#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.