Here is a link to a page of podcasts (Book Lust with Nancy Pearl) from Podcast.com
Here is a link to Cast-on website where you can download the podcasts. I have listened to this (downloaded by a friend) while traveling. Found through Podcastalley.com
Podcast.net wasn't working when I tried it.
The Gcast website for creating your own podcasts by calling them into a phone looks really intriguing. When I have time, I hope to try it. I will return to this thing and look at more of the podcasting links when I have TIME!!!
Monday, April 7, 2008
thing 18 redux
See my post on January 28, in which I posted two Youtube videos; I didn't realize then (because I hadn't looked at all of Thing 18) that one of the ones I posted was in thing 18 - the medieval book. I had never seen the Conan the Librarian video, what a hoot, nor the Library musical, nor the takeoff on the mac/pc librarian/IT - very good!!!!
I thought that the video of the tour of Winona State Library was very good but wondered about whether it was OK to use someone else's music???
I saw someone in the March of the Librarians who looked like Leona Carlson waving to the camera. I don't know if it was really her or not?
I thought that the video of the tour of Winona State Library was very good but wondered about whether it was OK to use someone else's music???
I saw someone in the March of the Librarians who looked like Leona Carlson waving to the camera. I don't know if it was really her or not?
Thing 17
Elm Productivity
Here is a page I made in EBSCOhost. The background of the page isn't showing but the searches and search result are. I saved the page to my hard drive and then looked at the source html and copied it into this post. I had to make most of the text bigger so that it would show up in the post on the blog and I couldn't see it in the preview mode (even when text made larger to "normal" size) on the blog but could see it in the compose mode.
Edited: the link to the search doesn't work right. It searches fire not fire fighters!!! And there are tons of results. The fire fighter search with the limits I put on it had 52 results!
Also, the link to the help for RSS feeds doesn't show any text.
Here is a page I made in EBSCOhost. The background of the page isn't showing but the searches and search result are. I saved the page to my hard drive and then looked at the source html and copied it into this post. I had to make most of the text bigger so that it would show up in the post on the blog and I couldn't see it in the preview mode (even when text made larger to "normal" size) on the blog but could see it in the compose mode.
Edited: the link to the search doesn't work right. It searches fire not fire fighters!!! And there are tons of results. The fire fighter search with the limits I put on it had 52 results!
Also, the link to the help for RSS feeds doesn't show any text.
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I use the ELM databases a lot. I could spend more time refamiliarizing myself with all the productivity tools in ProQuest and others. I teach people how to use Elm Databases on our library website, and how to use our NetLibrary collection on a regular basis, including making notes and setting up an account. Our NetLibrary collection is cataloged and into our online catalog. We have a search option for excluding Netlibrary (all EXCEPT ebooks) and I also teach users how to search only ebooks (keyword + the word netlibrary). I hope to eventually make some tutorials specifically for our users using Captivate, which we just got. We are now also telling folks that you can go to http://www.elm4you.org/ and if they are coming in from a computer with a Minnesota IP, they can get into the databases without a library card or password. This is very useful for some!!! We have participated in many Minitex webinars and workshops and they all have been very useful. Yay Minitex!!!! | |||||||||||||||
Thing 15 Online Games and Libraries
It was hard for me to believe that I should be playing a game at work and that it was work. I created a pirate and bilged and carpented in Puzzle Pirates. I wasn't sure what I was doing intially in bilging but the people on the ship I ended up on were nice to me. I got to neophyte status on both tasks (carpentering was more intutive for me) and earned some pieces of eight, that I had no idea what to do with. The games would end and the captain(?) would tell me to go offshore to an island. Someone asked me to be their hearty and I agreed but I guess I would have to hearty them back to see them on my list of people???
The value of this for me was realizing that learning about it was experiential - NOT by reading about how to play the games (which I did some of but didn't really understand until I actually started to do them). Also, whenever someone wrote something nice to me, it was pleasant, as was any positive feedback from the games themselves.
I wonder where the game is on my computer; it took a long time to download it and we have a fast connection here at work.
I looked at the Second Life video. It didn't have much narration, and therefore was just primarily visual and not informative enough for me. The Ohio University video was better, but being a promotion, not meaty enough, again so much more visual than informational. The link to the explanation about Alliance Library System's Info Island was the most informative.
I, however, am truly puzzled about the virtual world of Second Life. I would like to check out Info Island, but don't have enough time to invest in joining Second Life to see it. The fact that the Allliance Library worked with database vendors to have instances of the databases within the virtual world sounds intriguing.
I am not sure, though, other than in a public library, how this helps. Certain teens assuredly spend a lot of time in virtual universes. I'm reluctant to do so myself as I already feel married to the computer! It seems like it would be addicting and I'm already addicted enough to the screen.
Experience tells me though, that to really understand, I would need to experience.
But, shouldn't we also be reinforcing things like face to face interactions and getting up off ones behinds and moving in the real world so that we don't have present and future generations becoming big hunks of lard?
The value of this for me was realizing that learning about it was experiential - NOT by reading about how to play the games (which I did some of but didn't really understand until I actually started to do them). Also, whenever someone wrote something nice to me, it was pleasant, as was any positive feedback from the games themselves.
I wonder where the game is on my computer; it took a long time to download it and we have a fast connection here at work.
I looked at the Second Life video. It didn't have much narration, and therefore was just primarily visual and not informative enough for me. The Ohio University video was better, but being a promotion, not meaty enough, again so much more visual than informational. The link to the explanation about Alliance Library System's Info Island was the most informative.
