Hmm, just when I thought I'd sorted out the run of weeks, now it seems like the session order is going backwards...
Today I was playing image generators, which seem to be very inflexible online photo-adjustment tools. On the upside, they are super easy to use. It's a bit more difficult to actually think of anything funny to do with them, but here is my lame attempt...
http://www.imagegenerator.net/browse/newscaster/date/133667/
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Real Week 4 (session 10)
Okay, so I set-up a Tweet:
http://twitter.com/GarethShute
It was very easy to do. Though I do wonder if we librarians should be encouraging people to read in such small increments. After reading tweets all day, I wonder if people will still be up to taking on a novel at night?
Though it is fun to feel right up to the minute with your celeb-stalking...
http://twitter.com/GarethShute
It was very easy to do. Though I do wonder if we librarians should be encouraging people to read in such small increments. After reading tweets all day, I wonder if people will still be up to taking on a novel at night?
Though it is fun to feel right up to the minute with your celeb-stalking...
The Real Week 3 (session 9)
Hi there,
So this week, we had to set-up RSS feeds for ourselves to watch. I used Google reader. It was pretty easy to use. I hadn't really used RSS feeds before and was amazed how many websites I used had them and not only for news pieces - some gave feeds to report that new podcasts had been put up (e.g., both the Slate Magazine and National Radio websites have RSS feeds for their blogs). Therefore I can definitely see uses for myself in using these feeds, especially since sites like the Herald, divide up their content into different RSS feeds so you can find out just what you need to. My only problem was that some websites seemed to want to add my RSS feeds to my iGoogle home page rather than to my Google Reader. But at least it was easy to search from within Google Reader.
Anyway, my feed page is here:
https://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F07287818630153977777%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Freading-list
The library uses already seem to be underway. I think it's a great idea that you could find out when a new book by an author you like has had a new entry added (i.e., by being notified when a search under their name brings up an extra item). It would be similarly useful for letting people know about events at different branches and other news of this type.
Okay that should be plenty of rambling on this topic for me!
So this week, we had to set-up RSS feeds for ourselves to watch. I used Google reader. It was pretty easy to use. I hadn't really used RSS feeds before and was amazed how many websites I used had them and not only for news pieces - some gave feeds to report that new podcasts had been put up (e.g., both the Slate Magazine and National Radio websites have RSS feeds for their blogs). Therefore I can definitely see uses for myself in using these feeds, especially since sites like the Herald, divide up their content into different RSS feeds so you can find out just what you need to. My only problem was that some websites seemed to want to add my RSS feeds to my iGoogle home page rather than to my Google Reader. But at least it was easy to search from within Google Reader.
Anyway, my feed page is here:
https://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F07287818630153977777%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Freading-list
The library uses already seem to be underway. I think it's a great idea that you could find out when a new book by an author you like has had a new entry added (i.e., by being notified when a search under their name brings up an extra item). It would be similarly useful for letting people know about events at different branches and other news of this type.
Okay that should be plenty of rambling on this topic for me!
Week Five (session 7)
Hello again,
According to the Web 2.0 blog, I seem to have been stuck on week three for the last three sessions so I hope I'm not getting behind ... I've put the session number to make things more clear...
Anyway, here is a picture that I messed around with in Picnik:
According to the Web 2.0 blog, I seem to have been stuck on week three for the last three sessions so I hope I'm not getting behind ... I've put the session number to make things more clear...
Anyway, here is a picture that I messed around with in Picnik:
I feel a bit mean mucking around with a picture of the founder of Flying Nun, but he just bought it back so he must be happy anyway...
Bye now
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Week 4
This week I played around with Flickr mash-up apps. I made this trading card. It is all black and white and moody...
That's all for this week it seems....
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Week 3
Hi there,
This week I was exploring Flickr. Being a vain person, I tried to find a picture of myself playing in the Brunettes. However putting "Brunettes" into the search engine came up with quite the wrong results, so I had to cast my faded mind back to remember what venues we played. Finally I found this picture.
That's me way in the background, playing the trumpet.
Coming back down to earth - I think Flickr would probably be a useful tool for community librarians if they are looking for pictures for children who are doing school assignments. I suppose it would also be an accessible place to load pictures of library events (assuming permission was granted from the people who are shown in the images.
Anyways, I think that's enough for this week.
This week I was exploring Flickr. Being a vain person, I tried to find a picture of myself playing in the Brunettes. However putting "Brunettes" into the search engine came up with quite the wrong results, so I had to cast my faded mind back to remember what venues we played. Finally I found this picture.
That's me way in the background, playing the trumpet.
Coming back down to earth - I think Flickr would probably be a useful tool for community librarians if they are looking for pictures for children who are doing school assignments. I suppose it would also be an accessible place to load pictures of library events (assuming permission was granted from the people who are shown in the images.
Anyways, I think that's enough for this week.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Week Two
Today I explored some social networking sites. Bebo seemed very odd to look at and I can see why it was surpassed by Facebook - perhaps this is why the Auckland City Library Bebo page has fallen into dis-use?
It was easy to find other librarians on Facebook because someone has set-up a group page for Auckland City Libraries. Assuming you're logged onto Facebook, the page can be found here.
Myspace is also filled with librarian-musicians, including members of the following bands:
Bearcat (which includes Dan Trevathan from Circulation)
Bloody Souls (which includes Andrew Tolley from Circulation)
The Gladeyes (which includes Jade Farley from Circulation)
It seems like social-networking sites would be a great place to promote the library. The only problem would be that our patron's have such varied interests that it would be hard to start a group that addressed the interests of all of them. However, I believe that ground floor have started a page for their teen reading group and I suppose similar groups for our Music Dept, etc, could work well.
That seems like enough online socialising now. Best go and talk to some real people...
Gareth
It was easy to find other librarians on Facebook because someone has set-up a group page for Auckland City Libraries. Assuming you're logged onto Facebook, the page can be found here.
Myspace is also filled with librarian-musicians, including members of the following bands:
Bearcat (which includes Dan Trevathan from Circulation)
Bloody Souls (which includes Andrew Tolley from Circulation)
The Gladeyes (which includes Jade Farley from Circulation)
It seems like social-networking sites would be a great place to promote the library. The only problem would be that our patron's have such varied interests that it would be hard to start a group that addressed the interests of all of them. However, I believe that ground floor have started a page for their teen reading group and I suppose similar groups for our Music Dept, etc, could work well.
That seems like enough online socialising now. Best go and talk to some real people...
Gareth
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