Week 6 Thing 15
I loved the "libraries as mind gyms" part of Dr. Schultz's article. I think that's great phrasing! "Knowledge spa" ... She was inspired!
Librarians are all about service and that won't change. We are the information experts who know where to find the right resources. In school libraries, teachers and students sometimes don't even know the right questions to ask and school librarians help them figure that out too. Library 2.0 shows libraries are evolving to keep up with the world of knowledge that is evolving. We'll weed out the old and add in the new and continue to meet the information needs of our patrons.
I'd like to see more of how school libraries are venturing into 2.0. I know blogging may find a place, and I've seen schools using wikis-that's a start- but it's a little hard to imagine it all coming together smoothly. I guess we'll see...
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Week 6 Thing 14
Explored Technorati, but I don't know when I'd use this. I did a search for "library" and for "school library", but the blogs weren't what I was looking for. It picked up the words used in blogs, but the blogs actually had very little to do with my tags; they were used as asides in conversations about other things. (It didn't matter which authority I selected.) Maybe I need to discuss with a librarian who is using Technorati in some practical (and efficient) way in order to see its value to me. Even if a student wanted an opinion on some topic from a blog located this way, it seems like it would take a lot of false leads to get at whatever they wanted.
I've been slow to post for Week 6 (#13 and #14) because everytime I would visit the sites I'd get "lost" and feel kind of aimless on them. There's this time crunch at work and home where I want information and results quickly and both Delicious and Technorati slowed me down. I asked a teenager if she used either, but she said no. I don't know if the sites are blocked at my school (most other web 2.0 sites are, so I assume these are), but if students don't use them and I can 't access them, I probably won't be using them either.
Explored Technorati, but I don't know when I'd use this. I did a search for "library" and for "school library", but the blogs weren't what I was looking for. It picked up the words used in blogs, but the blogs actually had very little to do with my tags; they were used as asides in conversations about other things. (It didn't matter which authority I selected.) Maybe I need to discuss with a librarian who is using Technorati in some practical (and efficient) way in order to see its value to me. Even if a student wanted an opinion on some topic from a blog located this way, it seems like it would take a lot of false leads to get at whatever they wanted.
I've been slow to post for Week 6 (#13 and #14) because everytime I would visit the sites I'd get "lost" and feel kind of aimless on them. There's this time crunch at work and home where I want information and results quickly and both Delicious and Technorati slowed me down. I asked a teenager if she used either, but she said no. I don't know if the sites are blocked at my school (most other web 2.0 sites are, so I assume these are), but if students don't use them and I can 't access them, I probably won't be using them either.
Week 6 Thing 13
Explored the Delicious social bookmarking site. It's nice to know about it, I guess. I read about the tags and I get it. I remember a time when I was instructed to create a log of great sites I liked (way back when, in a grad. library class on technology) on a floppy disc and annotate them so I could return to them when I might like to use them again. Well, that just didn't work too well once there were a lot of them. Using folders seemed like a better way to go, but sometimes it was hard to remember what folder a site got organized into once there were lots of folders. So, yeah, tags makes sense...if I can think ahead as to what future needs I might have for a site. For example, if I use "psychology" or "mental health" or "biography" as tags, I could then access it easier and use the same website on say Elizabeth Kubler Ross for 3 different classes that might want to use it: psych class, health occupations, and English class (biographies).
Explored the Delicious social bookmarking site. It's nice to know about it, I guess. I read about the tags and I get it. I remember a time when I was instructed to create a log of great sites I liked (way back when, in a grad. library class on technology) on a floppy disc and annotate them so I could return to them when I might like to use them again. Well, that just didn't work too well once there were a lot of them. Using folders seemed like a better way to go, but sometimes it was hard to remember what folder a site got organized into once there were lots of folders. So, yeah, tags makes sense...if I can think ahead as to what future needs I might have for a site. For example, if I use "psychology" or "mental health" or "biography" as tags, I could then access it easier and use the same website on say Elizabeth Kubler Ross for 3 different classes that might want to use it: psych class, health occupations, and English class (biographies).
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Week 5 Thing 12
I visit Rollyo. Maybe I don't get it; I did a search for "teen books" and it let me search "the web" : "Custom Web Results: Matched about 344,000,000". Isn't that like a google search results number?! I tried Google for a comparison and from Google got : "Results ... about 46,900,000 for teen books". Just interesting, that's all.
I guess from the results, I chose the ones I particularly like for my own Rollyo search engine? Am I getting this right? If I did that, could I then search those for an author and get links to reviews on any of the sites on my listing? I may have to experiment another time with that idea.
I visit Rollyo. Maybe I don't get it; I did a search for "teen books" and it let me search "the web" : "Custom Web Results: Matched about 344,000,000". Isn't that like a google search results number?! I tried Google for a comparison and from Google got : "Results ... about 46,900,000 for teen books". Just interesting, that's all.
I guess from the results, I chose the ones I particularly like for my own Rollyo search engine? Am I getting this right? If I did that, could I then search those for an author and get links to reviews on any of the sites on my listing? I may have to experiment another time with that idea.
Week 5 Thing 11
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ccte1
I added some books I read to my list on Library Thing. I like that I can then see what other readers wrote in their reviews (even if I don't agree with a few).
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ccte1
I added some books I read to my list on Library Thing. I like that I can then see what other readers wrote in their reviews (even if I don't agree with a few).
Monday, May 4, 2009
Week 4 Thing 9: RSS Feeds
I added NPR RSS (top news stories) to my bloglines, too. I explored Merlin, etc.
Old habits are hard to break, though. I tend to want to just google a topic I'm interested in and not all the websites have RSS feeds when I get a good site that way. If there was a good library display ideas blog/site, or a teen book talking/review blog/site that had RSS feeds, I'd be interested in adding them. I'm open to suggestions, so I'll be interested in what everyone decides to add to their bloglines list.
I added NPR RSS (top news stories) to my bloglines, too. I explored Merlin, etc.
Old habits are hard to break, though. I tend to want to just google a topic I'm interested in and not all the websites have RSS feeds when I get a good site that way. If there was a good library display ideas blog/site, or a teen book talking/review blog/site that had RSS feeds, I'd be interested in adding them. I'm open to suggestions, so I'll be interested in what everyone decides to add to their bloglines list.
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