Thursday, May 28, 2009

Week 12 - Wrap up

I agree with RRRiverina Ruby

I don't believe that the common courtesies of face to face communication will ever be replaced by online social networking. However, I can see the applications for the workplace.

Week 11 - On line applications and tools

I created a document and shared it with three collaborators.

I also collaborated on two other documents, editing slide shows and I downloaded an image.

I could use Google Docs widely in my workplace with my colleagues in the branch libraries and look forward to exploring more free tools online.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Week 10 - Mashups

I made this picture using bead art. The possibilities are endless!!!!

The sites I looked at in this module were amazing.

Mashups would be useful for making promotional material eg. book marks.

Week 8 - Answer board and social searching

Answer Boards are a great idea, particulary for students who can't find answers to difficult questions.
I enjoyed looking at the Taste website. My husband does all the cooking in our family - so he knows about this site now!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Week 9 - Podcasts and Audio

I was unable to download the podcasts for this module.
I think the library would find it useful for staff training/inservice and conducting library tours. Meetings could also be recorded for staff in other branches to access.

Week 7 - Tagging, folksonomies, del.icio.us and LibraryThing

Unable to attempt LibraryThing, it was blocked by the council website.
Del.iou.us is a social bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people and see what other people are bookmarking.
Libraries save bookmarks to a central location and classify them all with tags. I viewed Sutherland Shire Library tag cloud and Clevland Public library tags. Also searched the Riverina Regional Library site.
I did get a different number of hits inTechnorati when I searched for "bookmobile" in the standard and advanced searchs.

Week 6 - Videos online

It was really interesting to explore all the sites in this activity - it opened a whole new world for me!!!
Video could be used throughout our library for showing exhibitions, recording oral histories, book reviews and guides to using library services.