Friday, February 1, 2008
krl2pt0
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Sites for students
I'm writing this on Zoho Writer! We'll see how it goes ...
The resources in this lesson look a lot more practical than something like Twitter. (Although playing in Twitter helped me understand what the people in that Alli commercial are doing.) The organizing and notetaking possibilities for students blow my mind -- I'll bet when the current generation grows up we really will be able to get closer to a paperless society.
I enjoy organizing things, so first I tried to look at Stikkit, but when I clicked on the screencast links I got blank screens. I'll check some other day, because I really want to see how that works.
Jobster was interesting. I learned I could make a lot more money as a GS-12 cataloger at Library of Congress, if I wanted to live in Washington, DC, rather than Washington State. I think not, though. Their cost of living is much higher, and their climate is appalling.
The welcome screen for Zoho writer said that with Zoho you could use tags as folders. What a wonderful idea!!! I can't always remember which folder my document is in. How can we convince Microsoft to do this?
Changing type fonts. Hmm, this one is a little small. Changing the point size. The older I get, the larger the type font I enjoy. Nice assortment of emoticons!
1234567890-=qwertyuiop[]\asdfghjkl;'zxcvbnm,./ (WingDings. Cute, aren't they?)
ISBN | Title |
9781406542608 | Bardelys the magnificent |
9781594482731 | Teahouse |
Tables work well.
I like Zoho writer and now that I have an account with them I'll investigate their other applications. Free word processing, free spreadsheets, free lots of things that are good for students and for people at home who don't want to pay for Microsoft products.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
I looked at five library accounts and found that they're using Twitter for short announcements-- classes, building hours, computer downtime, additions to the catalog, etc. I can see that this is an easy way to get such information out to people, but I noticed that none of the libraries has many followers, so I'm not sure how useful this could be. Stillwater free library has eight followers. Houston Library has only 58 followers, and that must be a big library. When we add new formats to the collection (CDs, DVDs, etc.) we wait until a large number of people have the equipment and start asking for them. We probably should do the same with a lot of the krl2pt0 technology-- see what lots of people are actually using, and focus on that. Blogs before Twitter, for instance.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
After saying all of that, though, I have to admit that I don't understand the appeal of sites like this. A face to face visit is best, then a phone call, then a nice, long letter that you can read and think about and then re-read. I just don't think that something like "hi, cute picture!" is real social networking.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Wiki, week two
I really would like KRL's wiki to become the one place to put any information that more than one person needs, and I will start by getting all of Technical Services' information in there. I'll also talk to Paulette about putting circulation procedures on the wiki, because that's what I have the hardest time finding.
Wiki, week one
I think Wiki could be the most useful thing we've looked at so far, used as a tool for pulling together all the documents, procedures, and forms that we have spread out over the web page, the transfer file, bulletin boards, notebooks, etc., as long as we can keep it organized. Wouldn't it be nice to have just one place to go to find things? I think we need to add functional areas to the wiki home page, in addition to the branches and departments. I know that I would like to be able to see system-wide procedures such as how to handle snags. I'll talk to Paulette about this.
I created a new page listing TS staff and how a book moves through the department by copying and pasting. That was as easy as pie, but linking it to the home page ...
Friday, December 7, 2007
YouTube
There are a lot of very professional-looking videos on YouTube, but also some very amateurish-looking ones, and unfortunately most of the library videos I watched were amateurish. I did like"Perry the Penguin discovers the Dewey Decimal System".
"March of the librarians" was fun, and I watched it very carefully to see if I could spot anyone I knew.
I found the KRL video, and enjoyed seeing staff on it. I thought the music was a little over the top, though-- it's not a shark, guys!