Thursday, September 2, 2010
Comment on PicApp Exercise
I remember attempting to put pictures on the Blog last year and I had some sucesses and some failures! You can see aloong my blogtrail various images which don't display properly! With a little help from my friend Tosca, I have found a a cool photo from a long way back. I decided to type in Youth Library to see whether there were any cool pics but there were only 2!!! Very disappointing! Anyway I liked this one because it reminds me of days gone by when libraries were very "traditional" and I imagine that these young ladies would have had to whisper! I also had a luagh because the caption said that the girls were filling out a survey - not so different from today afterall!!!
Another question I have about PicAppc is whether the caption should be showing on my post?
I found the exercise useful as I know that many people want to put pictures on their social networking sites and I am sure that I will have a question at some stage from one of our library patrons about this in the future. I will keep my instructions in easy reach for that day.... I think that this application could have some use for people who want to get overseas images for homework tasks. From my experience, most students use Google images for their projects. Our library currently provides great local photos on our website for students e.g footprints. There are also some great photos available on teara.net.nz
I may visit this site again in the future from time to time when I conduct Reference interviews. Meanwhile I may practise with a few more images to "pretty up" my blog!
Jesus Freak!
Another question I have about PicAppc is whether the caption should be showing on my post?
I found the exercise useful as I know that many people want to put pictures on their social networking sites and I am sure that I will have a question at some stage from one of our library patrons about this in the future. I will keep my instructions in easy reach for that day.... I think that this application could have some use for people who want to get overseas images for homework tasks. From my experience, most students use Google images for their projects. Our library currently provides great local photos on our website for students e.g footprints. There are also some great photos available on teara.net.nz
I may visit this site again in the future from time to time when I conduct Reference interviews. Meanwhile I may practise with a few more images to "pretty up" my blog!
Jesus Freak!
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Tastespotting....ummmm!
Tosca was right when she said that you need to have eaten recently, before visiting this site! Dominoes came to my rescue - but after looking at all the beautifully presented gastronomical delights, the pizza leaves me rather discontented!
What recipe did I choose.....(drumroll) "Chocolate Fudge Pudding" - Of course! I did have a quick squiz at a cheesecake/brownie recipe, but when I looked at the ingredients - my excitement quickly exited! Lots of ingredients that I doubted I could buy at the local supermarket :(
The Chocolate Fudge Pudding that I selected, incidentally, was one of Jamie Oliver's first recipes! Cool! I like Jamie Oliver and what he is trying to promote - home cooking with everyday ingredients that we can afford!
The site was pretty easily to use. You could spend a long time on that site and I supspect that many of the recipes have overseas ingredients - so you may find that annoying after a while. I am not sure whether I would use it again so I have subscribed to the site using "Feed my Inbox" so I can continue to see if I want to use this site over the next few months.
I don't mind looking at sites that are non work-related as a lot of the people I mix with enjoy cooking, and it is good to be able to share the "good recipes" with them - especially if they have a computer and the time to check the sites that I recommend to them!
What did I get out of Tastespotting? A beautiful cook book that I don't have to pay for!
A BIENTOT!
Jesus Freak
What recipe did I choose.....(drumroll) "Chocolate Fudge Pudding" - Of course! I did have a quick squiz at a cheesecake/brownie recipe, but when I looked at the ingredients - my excitement quickly exited! Lots of ingredients that I doubted I could buy at the local supermarket :(
The Chocolate Fudge Pudding that I selected, incidentally, was one of Jamie Oliver's first recipes! Cool! I like Jamie Oliver and what he is trying to promote - home cooking with everyday ingredients that we can afford!
The site was pretty easily to use. You could spend a long time on that site and I supspect that many of the recipes have overseas ingredients - so you may find that annoying after a while. I am not sure whether I would use it again so I have subscribed to the site using "Feed my Inbox" so I can continue to see if I want to use this site over the next few months.
I don't mind looking at sites that are non work-related as a lot of the people I mix with enjoy cooking, and it is good to be able to share the "good recipes" with them - especially if they have a computer and the time to check the sites that I recommend to them!
