or organsing things in a better way. That is the plan.
I had not realised you could create tabs within I- google which means I can create tabbed pages focussing on different things. So home with basic weather and news stuff, then family organisation then research and so you keep going with favourites also in there. Must see if I can link Delicious account to it. Have got Facebook and trademe in there as well as library links -- both national and local.
I am having a wee challenge getting flickr or similar in but will keep perservering.
This along with the delicious type of resources is fantastic for keeping things mobile which is what I and many others need more and more. My next wee challenge is to HELP Geoff take some of this on board as he is technologically competent but frustrated and has many things scattered on his machines. He has 3 computers he uses so a comprehensive resource which he can access at all of them could be useful.
In Libraries or at work a very useful tool and even for someone like me who works at home as well as in the Learning Centre. Things can be in both places.
Maybe I could do this with some of older groups. They would have less they had to find each time they opened the machine as things would be waiting for them therefore less chance of error.
Yes an I-google session is coming up next term.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Research e-Labs » Tools for the Online Community Circle
For example you could provide search aids - “users who searched for this type of information also looked at …” etc. Or you could let individuals flag issues and use algorithms to escalate persistent stuff up to admins and respond back to users. Even the biggest sites can be made more personal this way and encourage more engagement.Research e-Labs » Tools for the Online Community Circle
Web 2.0 use in NZ organisations A goer or not?
Government shared workplace - secure and using and sharing resources and information economically and sensibly. I wouldn't know how well it is working but it is potentially a good use of web 2.0 tools.
How often are they used. e.g. tertiary group one seems to be used infrequently but as many of the links are password protected it is a bit hard to see.
At our team meeting last week, Nina was discussing a wiki she set up for a disparate group of southern traverse adventurers. They were planning their next attack on the race and the emails were flying think and fast. She suggested they needed to set up a wiki and they could then see all the comments everyone was making and could all access the same information. So they did . That was a couple of years ago and it is still functioning. It had/has a real use for the group and they can see its direct and current value so it was worth keeping it up. It was not something an IT guru thought they should be using but which gained no real traction with the user group. There is only so much time in the day.
The article on tools for the community circle
in the research e-labs documnet supports this by saying "One of the interesting things about the most successful online communities seems to be the desire of participants to do stuff together in the real world."
Further on in that article there is discussion about which tools to use to aid the community.
"For example you could provide search aids - “users who searched for this type of information also looked at …” etc. Or you could let individuals flag issues and use algorithms to escalate persistent stuff up to admins and respond back to users. Even the biggest sites can be made more personal this way and encourage more engagement."
Even this blog has not really recent entries.
But ones to do with library and reading have had more recent use, including the library tech one, but this also supports the theory that IT people spend a lot of time online and it is easy and quite natural to explore and add things as part of the normal day .
As I move further down the list of e-government web 2.0 social networking initiatives they look
more worthwhile relevant and better used.
This AMA is not a NZ resource but something similar could be ------ the kete idea, but it is worth looking at. It is just saying you are part of the community come and add your stuff to further build your community.
NZ GLAM resources were discussed on Radio NZ on thursday 17th September . The links provided there are worth investigating and the whole tone of the discussion was inspiring and exciting . So many opportunities but when!!!! That keeps coming up again and again and today it is a gorgeous day outside and I am in here doing this -- finding it interesting but also wanting to be outside:)
All of the links in this part of the project are very cool and have many uses ---- including the KRIS ones. Must come back to this. Even Matapihi is updating itself to include more of the things we now expect in that sort of historical but current encyclopedia format.
How often are they used. e.g. tertiary group one seems to be used infrequently but as many of the links are password protected it is a bit hard to see.
At our team meeting last week, Nina was discussing a wiki she set up for a disparate group of southern traverse adventurers. They were planning their next attack on the race and the emails were flying think and fast. She suggested they needed to set up a wiki and they could then see all the comments everyone was making and could all access the same information. So they did . That was a couple of years ago and it is still functioning. It had/has a real use for the group and they can see its direct and current value so it was worth keeping it up. It was not something an IT guru thought they should be using but which gained no real traction with the user group. There is only so much time in the day.
