I was having a look see in Flickr for ideas for displays and bulletin boards and came across the following images. Just need to get the imagination into gear.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22library+displays%22&page=2
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Web writing
Having a blog makes it easy to pass on helpful tips. I came across these web sites which look at making web sites senior friendly and thought since our population is aging some of the information might be generally useful.
http://www.nia.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/FF9E472A-8363-4EA0-848E-5AFA56502ECE/12338/Sr_Web_tips_forweb_final_032509.pdf
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/checklist.pdf
http://www.nia.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/FF9E472A-8363-4EA0-848E-5AFA56502ECE/12338/Sr_Web_tips_forweb_final_032509.pdf
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/checklist.pdf
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Reflection
What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
All of it really. Looking back over this blog I am quite pleased to see it (my first ever blog) develop from nothing because I knew nothing to what it is now. I had heard the words, blog, widget, RSS but until I did the exercise I couldn't even have told you what RSS meant or what a widget is. The latter was a challenge that eluded me. I just couldn't get a widget to download to my blog from the 'minis' link.
Did get to use the Blogs gadgets and add pics and an RSS feed to the free library. Piccasa was fun as were the videos though I have got to admit having done all this on my dial up connection has been slow going. I wonder too about copyright when so much is downloadable and transferable to blogs and different authorship?
I now have a face book page and have a few friends linked in. My thoughts on social networking....Penny mentioned the word paranoid in one of her posts. Quite rightly I think. There are some major issues with privacy and the naive among us make it easy for those people with evil intent to access, use then abuse information given in good faith. I think young people are at greater risk primarilly because of the greater social networking they engage in coupled with their need to belong and lack of worldly experience.
I wonder if there are Blog bullies out there, like text bullies? I suppose there are given the ability to make comments on people's posts? What sort of world do we live in?
On the plus side carefully managed, Facebook and My Space etc are great fun and much more than simple email can offer. Privacy is the biggest concern but then the other night on TV there was a documentart on the Number of CCTV cameras up in cities around the world, including ours....I was left wondering if one can actually pee without prying eyes!!!!! Hundreds of CCTV watch us daily, angels or demons over our shoulders I wonder?
How has this programme assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
It hasn't made me want to swing into an IT career but it has opened my eyes and broadened my repitoire of skills, understanding and interest in technology.
Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this programme that surprised you?
I now have a Blog, Piccasa on my home computer, a face book page,, a Zoho account, a yahoo email and a flickr account!!!!! None of which I had before I started so I guess you could say I've got some take aways. I'll probably keep them to..now I know about them and how to use them. Thats a turn around because at the end of this tutorial I was initially going to delete it all.
What could we do differently to improve upon this programme’s format or concept?
I found it easy to follow, easy to use (except the widget minis link - couldn't get that to work at all) and enjoyable if not time consuming. It has taken a lot of my spare time to complete this. Perhaps future tutorials could be half as long then I wouldn't feel like I was giving up quite so much spare, (really home and leisure), time to complete them. Which kind of answers your last question....It has been fun and YES I'd do more.
All of it really. Looking back over this blog I am quite pleased to see it (my first ever blog) develop from nothing because I knew nothing to what it is now. I had heard the words, blog, widget, RSS but until I did the exercise I couldn't even have told you what RSS meant or what a widget is. The latter was a challenge that eluded me. I just couldn't get a widget to download to my blog from the 'minis' link.
Did get to use the Blogs gadgets and add pics and an RSS feed to the free library. Piccasa was fun as were the videos though I have got to admit having done all this on my dial up connection has been slow going. I wonder too about copyright when so much is downloadable and transferable to blogs and different authorship?
I now have a face book page and have a few friends linked in. My thoughts on social networking....Penny mentioned the word paranoid in one of her posts. Quite rightly I think. There are some major issues with privacy and the naive among us make it easy for those people with evil intent to access, use then abuse information given in good faith. I think young people are at greater risk primarilly because of the greater social networking they engage in coupled with their need to belong and lack of worldly experience.
I wonder if there are Blog bullies out there, like text bullies? I suppose there are given the ability to make comments on people's posts? What sort of world do we live in?
On the plus side carefully managed, Facebook and My Space etc are great fun and much more than simple email can offer. Privacy is the biggest concern but then the other night on TV there was a documentart on the Number of CCTV cameras up in cities around the world, including ours....I was left wondering if one can actually pee without prying eyes!!!!! Hundreds of CCTV watch us daily, angels or demons over our shoulders I wonder?
How has this programme assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
It hasn't made me want to swing into an IT career but it has opened my eyes and broadened my repitoire of skills, understanding and interest in technology.
Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this programme that surprised you?
I now have a Blog, Piccasa on my home computer, a face book page,, a Zoho account, a yahoo email and a flickr account!!!!! None of which I had before I started so I guess you could say I've got some take aways. I'll probably keep them to..now I know about them and how to use them. Thats a turn around because at the end of this tutorial I was initially going to delete it all.
What could we do differently to improve upon this programme’s format or concept?
