First I took the tour which was very short and simple but very informative. At first I thought it was like Shelfari but it is so much more. I added 2 titles from my home library and it was neat to see other people who owned the same books as well as comments and reccomendations. I loved the idea of pulling up your home collection while browsing your local bookstore and comparing titles.
I read all of the articles and find the I See Dead People's Books the most intersting just to browse the personal collections of famous people. The Marc and ISBN features sounded intersting but I do very little cataloging at my library (It's done at another location) so I probably would not use these features.
I think I may use this in my library just as a resource if nothing else. The groups that are available to join would certainly benefit with networking and collaborating. Right now I will stick with my free membership and forgo the upgrade.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
#15 Digg
For this thing, I opted to just browse Digg to see what exciting news I could find.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the News, Images, Videos Most Recent Posts. The top news story was changing right before my eyes every 5 minutes. How cool was that. It went from Paula Abdul quitting Idol to Ling being released from N. Korea. I feel like these are the stories that the people really are interested in reading rather than the news posts on Yahoo that the company wants me to read. I will definitely look at this more often.
The next thing I did was look at the top story in a subject category and read the comments. It was neat to see all the people who dugg the article and made comments on it. The article I read was on organic food and the readers had alot of opinions on this subject. I learned alot from the comments. This is truly a people's news forum. I really dig Digg!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the News, Images, Videos Most Recent Posts. The top news story was changing right before my eyes every 5 minutes. How cool was that. It went from Paula Abdul quitting Idol to Ling being released from N. Korea. I feel like these are the stories that the people really are interested in reading rather than the news posts on Yahoo that the company wants me to read. I will definitely look at this more often.
The next thing I did was look at the top story in a subject category and read the comments. It was neat to see all the people who dugg the article and made comments on it. The article I read was on organic food and the readers had alot of opinions on this subject. I learned alot from the comments. This is truly a people's news forum. I really dig Digg!
#14 Delicious
I created a Delicious account a few years ago and really never used it. I didn't know about the different buttons and now that I have the Bookmark on Delicious button I will use this Web 2.0 tool alot more. Now when I want to bookmark a website I can bookmark it in both my Favorites and Delicious at the same time. This is awesome.
This time, I imported a folder and added 3 bookmarks to my Delicious Account.I really like the concept and plan to try and use it more diligently. I really think we are moving to a Digital Desktop concept and this is just part of it. Plus I like having accesss to my bookmarks on more than one computer.
Here is the link to my Delicious page
http://delicious.com/hkrum
This time, I imported a folder and added 3 bookmarks to my Delicious Account.I really like the concept and plan to try and use it more diligently. I really think we are moving to a Digital Desktop concept and this is just part of it. Plus I like having accesss to my bookmarks on more than one computer.
Here is the link to my Delicious page
http://delicious.com/hkrum
#13 Tagging
My first experience with tagging was with Delicious and I was just feeling uncomfortable about the entire concept. After all how could people just pull words out of the air and attach meaning to a website??? I like a controlled vocabulary for many different reasons such as authority control, stemming etc.
Now when I post new messages to blogs, I see there is a place to enter tags so tagging is really the rule for 2.0. I am still shy about doing it but I have entered a few tags in my books reviews for Shelfari.
As far as using it in my library, I think its going to happen no matter what. We are incorporating blogs with the students and advocating Shelfari to the reading classes so students will just be adding tags in a matter of time. I get a little fearful about that to be honest. How do you think an 8th grader would tag a book review he/she wrote on the Graveyard by Neil Gaiman. You might get "scary" or "spooky" certainly not "horror" or "mystery". I just need to overcome my fears as a librarian and learn to embrace the positive aspects of it which is creating a community of users who want to share their subject labels on various web content.
Now when I post new messages to blogs, I see there is a place to enter tags so tagging is really the rule for 2.0. I am still shy about doing it but I have entered a few tags in my books reviews for Shelfari.