The article on tools for the community circle
in the research e-labs documnet supports this by saying "One of the interesting things about the most successful online communities seems to be the desire of participants to do stuff together in the real world."
Further on in that article there is discussion about which tools to use to aid the community.
"For example you could provide search aids - “users who searched for this type of information also looked at …” etc. Or you could let individuals flag issues and use algorithms to escalate persistent stuff up to admins and respond back to users. Even the biggest sites can be made more personal this way and encourage more engagement."
Even this blog has not really recent entries.
But ones to do with library and reading have had more recent use, including the library tech one, but this also supports the theory that IT people spend a lot of time online and it is easy and quite natural to explore and add things as part of the normal day .
As I move further down the list of e-government web 2.0 social networking initiatives they look
more worthwhile relevant and better used.
This AMA is not a NZ resource but something similar could be ------ the kete idea, but it is worth looking at. It is just saying you are part of the community come and add your stuff to further build your community.
NZ GLAM resources were discussed on Radio NZ on thursday 17th September . The links provided there are worth investigating and the whole tone of the discussion was inspiring and exciting . So many opportunities but when!!!! That keeps coming up again and again and today it is a gorgeous day outside and I am in here doing this -- finding it interesting but also wanting to be outside:)
All of the links in this part of the project are very cool and have many uses ---- including the KRIS ones. Must come back to this. Even Matapihi is updating itself to include more of the things we now expect in that sort of historical but current encyclopedia format.
Working in the cloud is good in theo...
Working in the cloud is good in theory and in practice for some areas. If you want your docs to move with you ( from one office to another or one country to another), if you want a completely flexible place to save things, such as when you are using computers which are not yours ( in the library, at a cafe etc), or if you do not have the software available any other way. Excellent. But if your connection to the internet is slow, and it still is in many places ( including the South Learning Centre offices and my home in the country) , using the clouds is too slow and frustrating to make it an full time alternative.
Has potential though. I used it a couple of years ago to store travel itineraries with accommodation details and transfer details and could access them anywhere and could also share the access links with others and they could also access the most up to date docs and details .
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
cloud computing
I heard a discussion on the radio in the last couple of weeks and wanted to put a link to it in here BUT now I can't find the exact discussion but this one is also interesting.
Radio NZ
Radio NZ
productivity and public machines
the range of facilities on the Library public machines are very impressive. It is interesting though how many different ways there are now of editing pictures, playing with music etc and to become proficient wiht all the new ones is a time consuming challenge. I suppose it will always be the problem with new technologies being developed each one with something in it which is jsut a bit better than the last version. This aspect was a good point for discussion at our feedback session yesterday. I think it means we just have to keep on learning and challenging our heads. Yippee!!!!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
passing on facebook
Well two people are now more users than they were. Geoff's 89 year old mum has her picture profile up, has altered her details so she is not quite as exposed to the world, has accepted some friends and we talked about chat but that was just too much for the one session. She was very excited about being able to see pictures of how her grandchildren and can now see a bit!!! more of their lives.
My sister-in-law, a teacher, had an account as well but was very wary about using it and having too many people wanting to be her friend and becoming her friend with out her permission.She sorted out her privacy boundaries and deleted all the suggested friends so they do not keep popping up. She now has to decided about being her childrens friend or not. Chat was more useful to her and so w had a wee look at that but now she can just play as much as she likes. Two short and sweet well focussed sessions with lots of play and explore and time for practice.
My sister-in-law, a teacher, had an account as well but was very wary about using it and having too many people wanting to be her friend and becoming her friend with out her permission.She sorted out her privacy boundaries and deleted all the suggested friends so they do not keep popping up. She now has to decided about being her childrens friend or not. Chat was more useful to her and so w had a wee look at that but now she can just play as much as she likes. Two short and sweet well focussed sessions with lots of play and explore and time for practice.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
well wikis !!!!!!
Backwards and forwards, round and round, edit save edit don't save....... then remember to save!!!!
