Week 6 # 15 Technorati

I had a look at Technorati and followed some of the blogs but it's not really my thing - I like my stories in book format and facts from the web - can't get enthused about the blogs.

week 6 #14 delicious

http://delicious.com/mainlander
I enjoyed adding tags to my favourite websites rather than library thing as I'm not bothered about cataloguing my home collection although I have to confess they are physically in alphabetical order but I don't want to group them under subjects. I think this is a useful site as I can add my favourites from my home computer and work computer to one site and can then add the tags to them and then where ever I am I can login to delicious to access the urls.

week 5 # 13 PBwikis

Well, I have added my blog to https://manukaulearn.pbwiki.com/Favourite+Blogs and a comment to my favourite web 2.0 thing - pictures: flikr, generators. Sometimes I am overwhelmed with all this information but it's the norm of the future.

week 5 #12 wikis

http://instructionwiki.org/Sharing_resources

This library instruction wiki had the phrase "stop inventing the wheel". Libraries can add their own "instruction manuals" to these wikis and also check out if a procedure/instruction has already been written on a topic.

This would also be very useful with alot of procedures in place now e.g. Site safety, the site safety staff could have a wiki and add to the procedures in place as new technology arrives e.g. RFID instead of starting all over again.

Staff procedure manuals on a wiki would be good if there is no ndrive to access from some sites.

http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres16n1/Kille_essayopinion.htm

This website has information on using wikis in libraries and also you can subscribe to a wiki's RSS feed as new information is added or amended.

I have used a wiki when on the Reading advisory team and we contributed our research to the wiki so that the other team members could see what we had found out.

Week 4 #11 Technology!

Well, all this technology is great but it's a whole new learning curve every time I start a new lesson. At work I feel very confident about trying out programmes, pushing buttons etc but with the home computer I freeze - worried about all the nasties out there. :(

At the same time I have enjoyed doing these exercises when I have had the time or it's been a wet afternoon so time to play. I am also more observant and I am actually translating this new jargon when I see it into something I know whereas before it was like a foreign language and I skimmmed over it - RSS, wikis and even blogs! :)

Week 4 # 10 tradingcards

Bit of a fan for all things Scottish!

Week 4 #10 Piper jigsaw

I love the sound of the pipes - from a distance of course! There is a regular loan piper who practises in Centre Park in Mangere on fine summer afternoons.

Week 4 #9 storytellers at MT

These pirates arrived in the library on a wet and windy afternoon to entertain 60 children and adults with stories and songs about crabs, treasure and dog paddling. Everyone in the world can also see these two rascals by searching the keywords "Manukau Learning 2.0" on http://www.flickr.com

Dinosaurflickrs

There was an amazing exhibition at Te Papa a couple of years ago on Dinosaurs found in China. They were reconstructed and took up most of the exhibition space and dwarfed the people looning at them. If you want to see more check out Foxglove2008 at http://www.flickr.com