tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44362915926207180922024-03-19T06:00:49.415-07:00InstructionsACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-53208124383611602162009-01-28T11:45:00.000-08:002009-01-29T18:31:15.163-08:00#12 (week 5) Summarise your thoughts<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIljPS915zhyphenhyphenjDn6EJ4J0kABKKFz-mk-leQI9M5AhGUiu8EKTdDbarRdAs_mPSnwrooYSuC-7qucXG9lX0xtmb7S-BdKGIAb7Z6LZYJDzqwblcWNc54JQ4AfjLv3jcrl27JvpusS34Fe4/s1600-h/genius.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296538994358257506" style="WIDTH: 115px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 95px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIljPS915zhyphenhyphenjDn6EJ4J0kABKKFz-mk-leQI9M5AhGUiu8EKTdDbarRdAs_mPSnwrooYSuC-7qucXG9lX0xtmb7S-BdKGIAb7Z6LZYJDzqwblcWNc54JQ4AfjLv3jcrl27JvpusS34Fe4/s200/genius.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Wow! Congratulations, you’ve reached the last thing! </span><br /><br /><br /><p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ox9BksdC2et1VUHGViizPdw5UaHZCnCpmSQpFM-1TXuaAyN-S0SFiqHP5UqXwzFuZeVlsyuit_bNuL0kVFjZjhmieU1i4S5YT3Edt4asHv-GkrivshxM4BeLeIFGiEYnff-ajpZSYJA/s1600-h/eby_foobar_35t.bmp"></a></p>I hope this experience has helped to build your knowledge of Web 2.0 skills.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Discovery Exercise:<br /></span><br /><ol><li>For your last and final post, please reflect on your learning journey and post a few thoughts about your journey through this programme. Tell us about at least one thing that stood out for you and what tools will be useful in your role or for customers. <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></li></ol><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Closing comments</span></p>In closing, I want to thank you all for joining us on this learning journey and taking time out of your busy schedules.<br /><br />Last of all, a big thanks to our administration team: Jessica Aranui & Lisa Pomeroy who have spent the last five weeks adding comments on your Blog.<br /><br />Jayne Gutry, professional development adviser, Auckland City LibrariesACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-28685623937177845802008-12-09T11:03:00.000-08:002009-01-29T18:07:45.000-08:00#10 (week 5) Social networksYou may remember that during the last program we visited some social networking sites such as <a href="http://elgar-acllearn-things.blogspot.com/2007/09/4-week-2-social-networking.html">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://elgar-acllearn-things.blogspot.com/2007/10/13-week-6-tagging-folksomonies-social.html">Delicious</a>. Librarians worldwide are using <a href="http://elgar-acllearn-things.blogspot.com/2007/10/13-week-6-tagging-folksomonies-social.html">Delicious</a> to keep up to date with library best practise by bookmarking websites and sharing their Delicious account with colleagues and customers. Check out the ACL working team <a href="http://elgar-acllearn-things.blogspot.com/2007/10/13-week-6-tagging-folksomonies-social.html">Delicious</a> accounts which are located in the development plan on the training and development <a href="http://acltrain.pbwiki.com/">wiki</a>.<br /><br />For Thing 10 we are going to look at the other social bookmarking sites located on the ACL website. You can find them by choosing a <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/new-and-recommended.aspx">recommended list</a> and scrolling down the page until you find these icons: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xftPnBt0aJNA-RrQLTZhNZFWPX7zAtc671L9o5Bk_YnxKAmANhHDBX0UGlkEY4VjAVvM10QNfFVBnaElT2exIHQftmJcHAskC50pRnxl4JYVi4hJqjq47mNqV9kaZzOYAvk3eOLQFNc/s1600-h/icons.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277870321326024450" style="WIDTH: 270px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 33px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xftPnBt0aJNA-RrQLTZhNZFWPX7zAtc671L9o5Bk_YnxKAmANhHDBX0UGlkEY4VjAVvM10QNfFVBnaElT2exIHQftmJcHAskC50pRnxl4JYVi4hJqjq47mNqV9kaZzOYAvk3eOLQFNc/s320/icons.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />The idea is that customers embed a link of their favourite recommended list to their <a href="http://elgar-acllearn-things.blogspot.com/2007/10/13-week-6-tagging-folksomonies-social.html">Delicious</a>, <a href="http://elgar-acllearn-things.blogspot.com/2007/09/4-week-2-social-networking.html">Facebook</a> or social network internet account and provides computer users another entrance into the library website.<br /><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;">Discovery resources</span></strong></p><ul><li>The second icon is <a href="http://www.digg.com/">Digg</a>: Digg is a user driven social content website. Everything on <a href="http://www.digg.com/">Digg</a> is user-submitted. After you submit content, other people read your submission and “Digg” what they like best. If your story receives enough Diggs, it’s promoted to the front page for other visitors to see. <a href="http://www.digg.com/">Digg</a> is a great way to find useful content that you wouldn't come across in traditional ways.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.reddit.com/">Reddit</a>, is similar to Digg. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/">Reddit</a> has a simple interface and little advertising. Many users love this simplicity.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">StumbleUpon</a> discovers websites based on your interests. When users stumble, they see pages which friends and like-minded stumblers have recommended. People who are passionate about <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">StumbleUpon</a> say they like it because of the surprise factor in what they see next, and the fact that the product has such a high hit rate in delivering interesting new content.<br /><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.newsvine.com/">Newsvine</a> is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.a social news where people can intelligently discuss news stories from mainstream USA sources. Users can write articles, seed links to external content, and discuss news items submitted by both users and professional journalists.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Discovery exercise</strong></span> </li></ul><ol><li>Explore at least two of the discovery resources and sign up to at least one.