I found it easy to follow, easy to use (except the widget minis link - couldn't get that to work at all) and enjoyable if not time consuming. It has taken a lot of my spare time to complete this. Perhaps future tutorials could be half as long then I wouldn't feel like I was giving up quite so much spare, (really home and leisure), time to complete them. Which kind of answers your last question....It has been fun and YES I'd do more.
RSS feed from the free library
Added a RSS feed which takes you to the http://www.thefreelibrary.com From here a veritable treasure trove of information is at your finger tips.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Widgets be damned
I tried adding a Youtube and a Fortune widget...Don't know where they went. Followed the directions and the messages on screen said they had been added and to go to my blog to see them live.....couldn't find them. I did add an RSS feed from the Herald but decided it was a bit boring so deleted it. Will search for a better one. Using the Picture gadget added the shelving picture. It was a mixed bag of IT successes tonight.
Friday, July 3, 2009
First Zoho effort
Well here I am with yet another account. Note to self... My user name for the Zoho account is
the same as my Yahoo account. This is a cool set of tools. It means that all sorts of documents can be created independently of the computer they were saved on. It means all the work done via this program is accessible anywhere there is Internet. Man cyberspace must be awfully cluttered with documents, pictures, spreadsheets, reports, bloggs etc etc etc. As we rely more and more on the metaphorical big all knowing computer in the sky to store our information, I hope it never goes down... I wonder what it all means and where it will end? "42" perhaps? The great all knowing computer is just as slippery and hard to get a grasp of as the fish this kitten is after.
the same as my Yahoo account. This is a cool set of tools. It means that all sorts of documents can be created independently of the computer they were saved on. It means all the work done via this program is accessible anywhere there is Internet. Man cyberspace must be awfully cluttered with documents, pictures, spreadsheets, reports, bloggs etc etc etc. As we rely more and more on the metaphorical big all knowing computer in the sky to store our information, I hope it never goes down... I wonder what it all means and where it will end? "42" perhaps? The great all knowing computer is just as slippery and hard to get a grasp of as the fish this kitten is after.
Blogger Help solved my problem
Blogger help is really useful... If all else fails the old maxim about reading the manual is the way to go. Here are the links to a couple of the sites which I found interesting and which won awards.
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/
http://www.cocktailbuilder.com/
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/
http://www.cocktailbuilder.com/
Answering comments
Daaa!! I finally browsed back through my previous posts to see if I had any comments. Jen asked me to make the two sites I looked at and assessed way back on the Web 2.0 revisited week links...here goes
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/
http://www.cocktailbuilder.com/
Well this is my third try and I am doing something wrong, probably something simple because I can't get these sites to be a simple click and link.
I have found out that if you highlight the address and then right click on it, then click the option allowing google to search for the address it is "nearly" a link. A couple of click off!?? Will keep working on this.
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/
http://www.cocktailbuilder.com/
Well this is my third try and I am doing something wrong, probably something simple because I can't get these sites to be a simple click and link.
I have found out that if you highlight the address and then right click on it, then click the option allowing google to search for the address it is "nearly" a link. A couple of click off!?? Will keep working on this.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wikis
The article about how libraries could use Wikis was mind blowing really. Another example of what can be done if only we embrace and encourage our imaginations. The Whangarei 2CU site would be ideal for a Wiki, continually updated/edited by the community, recent relevant and local services always at ones finger tips. Indeed the concept of a 'community' Wiki or several with different focus, is very appealing. Social services, recreational events, support groups, sporting clubs etc could all be involved in putting information onto a Wiki that the whole community can acces, edit, update and refresh. A true feeling of community and community endeavour, all for one and one for all, that lets face it has been sadly lacking over recent years.
I thought the idea of subject guides was something the library could use. We have subject headings into which new items can be added and commented on. Book, CD, DVD and other media reviews are another option for adding into subject guides, or on their own. Since the Wiki doesn't belong to one writer but to all who contribute, barring some oversight to prevent chaos, anyone could write a review and make comments. Other users could come along and add their thoughts via the edit tool. This is done to some degree on online shopping sites like MightyApe (you can earn banana points which have financial value if you review a product). I don't know whether we'd want to reward users as such. Their reward could be in the pleasure of having their say..the social reward of being listened to.
I'm not too up on how you go about setting up this sort of technology but it does seem that the options are numerous. I'm not a technophobe but I'm also no wizard at this IT stuff but am a firm believer in, "if you can think it then it is only a matter of time before it happens."
I thought the idea of subject guides was something the library could use. We have subject headings into which new items can be added and commented on. Book, CD, DVD and other media reviews are another option for adding into subject guides, or on their own. Since the Wiki doesn't belong to one writer but to all who contribute, barring some oversight to prevent chaos, anyone could write a review and make comments. Other users could come along and add their thoughts via the edit tool. This is done to some degree on online shopping sites like MightyApe (you can earn banana points which have financial value if you review a product). I don't know whether we'd want to reward users as such. Their reward could be in the pleasure of having their say..the social reward of being listened to.
I'm not too up on how you go about setting up this sort of technology but it does seem that the options are numerous. I'm not a technophobe but I'm also no wizard at this IT stuff but am a firm believer in, "if you can think it then it is only a matter of time before it happens."
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