Week 10 : final mashup

I just loved "big huge labs", how creative and it's all online and free...no programs. I like so much on this site and could see plenty of potential for using it with in the library, both online with the displayed through the web site i.e. mosaic's would be a great of displaying past activities/events of the library or used as a tool to help within our role, ie the name badges could be a nice presentation for clubs, i.e. children's summer club, children's reading club or book club.

So I had a good play and could have played a lot longer!!!. I made a calendar of my daughters ballet class, but had trouble finding one of my own photos that would fit into the calendar with out heads being chopped off and decided that a portrait photo was not a good idea as it cropped the photo to much and a landscape style photo worked best.

Mashups

I enjoyed this one as well. especially the Google Maps on London. I would see a huge potential in the local history area. For example: a walk around the local area with historical points of interest, this could not only be of interest to locals but also historians who are researching from around the world...being able to get a visual incite to where or how there ancestors may have lived.

Week 9 : Podcasts

Podcasting- "Content on demand" ... I like it and are waiting desperately for my uni to extend their podcasting to include lectures.

Mmmm I think the opportunities are endless in how a library can use podcasting

• children's story time
• author talks
• book club
• lectures
• library news

Introductions to:

• library services
• library tours

How to:

• use the catalogue
• use the databases
• techniques for using search engines
• tips on evaluating web sites

For staff:

• training
• meetings ( for staff who were unable to attend)
• newsletters

Week 8 : Answer boards

I like the idea of answer boards and think they would work well for HSC students or any student really, especially being able to get instant responses when they need them. And with not having the face to face contact which can sometimes be intimidating, users may be inclined to ask more questions or question that they would other wise not ask freely.

However I was disappointed that the librarians didn't seem to bother to tag their responses...perhaps they found it to time consuming? however if they took the time it would be useful.

Week 7: Technorati

I found different results for each search in both keyword and advance searches. I even managed to find 1 result for nswpln2008.
However I was not successful in leaving a comment on the nswpln2008 blog page. What was doing wrong?

Week 7: Del.icio.us

Interesting... delicious is great, it could work well as a research assistance, finding web sites and online material. A useful tool in libraries, great for helping users to seek the information required, fulfilling their needs. Even good for teachers who want to supply their students or parents with links to useful educational sites.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I can't seem to put a link onto my blog for my delicious account.


Ok I think I finally have help.... on Creation's blog I found the following "The way to set up link to my del.icio.us bookmarking account in this post is as follows: go to del.icio.us, sign in your account, go to help and go to a guide to sharing bookmarks, got to Linkrolls , then copy the above HTML code from there and paste in your blog post(in Edit Html window)"

Here is my Link My del.icio.us

Week 6: Videos

Ah, loved this...I've used youtube before but not Google video. This could be useful the library web page with videos of author talks, or even workshops/training to help HSC students with report writing, how to write essays, tips for studying or ways to relieve stress while studying for HSC.
Here goes to see if I can embed a video into my blog. A month or so ago I was unable to do it and just left a link to a video I enjoyed.




I have finally done it....Yahoo...I'm happy with my results

it's been a while

It has been a while since I have posted to my blog, although I have slowly been progressing through the weeks, I had forgotten my password for my blog and was only able to log on from home. But with uni and family commitments that has been rather impossible. I'm hoping to post as must as possible in the next few days...to hopefully catch up!