.icio.us
Several Habits of wildly successful Del.icio.us users
Discovery Exercise:
View the 8 minute Del.icio.us tutorial to get a good overview of its features.
Take a look around Del.icio.us using the PLCMCL2 account that was created for this exercise. (We are using there account in the interest of time.)
Note: In this account you will find lots of resources that have been highlighted or used throughout the course of the Learning 2.0 program.
Explore the site options and try clicking on a bookmark that has also been bookmarked by a lot of other users. Can you see the comments they added about this bookmark or the tags that they used to categorize this reference?
Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool. Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere?
In the past few weeks, we’ve already explored a few sites – Flicker and LibraryThing to name two --that allow users to take advantage of tagging. This week, in addition to exploring Technorati tagging, we want to also take at popular social bookmarking site called Del.icio.us (typed in as http://del.icio.us/).
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to categorize your bookmarks.
Many users find that the real power of Del.icio.us is in the social network aspect, which allows you to see how other users have tagged similar links and also discover other websites that may be of interest to you. You can think of it as peering into another users’ filing cabinet, but with this powerful bookmarking tool each user's filing cabinet helps to build an expansive knowledge network.For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a look at Del.icio.us and learn about this popular bookmarking tool.
Discovery Resources:
Otter Group Del.icio.us tutorial (8 min video) - Highly recommended!!!
Us.ef.ul: A beginners guide to Del.icio.us
Several Habits of wildly successful Del.icio.us users
Discovery Exercise:
View the 8 minute Del.icio.us tutorial to get a good overview of its features.
Take a look around Del.icio.us using the PLCMCL2 account that was created for this exercise. (We are using there account in the interest of time.)
Note: In this account you will find lots of resources that have been highlighted or used throughout the course of the Learning 2.0 program.
Explore the site options and try clicking on a bookmark that has also been bookmarked by a lot of other users. Can you see the comments they added about this bookmark or the tags that they used to categorize this reference?
Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool. Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere?
Week 7 Del.icio.us, Technorati, and Library 2.0
I am way behind. So glad this is among friends.
Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.
What is this week all about??
This week is a little bit deeper. So I have broken it down a little more. This week we will explore together. I don't feel comfortable with my knowledge of these things. We are getting close to the end. Only 3 more weeks after this. Be sure and visit the links to find your Discovery Resources and Discovery Exercises.
Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.
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