Podcasting & Online Hosted Video lesson

A perfect example of a YouTube video for our MLA online CE class on Web 2.0 is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=q_uOKFhoznI [Building Academic Library 2.0]. It is a good example of a library using a tool to make information readily available to more than those who were able to attend the presentation.

The YouTube video summarizing the presentations by Crutchfield and Miller from the OCLC 2008 Midwinter symposium is fascinating and worth a listen. Here's the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Is0BYCTeh_M
My Director forwarded it to the professional staff from the AAHSL listserv.

I found the podcasting interesting (when I could finally listen to something! The internet was incredibly slow (either that or the sites/selections I wanted to listen to were very, very busy!)

I can see using the podcasting as a way to do short demos/instructions for various features/items on a library's website and it would be easier than learning a more complicated piece of software. (such as Camtasia, etc).

Photo sharing using Flickr

Well, this is a picture from June 2007; from my 30th high school reunion...ouch!

This was a fun assignment. I already had an account with Flickr, so I just added a few more pictures for this assignment. I added some from my high school reunion last year; and then used Flickr's edit tool to crop one to just me so I could have a picture for my Facebook account.

That was interesting experiment as I learned how to upload, and then share my own images. Using a photo sharing site such as Flickr is certainly easier and more effective/efficient when you wish to share a lot of pictures from an event with others who were there.

Week 5 Web Office Tools

Well, I've created a document, uploaded a couple spreadsheets, and as I type Google is trying to digest my "presentation" (two slides with images and it seems to be having indigestion or it can't gobble what I want!)

Don't know about this being the future of ALL software, but having used them for Chapter committee work I can certainly see the advantages of using them for that purpose. Do to the slow load time I'm experiencing with the presentation piece, I'm going to guess it may not be the best option. The spreadsheet upload and document creation went quite well so I'm guessing it may have to do with size, but who knows!

I already had been using Google docs because our Chapter's Honors & Awards committee used it last year (Bart Ragon was our Chair and he started us on them). Having been asked to take over as committee Chair for the 2007-08 year, I am carrying on with this use. We have a spreadsheet with assignments and time line and a couple of letters. We will probably add some other items as we create them this year. The committee still needs to do an article for the June newsletter, and solicit member nominations for our annual awards (we used Survey Monkey last year to great success for nominations).

Week 3 -- del.icio.us

Wow, what a powerful tool. The availablity of my favorite websites at a login? No matter where I am? Too cool! I can see using this for work! It will be very helpful for me when I'm in a consult and wish to share a website with a patron. One of the best features for me is the ability to load bookmarks something I've done(even if it does expose my secrets :) ). I expecially wanted to upload the journal websites I've bookmarked in the course of some work I'm doing for Administration. This will be a nice safe guard against losing all the work that has gone on to find some of them over the course of year!