Thing 20 - Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos. Here is a video that I really like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblrRs3fkSU
UTube is so easy that I now understand what the hype is all about. It is so great to know what the kids and other adults are looking at. I can't wait to see more librarian videos. I think SJPL should make some really fun ones! I would love to be part of that. Another librarian showed me March of the Librarians and I love that one too! You can see comercials and band performances too! This is a very easy site to navigate and upload videos to.
Thing 21 - Podcasts (You don’t need an iPod!). I waisted a bunch of time trying podcast.net and for some reason, none of the podcasts would download. I will now try postcastalley.com which did not work out that great either. So I finally tried yahoo podcasts and found "Spellcheck does Avalon High" which is a teen reviewing the book "Avalon High" from the Sunnyvale Library. This is a great idea for teens to get involved in revieing YA books. And it is cute that her code name is Spellcheck like a DJ name. This is a Prime Speaks program. Prime is a librarian who lets teens peer review books through podcasting and reviews books himself through various podcasts. This reminds me of a college DJ format of programming. It is really cool to know that storytimes and book reviews can be podcast to library users. I tried to get pull the RSS feed into my Bloglines account as well and I forgot my yahoo ID and password. There are so many IDs & passwords that we need a secure way to organize those. I've tried to use the same ones but it is impossible as many usernames are already taken. The most important thng I learned is to locate where to add podcasts & RSS feeds into my bloglines account. I just lost the original podcast.
Thing 22 - eBooks and Audio eBooks. I looked for the ebook Black Beauty by Anna Sewell since my Rosebuds book club is reading this book next. I am so happy we have the eBook. I actually was able to download the ebook but it is not intuitive to put a book in the bookbag and then proceed to checkout and then download the book. I wish this was a 1 step process instead of a 3 step process. I understand that bookbag is intened to be in place of shopping cart and proceed to checkout is the same but it is sort of confusing. I hope someday that our eBooks are much more intuitive and easier to checkout with one simple click.
Thing 23 - Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog.
1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?And last but not least…
If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you choose to participate?
The exercises I like best are LibraryThing, blogger.com, flickr, and the online image generator. With more time, I think I will really enjoy Utube and online tools such as google docs and Soho writer. I really enjoyed learning 2.0 and all of the things that I have learned as a result. I am also grateful that our staff has been so supportive and helpful with one another. Learning 2.0 has sparked many a debate here at RG while offering us a forum to communicate about these new technological tools. I feel that I have learned so much since the beginning of this program and actually feel more confident in understanding how to add new web content to my blog. I see so many kids on myspace everyday and wondered why they like it so much. Now I have a deeper understanding through actually being able to blog myself.
I think that my technological worldview has greatly expanded and I see many possibilities for using these applications as a librarian. I have made a commitment to be a Librarian 2.0 and have adopted the Librarian manifesto from the Utube video I posted. I wanted to become more tech savvy and learning 2.0 will continue me down this path.
The thing that suprised me most was all of the things you can do without knowing html code. I am not a web designer or computer programmer or even IT person. But now I feel as though a whole world of web access has been opened up for me. I loved creating and maintaining my blog and discovering new ways to make it better.
To make things easier I would like someone to come up with a way to somehow keep all of our usernames and passwords in the same secure spot. I tried to be consistent but sometimes it was just impossible. Short of printing out every login page, there must be a better way. And the last thing is that Mozilla Firefox seemed to work better than internet explorer.
And lastly, yes I would very much like to be part of a future training like this. It would be great to go for a Learning 3.0 and 4.0 if we could. Thank you for this wonderful learning experience! I will continue to use the knowledge that I have gained to explore more learning possibilities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblrRs3fkSU
UTube is so easy that I now understand what the hype is all about. It is so great to know what the kids and other adults are looking at. I can't wait to see more librarian videos. I think SJPL should make some really fun ones! I would love to be part of that. Another librarian showed me March of the Librarians and I love that one too! You can see comercials and band performances too! This is a very easy site to navigate and upload videos to.
Thing 21 - Podcasts (You don’t need an iPod!). I waisted a bunch of time trying podcast.net and for some reason, none of the podcasts would download. I will now try postcastalley.com which did not work out that great either. So I finally tried yahoo podcasts and found "Spellcheck does Avalon High" which is a teen reviewing the book "Avalon High" from the Sunnyvale Library. This is a great idea for teens to get involved in revieing YA books. And it is cute that her code name is Spellcheck like a DJ name. This is a Prime Speaks program. Prime is a librarian who lets teens peer review books through podcasting and reviews books himself through various podcasts. This reminds me of a college DJ format of programming. It is really cool to know that storytimes and book reviews can be podcast to library users. I tried to get pull the RSS feed into my Bloglines account as well and I forgot my yahoo ID and password. There are so many IDs & passwords that we need a secure way to organize those. I've tried to use the same ones but it is impossible as many usernames are already taken. The most important thng I learned is to locate where to add podcasts & RSS feeds into my bloglines account. I just lost the original podcast.
Thing 22 - eBooks and Audio eBooks. I looked for the ebook Black Beauty by Anna Sewell since my Rosebuds book club is reading this book next. I am so happy we have the eBook. I actually was able to download the ebook but it is not intuitive to put a book in the bookbag and then proceed to checkout and then download the book. I wish this was a 1 step process instead of a 3 step process. I understand that bookbag is intened to be in place of shopping cart and proceed to checkout is the same but it is sort of confusing. I hope someday that our eBooks are much more intuitive and easier to checkout with one simple click.
Thing 23 - Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog.
1. What were your favorite discoveries or exercises on this learning journey?
2. How has this program assisted or affected your lifelong learning goals?
3. Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
4. What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept?And last but not least…
If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you choose to participate?
The exercises I like best are LibraryThing, blogger.com, flickr, and the online image generator. With more time, I think I will really enjoy Utube and online tools such as google docs and Soho writer. I really enjoyed learning 2.0 and all of the things that I have learned as a result. I am also grateful that our staff has been so supportive and helpful with one another. Learning 2.0 has sparked many a debate here at RG while offering us a forum to communicate about these new technological tools. I feel that I have learned so much since the beginning of this program and actually feel more confident in understanding how to add new web content to my blog. I see so many kids on myspace everyday and wondered why they like it so much. Now I have a deeper understanding through actually being able to blog myself.
I think that my technological worldview has greatly expanded and I see many possibilities for using these applications as a librarian. I have made a commitment to be a Librarian 2.0 and have adopted the Librarian manifesto from the Utube video I posted. I wanted to become more tech savvy and learning 2.0 will continue me down this path.
The thing that suprised me most was all of the things you can do without knowing html code. I am not a web designer or computer programmer or even IT person. But now I feel as though a whole world of web access has been opened up for me. I loved creating and maintaining my blog and discovering new ways to make it better.
To make things easier I would like someone to come up with a way to somehow keep all of our usernames and passwords in the same secure spot. I tried to be consistent but sometimes it was just impossible. Short of printing out every login page, there must be a better way. And the last thing is that Mozilla Firefox seemed to work better than internet explorer.
And lastly, yes I would very much like to be part of a future training like this. It would be great to go for a Learning 3.0 and 4.0 if we could. Thank you for this wonderful learning experience! I will continue to use the knowledge that I have gained to explore more learning possibilities.
