Well, I'm very glad that I signed up for this Discover 2.0. I feel that I learned quite a lot. I had heard of My Space before, but that was it. The rest of it was all new to me.
I think, as a library employee, that these were good tools to learn. The library is already using some of these new technologies and the public is obviously using using these new technologies. So staying current on these new trends makes us more knowledgeable and helps us communicate better with each other and with patrons.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Videos
In honor of the new Indiana Jones movie opening today I have chosen an Indiana Jones themed video to display on my blog.
I rather enjoyed YouTube. I've heard so much about it, but I had I never actually gone to their website before. There are definitely some interesting videos on there. I also enjoyed MetaCafe and blip.tv. Although YouTube was the best.
The library is already utilizing this technology with the One Minute Critic videos. I really enjoy these videos. They encourage creativity(especially on the part on the critics) and they give the viewer new ideas on what to read next.
I rather enjoyed YouTube. I've heard so much about it, but I had I never actually gone to their website before. There are definitely some interesting videos on there. I also enjoyed MetaCafe and blip.tv. Although YouTube was the best.
The library is already utilizing this technology with the One Minute Critic videos. I really enjoy these videos. They encourage creativity(especially on the part on the critics) and they give the viewer new ideas on what to read next.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Microblogging
I think Tumblr or the linkblogs would be more useful, as far as libraries go anyway. With a linkblog, along with some sort of message, you can post videos or link to other websites. The library could post videos--like the One Mintue Critic (of which I am a big fan) or links to other library related websites.
Twitter seemed kind of plain next to Tumblr. But I did find it interesting that Barack Obama has a Twitter account. I think Twitter would be a good way for librarians to keep in touch and communicate with each other.
Twitter seemed kind of plain next to Tumblr. But I did find it interesting that Barack Obama has a Twitter account. I think Twitter would be a good way for librarians to keep in touch and communicate with each other.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Podcasting
The podcasting was interesting. I had never really heard of it before. I couldn't access Podcast.met. Podcast Alley brought up a lot of library podcasts, but I couldn't listen to any because, once again, the computer I was on needed to download software before I could listen to it. Yahoo Podcast was not very helpful. I couldn't find very many intersting library podcasts on it.
I had a lot better luck with just going to Google and typing in 'library podcasts.' There were several interesting ones. My favorites were the podcasts of Storytime. There were also podcasts for library newsletters, booktalks for teens, etc... It seems that there no end of things you could do with a podcast and ultimately I think that podcasts would be a good way for the library to reach more people.
I had a lot better luck with just going to Google and typing in 'library podcasts.' There were several interesting ones. My favorites were the podcasts of Storytime. There were also podcasts for library newsletters, booktalks for teens, etc... It seems that there no end of things you could do with a podcast and ultimately I think that podcasts would be a good way for the library to reach more people.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Music and Other Audio
I really liked playing around with the music sights. I think I liked IMEEM the best because it had a better selection of songs where you could listen to the full track. I also liked last.fm. What was freat about last.fm was that you could look up a specific artsit and get a bio on them along with 4-5 full tracks of their most downloaded songs. I didn't really like Pandora because you had to register to look around their site. Which really isn't that big of deal, but I like to look around and know what I'm getting myself into before I register for anything.
I thought Internet Archive was pretty interesting. Besides Audio, they also had movies, music and texts. I could read Little Women from snapshots taken of one of the 1869 original copies. That was pretty cool.
The Absolute Sound Effects Archive was pretty fun. I don't know that I would personally use it for anything, but I still liked it.
The Mango website to learn different languages sounds like a really good idea. Unfortunately I couldn't look around too much because the computer I was on needed an Adobe Flash Player upgrade and I don't have the administrator password to do it. But having such a website, where you receive language lessons for free, is really useful. My brother just paid $160 for a subscription to the Rosetta Stone program to learn Spanish. Too bad he didn't know about this website before. =)
I thought Internet Archive was pretty interesting. Besides Audio, they also had movies, music and texts. I could read Little Women from snapshots taken of one of the 1869 original copies. That was pretty cool.
The Absolute Sound Effects Archive was pretty fun. I don't know that I would personally use it for anything, but I still liked it.
The Mango website to learn different languages sounds like a really good idea. Unfortunately I couldn't look around too much because the computer I was on needed an Adobe Flash Player upgrade and I don't have the administrator password to do it. But having such a website, where you receive language lessons for free, is really useful. My brother just paid $160 for a subscription to the Rosetta Stone program to learn Spanish. Too bad he didn't know about this website before. =)
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Technorati
I must confess that I am not that into blogging, so I kept putting off lesson # 14 because I didn't think Technorati would be that thrilling to me. Well, it wasn't so bad. I liked the Percolator page better than the Popular page. Percolator seemed to have more news stories. The Popular page was just listing the most popular blogs, top searches, etc... I did find it interesting under top searches women were listed as #10. Overall, I did actually find Technorati pretty interesting.
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