"...shocked and/or impressed your kids with your new knowledge and lingo." Okay, so I have one more little thing to add. I might have impressed my kids with my new knowledge, (especially when I managed to create my own MySpace account), but the lingo was a bit of a challenge. When I read the OCLC articles, I didn't always understand them. New terms and/or phrases could be explained as part of this program.
Thanks for everything!
gm
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
#26 Reflective Exercise
My husband looked over my shoulder occasionally as I was doing my 27Things exercises and commented on what a good idea this was and how he'd like to know all I'd discovered. This made me realize how important this program was and how I'd never have learned it just on my own.
How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals? I now know that I'll never run out of things to read, listen or view. I've discovered many places that will further my personal learning goals.
What were your favorite Learning 2.0 discoveries or exercises? I liked learning about LibraryThing, Bloglines and Google Labs.
Did anything surprise you? Just how much there was out there.
Was there enough help available when you needed it? Yes! Sometimes I was just a bit too tired to see the obvious, thanks P.
What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? I really don't see how this could be improved upon, except to continue with this program in some way.
Would you like to see similar training opportunities as new library-relevant technologies emerge? Definitely!
If you could go back in time and tell yourself to either participate in the program or skip it, what would you do? I actually got to about lesson 16 and decided I just didn't have the time to do this. When the date to complete the program was extended I felt I really needed to finish and I'm glad I did, so to answer the question, I'd tell myself to do it! It's worth more than the mp3 player.
gm
How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals? I now know that I'll never run out of things to read, listen or view. I've discovered many places that will further my personal learning goals.
What were your favorite Learning 2.0 discoveries or exercises? I liked learning about LibraryThing, Bloglines and Google Labs.
Did anything surprise you? Just how much there was out there.
Was there enough help available when you needed it? Yes! Sometimes I was just a bit too tired to see the obvious, thanks P.
What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? I really don't see how this could be improved upon, except to continue with this program in some way.
Would you like to see similar training opportunities as new library-relevant technologies emerge? Definitely!
If you could go back in time and tell yourself to either participate in the program or skip it, what would you do? I actually got to about lesson 16 and decided I just didn't have the time to do this. When the date to complete the program was extended I felt I really needed to finish and I'm glad I did, so to answer the question, I'd tell myself to do it! It's worth more than the mp3 player.
gm
Podcast, Podcasts
I had some trouble opening some of the podcasts on my home computer, not sure why, but Podcast.net seemed to have the least trouble. I found many Nova podcasts which were interesting. I'll have to explore them again later.
I don't have any ideas for library podcasts, but I was able to inform a patron where he could find a podcast of one of his favorite writers!
gm
I don't have any ideas for library podcasts, but I was able to inform a patron where he could find a podcast of one of his favorite writers!
gm
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
YouTube 2
Not too sure if I entered my YouTube video correctly, but it did work when I tried it. This was the video I mentioned in an earlier posting.
I'm embarrassed to say I do spend some time on YouTube. And I now realize why when I was doing the exercise in Google Labs I found Google Video would use YouTube. Regardless, YouTube has many fun, as well as informative videos. I did notice that Google Video had more lectures by people I researched than YouTube.
KCLS could use YouTube as a teaching tool, maybe have a short video instructing people on how to use our self checkout & self checkin machines.
gm
I'm embarrassed to say I do spend some time on YouTube. And I now realize why when I was doing the exercise in Google Labs I found Google Video would use YouTube. Regardless, YouTube has many fun, as well as informative videos. I did notice that Google Video had more lectures by people I researched than YouTube.
KCLS could use YouTube as a teaching tool, maybe have a short video instructing people on how to use our self checkout & self checkin machines.
gm
Choose Your Own Adventure
After briefly looking at Web 2.0 Awards & Webware I went back to Web 2.0. Web 2.0 was easier to look through. Some of the award winners I found rather silly, such as onesentence.org; didn't see any real reason for this one.
Under Retail, first place winner threadless.com was one site I think my kids would love to buy t-shirts from. I really liked one entitled, "Queen of Paradise," it was a piece of artwork on a T. And the best part is anyone could design a T and sell it! We have many young artist in the library that might find this a cool site.
Lulu.com was a self publishing site. Next time I have a patron that wants to have their writings in book form, this is one site I might recommend.
Some sites are more useful than others, but some of these are also new to patrons, (I include myself here) and we're slowly becoming aware of them. Of the award winners listed, I've only had questions asked about Craigslist, FaceBook and YouTube.
gm
Under Retail, first place winner threadless.com was one site I think my kids would love to buy t-shirts from. I really liked one entitled, "Queen of Paradise," it was a piece of artwork on a T. And the best part is anyone could design a T and sell it! We have many young artist in the library that might find this a cool site.
Lulu.com was a self publishing site. Next time I have a patron that wants to have their writings in book form, this is one site I might recommend.
Some sites are more useful than others, but some of these are also new to patrons, (I include myself here) and we're slowly becoming aware of them. Of the award winners listed, I've only had questions asked about Craigslist, FaceBook and YouTube.
gm
The Labs of Google
I spent quite a bit of time finding things on Google Video. It is a lot like YouTube and in fact uses their site for many of the scientist interviews I found. One video entitled, "£10 000 coin domino effect," is a lot of fun to watch.
I also liked Google Mars. There is much available on the Mars terrain and you can focus on mountain ranges, planes, dunes and more. The elevation view was pretty. Not too sure what I'd use this for but I found it fascinating.
Looking over Google Scholar I found many articles I will hopefully spend more time reading in the future.
I briefly looked at a few other labs, but the above were the most interesting to me.
gm
I also liked Google Mars. There is much available on the Mars terrain and you can focus on mountain ranges, planes, dunes and more. The elevation view was pretty. Not too sure what I'd use this for but I found it fascinating.
Looking over Google Scholar I found many articles I will hopefully spend more time reading in the future.
I briefly looked at a few other labs, but the above were the most interesting to me.
gm
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