Week 7

It has taken me 2 weeks to get through to the end of the delicious exercise and now I can't understand how to get the bookmark into my blog. At least I created the bookmark successfully, but without someone to help me through this, I really can't see the point of it all. It is too frustrating not being able to find the time to do it in the first place, and then not understanding the jargon or mechanics of it all is another downer. This is not a very helpful training exercise.

Videos I Could Understand!

This was a good lesson with some valuable links to explore. The Allen County Public Library has a great Zombie Survival Guide video and I enjoyed the Reference Library tour. It would have been nice to sit and watch some of the videos from Mosman Library, but alas, it's not yet in my job description. We would need to have some technically skilled staff who could prepare the videos for our library service and it would be important to have quality equipment for the filming as well. The videos would be good for advertising our services to non-users who would not normally come past the library in their daily routines, but who might search for us online.

Week 5: Wikis

I looked at all the wikis. The SJCPL Subject Guide is very big on content with lots of pages to navigate to find what interests you. I searched for Robert E Lee in the Wisconsin Heritage Wiki and it gave me 8 entries that were scanned pages or books, but there was no immediate reference to him in the description fields, so I'd have to go through every book page to find him. The Mint Museums looks like a normal web page. The full Library Success was ok as I could easily see the edit button, so I knew it was a wiki. Book Lovers Wiki was a closed wiki so of no use to anyone but the members. Montana History Wiki wasn't open for editing, so how is that a wiki? And Wookieepedia was just too silly.

Who on the library staff would be assigned the job of maintaining the wiki? It would be very time consuming as it would need constant monitoring and updating.

It's really week 4 that's a disaster, but who's counting!

Week 3 is a Disaster!

I managed to create an account in Bloglines as instructed, and thought I had added an RSS feed, even though I couldn't find any orange icons to use, but the next day (today) I didn't have any new items and the old items were gone. The feeder box was empty! I really don't understand the connection between my blog and the RSS information, although after watching the video twice I did understand the link between the reader and the sites you have to subscribe to. I couldn't find an icon to use on the photo of the day page and I didn't know where to take the url if I copied it. This just doesn't make sense. Is week 4 easier to understand? I hope so. And I 'm still a week behind!

This took 2 weeks to do and I had to get help from a colleague to upload the image. I didn't want to invade someone's privacy by using a picture from flickr, so used one I had in my own files. I'd rather be cruising than blogging!

Lynwood

This is my first blog. It has taken me a while to set it up, but I have followed the instructions and consulted with colleagues, so that has been helpful.

This is a professional learning experience only so that I am familiar with what is going on in the world of cyberspace. I doubt that I will ever use much of this technology in my personal life as no one in the world will want to know about my daily life and I don't really want to know about anyone else's daily life.

The video clips have been disappointing from a technical aspect. The first one went too fast for me, the second one of Stephen Fry had a problem with the sound which took me a while to fix, and the blog video kept stopping every few words, resting a few seconds, then starting again. This is not a good advertisement for this modern technology, so I hope it gets better.
Have a nice weekend!