Week 5. Wikis!

Again, I never actually knew what wiki meant until now! And to be honest I never really thought much about it other than what on earth Wikipedia meant. I can see the pros and cons to wikis, but if used carefully I think the pros outweigh the cons.
 I think wikis would be a great way for people to share information in the library. For example the procedure manual idea is great. Possibly it can be used as a suggestion page the public can use to give information to the library. It could also be used for people to recommend books or other learning materials. For example someone might type in ‘INDIA’ and people could list the resources that they found helpful when looking for information about India. Just like a search catalogue but only listing books and authors recommended by the public?? 

By the way who thought up Wetpaint. A little random?

week 4. RSS Feeds

To be honest I had always wondered what that little orange icon was at the top of nearly every webpage! And now I know! I have learned something new.

I am a bit of a weird one when it comes to the net. All my friends can find hours of entertainment on the net and look up their favourite websites everyday. I, on the other hand, seem to be one of the few in my age bracket that actually find the internet (dare I admit it) boring! The only thing I use it for is internet banking, emails and occasionally facebook. I also use it to research products if I need to buy something and sometimes browse recipes. I don’t listen to music, download movies, read comics, read blogs or ‘surf’ the internet.  In saying this RSS feeds aren’t really useful for me but I can definitely see how they would be useful to people who visit the same 20 webpages everyday. It is a good idea. Just for the sake of this weeks exercise I subscribed to a few RSS feeds:

Avacodo.org.au

Powerhouse museum

White Ninja comics

SXF WOD

Unshelved

Learning 2.0 basics.

Week 3. Sharing Images.

My whole Blog is a collection of random information with no direct sequence or theme! So, now that I'm doing this at home and can spend some time thinking and writing I have decided to write a comment about each week so I have a logical sequence happening!

Sharing Images.

I think Flickr is a great idea and a useful way to find images from niches that don’t appear on Google Images.  It is also an easy way to check the licensing of the photos.  I terms of our library, I have seen flickr used to showcase the great activities, speakers, demonstrations and patrons at our library. The use of pictures makes our library more inviting, colourful, dynamic and fun!

Plus with the ease of digital cameras there is no longer an excuse to leave an event undocumented! I will be using Flickr more to access pictures and possibly might start adding some myself :)