Week 7 was Delicious and LibraryThing

Delicious was interesting, I can see that people would find it useful to tag webpages that they find interesting and keep updated with new, related websites. It wuold be useful within a library to share bookmarks with your team to help with research...It would be useful for students to bookmark hsc resources on the web and share with friends. It was a lot of reading in Week 7 and all new to me so I took it slowly...linked Delicious to my blog...
Looked at LibraryThing, linked it to my blog, enjoyed LibraryThing and it improved the look of my blog too.

Week 6 - Embedding a video

Week 6 - Videos online

Week 6 - saw what Youtube and Google Video have to offer, lots of good stuff and not so good stuff, some of the videos filmed in libraries were fun - a good idea for promoting libraries - I think it could be useful as a lighter approach to what services libraries can offer, maybe some good ideas would be filming author visits or special activities held in the library - I am about to embed a video from Youtube into my blog right now...

Week 5 - Wikis

Wikis was of interest to me...wow, I hadn't realised that wikipedia might be able to be edited by anyone or everyone...it would be good in libraries for staff to use to collaborate on ideas for activities and book lists and best practices...community wikis were interesting too...wikis need managing so false or misleading information doesn't stay on the wiki.

Week 4 - (not) real simple syndication

I enjoyed this week's learning, it is amazing that all this is available on the web....that you can subscribe to an rss feed and be kept current on news or have fun reading daily quotes, all sent to your blog. I had difficulty with the adventure activity...adding an rss feed to my blog...I found an rss feed on quotes that I wanted to use but it didn't work, so I chose another with "rss feed" in the url and it worked. I thought it would be fun to read a daily quote...amongst all the learning of 2.0.

Week 3 - Flickr

Week 3 and I have learned to post a photo from Flickr into my blog...again, this is new to me, I hadn't used Flickr before but so many photos that people are sharing over the web...it really is a very social website...I am not sure if I will use Flickr in the future for my own photos but I can see how it can be useful for showing library's photo collections, and tagging photos so they can be searched using keywords is also useful...