Thing 8
I have edited one of my photos using Picnik, but I'm pretty sure it looked better before!
Thursday 11 February 2010
Thing 7
Thing 7
I don't possess a digital camera, so had to borrow a colleague's to take a couple of photos to upload to Flickr. I have used Flickr quite often to view friends' photos, so I was familiar with it and the same is true of Picasa.
I did the extra things for this task and quite like the geolocator (once I'd actually worked out how to add the photo to the detailed map, rather than the world map!), but am uncomfortable with how much one could actually end up giving away about one's movements and location if one added this to all one's photos. I know I've chosen only to share it with friends and family, but it makes me more aware of quite how much one blithely gives away about oneself on the internet.
I don't possess a digital camera, so had to borrow a colleague's to take a couple of photos to upload to Flickr. I have used Flickr quite often to view friends' photos, so I was familiar with it and the same is true of Picasa.
I did the extra things for this task and quite like the geolocator (once I'd actually worked out how to add the photo to the detailed map, rather than the world map!), but am uncomfortable with how much one could actually end up giving away about one's movements and location if one added this to all one's photos. I know I've chosen only to share it with friends and family, but it makes me more aware of quite how much one blithely gives away about oneself on the internet.
Wednesday 3 February 2010
Thing 6
Thing 6
My first feed to subscribe to is Unshelved Answers. Connected with the Unshelved comic strip which brightens many of our inboxes each weekday morning, Unshelved Answers offers Library staff the world over an opportunity to pick each other's brains on topic as diverse as "What do I recommend to Twilight fans" to "Are there grants to pay for A/V machinery?".
I following a couple of other 23 Things blogs and may add others as we go along.
My first feed to subscribe to is Unshelved Answers. Connected with the Unshelved comic strip which brightens many of our inboxes each weekday morning, Unshelved Answers offers Library staff the world over an opportunity to pick each other's brains on topic as diverse as "What do I recommend to Twilight fans" to "Are there grants to pay for A/V machinery?".
I following a couple of other 23 Things blogs and may add others as we go along.
Thing 5
Thing 5
I already had a Google Reader account from an OULS introductory session a couple of years ago. This task gave me the opportunity to unsubscribe from lots of journals and ZETOC searches that I had set up for my Masters dissertation and no longer require.
I already had a Google Reader account from an OULS introductory session a couple of years ago. This task gave me the opportunity to unsubscribe from lots of journals and ZETOC searches that I had set up for my Masters dissertation and no longer require.
Thing 4
Thing 4
I can't register my blog as the web page is too busy. Great start....
I am surprised by how much reservation is being expressed in the blogs I read. I thought more participants would be using more of this stuff regularly. I guess the people who use it a lot don't need to take part in the 23 Things program though. I am also aware that just plainly following instructions is going to make for a thoroughly unfollowable blog, but that the people who have gone off-road come over as a bit strange. Hmm.
Too many windows open - even with several tabs in use! It's getting unwieldy. And I wish the links in the 23 Things blog opened in a new window so you could refer back to the original blog more easily.
I can't register my blog as the web page is too busy. Great start....
I am surprised by how much reservation is being expressed in the blogs I read. I thought more participants would be using more of this stuff regularly. I guess the people who use it a lot don't need to take part in the 23 Things program though. I am also aware that just plainly following instructions is going to make for a thoroughly unfollowable blog, but that the people who have gone off-road come over as a bit strange. Hmm.
Too many windows open - even with several tabs in use! It's getting unwieldy. And I wish the links in the 23 Things blog opened in a new window so you could refer back to the original blog more easily.
Thing 2
Thing 2
I found scrolling through all the possible templates and gadgets very tiring on the eyes and actually, I wouldn't choose to have that much cluttering my homepage. I like having a random picture though - cheers the place up! I Really like the E.M. Forster-esque template.
Gadgets: Art of the Day, Google Translate, Googlemail preview, Word of the Day, Google Map, Weather, Optical Illusion of the Day, Train Journey Planner. I've tried to use things that change, so are worth looking at more than occasionally and things I actually use and have always had to have added to my favourites i.e. weather, rail enquiries, maps.
Thing 1
Thing 1
The trickiest part of this was remembering my google login and password because they were set up for work purposes a few years ago and not used since! I thought I already had an iGoogle page, but it appeared not.
The trickiest part of this was remembering my google login and password because they were set up for work purposes a few years ago and not used since! I thought I already had an iGoogle page, but it appeared not.
Thing 3
Thing 3
I am participating in 23 Things to learn more about what we can do as a Library to make more use of web 2.0 technology, if it is appropriate for our Library. As a two-person organisation, sometimes one between appointments, we don't want to commit ourselves to too many things to update. Most web 2.0 technology is only worthwhile if it is updated regularly, so this is a good way to experiment with what we can manage and what we can't and to find what might actually be used, rather than just jumping on the bandwagon of what is currently fashionable.
I regularly use facebook both socially and for work, though I am not yet sure what the use of our Library facebook page is. I share a blog for discussing the allotment I share with others, but don't follow other people's blogs, as a rule (life's too short!). I have never investigated Twitter, though I was recently asked what I thought about its use for Libraries. I used RSS feeds and online discussion groups when I was doing my MA course. For distance learning, the latter was really useful to feel connected to the other students, but I found the RSS feeds more of an annoyance than of use. Picasa and Flikr can be really useful for photo-sharing, but I find most people who used to share their photos this way now do so via facebook and that is how I would go about it. YouTube is a brilliant resource (and a fantastic time-waster!), but I'd never thought of it as having a work application, so I shall be interested to see what we discover on that front in week 6.
I am participating in 23 Things to learn more about what we can do as a Library to make more use of web 2.0 technology, if it is appropriate for our Library. As a two-person organisation, sometimes one between appointments, we don't want to commit ourselves to too many things to update. Most web 2.0 technology is only worthwhile if it is updated regularly, so this is a good way to experiment with what we can manage and what we can't and to find what might actually be used, rather than just jumping on the bandwagon of what is currently fashionable.
I regularly use facebook both socially and for work, though I am not yet sure what the use of our Library facebook page is. I share a blog for discussing the allotment I share with others, but don't follow other people's blogs, as a rule (life's too short!). I have never investigated Twitter, though I was recently asked what I thought about its use for Libraries. I used RSS feeds and online discussion groups when I was doing my MA course. For distance learning, the latter was really useful to feel connected to the other students, but I found the RSS feeds more of an annoyance than of use. Picasa and Flikr can be really useful for photo-sharing, but I find most people who used to share their photos this way now do so via facebook and that is how I would go about it. YouTube is a brilliant resource (and a fantastic time-waster!), but I'd never thought of it as having a work application, so I shall be interested to see what we discover on that front in week 6.
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