What is in the future...
Friday, November 9, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Week 9: Podcasts, video & downloadable audio
#20 YouTube - Part of the Web2.0 Revolution
John Naughton, "The Observer's" Net specialist, in his article, "Websites that changed the world", listed YouTube as one of the most influential websites. YouTube, a video sharing site, has grown so much since its humble beginnings in Chad Hurley's and Steve Chan's garage. Today it has become the most popular Web2.0 service. One can spend hours cruising through countless video clips that entertain, educate, manipulate, inspire, or disgust. One can watch, upload or create their own videos.
What can we do with YouTube in the library? Make it a part of technology training for patrons, use video clips in library instruction programs, share them on the library website, use them as a marketing exercise, set up some activities for children or teenagers with them. Perhaps not so fast but I am sure that it will happen in the future - YouTube will became one of the most utilised Internet tools in the libraries.
YouTube- Mr Bean in the Library: Preserving Books
# 19 Web 2.0 Awards
I am very impressed with the list of awarded Web 2.0 sites - hence the inclusion of this link here. There are so many of them. I looked at a few that are most relevant to my interests and picked my own winners.
Here they are:
Books
I have used Biblio many times but Lulu is totally new to me. It will be of interest to these library patrons who would like to self-publish or even have a go at creating family histories, childrens books, family cookery books, and so forth.
Digital photos
Picnik is an online photo editor packed with many wonderful features: you can crop, resize, rotate your photos and use special effects, touch ups and more. You don't even have to register to use this service but access to more advanced features will cost you $24.95 a year. If you are a serious photo fan, it is worth it!
Travel
I like travelling and so do the library patrons. These two travel search engines will be most useful when organising a trip.
Week 8: Online Applications & Tools
#18
Zoho Writer, Zoho Show and more...
Zoho is practical and versatile. The documents can be easily posted to blogs in as many updated versions as one wishes. Fitting Zoho's documents in a blog post is another matter. Depending on the template used, they might not arrive in their original format. I created a few different documents using Zoho: a blank template to write in text and upload a picture, a booklet template and a show template. I struggled to fit a picture into a blog post and the booklet format was automatically altered by Blogger to fit its content into the blog. It looked much better in its original version on Zoho. I am not certain if I can attribute this problem to may ignorance or if this is a true limitation on Zoho's part as far as blog posts are concerned.
Zoho is practical and versatile. The documents can be easily posted to blogs in as many updated versions as one wishes. Fitting Zoho's documents in a blog post is another matter. Depending on the template used, they might not arrive in their original format. I created a few different documents using Zoho: a blank template to write in text and upload a picture, a booklet template and a show template. I struggled to fit a picture into a blog post and the booklet format was automatically altered by Blogger to fit its content into the blog. It looked much better in its original version on Zoho. I am not certain if I can attribute this problem to may ignorance or if this is a true limitation on Zoho's part as far as blog posts are concerned.
However, one should not miss the main point: it is a great tool for word processing, spreadsheets, online presentations, web conferencing, note taking, etc... And for storing your files online!
I was delighted with many templates that Zoho has on offer, although it claimed to have 50 and I was only able to access 13 of them.
Zoho Booklet - Read the Banned Books
Read the Banned Books to READ “[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” — |
Saturday, November 3, 2007
A Masterpiece for a Zoho Writer
Pilgrimage to Esguipulas, Juan Sisay
Juan Sisay, Maya artist of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, Santiago Atitlan's first and most famous painter, a master painter
definition: masterpiece
"Long before masterpiece became associated with the fine arts doing the Renaissance, it meant the perfect piece of work that an apprentice under the English guild system had to make before he was recognised as a master, After he had served his apprenticeship and was able to m ake a piece worthy of a master, a masterpiece, he became a master himself and was no longer required to work under supervision".
The Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Robert Hendrickson
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