Yeah!!! I finally made it!
Monday, June 18, 2007
GRAND FINALE!!
I've learnt about a wide range of new technologies that I just didn't have an inking about, especially as I don't have a computer at home. I'm sure even if there are technologies that I wouldn't want to personally use that it is very useful to know what younger and/or more tech savvy people out their in the community are using and how these technologies are being deployed socially.
It has been important to see how other libraries are using Library 2.0 technologies and I now have the tools to keep up a bit at least!
I wonder whether we will need to think about keeping our less tech savvy students and academic staff comfortable depending on which way the library goes with implementing Library 2.0 stuff. Perhaps a couple of the Library promotion series next year could be devoted to some of this. Maybe another mini library marketing campaign?
I am finding it a bit difficult to sieve out the Library 2.0 stuff that I think will be useful from stuff that I don't find appealing. For instance, my basic reaction to Second Life is pretty negative but there are other tools that are going to be terrific. I think wikis for different projects within the library for staff to communicate will be very useful. It would be fun and probably useful to be able to exchange favourite websites.
I do find it difficult to think of how some of this new technology and how we use it compares to serious research. How much are we falling into the same kind of trap of the Catholic Church making the mass more 'relevant' and in fact just pandering and making it more banal.
There is definately aspects we can use...
I like how sites like Amazon give you other suggestions for books that might interest you. I wonder if our catalogue will be able to do that. I also think it can be most helpful to have a record of the history of your searches easily visible.
It would probably be good if Julia and Lyn could do something through the Teaching and Learning Forum to have some discussions vs library staff and academics re some of the Library 2.0 stuff.
I do think stretching the course out a bit will make it easier to have enough time to get to the really important bit which is how we are going to use the technologies here at ECU. For some of the sessions it took a long time to actually get through looking at and experimenting with things that there wasn't enough time to really thoughtfully have ideas about whether/how to implement it here. I would have liked to have taken more time to have looked at other people's blogs on the project, but really didn't have enough time.
Having said that I want to thank Dan Julia and Lyn for the opportunity to have participated in this project. There have been times when I probably should have been attending to far more boring work but got way laid by some Project 23 Things because it was different and fun!
There will need to be a project group at the end of the roll out to work out what we are going to implement and how.
I would like to see a Library blog (I don't want to get involved in subject specific blogs) start up next year. I think we should consider wikis for library projects. I think we need to think about doing some podcasts audio and visual for info lit. Perhaps we should think about trying to do one next year for Finding Resources for External etc students.
I wonder whether students could set up libraries of their favorite books to act as "reading lists' for other students - I guess they may use their own tagging? Is it worth asking students to tag books with the e-book experiment of David's? (Not sure where this would lead - I wonder whether students can be lead to the advantages of library and database subject headings when they see the messes that can result with non consistent language!)
Running out of steam...
I've learnt about a wide range of new technologies that I just didn't have an inking about, especially as I don't have a computer at home. I'm sure even if there are technologies that I wouldn't want to personally use that it is very useful to know what younger and/or more tech savvy people out their in the community are using and how these technologies are being deployed socially.
It has been important to see how other libraries are using Library 2.0 technologies and I now have the tools to keep up a bit at least!
I wonder whether we will need to think about keeping our less tech savvy students and academic staff comfortable depending on which way the library goes with implementing Library 2.0 stuff. Perhaps a couple of the Library promotion series next year could be devoted to some of this. Maybe another mini library marketing campaign?
I am finding it a bit difficult to sieve out the Library 2.0 stuff that I think will be useful from stuff that I don't find appealing. For instance, my basic reaction to Second Life is pretty negative but there are other tools that are going to be terrific. I think wikis for different projects within the library for staff to communicate will be very useful. It would be fun and probably useful to be able to exchange favourite websites.
I do find it difficult to think of how some of this new technology and how we use it compares to serious research. How much are we falling into the same kind of trap of the Catholic Church making the mass more 'relevant' and in fact just pandering and making it more banal.
There is definately aspects we can use...
I like how sites like Amazon give you other suggestions for books that might interest you. I wonder if our catalogue will be able to do that. I also think it can be most helpful to have a record of the history of your searches easily visible.
It would probably be good if Julia and Lyn could do something through the Teaching and Learning Forum to have some discussions vs library staff and academics re some of the Library 2.0 stuff.
I do think stretching the course out a bit will make it easier to have enough time to get to the really important bit which is how we are going to use the technologies here at ECU. For some of the sessions it took a long time to actually get through looking at and experimenting with things that there wasn't enough time to really thoughtfully have ideas about whether/how to implement it here. I would have liked to have taken more time to have looked at other people's blogs on the project, but really didn't have enough time.
Having said that I want to thank Dan Julia and Lyn for the opportunity to have participated in this project. There have been times when I probably should have been attending to far more boring work but got way laid by some Project 23 Things because it was different and fun!
There will need to be a project group at the end of the roll out to work out what we are going to implement and how.
I would like to see a Library blog (I don't want to get involved in subject specific blogs) start up next year. I think we should consider wikis for library projects. I think we need to think about doing some podcasts audio and visual for info lit. Perhaps we should think about trying to do one next year for Finding Resources for External etc students.
