Exploration 8: Social Bookmarking Sites

I just set up my own Delicious account and am looking forward to using it. So far I have bookmarked the great law sites that I learned about at the Mayland Law Library session of GSM. I'm also bookmarking any great readers advisory sites I find as that is always a challenge.
Another set of bookmarks I am going to add are the ones I've listed on my "Find Your Job" Pathfinder Packet that I created for my LATI project and I'll add any others that I come across.
As an APT I travel between libraries and it will be wonderful to access these websites from wherever I am!
I also find the sites that each branch has included on their branch Delicious accounts very helpful as many are specific to the area and the questions eacg branch often gets.
I find Delicious to be extremely helpful, both for individuals and for branches in that favorite websites can be accessed from any computer.
I am just practicing with tagging and trying to discover how tags can be used to identify other pertinant websites!

Exploration 7- WIKI's

Well...I've read everything, and I think I understand the difference between a Blog and a Wiki! I first became truly acquainted with a Wiki was when I was in LATI; it took a bit of trial and error for me to understand how to navigate among the various pages, what the fuction of the various sections of the Wiki were, and to quickly and easily find what I needed.
As I reviewed the Wiki for the ALA conference, I saw how effective it was in getting pertinent information to participants; I especially liked how easy it was to access the Post Conference Materials. The Wiki's that AACPL have allows information to be easily disseminated and accessed by all interested parties; quite useful, especially for Materials Management and Staff Development. I can see the importance of keeping Wiki's current!
I can't see any personal use for developing a Wiki yet; time will tell!

Zoho Show

Couldn't figure out how to do a spread sheet as I am not familiar with them! Could do a slide show...will work for any patron who is familiar with powerpoint. It is easy to share the presentation with others, either for just viewing, or even for editing.

ZOHO

As you can see from the previous post, I just figured out (through trial and error!) how to "publish" my Zoho document. I think patrons who don't have/want a disk or thumbdrive...or who want to share documents...would like to know about these applications. They would have to have word processing skills and knowledge in order to understand how to maneuver through the application; armed with those skills/knowledge, they could figure out how (sometimes through trial and error) to use the various features such as changing fonts, font colors, applying style changes such as bold and italic, and inserting pictures and tables.
I am now going to try zoho's online spreadsheet; again an application for patrons who know how create spreadsheets but couldn't do it at the library since the software is not available.

Practice

Lois Sanders

August 11, 2009

 

I am practicing with this Zoho word processing application.  It is very much like Microsoft Word.  Now I am finding out how to name/save the document and how to add a picture.  The directions given are not accurate as they were written over a year ago; as always with the internet, things change!

 

 

Again...couldn't follow the given directions; the message said that there was a problem with the page; so, I just copied and pasted it, then centered it.  Also, there is no 'Insert/Modify' button with mountains and a sun...there is in Insert tab at the top!  I did click on the picture and enlarged it.  This is my favorite mountain in the world...Mt Rainier in Washington State...in the summer with the wild flowers.

 

• Drive to Paradise on Mt Rainier
• Take a walk on the mountain paths.
• Take pictures of the wildflowers.
• Stop by a waterfall and put your feet in the cold, cold water.

 

 

FROM - To Paradise	Mileage	Driving Time
Seattle	150 miles	1 hour 30 minutes
Olympia	125 miles	1 hour 15 minutes

 

Social Networking

I am on Facebook, mostly to keep up with my family in Washington State; my young (thirty-something---I'm showing my age!) niece says it can it a real time-waster! I only check in once a week or so; obviously I am not in need of constant communication as the younger generations are. I was intrigued that Maryland Ask Us Now has both a Facebook and MySpace page; it seems to be effective at getting information to interested people whose way of accessing information is through these types of sites.

Twitter

I was using Twitter to keep up with my daughter at our little shop, A Special Touch, in Annapolis...but it wasn't very effective; she was usually busy with customers or on the phone with insurance companies. Email was just as effective! I am now going to follow some library folk to see what is up with them!