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Hi all, Welcome to my blog - it was easier to get this blog working again from 13 years ago, rather than creating a new blog in WordPress......
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Eewee on Klickety
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
What is that other University up to?
I was looking at Lisa's library learnings and her Youtube download on 2nd life. One of the items that came up below at the end of the show was from a Murdoch librarian. It was interesting to see how they were seeing it was useful, and how they were controlling the useage of 2nd life within the library setting.
I enjoyed our last meeting, can't wait to see the pic's.
Klickety
Monday, June 11, 2007
Web 2.0 Done
Learning 2.0 Finale
I tended towards my favourite addiction: mapping. I checked out www.wayfaring.com , but the map just did not show up, but the tags did. I think it is great to be able to tag where you have been on a trip and write a little speel about each point. I started doing this on maps.google.com , this was more successful than wayfaring. It was good because once you have your google sign on there are so many applications that you can use, where as with wayfaring I needed yet another sign on. I found however that even after saving my work, it did not show up the next time I signed into it. Perhaps I needed to look for the link somewhere. There is another similar application that I have bookmarked on my home computer that I can't remember the title. (This is where Del.icio.us would have come in handy) it shows you the distances between tags. I have used it to measure my jogging distance around Yokine reserve and found I was not doing 5km as I was guessing I was. It is a bit like an online pedometer.
As far as library applications, I could not really find any use within a library other than perhaps a link on the library homepage to show where we are on the map of Perth.
I also checked out some Widgets, bookmarking and travel sites. I can see how Widgets could come in handy if you chose an appropriate item. I would think it just clutters up your screen a bit more though, not something I would go for.
Klickety.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Trying again with Youtube
I failed to be able to get my video from Yahoo video to my blog. So RS & NH had better luck in Youtube, which I have followed with some success! This one was just a bit of fun.
I found a good library podcast on Podcast alley "Library Geeks" which was easily added to my bloglines. I have already made a podcast for the library. I found it quite difficult as the SOE does not support ITunes, and I needed this listen to my blog. But there is some very helpful people out in the ECU community who gave a hand. Also trying to get my hands on a Mac was difficult at the beginning, and it would wipe whatever work I would do as I moved from campus to campus. So I found making a podcast for ECU quite challenging. There is so much more you could do, but it is hard to get the time, always something new to move onto!
Klickety
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Yahoo Video comes to Klickety
As far as libraries go, I can see useage for embedding tours and tutorials on our website. Students could rate them with the star system, or comment to others if they are worth watching or not. When searching Yahoo video last night, I found a lot of video's I could not watch as they were embedded elsewhere, so that was frustrating. I guess the same could happen to others. It would be easy to waste a lot of time trying to find something usefull.
Social Tagging
Having your own bookmarks follow you around is nifty as well. Although my own bookmarks are very different from work to home, I can see how well it would suit students moving from one environment to another.
I am beginning to enjoy the interactivity of it all. Been seeing comments on our blogs, not just by us! It is a bit of a buzz to think someone else thinks it is worth having a look at your blog, even if it is just to tell you they like your colour coordination!
Klickety
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Had the 2nd life, looking for a 3rd
I did venture to Info Island to find it was really very empty. To me it seems a bit silly to go to 2nd life for information when it is just a click away anyway. I can see the benefit of getting people together and meeting librarians from all over the world, it is a great place to meet and exchange ideas if you are stuck here in Perth.
2nd life seems to be mostly about chatting idly, dancing and fun. It will be interesting to see how the Information/ Library part of it expands.
Klickety
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Flikr gets the Flik
My favourite Mashup was the Montagr. I was not sure what to do with it for a long time. Once I got the hang of it I had a great time checking out various topics and creating the montages. Quite a waste of time, but that is what we are here for...Klickety
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
If it had wings it would fly...
I am very excited to have accomplished another milestone in Web 2.0. Spent lots of time playing with passwords for my new Yahoo account which was a bit frustrating.
I have had a great time looking in Flickr. Just looking at one persons photos could take a couple of hours...I tagged, but it did not work when I tried to do the search in Flickr, it came up with all of JG's pics. Maybe it is a matter of time....Klickety
Friday, May 4, 2007
New blogging blooks
Title : Blogging For Dummies
Author : Hill, Brad
eISBN : 9780470007303
price : 21.99
b15386077
o10887453
Title : Videoblogging
Author : Dedman, Jay; Paul, Joshua
eISBN : 9780470079744
price : 29.99
Klickety
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Wiki weadings
As for using it for libraries, I like the idea of being able to add reviews to items in the library catalogue. I think the students could get a lot of of that, I always enjoy reading the comments on Amazon before we purchase. It helps decide if it is worth the effort and cost or not. So I am sure the same could be done with the catalogue. It will be interesting to see if other libraries take it up or not. I would not like to be the first one to do it! It would be very hard to let go of control of the catalogue as well, it is so regimented.
RSS Feeds
I like the idea of putting a lot of the faculty links on to Wikkis, the idea of everyone doing there own work has merit. Being one of the webmasters here, I find it is a lot of work trying to get it to look right. It would be great if everyone in the library could just make up a blog or a wikki the students can link to with all the information needed. They are so easy and look great without a lot of effort. Can't see it happeing though, so it is back to Dreamweaver!
Monday, April 23, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6574839.stm
Also there was an article in the middle of the "Australian" Monday 23rd of April. It was talking about the bad side effects of Web 2.0. How anonymous blogs can mean people can be as evil and menacing as they want. It also may have an effect on politics as it is another form of media that politicians can gauge public opinion by.
Thanks for the comments, I will have to start leaving some on other blogs soon.
Klickety
Friday, April 20, 2007
ECU Web 2 begins
Klickety