It's been a year since my last post. 23 Things is a great program. I've recommended it several times over the last year.
Now there is a continuation! Can't wait.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Week 9 Thing 23
I enjoyed 23 Things. If there are any additional discovery courses like this in the future I would like to participate.
Being already familiar with most of the web 2.0 features, I think I appreciated this course the most for enabling me to focus on how to use these technologies in respect to the library. The articles provided were excellent.
I am curious to see how my library goes about incorporating web/library 2.0 features. There are a few plans I have myself.
What would be awesome is if the organizers of this course create a wiki in six months or a year from now that enables participants from this summer to post what changes/additions have been made in their library in that time. This would be a way we can share our success stories or trials regarding library 2.0 in action.
Being already familiar with most of the web 2.0 features, I think I appreciated this course the most for enabling me to focus on how to use these technologies in respect to the library. The articles provided were excellent.
I am curious to see how my library goes about incorporating web/library 2.0 features. There are a few plans I have myself.
What would be awesome is if the organizers of this course create a wiki in six months or a year from now that enables participants from this summer to post what changes/additions have been made in their library in that time. This would be a way we can share our success stories or trials regarding library 2.0 in action.
Week 9 Thing 22
For this assignment I chose to use Project Gutenberg. I knew they provided ebooks but was unaware they now host audio books. I don't listen to audio books often. But when I do it's through my ipod. So here I chose the itunes complaint version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, chapters 1-4. I'll try to listen to it this week, since it's been a while since I've read a classic.
A little off topic, but on my itunes I have the audio book for John Hodgman's "The Areas of My Expertise". The book is hilarious to read but the audio book is even better. The narrator is Hodgman himself. It's awesome.
A little off topic, but on my itunes I have the audio book for John Hodgman's "The Areas of My Expertise". The book is hilarious to read but the audio book is even better. The narrator is Hodgman himself. It's awesome.
Week 9 Thing 21
I already did a podcasting post where I discussed odeo and why I don't care for that particular host. But I do enjoy podcasting. Since I talked about the summer camp's podcast here is a link to it's weblog. From the weblog it's easy for listeners to establish an RSS feed.
Podbean allows you to embed a single podcast or a small list of the series.
The clips here are from summer campers at the Virginia Space Flight Academy. They are all pretty short and to the point. And most of the campers, who are between ages 11 and 15, used the podcast to talk to their families at home. It's cute.
Podbean allows you to embed a single podcast or a small list of the series.
The clips here are from summer campers at the Virginia Space Flight Academy. They are all pretty short and to the point. And most of the campers, who are between ages 11 and 15, used the podcast to talk to their families at home. It's cute.
Week 9 Thing 20
I love YouTube. I probably watch too much of it. :) Not having a video camera or any video editing software, I don't post videos to YouTube but I do have an account there so I can save to favorites videos that I know I'll want to watch again.
In the previous post here I embedded a video from YouTube into a blog post. This one I discovered earlier today actually. It's a promo for season 4 of the Office which starts in a few weeks.
I think it would be fun to record short videos that clips events held at the library. Using YouTube we can post them onto the library page or blogs. And it would be nice for patrons to see and be able to comment on the clips. This would be great for a program series. Viewers could see clips from the first couple events in the series and then hopefully attend the remaining events in person.
In the previous post here I embedded a video from YouTube into a blog post. This one I discovered earlier today actually. It's a promo for season 4 of the Office which starts in a few weeks.
I think it would be fun to record short videos that clips events held at the library. Using YouTube we can post them onto the library page or blogs. And it would be nice for patrons to see and be able to comment on the clips. This would be great for a program series. Viewers could see clips from the first couple events in the series and then hopefully attend the remaining events in person.
The Office Preview: Summer's Over.
The Office is one of my favorite tv shows. In this clip we see what the characters have been up to over the summer.
Week 8 Thing 19
Looking at the short list of Web 2.0 winners I see that Odeo has ranked first in podcasting. Maybe I just had bad luck with it but I tried to use odeo this summer to host a podcast for a summer camp I work for. Anyway I used Odeo for two weeks, the interface is easy enough to understand. But to create a podcast here with audio recorded elsewhere you have to link to that audio stored on your own server. And it's a little awkward moving from odeo to the odeo studio where you make the podcasts. At the beginning of my third week I couldn't even access the site, who knows why. I wasn't feeling odeo and it wasn't letting me get my work done.
Since I was on a deadline each evening, parents do get fussy if they expect to hear their child podcasting and it doesn't appear online when they want. I had to find another host. I discovered podbean.com. Here you can host audio podcasts and video podcasts. Like odeo it has a built in blog for the podcasts. I liked the podbean blog better. Unlike odeo you can't link to audio on another server, the file has to be uploaded to your account on podbean.
As for using this in a library setting, I think it would be fun to have patrons podcast about what's happening at the library.
Since I was on a deadline each evening, parents do get fussy if they expect to hear their child podcasting and it doesn't appear online when they want. I had to find another host. I discovered podbean.com. Here you can host audio podcasts and video podcasts. Like odeo it has a built in blog for the podcasts. I liked the podbean blog better. Unlike odeo you can't link to audio on another server, the file has to be uploaded to your account on podbean.
As for using this in a library setting, I think it would be fun to have patrons podcast about what's happening at the library.
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