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