I like YouTube a lot. So far I only have 2 videos of my own on there, admittedly not very interesting, but I plan to put more up soon. Really! I foresee video podcasts on Taekwondo (I'm a brown belt and assistant instructor), and flying (I'm a student pilot, check back soon for news of my flight test!).
I've even used YouTube for reference in the library. Somebody wanted to know what "Capoeira" was. Turns out it's a form of martial art/dance/acrobatics that started in Brazil, and is now spreading across the globe. Here's a video:
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Thing #19 Discover any site from the Web 2.0 awards list
I'm investigating Google Apps. I'm very impressed, but waiting for the 12-minute overview video to come back online (it's currently unavailable) before I write the meat of this post. Meantime, I've been trying out the individual components that make up Google Apps:
Here is my Super-Easy Website, created in about 15 minutes using Google Page Creator. The potential power of this tool when combined with other Googlish online apps is incredible. I foresee great things.
Update:
Ok, I've seen the overview video now and looked at some of the implementation examples for Google Apps, and I'm officially impressed. If I start a business or organization of any kind, it'll be using Google Apps.
Here's what's involved: All the various Google services and online applications (Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Start Page, and Google Page Creator) are bundled together and set up inside your organization's own domain:
Gmail
Everyone gets an account to access their email via Gmail (the email addresses are your own, i.e. "somebody@company.com," not ...@gmail.com), and that same account logs them into all the other Apps as well.
Calendar
Each person has their own calendar, and teams or departments can make shared calendars. There are even "resource calendars" for booking meeting rooms and reserving equipment. To set up a meeting, you "invite" open time periods on the calendars of other people, and they accept or decline.
And all the rest...
All the other Google tools work together seamlessly too, safely inside your own network. It's very cool and potentially very powerful.
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Here is my Super-Easy Website, created in about 15 minutes using Google Page Creator. The potential power of this tool when combined with other Googlish online apps is incredible. I foresee great things.
Update:
Ok, I've seen the overview video now and looked at some of the implementation examples for Google Apps, and I'm officially impressed. If I start a business or organization of any kind, it'll be using Google Apps.
Here's what's involved: All the various Google services and online applications (Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Start Page, and Google Page Creator) are bundled together and set up inside your organization's own domain:
Gmail
Everyone gets an account to access their email via Gmail (the email addresses are your own, i.e. "somebody@company.com," not ...@gmail.com), and that same account logs them into all the other Apps as well.
Calendar
Each person has their own calendar, and teams or departments can make shared calendars. There are even "resource calendars" for booking meeting rooms and reserving equipment. To set up a meeting, you "invite" open time periods on the calendars of other people, and they accept or decline.
And all the rest...
All the other Google tools work together seamlessly too, safely inside your own network. It's very cool and potentially very powerful.
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Thing #18 Take a look at some online productivity tools
I'm writing this blog post on Google Docs, which is a wonderful tool! I share it a lot with students, who often work on their assignments at school, at home, in the library, at their friends' houses... With Google Docs they don't have to worry about saving their work to disks which then get damaged in their backpacks, or left behind in a disk drive somewhere, or aren't compatible with the next computer where they might sit down to work. And Google Docs is excellent for group work. While a wiki is great for lots of projects, Google Docs is ideal for something that will eventually be turned in as a typed paper. I've been using Google Docs for almost a year now, and I love it.
Update 9/18/07:
See Google Docs- More! about Presentations on Google Docs.
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Update 9/18/07:
See Google Docs- More! about Presentations on Google Docs.
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Thing #17 Add an entry into the Sandbox Wiki created with PB Wiki
Did so. And while I was there, I organized the page of blog links by library system (lest anyone think it was me who deleted the lost blogs, it wasn't! They were missing before I got there.). That's the beauty of a wiki. The users can edit it, so if a page like this one grows too unwieldy, someone can come along and straighten it out and make it better for everyone. Yay for wikis!
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Thing #16 Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them
I like wikis a lot. Also, I just like to say "wiki." Wiki wiki wiki! It's a fun word. Ever since I was introduced to PBwiki back at the beginning of the year, I've been a wiki maniac. I have a personal wiki, a cooking wiki, and a private password-protected wiki that I use with friends and family for event and travel planning. The Library's new TAGs (Teen Advisory Groups) will be using a wiki site for their book reviews, and I'm in the process of replacing my church's website with a wiki.
When I was getting ready for my trip-of-a-lifetime to New Zealand this past spring, my travel buddy, our hosts, and I used a wiki to keep our collective lists of potential things-to-do and places-to-see, along with the itinerary details as they developed. I put up the airline information when I booked the flights, and my buddy added the hotels and hostels as she booked our accommodations, etc. It worked like a dream!
How to use wikis in libraries? Many excellent uses have already been demonstrated. The most obvious use is probably the pathfinder/reading list/book review wikis that are becoming quite common. Event planning and project collaboration work well on wikis, too. Creating a wiki of information and resources for a special-interest group and then opening it up to editing by members of that group is a powerful way to enrich content and build community. I'd like to replace our librarian-created (and very small) Homeschoolers' web page with a wiki that our homeschooling customers could use to share resources and ideas with one another.
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When I was getting ready for my trip-of-a-lifetime to New Zealand this past spring, my travel buddy, our hosts, and I used a wiki to keep our collective lists of potential things-to-do and places-to-see, along with the itinerary details as they developed. I put up the airline information when I booked the flights, and my buddy added the hotels and hostels as she booked our accommodations, etc. It worked like a dream!
How to use wikis in libraries? Many excellent uses have already been demonstrated. The most obvious use is probably the pathfinder/reading list/book review wikis that are becoming quite common. Event planning and project collaboration work well on wikis, too. Creating a wiki of information and resources for a special-interest group and then opening it up to editing by members of that group is a powerful way to enrich content and build community. I'd like to replace our librarian-created (and very small) Homeschoolers' web page with a wiki that our homeschooling customers could use to share resources and ideas with one another.
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Thing #15:
Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 & the future of libraries
I'll come back to this one. My "thoughts on Library 2.0" are a more than a little disjointed at this time.
-J.
Update:
See Thoughts on Things for summarized thoughts, ponderings, and general philosophizing.
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-J.
Update:
See Thoughts on Things for summarized thoughts, ponderings, and general philosophizing.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Thing #14:
Discover Technorati and learn how tags work with blogs
Ok, I spelunked around on Technorati a bit and claimed some of my various blogs. (Woohoo!- I have an authority of "1"!) I also tagged all my posts in this blog as "mdlearn2" and "23things."As I mentioned in Thing 9, I like Technorati's directory search for finding blogs. I imagine that if I were a more serious blogger looking for a large readership, Technorati would be more important to me. For now, though, I think I've pretty much reached the extent of its usefulness to me.
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