Rollyo?!
Not sure I get it or maybe I was just having some difficulty with the instructions (which is of course, very possible) but I was not able to find the search roll to look into what these blogs were saying about privacy.
I think I need to spend quite a bit more time on Rollyo finding out exactly what it is and how it can/cannot help me in my daily life professionally or personally.
Thanks for introducing me to these new tools. Look forward to talking about them @ MLA in Chicago!
The course is now complete!!
WHEW!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Week 8 (very late) - API's & Mash-ups
SO, I took a look at the mashup award link and decided to look at taggylicio.us
The web address is similar to deli.icio.us but the blurb about taggy being the largest tag cloud piqued my interest.
So, I took a look at the tag cloud and what would happen when I clicked on a tag. King of cool. It brings up a page with itmes from Digg, Youtube, Flickr, photostream anf others.
I did not see many tags that were library related. Curious since there are quite a few librarians out there using del.icio.us but I guess they are unaware of taggylicio.us
I may have to add some more tags to my Flickr and del.icio.us account in hopes they will appear in Taggys tag cloud.
Well not I off to do the second exercise. I will wither amend this post or write a separate on. Have fun and try out some of the links mentioned in this blog if you have never used them before.
More later,
Meredith
The web address is similar to deli.icio.us but the blurb about taggy being the largest tag cloud piqued my interest.
So, I took a look at the tag cloud and what would happen when I clicked on a tag. King of cool. It brings up a page with itmes from Digg, Youtube, Flickr, photostream anf others.
I did not see many tags that were library related. Curious since there are quite a few librarians out there using del.icio.us but I guess they are unaware of taggylicio.us
I may have to add some more tags to my Flickr and del.icio.us account in hopes they will appear in Taggys tag cloud.
Well not I off to do the second exercise. I will wither amend this post or write a separate on. Have fun and try out some of the links mentioned in this blog if you have never used them before.
More later,
Meredith
Monday, May 05, 2008
Week 6 - Online Photo Sharing
Here are the steps I am to follow for week 6:
Discovery Exercises:
Step 1: Set up an online photosharing account. We suggest using flickr, but there are several others listed in the Wikipedia reading from which you may choose.
Step 2: Upload one or more digital photos using flickr or any other image sharing service.
Step 3: Post the photo(s) on to your Facebook site and your blog. You can add these photos to your Facebook page through the photos section or through adding one of the many flickr applications.
Step 4: Blog about the process on your personal blog for this course and share how this concept might be used in your library.
So, I already had a Flickr account but I decided to spend the $25.00/year for a Flickr pro account. This give me more space to upload photos and adds some extra features (I have not thoroughly looked into yet).
Uploading to Flickr was a little time consuming for me in the past because I thought I had to do it one picture at a time. I then found the Flickr uploader tool. What a great tool. It allows me to upload numerous pictures at one time from wherever I have them saved on my computer when they were uploaded there.
I do wish there was way to upload pictures directly to Flickr without having to first upload them to my computer then to Flickr where I then delete them for space reasons. UGH! If anyone has a smoother solution to this please let me know.
Since I already had the Flickr account I had already uploaded a photo to my FB account and added the Flickr application to my FB profile. I like the FB application but it seems like a lot of duplication to have the Flickr tool in FB and the Flickr account itself but this does allow you to share your photos with more/different people.
Well, that is it for now. Later I will briefly discuss how using Flickr can work or not work for libraries.
~M
Discovery Exercises:
Step 1: Set up an online photosharing account. We suggest using flickr, but there are several others listed in the Wikipedia reading from which you may choose.
Step 2: Upload one or more digital photos using flickr or any other image sharing service.
Step 3: Post the photo(s) on to your Facebook site and your blog. You can add these photos to your Facebook page through the photos section or through adding one of the many flickr applications.
Step 4: Blog about the process on your personal blog for this course and share how this concept might be used in your library.
So, I already had a Flickr account but I decided to spend the $25.00/year for a Flickr pro account. This give me more space to upload photos and adds some extra features (I have not thoroughly looked into yet).
Uploading to Flickr was a little time consuming for me in the past because I thought I had to do it one picture at a time. I then found the Flickr uploader tool. What a great tool. It allows me to upload numerous pictures at one time from wherever I have them saved on my computer when they were uploaded there.
I do wish there was way to upload pictures directly to Flickr without having to first upload them to my computer then to Flickr where I then delete them for space reasons. UGH! If anyone has a smoother solution to this please let me know.
Since I already had the Flickr account I had already uploaded a photo to my FB account and added the Flickr application to my FB profile. I like the FB application but it seems like a lot of duplication to have the Flickr tool in FB and the Flickr account itself but this does allow you to share your photos with more/different people.
Well, that is it for now. Later I will briefly discuss how using Flickr can work or not work for libraries.
~M
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Week 7 assignment: Podcasts, Online hosted videos
I think I am a week behind but part of my assignment this week was to explore podcasting and YouTube.
Since I have done both of these in the past I do not have too much to say but...
You tube needs a better search feature. Trying to find something relevant can be like finding a needle in a haystack. There are great videos on you tube but finding them can be a challenge.
The fact that MIT records their classes for everyone to watch is impressive. I know MIT is not the only one. SO, if you ever wanted to take a class at MIT, you can now and for free you just won't get any credit for it.
The advanced part of my assignment was to embed a video I found on you tube to share. Well, I loved Bart's puppet shoe with his Star Wars Pez dispensers that I chose his video to embed so here it is. Thanks for the laughs Bart and see you in Chicago.
Since I have done both of these in the past I do not have too much to say but...
You tube needs a better search feature. Trying to find something relevant can be like finding a needle in a haystack. There are great videos on you tube but finding them can be a challenge.
The fact that MIT records their classes for everyone to watch is impressive. I know MIT is not the only one. SO, if you ever wanted to take a class at MIT, you can now and for free you just won't get any credit for it.
The advanced part of my assignment was to embed a video I found on you tube to share. Well, I loved Bart's puppet shoe with his Star Wars Pez dispensers that I chose his video to embed so here it is. Thanks for the laughs Bart and see you in Chicago.
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