What did I get out of Tastespotting? A beautiful cook book that I don't have to pay for!
A BIENTOT!
Jesus Freak
Web 2.02 - Feedmyinbox
This was a straight forward task and the dvd was easy to understand and execute - easier that picapps! I have left that until I can talk to some-one who has had some success in copying the image into their blog!
I added several feeds to my inbox - Youtube/CNN and Christchurch City Library. I chose this library because they have a better teen site than most of the others in the recommended list - apart from Manukau City libraries! :-)
I woudl probably use the site again if there was a site that I wanted to keep up with. I did try some other sites like amazon.com and ebay.com and BBC News, but I didn't have any success with those sites. Perhaps they aren't set up for feeds??
I am not sure if there would be too many opportunities to recommend this site to our patrons, but it may be worthwhile to suggest it to teachers or parents who may like to subscribe to news sites or blogs. Personally I get enough email that I don't really want too much other stuff coming into my email. When I did the RSS feeds exercise last year I got so much info coming in that I couldn't keep up with it and I deleted the feeds after 6 months!
I guess it will probably be a similar experience this time around as well!
Ciao!
Jesus Freak
I added several feeds to my inbox - Youtube/CNN and Christchurch City Library. I chose this library because they have a better teen site than most of the others in the recommended list - apart from Manukau City libraries! :-)
I woudl probably use the site again if there was a site that I wanted to keep up with. I did try some other sites like amazon.com and ebay.com and BBC News, but I didn't have any success with those sites. Perhaps they aren't set up for feeds??
I am not sure if there would be too many opportunities to recommend this site to our patrons, but it may be worthwhile to suggest it to teachers or parents who may like to subscribe to news sites or blogs. Personally I get enough email that I don't really want too much other stuff coming into my email. When I did the RSS feeds exercise last year I got so much info coming in that I couldn't keep up with it and I deleted the feeds after 6 months!
I guess it will probably be a similar experience this time around as well!
Ciao!
Jesus Freak
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Web 2.0 - Part 2
Box.net - Online Storage
I found this site useful and I have used it. I created an account and I have invited members of the church's Worship Team to join so we can share the lyrics and chords of the songs that we are learning as a team.
In view of it's application in the library context - it would be great for many of the different teams e.g Y.A Librarians and Children's Librarians in terms of sharing activities amongst ourselves for our teen clubs to created a shared "group" resource. At the moment we can do this via N Drive - but this would be another way in which we can share information as well.
Would I recommend it to library patrons - absolutely!
Catch you again soon!
Jesus Freak!
I found this site useful and I have used it. I created an account and I have invited members of the church's Worship Team to join so we can share the lyrics and chords of the songs that we are learning as a team.
In view of it's application in the library context - it would be great for many of the different teams e.g Y.A Librarians and Children's Librarians in terms of sharing activities amongst ourselves for our teen clubs to created a shared "group" resource. At the moment we can do this via N Drive - but this would be another way in which we can share information as well.
Would I recommend it to library patrons - absolutely!
Catch you again soon!
Jesus Freak!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Finishing Web 2.0
Well, I have taken a little while to sign of the last part of Lesson 6 - only because I really wanted to explore another library site to see what they do with FaceBook. I thought that I would check out Christchurch City Libraries to see what features they have on their website. I noticed that they have a Library blog for customers to use to commmunicate to other patrons about the books they have read or anything that may be of interest to people who use this site.
They also provide patrons with the opportunity to download Audiobooks - a feature that I know that we will be adding to the new Auckland Library website.
They had a link to Flick on their website and on their Home Page they had a "category Cloud" which is a great tool to interact and engage with anyone who may be wanting to find a quick way to navigate your way around their website.
At the bottom of their Teen's Page I noticed that they had a link to MAXOS Music so the web designers have thought about the types of links that Young Adults would use.
Patrons could submit feedback info such as the NZ Post Book Awards "Have your say" on the website.
I didn't see any shortcut link to "Facebook" or "Twitter" like we now have on our website.
