Week 11 & 12: Online Applications & Social Networking

Loved the Online applications...just what I needed to learn about. This can be used at work to share documents in progress ie newsletters. I can use it at home as well especially PDF.
Social networking has changed the way we share information and communicate with one another.
A great marketing tool for libraries, customers can be updated on resources or services from the comfort of their own home or office at their leisure.

Loved my Journey....

I can't believe that I'm finally here...I have finished...it has been a bit of a challenge. I work part-time, have a young family and uni commitments, so it is a good feeling to finally be here. It did take more than the 15 minutes per day and I needed a note book to keep track of all my user names and passwords for various site, but I thoroughly enjoyed very moment of the the journey!

Week 5 : Wiki's

I thought I had finished, but have just looked over my blog and realised that I have not added my thoughts on wiki's. My first introduction into contributing to a wiki and I just loved it.. I have never been game enough to contribute before though. I have used wikipedia before and thought it was very informative and liked it, I use it often for my assignments to get an understand of something that I'm unsure about.
I liked the book lovers wiki, what an interesting concept, this could be quite useful in our library with staff and clients adding to it. I have just contributed for the first time to my uni wiki that has been set up for a study visit. It is fantastic that we can all share our thoughts and photos online. I have been won over... I now love wiki's...

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.