Podcasts

The podcast I chose was the one that I actually did for RCPL on our mail machine. I figured this is of interest to me. Podcasts are actually pretty easy to do and have good information in a short amount of time. I do have to thank my cameraman Travis for all his help (especially not getting me in any of the shots!!!)

YouTube

I LOVE Cookie Monster. I kinda like YouTube. I find that several of the videos posted will start and stop lots of times and it's really hard to watch them. I usually get annoyed and just stop watching. I have had lots of people send me links to different videos and most are pretty good. I haven't really done alot of looking on my own to see what I can find. I did search "library" and wow, there's alot of videos out there about libraries. Who'da thunk it? I do find that when I do a search on something that I tend to get off track by the other tags associated with the one I was looking at. Such as when I found this Cookie Monster/library video, there were lots of other Sesame Street videos that I found myself wanting to look at. But remembering that I was on work time stopped me from doing this. Or did it?!?!

Web 2.0 tools

I looked over several of the awarded sites and discovered most of them were sites that we have already worked with. So I went to other sites that our patrons probably wouldn't be asking about so much. Such as Acroplay, a site for games. Granted, one game I tried out only had instructions in Korean, I still was able to figure it out, sort of. From that site, you can find different game sites. Most of the sites I've noticed you can find other sites of similar topics. That's the great thing about the web, you find one site and from there you can access thousands of sites featuring the same topic. The information is limitless.

Kittycat

Okay, so here I am trying to figure out this new tool, Zoho. So far it seems as if it's alot like Word. I'll need to play more, but so far so good.

The above is a document from ZOHO. I was actually able to send it to my blog correctly. Yea for me. (I am currently editing this post as so I don't have to create a new one for the same topic) It seems as though part of the picture was cut off. I'm sure there's a way to crop that so it would fit properly. Something I will have to look into in the future. I don't personally have a use for this site currently, but that could certainly change in the near future.

wiki whati?

I can see good uses for wikis. The one set up by RCPL's Public Services is a great example. The help that they can give each other by updating information already there is a plus. If one person has posted a topic, someone else can come along and say yes, but try this too. I don't like the way Wikipedia is set up. Too much false information can get published when anyone can add to a posted topic. How can you be sure the information is truthful? People tend to believe everything they read, with this type of format lots of false information gets out. Hopefully one can distinguish between the truth and lies.

Web 2.0

In this excercise we were to read some articles about web 2.0 and blog. In the article "Away from Icebergs" the author thinks that the book collection is becoming obsolete as more people are using the web to get their information. I think this is very untrue and became agitated by his remarks. Until I saw that he works in an academic library (UNR: Go Wolves!!!). With that information it makes sense as more students are using the web to gather their resources when researching a project. In the public library arena, I don't see this happening. There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and a blankie. Curling up with a laptop just doesn't cut it. I believe the general public will always want the paper copy, something they can hold. Many schools make their students get books as research materials, not allowing them to use only the web. This is good. People shouldn't forget the humble beginnings of learning.

Technorati

This is a fairly neat site. But there are so many tags associated with with so many different sites that it's hard to weed through alot of the stuff. Some of the tags that people use I find are pretty worthless. Just my opinion. Maybe if I have more time later on I can look into it better and see what the advantages are.