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Final Post

2010-08-26T01:09:00.003-07:00

Web 2.0.Library Users can learn to to collabrate and use library resourses easily. Having learnt how to use the new tools and technologies, I can help library users to use Web 2.0 technologies where and when applicable. We can activate people in the community to try out these internet new technologies and tools thereby saving time, sharing knowledge.

Week 6 : EncompassCulture

2010-08-26T00:44:00.000-07:00

Visited EncompassCulture. Learnt about the site which is very easy to use; very neat and immaculate.Searched in Travel for Adults , selected Humorous Travels. Clicked go (Compass). Wow! found 81 matches to read or write reviews. Price and where to purchase or find the book anywhere in the world. Another social netwoking where you can chat and share your reading interest. Site is suitable for all users. Would be an easy site to promote.

Week 5 : SlideShare

2010-08-14T21:24:00.000-07:00

Get a free SlideShare Account before you can watch a presentation.Libraries can embed slideshows into their blog or website. Events to promote on slideshare. Customers in business and profession are using such site to improve their businesses and work. Learn-net customers may be interested to browse.Libraries have a lot to learn and share from such site. Viewed: What is Library2.0? Beautiful libraries in the World-65 pictures of great architectural type. New Technologies that Save Time and Money has a list of new tools you can use.

Week 4 : TasteSpotting

2010-08-14T02:59:00.000-07:00

TasteSpotting is a visual potluck, can be browsed by date, category, popularity, random or just a search.
I did a search for onion pancakes (pan-fried bread)which I have tasted before and found 8 posts.
I can easily opt for the easiest to follow recipe with just a click, Images are yum yummy.
Could direct customers to use the site: Recipes with great pictures.
Easy to register.

Week 3 : FeedMy In Box

2010-08-14T02:34:00.000-07:00

Created an auto- confirm account with FeedMyInBox which was quick and easy.
Subscribed to Wellington City Libraries on the the Library Business Post:

http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/business/

This saves time with updates and update alerts are sent to my email each day.
Great for library staff to use them. Not sure about promoting to Learn-net users as on the selected plan only 5 feeds are free.

Week 2 : Picapp

2010-08-10T11:23:00.000-07:00

Picapp is free and legal and easy to use. Search, copy and paste.

I chose an aquarium as one looking into a tank of fishes create a sense of relaxation in that peaceful world.
Libraries could use images to make the blogs look beautiful, interesting and exciting.
Young customers will have fun using Picapp for their blogs.
There are millions of images to choose from.
I prefer to use the creative search.

Week 1 : Box.net

2010-08-10T10:44:00.000-07:00

It is very easy to sign up on Box.net a lite account. Create a folder upload your files, invite collaboraters by using e-mail addresses. Box.net can create, store and share documents as a link on folder with anyone and work on it anywhere on any device making sharing simple. You can allow other people to edit the document. A site to promote to customers, an e-mail address is required. No memory stick to loose.

Web 2.0 : Final Post

2010-05-14T19:01:00.000-07:00

This time Web 2.0 experience is quite pleasant as we are quite familiar with most of the Web2.0 tools and technologies. Zamzar is great for users with file conversion. We have to keep up with technology and libraries can use these new technologies to improve and provide better services.
Online survey completed.
Good-bye.

Week 6: Facebook

2010-05-14T18:52:00.000-07:00

Libraries can use Facebook to store their albums of photos or even slide-shows. Library customers can easily view pictures of past events. It is an amazing tool to communications with messages, comments or updates. I enjoy viewing photos of and friends and family. A great site for social networking.Viewed Hobbs Public Library- a site for friendship and networking.
Look for May See in My Facebook.

Week 5: Music Files

2010-05-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

There are many sites offering free music download. It depends and most sites reqiured a Login and password. I Google search "free leagal mp3 download" a hugh list came out. Suggestions to use modern browsers like Firefox etc.. for better upload. Mp3 users will have a hugh choice. Just found time to browse Amazon MP3store and MP3.com. Young customers would be able to use such sites.

Week 4 : Books and social networking

2010-05-06T16:31:00.000-07:00

Goodreads is great for library users. Signing up is easy and it is a free easy site to follow. For readers' advisory, I will certainly use this tool to show customers how to choose books online. We can promote and help customers to sign up in libraries easily. Goodreads also allows users to join a variety of reading group to encourage reading widely.

