Thank You

Hello,

Another one of my shortish blogs. (I reserve all the words for speech). I want to say thank you for running such a successful course.

Very much appreciated.

Regards
Champagne Blush

Social Networking in the Library

A few ideas of ways that web 2 applications could be used in our library.

*Podcasts of Events/Speakers which are held at the library. e.g. Margaret Whitlam.
*We are currently trialling a blog for HSC students.
*You Tube type videos could be used to promote things like storytime etc. on the widescreens around the building.
* We are already using the 'yourtutor' service where students interact online with tutors using 2 screens, 1 chat-like and the other to draw examples.

There are so many options available.

To Do Lists

The to do lists site that is included in Slideshare is just great. I don't think I'll forget any of those birthdays/anniversaries/shopping lists again. Great!

Online Applications & Tools

Google Docs is good. You could have documents checked and approved by others pre-publishing without having to circulate and duplicate the same document.

I have learned so much directly (and indirectly) through the last weeks. Even your survey (Survey Monkey) was handy. I have been trying to build forms and trying to figure out backend codes for so long. I played around with Survey Monkey and it is so easy. I put a little test survey as a pop up on the library page to see if it worked. Within fifteen minutes I had 5 replies. Even though it was clearly a 'test' page!

This is going to be so invaluable in the library.

Mashups

Big huge labs is neat isn't it? I decided to put a big huge frame around my favourite man.

As you can see, I tend to do my own thing first.

I can also see that I can put photos etc up on Google maps, and then incorporate them into my own blog, webpage. etc. It would save page size, loading times etc.

From a library point of view, this would be a great link to have because addresses and photos could be incorporated into events etc. on the webpage.

Podcasts

Yep, I can see a use here too. I intend to regularly download onto the mp3 for my morning constitutional. I think I will start with the ABC.

I'm being dragged into the world of technology and enjoying it.

At the moment the staff that are doing this course are on a big learning curve, so we are all still thinking about what we are learning. Our HSC team is putting together a blog to see how much interaction we will have from the kids, and the results will be interesting. I think that audiopods could have a number of uses in the library. Even training.

Answer Boards

I have to admit that I do not know whether I personally would make a great deal of use of these, but I can see that the concept would appeal to young people.

(Thinking about it later) Perhaps the Taste website could appeal to me.