Beverly's HPL blog

Thing 23 - Final Thoughts on Web 2.0

2009-01-18T15:55:00.003-06:00

I enjoyed learning about Web 2.0. I hope to go back to a number of these to use and hope that we will be able to incorporate something in our web site. I hope to use and explore more of: Delicious, Blogger, maybe LibraryThing and some of the "Best of Web 2.0." I am still trying to figure out the usefulness of Twitter. (for me) The only thing I didn't like was all the accounts to keep track of. I can't see any work-around for that. I enjoyed this and probably would participate in another discovery program. The thought of winning a MP3 player is a bonus.

Thing 22 - Podcasts

2009-01-17T16:18:00.004-06:00

I subscribed to a podcast about music and the BookTalk podcast. I was worried about this one but actually found it to be quite easy. Again there are a lot of options out there. It was also good to explore the sites for searching for podcasts. I have previously subscribed to podcasts through ITunes but never had time to go back to watch them. So then I unsubscribed, oh well. Maybe someday there will be "time enough." (See Thing 21.) Sometime I'll have to check out the link about creating podcasts.

Thing 21 part 3

2009-01-17T11:58:00.001-06:00

I couldn't help myself.

Thing 21 part 2

2009-01-14T20:49:00.003-06:00

I also have to share the video of my son playing his rockin guitar.

Thing 21 - YouTube

2009-01-14T20:39:00.003-06:00

I've already looked at YouTube. In fact I have an account! Lots of fun videos. I was looking for the classic Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last" with Burgess Meridith as Mr Beamis. (Time for what you might ask?) This is the best that I could come up with.
Libraries could post instructional videos, virtual tours and highlight events on their websites and on YouTube.

Thing #20 - Discovering Web 2.0 tools

2009-01-13T12:53:00.005-06:00

I really enjoyed looking at all of the possibilities here. I actually looked at several of these.
I've heard a lot about craigslist and it was listed in the Classifieds and Directories section. Last Friday a patron was in asking for help with craigslist. So I took a look around the site and listings. I think that it is used a lot in metropolitan areas. My son found a job using craigslist. The "best-of-craigslist" link was hillarious.
I bookmarked the Web 2.0 Awards list so that I can go back to it and try some more sites.

Thing #19 part 2 - Forms test

2009-01-06T12:09:00.006-06:00

Thing 19 - Web Applications

2009-01-06T11:55:00.001-06:00

Thing 18 - PB Wiki

2009-01-02T17:46:00.004-06:00

It was fun to play around with the "FAV" wikis. I added to the restaurants and vacations spots. These also could be used for book reviews and comments about things like library events. So much to consider. I thought the video that showed using a wiki to plan a camping trip was a good example.

Thing # 17 - Wikis

2008-12-19T17:25:00.003-06:00

The hardest thing is trying to figure out how to apply these technologies. The library has a good book on the use of wikis, rss and more for educators it's called: RSS for educators: blogs, newsfeeds, podcasts, and wikis in the classroom by John Hendron. I have really enjoyed the Commoncraft videos on youtube. These have been very helpful.

Thing #16 - Library 2.0 | Web 2.0

2008-12-19T14:57:00.004-06:00

I read about Library 2.0 quite awhile ago but never took the time to really learn about it or Web 2.0. I think it is not hard for librarys and librarians to apply the concepts of Library 2.0 or Web 2.0 because they have always strived to to accomodate changes, to keep up with the latest technologies, and they always want to involve community.

Thing 15 - SlideShare

2008-12-12T15:18:00.005-06:00

SlideShare is interesting, lots of presentations to look through. Most of the Powerpoint presentations I was interested in seemed to be not as interesting without a presenter narrating them. My SlideShare page: http://www.slideshare.net/beverlyjw1978 I don't have anything that I personally have created.

Thing 14 - Delicious

2008-12-03T12:28:00.003-06:00

I have always struggled with the "links" page from our web site. How to evaluate them? Which ones to add? Our links list is so long. See: http://www.hastings.lib.ne.us/links.html Delicious might be a good way to organize them and I like the tagging concept. It might also make sense to link to another library's Delicious account who has reference staff that have knowledge in evaluating web sites? I also wonder about others being able to add links to your list. I need to explore this more. I would like to add a Delicious account to the library's site.

