Thursday, November 29, 2007

#20 You too can YouTube

As you can see I have successfully managed to put a YouTube video into my blog. I found YouTube had too many items at first and did not know what to look at, but I searched for "puppies" because my daughter loves puppies and we spent the next 1/2hour watching very cute puppy videos. I have posted our favourite.

#19 discovering Web 2.0 Tools

I tried the games categorey of the tools as my son loves computer games. He had a look with me and said the games where good but that he had played some of them before at other sites.

#18 Web Based Apps.

This looks like quite an interesting program and concept. I like the fact that it is available online and that others can edit or add to it as you go. The tool bar is more comprehensive and it does seem to do most of what word does. Mind you i don't think I would use it at this stage and the spellcheck is not working as I have made quite a few typing errors and none of them have come up. Will try and insert a few things.

I like the smiley faces!!!

I can't make the speach bubbles bigger, why?

Unfortunately I can not get the text to post to my blog and as a result I had to cut and paste. This lost both the smiley faces and the speach bubbles.

#17 PBWiki

I added my blog to PBWiki with very little trouble. Cool!

more of #10 at the request of my daughters

Item # 10 again - slide show which I just found out how to create

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

#16 Wiki

I have only used Wikipedia before and find it useful even though I know it should not be used for academic studies. If the use of library wikis is a good idea, they provide an excellent format for bookreviews etc. I thought that fact that SJCPL sugjects guides can only be edited by librarians to be a good thing as it makes the information on it more reliable. I also thought the library success wiki was great, particularly as it allowed librarians from around the world to interact and share information.