I set up a Facebook account. I am not sure if I like doing it. Being a fairly private person, I felt a little intimidated writing about myself.
One thing I do like about Facebook is that it is connected to Yahoo and it automatically listed my Yahoo e-mail friends and asked if I would like to invite them. It also listed fellow Facebookers who went to my same college, same year. I found two people that I knew and now I can re-connect with them after 30 years!
One of my friends is traveling in Thiland and plans to upload his pictures and share them. I am looking forward to him accepting my invite and to seeing them.
I can see how libraries like Myspace and Facebook to connect with their different interest groups, especially the teen groups with Myspace. So many of them already use it and feel comfortable doing so. They can connect at home with the library staff and with each other. This can make the teen programs so much more flexable.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Lesson # 9 YouTube, Hula
I searched through You Tube on the subject of libraries and found a wide variety of videos from seminars about"Google Collections for Java " (above my head), to overviews of individual libraries, to comedy skits about libraries. "Mr. Bean in the Library" was my favorite.
I searched for a variety of subjects and viewed a few (pet antics, Obama, and "most viewed"). I also looked up a video that my son created and stared in a few years ago for Bedford Unicycles, Bedford commercial. It was fun to view it again and I was surprised to see that it was still up there. Does You Tube ever take legal videos down or do they stay up there indefinately until the postee withdraws it.
I looked at Hula and Funcast. I would probably not use them very much because I am not interested in many TV series and most of the movies listed were not ones that I would select. I also do not like looking at a computer screen for long periods of time. I use Netflix and the Library's DVD collection which I think gives me better variety. I suppose the two sites could be used as a tool by libraries if patrons want to access any of the movies(some are clasics), series,trailers, etc.
I searched for a variety of subjects and viewed a few (pet antics, Obama, and "most viewed"). I also looked up a video that my son created and stared in a few years ago for Bedford Unicycles, Bedford commercial. It was fun to view it again and I was surprised to see that it was still up there. Does You Tube ever take legal videos down or do they stay up there indefinately until the postee withdraws it.
I looked at Hula and Funcast. I would probably not use them very much because I am not interested in many TV series and most of the movies listed were not ones that I would select. I also do not like looking at a computer screen for long periods of time. I use Netflix and the Library's DVD collection which I think gives me better variety. I suppose the two sites could be used as a tool by libraries if patrons want to access any of the movies(some are clasics), series,trailers, etc.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Lesson # 7 Flickr
I am just finishing up lesson # 7 and have set up my flickr account but I don't have any of your yahoo addresses so I don't think that I can share photos with you.
I found a website that you do not have to make an account for to download pictures. The pictures are in public domain. The website is http://www.pdphoto.org/.
I found some beautiful pictures of Balboa Park and down loaded them (I also put them in an album on facebook), I grew up in Chula Vista near San Diego and loved going to Balboa Park on Sundays with my family. I thought that you might like to see them, but I haven't figured out how to get them over to my blog. They ended up on my feeds on my bloglines. Help! I finally got them onto my documents and placed one in here. Like the Balboa Park carousel I'm going round and round!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Lesson # 6 Music
Well, after two hours, I have explored some of lesson # 6 and have found that Firefox blocked Pandora"s website so I had to remove the block. I have been exploring and I am signed in on both Pandora and Finetune.
Not being much of a music enthusiast, Finetune works well for me because I can download suggested lists. You can look up artists and they give you information about them, their music and lists of related artists. One thing that I don't like is that they have a policy to allow only three pieces of music per artist per play list. For instance I found an artist named Nobuo Uematsu that I like and could only add three of his pieces. I suppose that I could make an additional list and add three more of his pieces to that list, but that means I would have to find 42 more songs to complete the list or have Finetunes find them for me.
An oddity that Finetune does is that if you start playing your list and decide to click from one song to another without listening to much of them they put up a block up and say "Hey, you have to listen to some of these songs". I found that really weird!
I found at the bottom of Last.fm's home page a listing of music concert appearances that can be sorted by location. I changed the location to "Seattle" and was able to find up and coming concerts. If I was a music buff, I think that this service would be great.
I have explored Sno-isle's music feature and did run across some interesting music from other cultures (like Tuvan throat singing and Indonesian flute music) The Smithsonian site does give a lot of musical variety. I had trouble setting up a folder and have not yet figured what I have done wrong.
Not being much of a music enthusiast, Finetune works well for me because I can download suggested lists. You can look up artists and they give you information about them, their music and lists of related artists. One thing that I don't like is that they have a policy to allow only three pieces of music per artist per play list. For instance I found an artist named Nobuo Uematsu that I like and could only add three of his pieces. I suppose that I could make an additional list and add three more of his pieces to that list, but that means I would have to find 42 more songs to complete the list or have Finetunes find them for me.
An oddity that Finetune does is that if you start playing your list and decide to click from one song to another without listening to much of them they put up a block up and say "Hey, you have to listen to some of these songs". I found that really weird!
I found at the bottom of Last.fm's home page a listing of music concert appearances that can be sorted by location. I changed the location to "Seattle" and was able to find up and coming concerts. If I was a music buff, I think that this service would be great.
I have explored Sno-isle's music feature and did run across some interesting music from other cultures (like Tuvan throat singing and Indonesian flute music) The Smithsonian site does give a lot of musical variety. I had trouble setting up a folder and have not yet figured what I have done wrong.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Lesson # 5
RSS and Feeds...
I like the idea that all of my web sights and blogs are shown on one page and they let me know if there has been any action on them. No need to click on them if there hasn't been.
I can keep track of the feeds that I am interested in without having to search through the internet.
I can understand how Librarians could access information faster to help patrons. For instance genealogy feeds could be grouped together to make information about the subject more at the librarian's fingertips...Speeding up their ability to answer questions.
I am confused though when I added the feed to....
"Sno-isle Libraries News" and I couldn't seem to get to the articles even though I get notices that articles have been added.
Folders also throw me. Are they used to group your feeds by interest? Also the Blog tab. What is it used for? Do you blog from it or do you separate your blogs from the rest of your feeds with it?
Obviously there is more for me to learn!
I like the idea that all of my web sights and blogs are shown on one page and they let me know if there has been any action on them. No need to click on them if there hasn't been.
I can keep track of the feeds that I am interested in without having to search through the internet.
I can understand how Librarians could access information faster to help patrons. For instance genealogy feeds could be grouped together to make information about the subject more at the librarian's fingertips...Speeding up their ability to answer questions.
I am confused though when I added the feed to....
"Sno-isle Libraries News" and I couldn't seem to get to the articles even though I get notices that articles have been added.
Folders also throw me. Are they used to group your feeds by interest? Also the Blog tab. What is it used for? Do you blog from it or do you separate your blogs from the rest of your feeds with it?
Obviously there is more for me to learn!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Lesson # 4
I have talked with two of my fellow bloggers by Instant Messaging. So I do understand how to invite and accept invitations. I have sent a video and a website URL to them but have not figured out how to form a group talk and would like to know how.
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