Week 5

The wiki week has been very interesting and good to explore the variety of ways libraries use wikis. I was surprised to hear about the German survey on Wikipedia. As a user, I go to Wikipedia because it is easy to read, current (particularly on technology terms etc) and reliable, but in libraries Wikipedia is often not as highly regarded.

I think wikis could be a useful tool to receive public comment, views about the strengths and weaknesses of the library etc. The wiki using book reviews provided by the public gave me the idea of hosting a wiki for teenagers and working in conjunction with local schools - teenagers review books for their peers. As wikis are topic specific, they are useful for any shared interest where each member of the group can contribute to and benefit from knowledge and experience of like minded people.

And to read more . . .

Yeah, well, I did it but the site is better than the feed in this case. Crikey ! 

Week 4

RSS has been all new information. I haven't found using Bloglines very intuitive, but am getting used to it. At first, I wasn't sure if I'd successfully added the feed or not. I'm still not convinced I prefer it to Bookmarks which go straight to the site with instant viewing of a  variety of possibilities - pictures, videos, cartoons and text. The feeds I added are mainly from sites I'm familiar with -  Crikey, Wired, Australian/Arts. I added the Library one The Shifted Librarian which had an interesting article about the link between literacy and net games. I just went back to look at the article and it had "gone" - things are shifting at the speed of byte just as they said.  (Found it when I reset to all articles) The recommended Powerhouse site suits this format. RSS seems to be a good way to highlight 1 item daily from a collection.

I'll have a go at adding the Crikey feed. 

Flickr

The Flickr adventure had a few rethinks, but in the end my photos are there for you to see if you search nswpln2008 and toys. Why toys? Because I am the Toy Library Co-ordinator, that's why. 

If you search toys only, I am very difficult to find!

Week 3

It's been interesting to explor Flickr and see how it can work for me. Info on Creative Commons reminds me how many people are doing great work that is not reported / recognised. And they do it for free or to share . . . Lots of good people on the web! I'd been wondering who designed this training as it's excellent!
Continuing the theme of play, my picture of choice is Indian father playing with his son on a Carousel - great photo, plus shows how with words we conjure up our own images. Hope you enjoy it too.
Created a Flickr account but, as before, the upload is to come .....