I've been interested in podcasts because I'm a NPR fan -- I like listening to their radio broadcasts. I am familiar with their website and love to pass on their audio commentaries to friends and family when they are interesting. So I listened to a Fresh Air broadcast and have put a link to this program which is on air 5 days a week on my browser view. I'll be able to easily listen to the noontime broadcasts whenever I want to from my computer. Then I tried to download one of the programs to my MP3 player and wasn't successful. It seems to synchronize up to 50% and then disappears. I should have enough space on it so I don't know what's the problem. I'll try again.
I was frustrated that my YouTube broadcast was squeezed into the rectangular box but now I realize that it's just a teaser and you click on it to link to the video.
I love to listen and love using my MP3 player for books so it's an easy leap for me to go to podcasts. I just have to get to the point where I find it an easy task to download and that'll come. It took me a while to do books from the library catalog but now I do it without trouble.
It was good to look through all the offerings on the podcast sites. Mind boggling what's out there.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Thing 16 You Tube
I brought in a You Tube video of a storyteller I admire but somehow it came in a long rectangle on the side of the blog. Not very successful to view but I was pleased again that my copying html worked. Have to re-do. (I took it off and will try again.)
I enjoyed the library tours, jokes, musical, etc. Would love to have a funny library tour on our website but it would take some good writing and filming.
I enjoyed the library tours, jokes, musical, etc. Would love to have a funny library tour on our website but it would take some good writing and filming.
thing 15 Rollyo
Well, I feel triumphant that I copied and pasted the html for Rollyo into my blog successfully after it not working with Library Thing.
I did like the readymade grouping of great websites for travel. I will definitely be checking there to prepare for the next trip for wanderwoman.
I am amused by the Star power website gatherers -- funny to see what celebrities are using for their website surfing but probably it's just Rollyo doing some marketing.
I can definitely see that Rollyo could be used at the reference desk. In a sense we have it already in our bookmark collection but this is a great way to personalize and winnow out what you really use and find valuable.
I did like the readymade grouping of great websites for travel. I will definitely be checking there to prepare for the next trip for wanderwoman.
I am amused by the Star power website gatherers -- funny to see what celebrities are using for their website surfing but probably it's just Rollyo doing some marketing.
I can definitely see that Rollyo could be used at the reference desk. In a sense we have it already in our bookmark collection but this is a great way to personalize and winnow out what you really use and find valuable.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Thing 13
Library Thing
Very interesting-- I've wondered about it so I was glad to be introduced to its possibilities. I like knowing that I can add book covers to my posts. I signed in and took the tour. I do feel like saying that instead of doing Library Thing "I'd rather be Reading" but it's a valuable tool. I did look up the book I had just started and the postings immediately told me more than I wanted to know. Spoilers on the plot. I do like the announcements of what's happening locally in the book world.
Very interesting-- I've wondered about it so I was glad to be introduced to its possibilities. I like knowing that I can add book covers to my posts. I signed in and took the tour. I do feel like saying that instead of doing Library Thing "I'd rather be Reading" but it's a valuable tool. I did look up the book I had just started and the postings immediately told me more than I wanted to know. Spoilers on the plot. I do like the announcements of what's happening locally in the book world.
thing 13
My attempt at using html to add a Library Thing widget didn't work out so well. I'll see about getting help.
Thing 14
I admit it- these things left me cold. I have done a MY Yahoo page and use it to check on some of the things I want to know about repeatedly. But an online to do list and a countdown widget just smack of overproduction for me. I put stuff in my Outlook calendar at work for other people but really prefer the old paper version. Writing things down imprints them in my memory and I don't want a computer to be on all the time so why do all this stuff online? I suppose the sharing part might be useful but again, there are some of my staff who don't check in online often enough to make this workable.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thing 12
Wikis--
I do agree with the teachers asking students to look further than wikipedia when doing the usual school report that is easily findable in a more authoritative source. They should be teaching the kids to look further than than their noses (ie a google search that brings up a wikipedia article)-- that's what school is for and they should be establishing good habits they'll hold onto.
Hey, I confess I have read Wikipedia articles -- sometimes it's the only place to find out about a defunct tv series or some celebrity gossip. I admire it for its far-reaching subject matter --there's lots of stuff that only a wikipedist will cover.
Of course all this self publishing and treating everyone in hearing range to your telephone conversations is a change for society that we won't understand the impact of for decades.
I added a comment to the 23things Wiki. Just an exercise to join my comment and my name to others I saw there.
I have tried the floating collection wiki we're using at work. Good idea in theory and I admire the creator for putting it up. Wikis have amazing potential if you have avid followers. My son (sorry if you're tired of hearing about them, folks) used a wiki to plan a group camping trip to great advantage.
I read through the library practices wiki and some of the others. Some looked like they had been started and abandoned or at least didn't seem recently used. I can see that easily happening. I will have to think hard about doing anything like that because it seems that once on the web, always on the web and I don't find abandoned property desirable.
I do agree with the teachers asking students to look further than wikipedia when doing the usual school report that is easily findable in a more authoritative source. They should be teaching the kids to look further than than their noses (ie a google search that brings up a wikipedia article)-- that's what school is for and they should be establishing good habits they'll hold onto.
Hey, I confess I have read Wikipedia articles -- sometimes it's the only place to find out about a defunct tv series or some celebrity gossip. I admire it for its far-reaching subject matter --there's lots of stuff that only a wikipedist will cover.
Of course all this self publishing and treating everyone in hearing range to your telephone conversations is a change for society that we won't understand the impact of for decades.
I added a comment to the 23things Wiki. Just an exercise to join my comment and my name to others I saw there.
I have tried the floating collection wiki we're using at work. Good idea in theory and I admire the creator for putting it up. Wikis have amazing potential if you have avid followers. My son (sorry if you're tired of hearing about them, folks) used a wiki to plan a group camping trip to great advantage.
I read through the library practices wiki and some of the others. Some looked like they had been started and abandoned or at least didn't seem recently used. I can see that easily happening. I will have to think hard about doing anything like that because it seems that once on the web, always on the web and I don't find abandoned property desirable.
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