I, however, am truly puzzled about the virtual world of Second Life. I would like to check out Info Island, but don't have enough time to invest in joining Second Life to see it. The fact that the Allliance Library worked with database vendors to have instances of the databases within the virtual world sounds intriguing.
I am not sure, though, other than in a public library, how this helps. Certain teens assuredly spend a lot of time in virtual universes. I'm reluctant to do so myself as I already feel married to the computer! It seems like it would be addicting and I'm already addicted enough to the screen.
Experience tells me though, that to really understand, I would need to experience.
But, shouldn't we also be reinforcing things like face to face interactions and getting up off ones behinds and moving in the real world so that we don't have present and future generations becoming big hunks of lard?
More on Thing 13
Calendars:
There is a link to the Web's Best Calendars in Wired magazine (2/20/07). The link to Kiko doesn't work. It appears that Kiko was bought by TuCows (based on further searching), perhaps for that company's internal use?
Scrybe looks quite interesting with its calendar drag and drop features and types of integration and context and multiple time zone tracking and use as a personal organizer. However, it is no longer accepting beta users.
Backpack looks interesting too, though in a way it seems to be a personal type of wiki to me.
The PDF converter looks very cool.
The file type converter from Zamzar also looks useful, but it only has 128 bit SSL (secure converstion) with the non-free account options. Something to keep in mind in a pinch, however! Don't like all the ads on Zamzar though.
Regarding personal pages. Yes, I think I do want to have one...PageFlakes looks especially interesting since it doesn't have the amount of ads of Yahoo and I don't think that Yahoo keeps your info all that secure??? Will look at them some more before deciding!
BTW: the countdown widget on the 23 Things blog is not visible to me either.
Other apps: Mozy back up is something I am going to look into.
The 2007 guide to free software and webapps is also something to keep in mind.
There is a link to the Web's Best Calendars in Wired magazine (2/20/07). The link to Kiko doesn't work. It appears that Kiko was bought by TuCows (based on further searching), perhaps for that company's internal use?
Scrybe looks quite interesting with its calendar drag and drop features and types of integration and context and multiple time zone tracking and use as a personal organizer. However, it is no longer accepting beta users.
Backpack looks interesting too, though in a way it seems to be a personal type of wiki to me.
The PDF converter looks very cool.
The file type converter from Zamzar also looks useful, but it only has 128 bit SSL (secure converstion) with the non-free account options. Something to keep in mind in a pinch, however! Don't like all the ads on Zamzar though.
Regarding personal pages. Yes, I think I do want to have one...PageFlakes looks especially interesting since it doesn't have the amount of ads of Yahoo and I don't think that Yahoo keeps your info all that secure??? Will look at them some more before deciding!
BTW: the countdown widget on the 23 Things blog is not visible to me either.
Other apps: Mozy back up is something I am going to look into.
The 2007 guide to free software and webapps is also something to keep in mind.
Friday, April 4, 2008
overload! overload! thing 13
My brain is on overload! I am looking at all these tools in thing 13; online productivity tools and feel that I will never be productive if I get involved in figuring out the value or not of these tools!!!
So far, what I have found useful is the Top Ten Sites to Boost Your Online Productivity article, which had a link to the tiny url maker, which I just used to make the link. I always wondered how to do that!
And I bookmarked some sites using Deli (I can't get the dots right in the spelling consistently either) which is a first and I can see its use.
I can also see that having one page to go to all these places would be very very useful. It is too overloading right now to figure out which one and their advantages.
I admit, I haven't looked at all the tools in this thing yet. This thing is too big!!!
So far, what I have found useful is the Top Ten Sites to Boost Your Online Productivity article, which had a link to the tiny url maker, which I just used to make the link. I always wondered how to do that!
And I bookmarked some sites using Deli (I can't get the dots right in the spelling consistently either) which is a first and I can see its use.
I can also see that having one page to go to all these places would be very very useful. It is too overloading right now to figure out which one and their advantages.
I admit, I haven't looked at all the tools in this thing yet. This thing is too big!!!
thing 12; digg, mixx, etc.
I looked at this book review in the NYT and found I could "share" it as a permalink by embedding it into the blog. The NYT says that access to the article will be ensured, even after it becomes part of the NYT archive.
I looked at Digg, Newsvine, Reddit, Mixx, StumbleUpon and my eyes began to glaze over. Some of them (I forget which at the moment) have advertising...not what I want to connect to from a work site and one of them even said something about receiving ad revenue back if you write something in a column in your account, which is not ethical in a public entity like our library.
Each new thing (and iteration of the details of the thing) requires learning some other site or utility's organization. It is too much.
In reality, I am seeing these kinds of newsfeeds and popularization/prioritization every time I log in and out of a personal Yahoo email account. This is good enough for me.
The ability to add a permalink into a website or blog, as the NYT offered is more useful and more productive than getting yet another account.
I looked at Digg, Newsvine, Reddit, Mixx, StumbleUpon and my eyes began to glaze over. Some of them (I forget which at the moment) have advertising...not what I want to connect to from a work site and one of them even said something about receiving ad revenue back if you write something in a column in your account, which is not ethical in a public entity like our library.
Each new thing (and iteration of the details of the thing) requires learning some other site or utility's organization. It is too much.
In reality, I am seeing these kinds of newsfeeds and popularization/prioritization every time I log in and out of a personal Yahoo email account. This is good enough for me.
The ability to add a permalink into a website or blog, as the NYT offered is more useful and more productive than getting yet another account.
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