Week 7 Podcasting and YouTube

This is way too fun! Sorry but after looking at library podcasts they just were not as interesting as those I heard on gardening or quilting. I finally decided on NPR's daily story and subscribed. I will have to think about what I might put up on a hospital library podcast that doesn't just go for the novelty of the technology or an amateur garage mike. Don't ask me why but I was a bit surprised about the quantity and constant sex "postings". Just seemed to be constantly tripping over it when looking for so many other things.

I haven't been into YouTube much until now. No wonder people have the impression that "everything" in on the web! I remembered a posting about "Dude, that's a lama" and so went searching. My favorite DePauw segment was with the librarian (hope this works)

Anyway, I sent the lama clip to my daughter's Facebook page. I did post a quilting lesson to my own Facebook page.
There is so much creative freedom and amateur productions I will really have to think through what I would like to put up! This lesson not only opens doors but opens windows too!

Week 6 Photos

Alright, you all thought this was going to be an easy week! Like so many of my quilt pattern that tell you it will be easy but then tell you to cut out two hundred 2 in squares. My husband is the one with the digital camera so it took a bit to get the basics and actually take some pictures. I learned a bit about Photobucket and have managed to put up the pictures you see here on my blog and quilt photos on my Facebook account as well. I will admit I had the overwhelming urge to finish hand stitching one more Celtic knot on the Irish chain quilt before posting to this blog.

How does this relate to my hospital library? Well, I do have photos on my intranet library page but none of these tools were used so it wasn't web 2.0 was it? I still want to do a digitization project with my archives but that will also take more time than I anticipated. Just having a basic understanding of what we had to do in this lesson does help. I will keep practicing. Putting the binding on the Road to the Mountains quilt will have to wait until after MLA or I'll never get my last two assignments done!

Irish chain

Road to the Mountains

Week 5 Web office tools

Okay, now I am officially overloaded! I'm too overwhelmed after looking at google docs, zoho and workspace to even give a constructive comparison. Who knew! I will have go look at the comments for the week to see if someone has already asked what may be an obvious question - What is the advantage of using one of the office document sharing services rather than a wiki or vice-a-versa? Having read the article by Chase I am now all ready to have my daughter post her papers that she would like me to edit on my new Google Docs account! When I think of the time I might save next semester!

I'm still not too sure I'll ever use Linkeden but this I can see using!

Week 4 Social bookmarking

Okay, this one I really love! I can really see using del.icio.us at the library. The tagging is so interesting from one person to the next as it really gives you ideas for directions you might want to take your pages. I may also have to take Funk's suggestion of using Flock. (The Flock page isn't looking as overwhelming as it might have a few weeks ago.) Back to bookmarking - right now my page is full of quilting sites and I'm surprised someone else has already linked to a few of the patterns. Quite addicting it all is. I can see I'll have to put all this together for the library but how to keep up?! Yes, I know the answer, my rss feeds and links!

Week 3: Social networking

Alright, so my daughter thought it was a creative April Fools joke when I created a bogus account on Facebook and asked to be her "friend". She blocked me I am glad to say. It was really fascinating to read her web page on Facebook. It would really take me a bit of time to get that up to speed. I am now even more interested in the segment that we will be doing now that I have groups that want a picture of me. Denver's teen page on MySpace is really appropriate to their clientele and I have been wondering really how successful having such a page would be for a hospital library. As a solo librarian, I fear the time commitment but I wonder if I could start small with our current web page. How far could I go with our IS department? Possibilities are starting to formulate. I can see that I would like to continue interacting with other class members after we are done with the course to see what changes they have made in their services or delivery.

Webcast about Web 2.0

I should have posted this on the MLA blogg but I was too focused on my homework. . .
This afternoon there was a webinar from the Chief Learning Officer magazine entitled " Future of Learning: Everything You Wanted to Know about Web 2.0". Perhaps it is because of our MLA class that I found it was just touching the surface of social network but the points made about new technology and the new learner were very interesting. I'm interested in the description that "learning is flat" with the web which refers to peer to peer rather than from the teacher down to student. It seems that social networking is the new group project learning I did way back when. So interesting to see different social institutions approach to the concept of Web 2.0. Everyone seem to be struggling to involve the individual and the web in the process.