#18 (Week 8). Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools

I think zoho writer is a useful word processor to use, especially for people who do not have a computer at home. But it is very convenient that I can use it without an internet connection. It would be a great place to save documents temporally or to add or edit documents. It was fun just playing around with letters, thinking that I can edit anything the way I like to see in the printed version.

Benjamin Bunny

One morning a little rabbit sat on a bank. He pricked his ears and listened to the trit-trot, trit-trot of a pony.

A gig was coming along the road; it was driven by Mr. McGregor, and beside him sat Mrs McGregor in her best bonnet.

 

2/28/2010#18 exercise zoho writer

#17 (Week 7) Playing around with PBWiki

I really enjoyed the exercise as it adds to my experience. However at first I was slightly confused as I was unable to comprehend the first task. I thought we were able to directly sign in using the "aclweb20" password, yet I was sadly mistaken. I didn't know that we were required to create an account using that password. After finishing all the tasks I can now sign into the "ACL PB Wiki" page and add links. I think it's great, as I can read others' blogs and see how they are going, I personally view this as a great tool for us librarians to be able to use.

#16 (Week 7). Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.

I really enjoy using Wikipedia, its very useful and even has 'simple English' as a language which is great when its written using the topic jargon that you don't quite understand. From reading "Library Success: A Best Practises Wiki", I found it very interesting and think its cool that through wikis us librarians from all over the world can write ideas and such so other librarians can see. Looking at wiki sites every now and again could really benefit us to improving with lots of new ideas.

#15 (week 6) On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

I read "Where will the next generation of the web take libraries??", "Into a new world of librarianship" and "To a temporary place in time".
To me, Library 2.0 is librarians expanding their knowledge of technology so it makes life generally easier for ourselves and patrons. Steriotypically, librarians are seen to only have knowledge about books and authors. But as the years go by, technology and the internet sometimes overtake books due to the internet being so convienient for finding information, if you know how to use it correctly. For the society, we must 'keep-up' with whats new despite our age to guide patrons to the right website or place for their needs. In the future, I see the library to be a place where people come to for advice on things such as finding helpful sites on book forums or any other topic or website.

#14 (week 6) Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

When I searched "Learning 2.0" under posts, lots of random resuls came up that had nothing to do with learning! The results included fashion, business, mapping etc. I noticed that the words I searched were split into "learning" and "2.0", hence the random results. Whereas when I searched "Learning 2.0" under blogs only one result came up. I was relieved when I saw http://learning2.0.elearningplaceblog.com as the single result was the correct one. As an assistant I think we could use this site to help patrons find blogs about what ever their interests may be.

#8 (week 3) Play around with Image Generators

I edited this image using http://www.letterjames.com and browsed around their categories to find an image I liked. I found this easy to use, despite the homepage being a bit confusing at first. Seeing as all I have to do is type in the words I want and the code to preview it, I'm amazed that you can do such things these days.

#7(Week 3). Edit Your Own Images

I firstly googled a picture of 'teapots', I saves the image and then uploaded it onto Picnik. I then clicked on the 'create' tab and then into 'effects'. I playes around with afew but cancelled untill I decided to go with the Matte option. I clicked onto the Valentines Day tab and found a frame with the cute hearts. After that I went into the stickers tab, and added the 3 stickers of the cat, heart, and gingerbread man. I really enjoyed this site and can see myself using this to personalise photos for seasonal cards because its so easy to use! The only thing that wasn't so great about this site is the 'premium' option which restricted me a little.

Week 6 - Del.icio.us

I found Del.icio.us easy to use, although having to create a yahoo account to make a Del.icio.us account was quite a hassle for me. Ignoring that obsticle, I think this site would be very useful to show my friends which sites I'm in to and vice versa. On the side of the bookmark, the numbers that show how many others have bookmarked it is really amazing. Just by browsing around the links on Del.icio.us, I was amazed to find people bookmarking on sites that aren't so mainstream. I wouldn't recommend Del.icio.us as a tool for research assistance, only for general interest.

Twitter Week 5

http://twitter.com/20tulip

I found Twitter very easy and straight foward to use. I really like how there is a blue tick next to celebrities, so then I know that I'm following the real person. Twitter is fun but I don't quite understand the need to so called 'tweet', its like you're just telling everyone what you're doing all the time. Reading what celebrities write, and knowing that they actually wrote it is rather intriguing. I enjoy using Twitter, but I can't imagine myself using this site on a daily basis.

Week 5

My LT Search Box is in my previous post, I would move it to this blog but I wasn't quite sure of how to delete posts on Blogspot.

I really like Library Thing because its so easy to use and is very useful! I was suprised that the correct authors name came up straight after I searched a book title, making it easier for me as a LT user. As an assistant at the library, this site can be very handy. If a patron is asking for me to recommend them a book, I could recommend this site so then they could see what everyone else is reading. Obviously, I'd recommend books I've read also but if their taste is different to mine this site would work well to help them.

My Trading Card

This is the trading card I made. I am so amazed to know that there are sites that can do things like this!

#6 (Week 3)

In Flickr, I like how you can upload your photos with 3rd party applications so that you can share it with all your friends and family that I don't see very often. I very much like the idea of the mashups but for me personally I don't think it would come of much use as I don't tweet very much. Putting my personal life aside, I think that 3rd party tools and mashups work very well together and make it much easier to share the photos you've just uploaded. Whoever thought of these ideas for sites sure must be smart!