Week 3 : Twitter

2010-05-04T17:08:00.000-07:00

It is very easy to join Twitter, not many Questions asked. But I had a start problem of signing in. I tried for a week, then with a change of password before I could tweet. It is a great site to post short messsages. Found @manukau_Libs and follow the tweetstream. Now it looks smooth sailing and have done my first two TWeets today .Certainly it is a great site for library users, an instant source of information, maybe the library phones won't be ringing (What time is the library closed). Library can use this site to advertise their product or use it as a reminder for customers to attend programmes. Young customers won't hesitate to use twitter, library need to promote this to the elderly customers.

My twitter username is 23May.

Week 2 : Zamzar

2010-05-04T16:47:00.000-07:00

Week 2 : Zamzar

Google search Zamzar. Use it for file conversion. It is very easy to use. Promote this site to customers but they may have to wait a while for the document to be delivered to their email.

Yes we can use in the learn-net, no more waiting to download programmes.It is free.

Week 1 : Blogger:

2010-05-03T13:33:00.000-07:00

Week 1 : Blogger:

Web 2.0 again. An online self discovery that encourages the use of 2.0 tools and new technologies. Another experiment to explore the new web 2.0.

No fear, I am a fish in the ocean swimming and exploring.

Public library can use a blog. No need the quarterly customers' survey forms and clickers. Blogging can keep ourselves and customers up- to- date.

The 23rd Thing

2008-08-26T16:29:00.000-07:00

Excercise 23 (Week 9) Is this really the end? Or just the beginning ...

My Blog
In Blogosphere
Like a Fish
In the Ocean
Swimming

Blogging
In the beginning
Was Challenging
At the End
Is Addicting

Ebooks

2008-08-26T16:23:00.000-07:00

Excercise 22 (Week 9) ebooks

Ebooks are simply electronic copies of your favourite titles. Netlibrary provides such services with titles covering a range of topics.Visited Project Gutenburg a source for free ebooks(yesterday books). Online catalogue search for author (Austen), title (Pride and Prejudice) came with a selection and a Biliographic Record. The format comes with selections. Where's Mr Darcy?
Ebook reader is expensive. Amazon digital book reader which can store up to 200 book is wireless.

Podcasts

2008-08-26T16:10:00.000-07:00

Excercise 21 (Week 9) Podcasts (You don’t need an iPod!)
Podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet.You need a PC with headphones or a speaker to access. People can download to their audio device.
Podcast Techtorial, great site for tutorial . The Tech Integration has a long list of Technology featues to use in learning .
Browsed Podcastalley.com with Podcast Alley that is one of the biggest Podcast Directory. Libraries can use The Book report for their Book Clubs. Book Reviews, Author Interviews are on the site.RSS feeds to podcasts provide the current news-Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. A radio from Internet?

Discover You Tube

2008-08-26T15:42:00.000-07:00

Excercise 20 (Week 9) Discover YouTube

Users can easily upload and share videos on the Web 2.0 called YouTube.

You can find anything by doing a simple search. Someone asked me about Taiji Fan. A simple search shows a few videos about Taiji Fan. Improve your cooking skills with YouTube. Like most homemade videos some pictures are not clear, enlarge it, it becomes very blur. Lots of sites to entertain you eg. jokes/ fashion/ someone's singing. A Library event/programme can make use of Youtube.
View You Tube Above.

Web 2.0 tools

2008-08-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

Excercise 19 (Week 8) Discovering Web 2.0 tools
Took a look at Web 2.0 Awards. From the award categories, I tried funstuff. For Cocktail builder-won't work, Comiqs look friendly, you can create your own comic strip, will be fun if I have the time to sign up. Browse thru' Travel site called boo.com very friendly site will be a useful travel guide.From events categories, the upcoming site should be useful for Manukau Libraries events which allows you to promote and add in an event.

Zoho Writer

2008-08-23T13:14:00.000-07:00

Exercise 18 (Week 8): Take a look at some online productivity tools
Took a look at web-based word processing tool called Zoho Writer.It is an online Word processor where you can write, share and collaborate. You have multiple users and can access, edit, share documents from anywhere.
Just created a free account in Zoho Writer. Very easy to sign up.Wow someone can do my homework or mum can keep track of kids work. It is more functional than microsoft.

Social Networking

2008-08-22T22:42:00.000-07:00

Excercise 17 (Week 7) #17 (Week 7) Social Networking
Social networking services, such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, allow users to create a profile for themselves. I viewed the video of Social Networking in Plain English at home.
Someone at Auckland City Libraries has set up a Bebo page. The blog has got everything web on.
MySpace site look very user inviting and friendly. You know what you are signing up for. From Facebook you need to sign up first to read on about the site. Anyway a visit to Hennepin County Library page looked pleasant and welcoming. You have to sign up for Facebook to see more and
connect with Hennepin Coumty Library page. There is a link to 'chat with a librarian'.