I did not follow the best route but a bit like being a scientist of some form, I experimented and came to a conclusion through a series of indifferent and not very satisfactory results. Not the most efficient way but I think I will remember it. So long as I do it again in the near future.
I did not follow the best route but a bit like being a scientist of some form, I experimented and came to a conclusion through a series of indifferent and not very satisfactory results. Not the most efficient way but I think I will remember it. So long as I do it again in the near future.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies
Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies
A continuation of the social networking part of the CCllearn programme. I was searching for things ot support the session I am running at the South Learning Centre tomorrow on social networks and found this article. An interesting diversion.
A continuation of the social networking part of the CCllearn programme. I was searching for things ot support the session I am running at the South Learning Centre tomorrow on social networks and found this article. An interesting diversion.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
social networking by libraries -quite a cool idea
A jolly good idea. I was checking through the list on the wiki
and one site in particular stood out -- Hennepin Library -- especially for what we do at the learning centres. They have on their Facebook page, links to a number of movies created for their "quiet on the set" short movie competition. The Dewey Dating system one was quaint - made me smile -- and could be used in a number of different ways-- but the others looked worth exploring. Not sure what the age range was as I haven't checked that out.
Can't do everything at the moment as I am trying to catch up on these tasks.
The link on the wiki to to the My space site for Arapahoe library was not what I expected and reinforced my lack of interest in My Space as a social networking tool. My hair is too grey.
As with all of this sort of thing or any marketing there is still the question of HOW do you get people to go the Facebook page or whatever. If they don't see it or become involved it is not really very useful after all just a fun toy for the people who run it and it does need someone to run it or oversee it as the Social Networking librarian blog comments on. I know a number of people who are Facebook addicts ( they have a lot of time on their hands) and they could even become library addicts if we teased them into it through a medium they are already using.
That is another topic again-- What did these people do with their time before such things came along????
One thing I am getting from this CCllearn programme is the knowledge that I need many many more hours in the day to explore all the things which are or possibly are relevant to my role. I just tried to reserve the book
Castles against ignorance: how to make libraries great educational environments
from our library catalogue to do some more reading. Only copy in NZ is at North shore libraries and I am not that dedicated.
The whole thing has potential though.
and one site in particular stood out -- Hennepin Library -- especially for what we do at the learning centres. They have on their Facebook page, links to a number of movies created for their "quiet on the set" short movie competition. The Dewey Dating system one was quaint - made me smile -- and could be used in a number of different ways-- but the others looked worth exploring. Not sure what the age range was as I haven't checked that out.
Can't do everything at the moment as I am trying to catch up on these tasks.
The link on the wiki to to the My space site for Arapahoe library was not what I expected and reinforced my lack of interest in My Space as a social networking tool. My hair is too grey.
As with all of this sort of thing or any marketing there is still the question of HOW do you get people to go the Facebook page or whatever. If they don't see it or become involved it is not really very useful after all just a fun toy for the people who run it and it does need someone to run it or oversee it as the Social Networking librarian blog comments on. I know a number of people who are Facebook addicts ( they have a lot of time on their hands) and they could even become library addicts if we teased them into it through a medium they are already using.
That is another topic again-- What did these people do with their time before such things came along????
One thing I am getting from this CCllearn programme is the knowledge that I need many many more hours in the day to explore all the things which are or possibly are relevant to my role. I just tried to reserve the book
Castles against ignorance: how to make libraries great educational environments
from our library catalogue to do some more reading. Only copy in NZ is at North shore libraries and I am not that dedicated.
The whole thing has potential though.
Trying to make an effort but if only the swine would fly
The swine has entered our house and although it kids you sometimes into believing it has gone away as soon as you sit down and try to do something which requires a bit of concentration or perseverance it comes back and foils the best attempts.
So a small entry and I am off for another hot lemon drink and a wee lie down. I may be able to trick it later and get more of the CCllearn programme done.
So a small entry and I am off for another hot lemon drink and a wee lie down. I may be able to trick it later and get more of the CCllearn programme done.
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