Thing 13 - Twitter

2008-11-24T12:44:00.002-06:00

I tried out Twitter. My screen name is beverlyjw1978. I would not use Twitter to actually let people know what I am doing or my thoughts at the moment. But I could see a use if you had a group and wanted to contact everyone quickly. Your group ofcourse would have to be logged on to their twitter account. I am following 4 people from NLC and have 1 follower. I tried the direct message, a reply, and the tiny url. I got an "error on page" message when I was trying the direct reply. I think this application is interesting once you get beyond the thought that this is used to microblog to let people know "what you are doing".

Thing 12: LibraryThing

2008-11-15T12:04:00.007-06:00

I have looked at LibraryThing before. We have a link to it on our web site. I was just trying to figure out what I would use it for??? As a list of my favorite books? A list of books I want to read? Or maybe a catalog of books I own. Anyway I did look around and added 5 titles. I then found a spot where you can add a library and events. I added our library and some of our library events to LibraryThings' events postings. I also need to add a picture of the HPL building. Here is my LibraryThing profile. http://www.librarything.com/profile/beverlyjw1978 Here is my bookshelf http://www.librarything.com/catalog/beverlyjw1978

Thing 11 - Blog about Technology

2008-11-11T20:39:00.003-06:00

My voki talks about technology
This link will take you to my voki and away from my blog. Please return to leave a comment.

"Technology has changed everything from the way we keep in touch to the way we do business. It's great when things are working and frustrating when they're not."-BW

Thing 10 - Image Generators

2008-11-10T12:17:00.003-06:00

I played with MagMyPic and made a magazine cover and also FD's Flicker Toys. I used the BigHudgeLab Warholizer and made some pop art. Here's some applications that you can have some fun with and get carried away with.

Flicker Web applications & 3rd party tools - Thing 9

2008-11-07T16:41:00.002-06:00

There is so much on these lists that it's overwhelming. Lots of fun applications. I used "Spell with Flicker" to spell my name. It will be fun to play with some more of these apps.

Thing 8 - Flicker

2008-11-07T16:24:00.003-06:00

Flicker seems like an interesting technology that would be good for personal use. Maybe the library might use it to post photos from events??? I didn't really look for an interesting photo. I searched for "Husker" and came up with a lot of pictures. Surprised? http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=huskers

Finding Feeds

2008-11-07T14:14:00.002-06:00

It would be helpful to use one of these search engines if I there was something that I wanted to find. I tried a few searches and I didn't really find much that I wanted to subscribe to. I will come back to this in the future.

RSS

2008-10-28T13:48:00.003-05:00

I've always been interested in this technology. I'm glad that I had the opportunity through this training to learn about RSS and subscribing to blogs and news feeds.

Thing 5: Instant Messaging

2008-10-14T11:47:00.002-05:00

I was a little confused by this one. I was able to follow the instructions and add contacts but after that I didn't know what to do. I think that I just expected my contact to start chatting with me and couldn't figure out how to initiate the chat. Then finally I saw the little box on the bottom and was chatting with 2 people simultaneously. Wow I feel like a teenager. My contact name for gmail googletalk is beverlyjww.

7 1/2 habits of successful lifelong learners

2008-10-08T16:04:00.003-05:00

The hardest habit for me to achieve might be #4 to

"Have confidence in yourself as a competent,effective learner."

because I don't have a lot of confidence in myself.

The easiest habit is #6

"Use technology to your advantage."

because I like to use and learn new technologies.

It's been awhile

2008-10-08T12:30:00.002-05:00

I guess I set this blog up in 2007. I'm glad I can go back to it.

Don't make me think

2007-05-22T14:17:00.000-05:00

Don't make me think! a common sense approach to web usabiltiy by Steve Krug. 2nd Ed c. 2006 New Riders Press. This is a great book that gets to the point. If you need to get up to speed on web usability quickly this is the book for you. Find it at the Hastings Public Library