Thing 8. Share Your Creations

Blog Prompts

* What uses do these tools have for library or personal use?
* Was the tool you used easy to navigate and understand?
* Would you recommend it to others?
* Do you use other sharing tools for photos, documents, or other creations that you would recommend?




Challenge (optional)
1. Create one of each of the sharing types—slide show, photo montage, database, eFolio and then link the results and blog about your experience.

T8 Darwin online

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6064364.stm
- The complete works of one of history's greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online.
darwin-online.org.uk

http://www.slideshare.net/markwoolley/web-20-tools-in-your-classroom/

Thing 7. Web 2.0 Communication Tools

• Describe how your library uses email. Has it improved productivity?
  

Email is a much more efficient way to communicate than telephone or in person. You choose when and how much. Studies have shown that interruptions take about 20 mins for your brain to get back to the task it was working on prior to the interruption.

• Share your thoughts on online reference using some of the other Web 2.0 communication tools.

Kids could use the library as an online reference from school - their own personal Google.

• Are you an active user of text messaging, IM, or other communication tools?

Only email. I can't afford a phone and I'm not on my computer consistently enough to use IM.
Which OPAL or MINITEX Web conference (Webinar) did you attend? How was it? What do you think of this communication tool? According to Tom Peters, Web conferencing is telephone conferencing on steroids. Anyone who's done it knows what an inefficient use of time telephone conferencing really is. Can drive ya nuts. I attended an online writing conference. I liked how I could do it from anywhere. I went to OH during the conference, but was able to participate even though I wasn't in MN. However, when I started, I didn't know how to do web conferencing, and that was a nuisance. It wasn't an intuitive thing. That's why doing the Things is so beneficial to us non-L2 types.

T4 Flickr

What a life,
originally uploaded by Spike Fisher.

• How might you use Flickr in your library or media center?

Documentation of library events.

• Do you use Flickr or another photo hosting service? Which one? How does it compare to Flickr?

I used Flickr; Picasa doesn't have a Mac version of the download sw.

• How do you feel about having your photos public (note that you can mark your Flickr photos private, too)--any concerns?

It doesn't bother me. I don't ever put personal stuff on the web without being able restrict access to it.

T5 Creating puzzles

My creation,
originally uploaded by emmmnemmm.

Created puzzle using library picture at Big Huge Labs.

I wish they were real puzzles.

T6

• Consider how you can use these tools in your library or media center.

People are always more interested in pictures than text, hence the power of television. Use these kinds of tools to inspire and grab interest about the library and reading.

T5 mashup

mashups
A mashup, for the unfamiliar, is a hybrid web application that uses data from an outside source to drive a web service. Mashups can be created using data culled from RSS feeds, public databases, or any open data source.
http://www.dapper.net/ - making mashups

Picture from my camera to Blogger blog

Magica

T5

• How can you use any of these tools in your library and media center? Reading programs, posters promoting library events, librarian trading cards all come to mind as possibilities.

You could have a contest to see who can do the best mashup of a picture of your library.

• What do you think of sharing photos online?

- I don't know where people find the time to do all this stuff. It's fun, but reading a book is more fun and interesting.

http://23thingsonastick.blogspot.com/2007/11/thing-7-more-flickr-fun_09.html

http://www.flickr.com/services/
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/index.html
http://www.webmonkey.com/06/08/index4a.html
http://krazydad.com/colrpickr/
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/ Created puzzle using library picture.
http://metaatem.net/words/
http://splashr.com/

T4 and its Links

How might you use Flickr in your library or media center? Store
How might you use Flickr in your library or media center?
- Storage of library photos. Many libraries don't have, nor can they afford, their own server, which means they cannot back up photos. Flickr is an easy way to back up and store photos.
Do you use Flickr or another photo hosting service? Which one? How does it compare to Flickr? I tried both Flickr and Picasa and the latter is what I prefer. It's tied in automatically to my blog, I don't have to put my photos on their server, and it's easier to find them.
How do you feel about having your photos public (note that you can mark your Flickr photos private, too)--any concerns?
- I don't like private info or property to be public.

http://flickr.com/tour/
http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/?search=image+url#68
http://www.smugmug.com/
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Flh%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fpicasaweb.google.com%252F&service=lh2&passive=true
http://www.indezine.com/mediamazine/2006/05/flickr-tutorials-series.html
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=libraries
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41641
http://www.flickr.com/help/blogging/
http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/2730/



Challengs

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2007/12/05/edit-your-photos-on-flickr/
http://www.picnik.com/

links to check out later

http://www.cnet.com/av/video/flash/rss_tutorial.html?tag=video
http://www.google.com/reader/view/#directory-welcome-page
http://www.readersclub.org/rss.asp
http://www.palinet.org/rss/toti/tsstutorial.htm

T2 - Library 2.0 on Web 2.0

http://23thingsonastick.blogspot.com/2007/11/thing-2-library-20.html

We know time is always an issue--Stephen Abram shares some ideas on where to find the time for 23 Things. Where will you find the time? Not sure, but I do know that time seems to evaporate while I'm wondering around on the Web.

Why are you participating in 23 Things On a Stick? What do you hope to learn? All the stuff that's happened since I retired from computer support five years ago.

How has the Internet and the vast resource it can be affected your use of time at work and/or at home? Life without Google would be impossible.

What are you looking forward to in 23 Things On a Stick? I always like learning new things.

T3 - Ways to use RSS Feeds

http://23thingsonastick.blogspot.com/2007/11/thing-4-rss-newsreaders.html

There's a great link from the SELCO Librarian blog: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/14-other-ways-to-use-rss-feeds/

T2 - Social Software in Libraries by Meredith Farkas

This book will get you fired up about the possibilities of your library's site; just studying the URL's she references is inspiring. For example, see http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=home.

Yes, compared to many libraries in Minnesota, the Seattle Public Library, is in another realm of libraries, but still, there are many ideas that a small library could implement. The initial setup of many of the services involves an investment in time and technical knowledge (which, lucky for us, we're learning with 23 Things on a Stick), but after that, they require little maintenance.

I'm having fun imagining harnessing all that information.