YouTube take IV

I must confess to becoming addicted to YouTube and Google video for a day! I discovered a new way to cast on my knitting as well as how to carve a gourd, but did also explore some library YouTubes as instructed. The Rosetta Stone @ your library looked liked fun and the Art Express exhibition was terrific. A few of the library tours were a little dull I must admit.

Uses for YouTube in our library would be for author visits, showcasing of story time activities as well as a walk-through of the proposed plans for our new library building. This would be great for the many members of the public who missed seeing the static posters that were on display for a short time in the library. Also, the plans are constantly evolving as more consultation takes place with the architects so YouTube would showcase the current stage of development.

Embedding took a few goes, but this Rock the library is for my son because he looks a little like these guys and plays the guitar : )

Wikis

I looked at all the examples of Wikis on the list, I was drawn to the Wookieepedia one - what a great play on the word Wikipedia. There is so much to know about Star Wars and fans would have a great time browsing. The Wisconsin Heritage Wiki I thought was difficult to use. The Book Lovers Wiki was great, especially the genre listings.

Posting my own Wiki was good fun, and reading the comments from others in my job position was quite amusing.

The Tasmanian State Library site is so easy to use and has such a clean look. I am totally jealous.

RSS

We had to create another user account to work through this module......it is this particular aspect of the course that has been the subject of a lot of discussion in my workplace. How many user accounts will we all have by the end??
I found it quite easy to follow this module, having had a lot of trouble with Flickr. I feel quite overwhelmed by the volume of material out on the internet and it is also taking me a lot longer to carry out the required tasks. This is due to 2 factors.
1. It is so easy to get distracted on the internet, just to keep clicking and before you know it be somewhere you didn't even know you were going!
2. Our library workstations do not allow us to satisfactorily view the instructional videos so I'm having to use the public internet machines before the library opens.
Having said that I found the module quite easy to work through, I now have discovered that I have forgotten a lot of what I had learned. Anyway, I must post this blog.

Gourds not aprons

After a very frustrating first attempt to post an image on my blog I thought I would try again. A dose of friendly borrowers and satisfied reference enquiries left me feeling calm and confident, so after my opening desk shift was over I tried again. I chose an image of gourds instead of aprons because last summer I grew a crop of gourds and dried them over winter. They are to given away to friends and family because our house is not big enough to hold them all!

I am left feeling a bit worried that this has nothing to do with library work, but nevertheless I am learning something.

I had a lot of trouble uploading an image to my blog. I tried three times before I had success. Then I got strange formatting of the text. I've still got a lot to learn. I might try this exercise again later on but I have to open the library now.

First blog

I hope to gain some level of confidence and comfort in the new and wonderful technologies that have sprung up in my job just lately! I must admit I have some reservations about my abilities at the moment.
I think that Lifelong Learning is therefore just what I need and I look forward to my weekly challenge.
I have not discovered any blogs as I have never gone looking for them before, that is about to change though.
Working at a country public library, I'm not sure about how useful blogs are, and I can see that blogs can take up a fair bit of time. Also availability of computer access for all is a problem, as not everyone has a computer and the older generation have problems using computers.