As far as using it in my library, I think its going to happen no matter what. We are incorporating blogs with the students and advocating Shelfari to the reading classes so students will just be adding tags in a matter of time. I get a little fearful about that to be honest. How do you think an 8th grader would tag a book review he/she wrote on the Graveyard by Neil Gaiman. You might get "scary" or "spooky" certainly not "horror" or "mystery". I just need to overcome my fears as a librarian and learn to embrace the positive aspects of it which is creating a community of users who want to share their subject labels on various web content.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
#12 Twitter
I created a Twitter account, selected my background and imported my picture. I then found that I already had a follower. How exciting! I immediately started searching for people and groups to follow. That was tons of fun because I found Neil
Gaimen in the list and began to follow him. I am enjoying the learning curve for this. I sent a direct message to my follower.
I did a search for #ALA2009 and found some tweets on the conference. I did not find the Advanced Search feature it mentions.
I selected several groups to follow including the White House. I am excited to read the tweets that come to me and develop more courage to send tweets. I had fun doing this thing.
As far as the application to my middle school library, I am not sure of all of the possibilities yet.
Gaimen in the list and began to follow him. I am enjoying the learning curve for this. I sent a direct message to my follower.
I did a search for #ALA2009 and found some tweets on the conference. I did not find the Advanced Search feature it mentions.
I selected several groups to follow including the White House. I am excited to read the tweets that come to me and develop more courage to send tweets. I had fun doing this thing.
As far as the application to my middle school library, I am not sure of all of the possibilities yet.
#11 Instant Messenging
I have a Yahoo account so I went right to the chat feature and added some friends but no luck in getting a chat together. It's kind of hit and miss if people are at their computer. I used to chat quite a bit but found that texting via cell phones has become more popular with the students and my own family.
I noticed that Yahoo Messenger does have a couple of new features where you can chat on your Mobile phone and you can save a history of your chat messages which is cool.
We are not allowed to text at school but I think this would be a great feature for faculty to be able to text me when they needed something immediately. I will definitely bring this to the attention of my library director.
As far as the list of shortcuts, well it was exhausting! Don't think I will spend alot of time studying it but it's nice to know there is such a large list.
I have chosen not to give my Yahoo User ID here on this blog for privacy reasons.
I noticed that Yahoo Messenger does have a couple of new features where you can chat on your Mobile phone and you can save a history of your chat messages which is cool.
We are not allowed to text at school but I think this would be a great feature for faculty to be able to text me when they needed something immediately. I will definitely bring this to the attention of my library director.
As far as the list of shortcuts, well it was exhausting! Don't think I will spend alot of time studying it but it's nice to know there is such a large list.
I have chosen not to give my Yahoo User ID here on this blog for privacy reasons.
#10 Ning
This was a fun experience. I went to the ALA network and watched the Open Source video but what I liked better was the "I've Been Everywhere" video with Johnny Cash's song in the background. What a hoot! I loved seeing all of those ALA bulletins and journal covers throughout the years.
I also found a TWU SLIS group which led me to an Alumni group for TWU SLIS graduates. This was totally cool as I couldn't find anything like this on Facebook. So Ning has social networks that Facebook doesn't and vice versa. I also liked that you could look at the network without joining Ning.
I did a search for women's health and found a few good networks for women's fittness over 40 which was neat. I had no idea anything like this existed in the 2.0 world.
The Ning tutorial was pretty informative and I really think the content on Ning is very user friendly. I opted out of joining Ning this time as I think Facebook will be enough for me to keep track as far as time is concerned.
I also found a TWU SLIS group which led me to an Alumni group for TWU SLIS graduates. This was totally cool as I couldn't find anything like this on Facebook. So Ning has social networks that Facebook doesn't and vice versa. I also liked that you could look at the network without joining Ning.
I did a search for women's health and found a few good networks for women's fittness over 40 which was neat. I had no idea anything like this existed in the 2.0 world.
The Ning tutorial was pretty informative and I really think the content on Ning is very user friendly. I opted out of joining Ning this time as I think Facebook will be enough for me to keep track as far as time is concerned.
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