JAK

MY JOURNEY OF LEARNING

2007-08-01T19:29:00.002-07:00

Phew! finished at long last, I think my poor old brain has worked overtime, but anyhow thanks Donna for the insight of things to come, it was certainly a learning experience and then some. Also a big thankyou to Debbie who has helped me when I became stuck (thanks Debbie, you are a star!)
I particularly liked Flickr, the generator blog which was fun and Wikis. The social networking sites I'm not particularly keen on, probably because its not me but I know my 13 year old granddaughter and her friends are on Bebo all the time and I can see how you can get hooked. It's interesting to see that 'Facebook' which won an award for best social site is actually 'blocked' by UCOL.
The whole exercise has taken up a lot of time but I think it was well worth it, the only thing that I got annoyed and frustrated with was the many logins and passwords setting up accounts, I now have a whole page full of usernames and logins.
Would I do another one? Mmmmm would have to think about that

FREE AUDIO BOOKS

2007-08-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

I went into freedigitalcontent and then into Myths and Mysteries, there is some really funny stuff here especially the one about gumboots

PODCASTS

2007-08-01T16:36:00.000-07:00

Had a play on this and found a really good site called SirsiDynix Institute, it had a podcast on 'Engaging youth on their own time' It was more geared to a Public Library but a lot of information was also appropriate to an educational library. It talked about how teenagers see a library and how we could make the library easy and friendly for them to use e.g. IM (instant messaging) how the young ones like this because it is quick to use and in real time and will actually add the library to their buddy list because they feel it is safe.
Another one is 'myspace' where once they login they can access the library's databases. Have added it to my netvibes page.

YouTube

2007-07-31T16:38:00.000-07:00

This was fun, I can see how you can get hooked onto it. Debbie helped me download a Goodnight Kiwi Ad (remember those) my kids loved them, I think one of them even had a pillowslip with a big "Goodnight Kiwi" on it

Updated: Goodnight Kiwi

2007-07-31T16:36:00.001-07:00

Zoho Writer

2007-07-25T18:38:00.000-07:00

This was quite good actually the more you practice on it the better and easier it is to use, had some good features that Microsoft Office doesn't have but you are limited in other things like variety of fonts and their sizes but anyhow have tagged it to my del.icio.us favourites so I can access it from home

Technorati

2007-07-25T18:34:00.000-07:00

I wasn't that keen on this, found it a bit of a challenge, but put my blog name in and found it was fourth on the list out of over 700, not bad eh! (I'm thinking perhaps the newest ones go to the top of the list)

Wikis

2007-07-25T18:29:00.000-07:00

I've looked at a couple of Wiki sites and can see how useful they would be especially for the Information Services Team. I particularly liked St Joseph's County Public Library, it was well set out and easy to follow with heaps of community information and where to go. I also liked the idea of the basic free computer classes they offer

del.icio.us

2007-07-16T19:02:00.000-07:00

Thanks Donna for coming over to Wangas and helping us, I now have a better understanding of delicious and tagging and have added flickr and delicious to my netvibes page

Skype

2007-07-10T15:06:00.000-07:00

Had a bit of trouble getting Skype up and running this week, but thanks to Erilyn its all go, had a chat with Debbie. MSN, I already have an account

Library Thing

2007-07-04T16:34:00.000-07:00

This was quite easy and simple to do, though I'm thinking I probably wont use it

My sketch

2007-07-04T16:27:00.000-07:00

Flickr

2007-06-19T13:40:00.000-07:00

I'm finding this is taking up so much time, oh dear another e-mail address and password to remember but apart from that Flickr is really great

RSS feeds

2007-06-19T13:32:00.000-07:00

I've posted some RSS feeds on Netvibes but I'm finding that there is so much on the page its hard to read, it looks 'too busy' to me but that is just my opinion

My trading Card

2007-06-18T19:09:00.000-07:00

The journey begins....

2007-06-04T18:44:00.000-07:00

I found this really easy to do probably because I already had an account with google