18th July 2012
I have just compled Week 12. I did have problems with Week 10 Mashups, so I will go back to that module and focus on it. In the meantime I have completed everything else and what a big learning curve it has been for me.
As you can see from my earlier blogs I was havinggreat difficulties with getting access and not having a dashboard. But I am thrilled that I perserved, as I have learnt so much that would not have been possible without this program.
The social networking in the library would be of great help to me in my interest in local history it would enable to to communicate with like minded people and build a very good profile for our area.
I was amazed at the number of tools available to reachc into the wider community which gave me hope, as in doing these modules by myself I felt rather isolated. I have now learnt the means by which I can communicate not only with the State Library but far beyond my known community and areas of communication.
All in all this is a great online learning tutorial for me and at times I have felt really empowered. Now it is time to go back to "mashups" feeling more confident.
Monica
Tuesday 17 July 2012
18th July
Catchingup on my blogging for Learning 2
My daughter and her baby have now gone back to Darwin so again I have access to my computer and study cubby hole!.
I found week 11's exploration a little harrowing in that I feel vunerable in having to load G drive onto computer. It just shows how quickly technology changes as the exercise encourages us to log into Google Docs but the website advises that Google Docs has been replaced by Google Drive which has to be down loaded. Which I did!. I entered nswpln@gmail.com to share y word document (reference: https://google.com/comument/d/lrlh71VJXOHh228L2Ka8tMxzxo)
I found tht the example used on the training video very pertinent as I am the editor of a local newsletter and this would be very handy for receiving contributions as I too am often overwhelmed with email attachments.
Maybe in the future I cn use google document for this purpose but I think that it would be too difficult at this stage for contributers to get "a handle" on this process. In principal though the process has certainly got a lot going for it and it would definitely reduce my frustration.
Down the track, it will I am sure, become standard practise and I can imagine it could be used in a myriad of ways in the library particuarly for book clubs, though I still think it is of prime importance that people still meet socially. I would like to see our local library run a workshop on how to use Google Documents, I then could invite all our local contributors to our newsletter. This would really be magic.
Regards
Monica
Catchingup on my blogging for Learning 2
My daughter and her baby have now gone back to Darwin so again I have access to my computer and study cubby hole!.
I found week 11's exploration a little harrowing in that I feel vunerable in having to load G drive onto computer. It just shows how quickly technology changes as the exercise encourages us to log into Google Docs but the website advises that Google Docs has been replaced by Google Drive which has to be down loaded. Which I did!. I entered nswpln@gmail.com to share y word document (reference: https://google.com/comument/d/lrlh71VJXOHh228L2Ka8tMxzxo)
I found tht the example used on the training video very pertinent as I am the editor of a local newsletter and this would be very handy for receiving contributions as I too am often overwhelmed with email attachments.
Maybe in the future I cn use google document for this purpose but I think that it would be too difficult at this stage for contributers to get "a handle" on this process. In principal though the process has certainly got a lot going for it and it would definitely reduce my frustration.
Down the track, it will I am sure, become standard practise and I can imagine it could be used in a myriad of ways in the library particuarly for book clubs, though I still think it is of prime importance that people still meet socially. I would like to see our local library run a workshop on how to use Google Documents, I then could invite all our local contributors to our newsletter. This would really be magic.
Regards
Monica
Saturday 7 July 2012
Sunday 8th July
I am gaining more and more confidence in working through this course. Podcasts have always appeared to be a mystery to me. However this morning I have listed to an episode ofthe book "Truth" by Michael Palin which was recorded on the 3rd July. It was quite easy to navigate the ABC site and to find books national on abc.net.au/radio national/feed/2887452/podcastxml. This is a book I will have to borrow from the library or day I say it, invest in a e-book reader!.
Equally fascinated was I in listening to a podcast linked by The Library Sucess Wiki. I chose the Sunnyvale Public Library link and listed to a podcast recorded on the 10th April 2010. The lecture delivered by Hari Kunamneni on patentapplication and examination certainly intrigued me and added to my knowledge base.