I wonder whether students could set up libraries of their favorite books to act as "reading lists' for other students - I guess they may use their own tagging? Is it worth asking students to tag books with the e-book experiment of David's? (Not sure where this would lead - I wonder whether students can be lead to the advantages of library and database subject headings when they see the messes that can result with non consistent language!)
Running out of steam...
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,,1985302,00.html
I want to add the sites announced in this article re award sites as sites worth watching out for, I guess especially for us the library one, and I find as education librarian there are very interesting things for me about how blogs are being used in all kinds of educational institutions.
I want to add the sites announced in this article re award sites as sites worth watching out for, I guess especially for us the library one, and I find as education librarian there are very interesting things for me about how blogs are being used in all kinds of educational institutions.
http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/schools/aussiekids.php
This example of what Australian school kids are doing is a real eye opener for someone like me who doesn't have kids and even though I'm the education librarian finds it hard to know how teachers are teaching and the way that technology is being used in the classroom these days. The podcasting site this is part of looks to be a very worthwhile one to bookmark!
This is a very good example of one of the things I have learned from doing the course. Having some idea of the kinds of technologies that are part of the classroom and younger or more tech savvy people. Also not having a computer at home I just wouldn't have been exposed to sites such as Flickr which I can see is tremendous for using for work projects or work fun or home fun.
This example of what Australian school kids are doing is a real eye opener for someone like me who doesn't have kids and even though I'm the education librarian finds it hard to know how teachers are teaching and the way that technology is being used in the classroom these days. The podcasting site this is part of looks to be a very worthwhile one to bookmark!
This is a very good example of one of the things I have learned from doing the course. Having some idea of the kinds of technologies that are part of the classroom and younger or more tech savvy people. Also not having a computer at home I just wouldn't have been exposed to sites such as Flickr which I can see is tremendous for using for work projects or work fun or home fun.
http://bulibrary.blogspot.com/
Via a circuitous route in exploring ODEO I came across the Bond Uni blog. I do think a blog would be a nifty way of alerting students to what's happening at the library and getting feedback and would work better/be received better than what we do now.
Tried to make the link live with editing but I can't seem to!
Via a circuitous route in exploring ODEO I came across the Bond Uni blog. I do think a blog would be a nifty way of alerting students to what's happening at the library and getting feedback and would work better/be received better than what we do now.
Tried to make the link live with editing but I can't seem to!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I finally managed to find a podcast that I could see an RSS feed for. I had found individual podcasts that I liked but didn't easily see RSS feeds - I don't think the individual ones had one - I would have needed to get to the master series from which the podcast came. Anyhow I finally found one and put it into Bloglines successfully.
One of the problems I found that occurred very frequently when I was trying to access some music podcasts was getting the message "Windows Media Player can't find file" - I was trying to access quite a few videos by a musician Gillian Welch. Many of them came up with MP3, so does that mean I needed to download it first onto an MP3 player to listen to it????
Hoping someone in the group will make a comment although it is probably too late in the day - I guess everyone else has probably finished 23 Things by now!!!
One of the problems I found that occurred very frequently when I was trying to access some music podcasts was getting the message "Windows Media Player can't find file" - I was trying to access quite a few videos by a musician Gillian Welch. Many of them came up with MP3, so does that mean I needed to download it first onto an MP3 player to listen to it????
Hoping someone in the group will make a comment although it is probably too late in the day - I guess everyone else has probably finished 23 Things by now!!!
Yeah!! About 2 weeks ago I found a marvellous video from David Attenborough on snow leopards in the Karakoram, but in almost illegible writing at the bottom of the screen there seemed to be the words All Rights Reserved (of course there would be!) so this didn't look like a good choice for my blog. I then found some wonderful videos of a musician I liked but had trouble playing some of them because was going to be required to use Real Player which at one point required a credit card + I didn't know if we were allowed to download that program + thought that uploading her performance would probably be breaking copyright. So I just searched using term
copyright free
and came up with this really interesting little interview with a writer whose book I would now like to read!
copyright free
and came up with this really interesting little interview with a writer whose book I would now like to read!
Friday, June 8, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
I just checked the Pennsylvania Uni's tagging site PennTags at http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ which rates a mention in the ACRL blog and even though I think the idea of social tagging for work groups sounds like a great idea I'm not overly impressed with the content of what they have. In theory it sounds great, but like everything it depends on the quality of the information. I don't want yet another source of information to wade through unless it is really good. Yes, tagging does give one a chance to be selective in who one follows the trail of, and I can see that it would be worth our while trying something like this in various groups in our library at ECU. Could be handy for various projects teams.
I listened to the sirsi website talk on social tagging which I thought was a useful introduction. Maybe out of this will come the usefulness of our library consistent tags. This speaker used the example of someone wanting to follow leads on films and how they would need to follow the tags for movies, film, cinema.
I listened to the sirsi website talk on social tagging which I thought was a useful introduction. Maybe out of this will come the usefulness of our library consistent tags. This speaker used the example of someone wanting to follow leads on films and how they would need to follow the tags for movies, film, cinema.
I'm now really far behind!! Did lots of work on Week 7 in Week 7 but didn't get round to the last bit and the making comments and am now two weeks behind! I think it would be good for staff next semester to have a bit more time to do the entire exercise. I found I just had to drop doing work on the project if a major priority came up and this might mean being part way through the activities for that week which then meant having to spend quite a lot of time doing a recap, in fact lots of time!
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