On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

2008-08-22T22:17:00.000-07:00

Excercise 16 (Week 6) On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0
Library 2.0 is a new set of concepts for delivering library services. Michael Stephens sees Library 2.0 a strategy guides for helping users find informations, gather knowledge and create contents. Rick Anderson thinks the need to to shift direction as library cannot have the collection the traditional way. Dr Wendy Schultz infinite futures explains on the to the library experience of the future. Her view of Library 2.0 will drive the transition to Library 3.0 and then to
Library 4.0...
Web2.0 x Library = Librarian 2.0 to provide the up -to - date library services.
Dare we move forward and charge ourselves to be digital, to rethink, to be movable, to be flexible and if we have to move away from the 'old fashion' business.

Technorati

2008-08-21T18:08:00.000-07:00

Excercise15 (Week 6) Getting not-so-technical with Technorati
Took a look at Technorati : the leading search tool and authority for blogs, the number of blogs doubles just about every 6 months. I did keyword search for Learning 2.0 in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. The results are different.
The 'popular' section has information on one page to include Top searches, Top 100 Blogs by fans, Top 100 Blogs by authority(highest number of blogs), Top Videos, Top Movies, Top News with links and of course most favourite blogs to include books.
Technorati is only 3 years old.

Tagging

2008-08-20T01:14:00.001-07:00

Exercise:14 (Week 6) Tagging, folksonomies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us.
I read the full page of ' A beginners guide to Del.icio.us'. It is about putting a tag instead of folders in the social bookmarking.I also have a look at PLCMCL2's Bookmarks.
Del.icio.us is a social bookmaking service that allows you to save bookmarks to an account on web site, so that they are accessible from anywhere with Internet access. Libraries are using using this service

PBWiki

2008-08-16T19:29:00.000-07:00

Exercise: 13 (Week 5) Playing around with PBWiki
PBWiki Learning 2.0. For 'explore-and-play-with wikis exercise, you have to add an entry to the Favourite Blog page
The theme of this Wiki is simply 'Favourites'. It can be favourites anything.
To do this click on the log in tab at the top right of screen. Log in.
Click on Favourite Blogs. I added my blog to the Favourite Blogs page. I also added my favourite numbers. You can also add comments to the page. Just easy to sign in and edit.

Wikis

2008-08-16T13:52:00.000-07:00

Wikis: Help customers to choose books and users can post reviews about books. It is a site where you can find informations on a topic,where anyone can edit or add comments.Nothing is accurate.
I looked at the St Joseph County Public Library System on SJCPL subject guide. The travel topic
covers information for the area, links to other sites. It has 'New Travel Books' and Classic Travel Books. You can click for helpful tips or 'talk to the library'. Very interesting site.

New Technology

2008-08-15T21:50:00.000-07:00

Excersie 11 (Week 4)
I have to create this blog post about anything technology related that interests me this week.
First the Technology advancements for Flatscreen televisions come in with great pictures especially with the Olympic games, it is really pictures fantastics.Normally I am not a TV person. I am glad we bought one Flatscreen LCD TV not long ago. At times I can see the finer points of the participants.
Next a new RFID machine was installed for us to tag our books. How easy it will be for libraries to check in and to check out books.
We are so fortunate to have these new technologies

Flickr Trading Card

2008-08-15T13:40:00.000-07:00

From Exercise 10:(Week 4)

Click Trading Card Marker where librarians have created their own Librarian Trading Card. Choose a file on your PC for a picture to upload. Choose a colour for the Card. Fill in the Title field.There are seven icons you can include on the Card. Very easy to create your Fun Cards or rather E-cards for any occasions This is great for Librarians planning a programme.

Flowers for Flickr Fun

2008-08-11T16:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/index.php?group=flowers
Above is the Url For my Flickr Fun. Flickr Color Pickr lets you find public photos in Flickr that will match a specific colour.
I chose the flower pictures from the Flickr 'Flowers Experimental Colr Pickr'.
Decide your colour.
Click from the colour wheel.
All the flower pictures will change to the colour you pick with just a click.
I chose flowers because you can see how beautiful they are in different colour.
It is a great site for designers.

Sydney Opera House

2008-08-04T16:17:00.000-07:00

Been trying hard to upload the picture of the Sydney Opera House without success.

It took me a long time to upload the picture of the Sydney Opera House.The magnifcient archictectural builing is one of my favourite wonders of the world. I was so happy I was able to touch its remarkable roof. The roofs of the House are covered with over one million special tiles.

