Week 11 and Week 12

Week 11
I found Google Docs to be a very useful took for collaberations with work colleagues. It provides a space for everyone to view a document and add, delete or change information and for everyone to see what changes have been made.

Week 12
Social Networking Sites like Facebook or Twitter can be another means to reach out to our patrons and let them know what is happening in their local library. It also gives them an opportunity to make comments or suggest ideas.

Wrap-Up
I have learnt some valuable information about Web 2.0 tools and have already begun to think about ways of implenting these tools into my work, including starting a Children's Blog.

Week 10: Mash-Ups

Here is an image I created on the website bighugelabs.com

This was a very simple tool to use and it only took me a few minutes to create.

Flickr Maps would be useful in the Local Studies section of the library where significant locations in the area could be tagged on a map for patrons to look at.

Week 9: Podcasts

Podcasts seem relatively easy to access and use. I can see these being popular with teens when it comes to school related matters such as lecture notes. If students miss important points a lecturer brings up or can't attend a lecture, the podcast allows them to listen to the lecture at a time and place convenient to them. A site like Triple J, for example, allows people to download and listen to podcasts of interviews with artists, which is great for music fans.

Week 6- Video Embedding

Exciting video of someone driving around Campbelltown.

Week #4 RSS Feeds

I admit I did not know what an RSS feed was before this course. After watching the RSS video explanation on youtube and accessing some RSS readers, I've discovered they are an amazing tool and could be very useful in many different ways. The sites I selected as RSS feeds were work related (library and young adult book blogs), however I would be excited to use it for entertainment purposes too.

My library currently uses RSS and provides RSS feeds to the library database, but it will certainly be helpful to my position when selecting new young adult material to purchase.

Library 2.0 Flickr

After playing around with flickr, I've chosen this image http://www.flickr.com/photos/helloleticia/3199123487/ from the website. Apparently it's from a Chicago public library advertisement showing librarians don't neccessarily fit the stereotype, which I think is pretty neat!

Flickr seems like a good resource for finding interesting images and I could see it working well for promotional purposes, whether business or personal or just for entertainment and curiousity. I find that it is nearly impossible to just look at one picture as it is easy to get distracted by other related (or unrelated) topics.

The Twitter Experience

Following the Learning 2.1 program, I created a Twitter account and created my first tweet!

I'm currently uncertain how I feel about micro-blogging because I think there are other (perhaps better) ways of communicating things. Facebook, for example, allows the user to create something that is very similar to a 'tweet' although it is possible for it to get lost amongst all the other activites friends have been doing in the news feed. Personally, I think that Twitter is most useful for organisations, well-known personalities or professional experts rather than everyday people posting about what they got up to that day and what they are going to eat for lunch!