When answering the question, "What would our customers get out of Facebook?" I am sure that they would appreciate the opportunity to be able to connect with people "online", view their photos, and participate in various "gimmicky" tasks such as Farnyard and Treasure Island. I am of the opinion that these types of activities are for people who have too much time on their hands, or don't have a life!
Rarely do our library customers ask for Facebook. They are more interested in using Bebo. Personally I prefer Facebook to Bebo. I like the layout of the site better and I find it a place where there are more people I know to connect with.
Twitter is also good as you can "follow people" and when people add stuff, you can instantly pick up from where you left off last time. On T.V recently they likened Twitter to a postcard becuase 140 characters are about the smae number of characters that you would be able to reaslisticallt fit on a postcard - good analogy!
"What can Facebook do for us as a public library?" Good question and I am stiull trying to figue that one out. It really is just like and email but you can limit who you want to hear from, because you have to be "invited" to become a friend on Facebook to communicate!
At the moment it is free to use Facebook so if we have the opportunity to have a conversation to some-one who has not yet started this "social networking buzz, then this would be the better way to go. Having a shortcut to FACEBOOK, hopefully our patrons will find it much easier to access a social networking site and they may even convert from using Bebo! I believe that having FACEBOOK on our Computer Desktop also assists in re-inforcing that libraries are still at the cutting edge of "forefront" of the new computer age. If we are using the site regularly, as librarians, then we will also be more likely to promote the benefits of Facebook to our patrons.
I also thought that the tags "Community Services", "Business", "Learning" were a really good idea. Again the designers had thought about the different types of "patrons" using the site, and provided quick links to useful websites to suit these users.
Well that's about all I can think of at this point in time. It's getting late and it's time for my final "sign out!"
Until next time......
Jesus Freak
They also provide patrons with the opportunity to download Audiobooks - a feature that I know that we will be adding to the new Auckland Library website.
They had a link to Flick on their website and on their Home Page they had a "category Cloud" which is a great tool to interact and engage with anyone who may be wanting to find a quick way to navigate your way around their website.
At the bottom of their Teen's Page I noticed that they had a link to MAXOS Music so the web designers have thought about the types of links that Young Adults would use.
Patrons could submit feedback info such as the NZ Post Book Awards "Have your say" on the website.
I didn't see any shortcut link to "Facebook" or "Twitter" like we now have on our website.
When answering the question, "What would our customers get out of Facebook?" I am sure that they would appreciate the opportunity to be able to connect with people "online", view their photos, and participate in various "gimmicky" tasks such as Farnyard and Treasure Island. I am of the opinion that these types of activities are for people who have too much time on their hands, or don't have a life!
Rarely do our library customers ask for Facebook. They are more interested in using Bebo. Personally I prefer Facebook to Bebo. I like the layout of the site better and I find it a place where there are more people I know to connect with.
Twitter is also good as you can "follow people" and when people add stuff, you can instantly pick up from where you left off last time. On T.V recently they likened Twitter to a postcard becuase 140 characters are about the smae number of characters that you would be able to reaslisticallt fit on a postcard - good analogy!
"What can Facebook do for us as a public library?" Good question and I am stiull trying to figue that one out. It really is just like and email but you can limit who you want to hear from, because you have to be "invited" to become a friend on Facebook to communicate!
At the moment it is free to use Facebook so if we have the opportunity to have a conversation to some-one who has not yet started this "social networking buzz, then this would be the better way to go. Having a shortcut to FACEBOOK, hopefully our patrons will find it much easier to access a social networking site and they may even convert from using Bebo! I believe that having FACEBOOK on our Computer Desktop also assists in re-inforcing that libraries are still at the cutting edge of "forefront" of the new computer age. If we are using the site regularly, as librarians, then we will also be more likely to promote the benefits of Facebook to our patrons.
I also thought that the tags "Community Services", "Business", "Learning" were a really good idea. Again the designers had thought about the different types of "patrons" using the site, and provided quick links to useful websites to suit these users.
Well that's about all I can think of at this point in time. It's getting late and it's time for my final "sign out!"
Until next time......
Jesus Freak
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