After exploring the library apps that were suggested, I think that I like Library Thing the best. I signed up for an account, and added many books to it, including of course, several Star Wars books. I intend to investigate and play with this more. I looked at the others a little bit, but I could not get Guru Library to work.
I also enjoyed playing with Wikimapia. I found my house (I did not label it), but I did label the church that I attend, and I found several other schools and businesses near my house that had been labeled.
I enjoyed propsmart also. I think this would be very helpful in finding houses in a certain area.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Web 2.0
I thought that the Web 2.0 video was pretty cool. It went a little bit fast and was a little blurry and hard to read, but I enjoyed it.
I knew that OCLS had 2 presences on Myspace, since I work in the Children's Department and we have to update the teen myspace, and Spryte is one of our friends. We have many teens as our friends, and also many libraries. It's great to be able to network with these other libraries through myspace, and we are able to contact the teens that are our friends more easily than calling each one separately.
I knew we had videos on YouTube because I've heard other people talk about them. I had never searched for them before though, and it was interesting to look at the handful that did come up. I never really use YouTube. At home with my dial-up computer sites like You-Tube are incredibly slow.
I knew that OCLS had 2 presences on Myspace, since I work in the Children's Department and we have to update the teen myspace, and Spryte is one of our friends. We have many teens as our friends, and also many libraries. It's great to be able to network with these other libraries through myspace, and we are able to contact the teens that are our friends more easily than calling each one separately.
I knew we had videos on YouTube because I've heard other people talk about them. I had never searched for them before though, and it was interesting to look at the handful that did come up. I never really use YouTube. At home with my dial-up computer sites like You-Tube are incredibly slow.
Friday, May 4, 2007
RSS and Star Wars
For the RSS feeds, I selected the OCLS Kids & Teens feed as the one from OCLS. I also selected "Quotes of the Day," WOTmania-a Wheel of Time RSS feed, the official LOST Podcast, and (big shocker...) the official Star Wars RSS feed. I don't know that I'll actually have time to look at or keep up with any of them, which is why I haven't subscribed to any feeds on my own time. I barely take the time to read my personal email.
On the Grokker searching I searched for...you guessed it, Star Wars. :) It was pretty cool how the links were grouped under topics, which would usually make it easier. However, after looking in a couple of these categories, I could not find the official Star Wars website (www.starwars.com) in any of the categories, which I think should be one of the first results to come up. Most of the results seemed to be links to something in wikipedia, which I don't necessarily like as a source for finding factual information. The Map View feature would not work for me, so I guess I'll have to try it again later.
Learn 2.0 is working with my learning style. I completed my Master's Degree program completely online through USF, so I am used to learning things in this style. I am a "read it and try it" learner mostly, although in the job I like to see a demonstration of most things in order to learn them.
On the Grokker searching I searched for...you guessed it, Star Wars. :) It was pretty cool how the links were grouped under topics, which would usually make it easier. However, after looking in a couple of these categories, I could not find the official Star Wars website (www.starwars.com) in any of the categories, which I think should be one of the first results to come up. Most of the results seemed to be links to something in wikipedia, which I don't necessarily like as a source for finding factual information. The Map View feature would not work for me, so I guess I'll have to try it again later.
Learn 2.0 is working with my learning style. I completed my Master's Degree program completely online through USF, so I am used to learning things in this style. I am a "read it and try it" learner mostly, although in the job I like to see a demonstration of most things in order to learn them.
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