Basic Flickr accounts are free and easy to join. Then share your favourite photos/pictures with family/friends and the public.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/linh_rom/2270171257/

Travel

2008-07-29T21:45:00.000-07:00

Rollyo is a very easy site to set up and register. I did a google search for my favourite websites to group my 'Travel' subject. There are ready examples for entering individual sites to search. Then "Choose a category"where you would like your Searchroll listed in the Rollyo directory.
Rollyo is not for me. But it may be great to set it up for teachers conducting a class or for kids homework.

Library Thing

2008-07-22T00:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/qweer08

Above is my URL address for 'What's on my bookshelf'.
Needed to sign up for the "Library Thing".
Create your own online library by adding your favourite books.
I started with a couple of non-fiction titles, but the picture of the front book cover won't show up.
I did a duoble click on the first fiction book. I couln't delete the duplicate cover.
Anyway it is an easy blog to set up

Crocs

2008-07-21T16:47:00.000-07:00

Just done it.

Magnigraph is easily edited on the public PC Learnet. It was not possible to upload from the staff PC. The 'horse' was walking and walking non-stop and I have to close and restart elsewhere.

The Generator Blog is a software I enjoyed playing with. With magnigragh you can create your own images in black, white red or blue.

View my red crcocodile? Change to blue with a click.

I started with an aquarium fish, it was impossible to work on it.

My Post

2008-07-21T14:03:00.000-07:00

http://myblog-qwer.blogspot.com/

A Beautiful Love Story

2008-07-20T23:39:00.000-07:00

HOPE is a Waking Dream ... with LOVE everything is POSSIBLE An incredible love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world.
It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half a century.
The 70-year-old Chinese man who hand-carved over 6,000 stairs up a mountain for his 80-year-old wife has passed away in the cave which has been the couple's home for the last
50 years.
Over 50 years ago, Liu Guojiang a 19 year-old boy, fell in love with a 29 year-old widowed mother named Xu Chaoqin..
In a twist worthy of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, friends and relatives criticized the relationship because of the age difference and the fact that Xu already had children.
At that time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman.. To avoid the market gossip and the scorn of their communities, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQingMunicipality . In the beginning, life was harsh as hey had nothing, no electricity or even food.
They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made a
kerosene lamp that they used to light up their lives. Xu felt that she had tied Liu down and repeatedly asked him, 'Are you regretful? Liu always replied, 'As long as we are industrious, life will improve.'
In the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began and continued for over 50 years,
to hand-carve the steps so that his wife could get down the mountain easily.

Half a century later in 2001, a group of adventurers were exploring the forest and
were surprised to find the elderly couple and the over 6,000 hand-carved steps.
Liu MingSheng, one of their seven children said, 'My parents loved each other so much,
they have lived in seclusion for over 50 years and never been apart a single day.
He hand carved more than 6,000 steps over the years for my mother's convenience,
although she doesn't go down the mountain that much.'
The couple had lived in peace for over 50 years until last week. Liu, now 72 years,
returned from his daily farm work and collapsed. Xu sat and prayed with her husband as
he passed away in her arms. So in love with Xu, was Liu, that no one was able to release the grip he had on his wife's hand even after he had passed away.
You promised me you'll take care of me, you'll always be with me until the day I died,
now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?'
Xu spent days softly repeating this sentence and touching her husband's black coffin
with tears rolling down her cheeks.
In 2006, their story became one of the top 10 love stories from China , collected by the
Chinese Women Weekly. The local government has decided to preserve the love ladder
and the place they lived as a museum, so this love story can live forever.

RSS

2008-07-15T19:04:00.000-07:00

I have conquered RSS. Just learnt how to add feeds to my blog. Added eleven news feeds to my reader. Have subscribed three colleague blog feeds.
I like the Topix layout with good pictures.
Welcome to Syndic8 looks confusing.
Try Technovati - Blog finder took ages to load.
Good experience. I like the news feeds.
Need time to look at things. Computer was going very slow on each step. At times have to log off to start off again.

Here is my URL:

http://www.bloglines.com/public/qwer

a picture is worth a1000 words

2008-07-15T18:52:00.000-07:00

Hi

2008-07-11T00:05:00.000-07:00

Blogging is brand new to me It is going to be a huge load of homework for me. At last I am a blogger. Gmail was easy to sign up to start with. Choosing a password and sign in name took me quite a while as each try ,it turned out to be a bad choice. I prefer to remain very very anonymous so I think I have to be very careful with what I put into my blog to remain anonymously.