# 19 Discovering web 2.0 tools

These tools are certainly enabling users to create and share content online. I looked in the winners category for the web 2.0 awards. The city guides grabbed my attention, although the three winners, Yelp, Judy's book and yahoo local were all based on American cities. These guides are a great idea where anyone can add favourite city sights, local facilities and favourite restaurants with reviews.

Eventful however was more relevant as it is worldwide and had a great variety of upcoming events in the three Australian states that I looked at, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Not only the usual upcoming music events are listed but charity functions, learning and educational events as well as politics and activism events.

Eventful - Events

# 18 Zoho writer

I opened a zoho account and published a chocolate balls recipe from a friend that I intend to make for xmas. zoho was easy to use and free. I also had a quick look at google docs and spreadsheets. Definately worth exploring when I have more time.

chocolate balls

chocolate balls

 

90 grams butter

1/2 cup thickened cream

cocoa

300 grams melting chocolate

2 tbl spoons brandy

 

Place butter and cream in saucepan, melt, and when boiling add chocolate. Stir over low heat until melted. Cool. Stir in brandy and transfer to bowl. Cool in fridge, stirring occasionally. When firm, form teaspoons of mixture into balls, roll in sifted cocoa. Refrigerate. Lasts up to two weeks in airtight container. 

 

 

# 17 sandbox wiki

I added my blog to the plmc learning favourite blog page under the mornington peninsula library heading. I added my favourite restaurant to the favourite restaurant wiki and enjoyed exploring other favourite sites, especially The Bull Run Library wiki. I have even created my own wiki and added a slide show of my flickr photos. Here is the link.

http://lynnswiki.pbwiki.com/

#16 Wiki

I am aware of wikipedia but now I understand the concept ofwikis, an online tool that allows collaborative effort and anyone can contribute. The uses for a library are limitless. Searching some of the other library wikis showed this. Feedback from borrowers on the library subject guides, adding their reviews, and other titles they like is a fantastic idea. I also like the idea of a website that creates a community hub where everyone can add their own community's activities and the idea that the final content should reflect the consensus within the community. A wiki for one stop community information.

I particularly liked some of the online tutorials that libraries have set up on their wiki. Try mouserobics from the St Joseph County Public library wiki

http://www.ckls.org/~crippel/computerlab/tutorials/mouse/page1.html

# 15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

evil smile_003
Originally uploaded by marfita

There are new concepts for developing and delivering library services. Virtual libraries meet users in their own space. Libraries are communities and we need to adapt as communities change and learn new technologies. Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 are about people sharing trading and collaborating, haven't libraries always shared this philosophy? Learning 2.0 has been a great opportunity to learn some of the new technology that people are using to share, trade and collaborate information. The library of the future? Who knows what this will look like or where new technology is taking us, but it is exciting. Virtual Library but real librarians

Hereford Cathedral Library

Hereford Cathedral Library
Originally uploaded by lpater03

Libraries have come a long way from chaining books on shelves to prevent stealing. Libraries need to adapt to the changing communities around them. Learning new technology is a big part of this. What will the library of the future look like? Original photo from Librophiliac

http://www.curiousexpeditions.org/2007/09/a_librophiliacs_love_letter_1.html

# 14 technorati

new york pier
Originally uploaded by lpater03

While searching popular blogs I found Gothamist: New York City news, food, arts and events. Todays news includes photo of a pier with New York in the background, investigation of a death in Brooklyn, an unstable building in Queens and a homicide on East 29th and 5th Avenue.

http://www.technorati.com/blogs/www.gothamist.com

A keyword search of learning 2.0 in blog posts gave 6329 results, tags, 623 results and a seach in the blog directory gave 774 results. I have claimed my blog and started adding favourites including the site above. I have also added the technorati button to my blog so that others can add my blog as a favourite.