On the Lirary Success wiki and from the Online Education Database I chose a fascinating podcast from Stanford Universith entitled Ben Franklin and the World of Enlightenment. I will continue to listen to this one. Meanwhile in doinga general search using "podcast" as the keywork I found a podcast entitled "Was ist ein Podcast?" recording on June 11th 2007 from a website entitled "Libreas - Library Ideas" which is an open access e-only jhournal published by a studenteditorial team from the Institute of Library and Information Scient at Humboldt University Berlin.
My ducation continues!
Monica
I am gaining more and more confidence in working through this course. Podcasts have always appeared to be a mystery to me. However this morning I have listed to an episode ofthe book "Truth" by Michael Palin which was recorded on the 3rd July. It was quite easy to navigate the ABC site and to find books national on abc.net.au/radio national/feed/2887452/podcastxml. This is a book I will have to borrow from the library or day I say it, invest in a e-book reader!.
Equally fascinated was I in listening to a podcast linked by The Library Sucess Wiki. I chose the Sunnyvale Public Library link and listed to a podcast recorded on the 10th April 2010. The lecture delivered by Hari Kunamneni on patentapplication and examination certainly intrigued me and added to my knowledge base.
On the Lirary Success wiki and from the Online Education Database I chose a fascinating podcast from Stanford Universith entitled Ben Franklin and the World of Enlightenment. I will continue to listen to this one. Meanwhile in doinga general search using "podcast" as the keywork I found a podcast entitled "Was ist ein Podcast?" recording on June 11th 2007 from a website entitled "Libreas - Library Ideas" which is an open access e-only jhournal published by a studenteditorial team from the Institute of Library and Information Scient at Humboldt University Berlin.
My ducation continues!
Monica
Sunday 8th July
I enjoyed my Saturday night discovering the whole new world of social searching. Once again I am flabbergasted at this other world existing via our computer screen and bought to life by our keyboard.
I had never realised that Amazon's way of selling - suggesting another book from a similiar genre or using their own sale records had the name social searching.
I got pretty well entrenched in the questions and answers and did post a question on Yahoo as to "when did the termRSVP come into use and what does it mean and how has it spread into everyday language". I am awaiting the email response!
I got involved with all of the questions and answers in "Slamming the Boards" and the "Answering Board Wiki". It was a real bonus for me to find the www.answers.com site. I have for many years tried to find a way of easy access to information as to historical occurrences / annivrsaries / birth and death dates on each day of the year. This site provided me with this access by choosing the "History Politicis and Society" category I was able to discover the Chase's Calendar.
A Saturday night well spent.
Monica
I enjoyed my Saturday night discovering the whole new world of social searching. Once again I am flabbergasted at this other world existing via our computer screen and bought to life by our keyboard.
I had never realised that Amazon's way of selling - suggesting another book from a similiar genre or using their own sale records had the name social searching.
I got pretty well entrenched in the questions and answers and did post a question on Yahoo as to "when did the termRSVP come into use and what does it mean and how has it spread into everyday language". I am awaiting the email response!
I got involved with all of the questions and answers in "Slamming the Boards" and the "Answering Board Wiki". It was a real bonus for me to find the www.answers.com site. I have for many years tried to find a way of easy access to information as to historical occurrences / annivrsaries / birth and death dates on each day of the year. This site provided me with this access by choosing the "History Politicis and Society" category I was able to discover the Chase's Calendar.
A Saturday night well spent.
Monica
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Wednesday 4th July
I have been enjoying the delicious website and have learnt the benifts of collating my favourite websites. One way I can use this site is too keep together all the url websites I visit in my bid to find work in libraries. I have established in the "stack" menue the url address for Karingai Council as a 12 months position is advertised.
I was fascinated with the tool of tracking blogs about different subjects. The search for book mobile resulted in 140 blogs. The Technorati website is extremely useful. Ilearnt how tagging works and by working through the menue I am flabbergasted as to the amount of blogging that is going on. However I find it hard to come to terms with the amount of information put forward by bloggers and question how as participiants we can make valued judgements about the content.
For libraries I can see how issues that concern libraries can be tagged and people can find like minded people to discuss matters concerning them. It does make the world very small in that way.
The possibilities of Librarything are endless. Keeping track of your own books, talking to other book lovers in the chat room, reading the reviews, devouring the recommendation pages - it is all too much I will need a second lifetime.
I joined Library Thing and listd my books under Australian History.
Monica
I have been enjoying the delicious website and have learnt the benifts of collating my favourite websites. One way I can use this site is too keep together all the url websites I visit in my bid to find work in libraries. I have established in the "stack" menue the url address for Karingai Council as a 12 months position is advertised.
I was fascinated with the tool of tracking blogs about different subjects. The search for book mobile resulted in 140 blogs. The Technorati website is extremely useful. Ilearnt how tagging works and by working through the menue I am flabbergasted as to the amount of blogging that is going on. However I find it hard to come to terms with the amount of information put forward by bloggers and question how as participiants we can make valued judgements about the content.
For libraries I can see how issues that concern libraries can be tagged and people can find like minded people to discuss matters concerning them. It does make the world very small in that way.
The possibilities of Librarything are endless. Keeping track of your own books, talking to other book lovers in the chat room, reading the reviews, devouring the recommendation pages - it is all too much I will need a second lifetime.
I joined Library Thing and listd my books under Australian History.
Your catalog: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/monicaelizabeth
Monica
Sunday 27 May 2012
Another week. Sunday night and I am still trying to finish off homework.
Yes, I have never taken the time to browse you tube or google videos. It is a vry amazing piece of technology. I so enjoyed the videos about the Liverpool Plains, I was not aware of the proposed coal mining. It was beautiful to see the very old footagae of the ploughng of the land with the Clydesdale Horses.
I also enjoyed the lego videos. This is a resource that is easy to assess. I can't do it at our Tafe as there is no sound at the computers. The lack of sound, the lack of appropriate video access has made this unit really difficult to do. Which is unfortunate, as I think that it is very beneficial, especially to people such as myself you have not been exposed before to Flicker, blogging, wikis, the rss feeds and now the extent of you tube,
Although there is unnecessary frustration I am learning, but it is isolated learning as no one is following my blogs and I don't know how to access anyone else's in the class.
Elizabeth.
Yes, I have never taken the time to browse you tube or google videos. It is a vry amazing piece of technology. I so enjoyed the videos about the Liverpool Plains, I was not aware of the proposed coal mining. It was beautiful to see the very old footagae of the ploughng of the land with the Clydesdale Horses.
I also enjoyed the lego videos. This is a resource that is easy to assess. I can't do it at our Tafe as there is no sound at the computers. The lack of sound, the lack of appropriate video access has made this unit really difficult to do. Which is unfortunate, as I think that it is very beneficial, especially to people such as myself you have not been exposed before to Flicker, blogging, wikis, the rss feeds and now the extent of you tube,
Although there is unnecessary frustration I am learning, but it is isolated learning as no one is following my blogs and I don't know how to access anyone else's in the class.
Elizabeth.
Tuesday 22 May 2012
Tuesday 22nd May
More work on the Wiki Tour
I was unable to brosw the PBwicki tour. I noted the suggestion to use Mozilla web browser. However as I am using a "shared computer" I haven't got permission to install this browser unfortunately it looks like I can't contribute to the wike - that is a shame.
I did have a look at the place names. Where I live in Nelson has no entry at all. Box Hill is mentioned but acknowledged that there are no entries.
The Rouse Hill one is off to a good start, but there is so much more that could be written about it.
The visit to the "possible Next Generation Catalogue" was extremely interesting and worthwhile. I think that the people who contributed are very passionate about their jobs and very committed. It was a real pleasure to read the entries. I was disappointed that I was not able to contribute to a more local wiki site.
More work on the Wiki Tour
I was unable to brosw the PBwicki tour. I noted the suggestion to use Mozilla web browser. However as I am using a "shared computer" I haven't got permission to install this browser unfortunately it looks like I can't contribute to the wike - that is a shame.
I did have a look at the place names. Where I live in Nelson has no entry at all. Box Hill is mentioned but acknowledged that there are no entries.
The Rouse Hill one is off to a good start, but there is so much more that could be written about it.
The visit to the "possible Next Generation Catalogue" was extremely interesting and worthwhile. I think that the people who contributed are very passionate about their jobs and very committed. It was a real pleasure to read the entries. I was disappointed that I was not able to contribute to a more local wiki site.
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