# 13 del.icio.us

smile label "happy"
Originally uploaded by ryoryozo

This tool is a great idea. Setting up an account was easy. I love being able to access my favourite sites from any computer. I have only tagged a few of the sites that I use, but will definately add others. Also viewing other peoples' tags is interesting. A quick look took me to me to lots of other links by like minded people. A popular travel site was wiki travel that I have added to my favourites.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page
smile label "happy" originally uploaded by ryoryozo

lpater03's favorites on del.icio.us

lpater03's favorites on del.icio.us

# 12 Rollyo

I have used this tool to search some great literature sites for American, Australian, Childrens, English and Irish literature. Its great that they can all be searched from the same search engine. Will add more sites when I have time. Here is the link.

http://rollyo.com/lpater03/lynns_literature/

# 11 My library thing

My creation
Originally uploaded by lpater03

These are some of my favourite books that I have catalogued on library thing. This is a fantastic site that I have visted before but never got around to cataloguing books, will definately visit again.

my library thing

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lpater03

I have added the library thing search bar to this blog

# 10 image generators

This was great fun. Using FD toys I have used my Collingwood photos and made a photo cube with the help from this site
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/cube.php

I have hockneyised a magpie in the style of David Hockney
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/hockney.php

and have seen into the future with a banner from banner generator
http://www.lintukoto.net/demonstration/

and I will try not to talk about footy anymore till the 2008 season starts.

My creation

My creation
Originally uploaded by lpater03

I also had fun in FD toys making this cube

My creation

My creation
Originally uploaded by lpater03

a Magpie in the style of the artist david Hockney

Go Pies

Go Pies
Originally uploaded by lpater03

Enjoyed looking into the future with this banner generator

MAGPIE REPUBLIC_2

MAGPIE REPUBLIC_2
Originally uploaded by andrew_ar_mott

Go magpies for 2008

# 9 Adding RSS feeds

This was the hard part, news feeds, library feeds, political feeds, footy feeds, literary feeds, could go on forever, but know I won't have time to read them all. A lot of my bookmarked sites had RSS feeds so that made it easy to subscribe to them.

I have subscribed to the usual library sites, and to four of my library colleagues' blogs that I thought were original and interesting. I have also subscribed to political sites, Hilary Clinton, and Barack Obama, will one of them be the next US president? Couldn't resist the AFL feeds, especially the mighty pies! I subscribed to Australian Literay Studies, a publication found through the ANZ Ebsco Host database and Matilda, an Australian literay blog found through the google blog search.

You can find my feeds at http://www.bloglines.com/public/beginnerblogger

Just discovered folders, Why am I surprised? I am now arranging my feeds into manageable folders.

# 8 RSS feeds

I already subscribe to a few news and library subscriptions through email, but RSS feeds are one step better, all on one page and easily accessible. I found it fairly easy to navigate through this and setting up an account was ok though took a lot longer than I thought. I have also impressed my technology savy adult children this week with my blog, flickr, and rss knowledge. Its good to be one step ahead of them for a change, though not sure that facebook is my thing.

# 7 technology blog post

New technology is great, when I understand it! Keeping up with friends and family by text messages and emails where ever they are, interstate or overseas is amazing. Sending and receiving photos by mobile phone, receiving news bulletins from The Age via email, searching databases from libraries online from home or work, all of this unimaginable not that long ago. I have just received an email with photos of my friend's new apartment in Darwin overlooking Cullen Bay. I love booking AFL tickets online and printing them. I love researching and booking hotel accomodation online.

Still haven't mastered the ipod or programing my dvd player. So much to learn...

trading card

trading card
Originally uploaded by lpater03

Explored the trading card application. Wonder what my in laws would think about being turned into a trading card?

week 3

Searching flickr was fun, so many photos to look at. I enjoyed loading personal photos.
What a great way to organize them all. Also loved looking at the National Library
Picture Australia website.

http://www.pictureaustralia.org/

This is when technology is fantastic, a great way to preserve all those old photos. I'm having trouble registering my blog, the web site
seems to be down, will try again tomorrow.

coconuts

coconuts
Originally uploaded by lpater03

a lolly factory in vietnam taken on a recent holiday

beginning

Hi everyone

here's my first blog. Enjoying program so far.