<br /></li><br /><li>Comment on at least two stories and tell us about them.<br /></li></ol><p></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Optional discovery exercise</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;">1. Check out the rest of the discovery resources.<br /></span></p></span>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-12051004885722493522008-12-08T20:27:00.000-08:002009-02-11T17:20:40.884-08:00#4 (week 2) GenealogyWe are going to take a look at two web 2.0 sites that you could recommend to customers to help them construct their family tree, add information about family history, share photos and calendars.....and it is really easy to do.<br /><br />What makes it so easy is that you can email relatives and ask them to complete the information in your family tree on your behalf. You can even find out which celebrity you resemble, create a celebrity morph, find out who your child resembles and much more!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;">Discovery resources</span><br /><br />The Auckland Research Centre has has an extensive collection for <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/aboutthelibraries/collections/Family-History.aspx">family history </a>resources. The ACL website also has the <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/blog/kintalkfamilyhistoryblog.aspx">Kintalk blog</a> and offers <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/populartopics/resourcepages/familyhistorywhakapapa/researchfamily.aspx">guidelines and tips </a>to help customers begin researching their family history. Following are some web 2.0 sites that customers could use to create their own family trees:<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.myheritage.com/" _counted="undefined">My heritage</a> – family tree and photos</li><li><a href="http://www.geni.com/" _counted="undefined">Geni</a> – family tree and photos</li><li><a href="http://blog.geni.com/2008/11/using-outside-sources-to-help-with-your-family-tree.html">Geni blog</a></li></ul><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Discovery exercises</strong></span><br /><br /><ol><li><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Sign up and take a look around both </span><a href="http://www.myheritage.com/"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#ff9966;">My Heritage</span> </span></a><span style="color:#ffffff;">and </span><a href="http://www.geni.com/"><span style="color:#ff9966;">Geni.</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff;"> Remember it is ok to use the same username and password throughout this programme. <span style="color:#ffffff;"><strong>Please do not download the family tree builder in My Heritage as it will change your computer settings and you need to raise a Logit to fix it.</strong> </span><br /><br /></span></span></li><li>Choose the discovery resources you like best and create a family tree with at least 6 relatives. It is ok if they are ficticious.<br /><br /></li><li>Click on <a href="http://www.geni.com/family-tree/embed_tree">Embed</a> to insert your Geni family tree into the sidebar of your blog (don't forget to click the small box "sidebar). If you chose to use My Heritage, cut and paste the URL address somewhere in your blog.<br /><br /></li><li>Write a post about your experience in approximately 50 words. Reflect on which site you liked best and why, tell us what you did.....how you could use this site in your role....will you recommend this to customers?....what surprised you....and what amazed you etc. </li></ol>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-57803105495544272042008-12-08T19:46:00.000-08:002009-01-29T16:02:18.110-08:00#9 (week) 4 Go animate<p><a href="http://goanimate.com/go/">GoAnimate</a> enables you to create your own computer animated stories that can be shared with others online. You don't need any specialist animation skills as this site has simple to more advanced features that you can play with to create a multitude of possibilities for customising your animations.<br /><br /><a href="http://goanimate.com/go/">GoAnimate</a> is easy to use. You can create animations, drawing from a library of characters, backgrounds, props, sound effects and music for use in creating their own unique animations. You can customise your animations with a number of tools and features that allow them to create truly unique works of expression.<br /><br />You can link your animation to Flickr, Facebook, My Space, Delicious, send an email or embed it in your blog. Take a look at some of the animations I found, or find your own. <embed src="'http://goanimate.com//api/animation/player?utm_source=" width="'400'" height="'286'" type="'application/x-shockwave-flash'" allowfullscreen="'true'" allowscriptaccess="'always'" isembed="1&isPublished=" copyable="0&showButtons=" thumbnailurl="null&fb_app_url=" apiserver="http://goanimate.com/&appCode=" moviedesc="Intro%20to%20ACL%20staff%20web%202.0%20program&userId=" movieid="0Mp1dN_p467E&movieTitle=" flashvars="'movieOwner=" wmode="'transparent'"></embed><embed src="'http://goanimate.com//api/animation/player?utm_source=" width="'400'" height="'286'" type="'application/x-shockwave-flash'" allowfullscreen="'true'" allowscriptaccess="'always'" isembed="1&isPublished=" copyable="1&showButtons=" thumbnailurl="http%3A//goanimate.com//files/thumbnails/movie/2193/395193/476959L.jpg&fb_app_url=" apiserver="http://goanimate.com/&appCode=" moviedesc="&userId=" movieid="0Mp1dN_p467E&movieTitle=" flashvars="'movieOwner=" wmode="'transparent'"></embed><br /></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;">Discovery resources</span></p><p>You could use <a href="http://goanimate.com/go/">Go Animate</a> to address issues such as losing books to our younger customers or you could run click and learn classes, run a competition and get youth to create their own animations. Check out some cool animations I found by other librarians.</p><ul><li><a href="http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0cxSfmpXqjW8/1">Redwood Middle School</a></li><li><a href="http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0EuSuKWJLTow/1">Lost library books</a></li><li><a href="http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0esn_TxM5o1c/1">Database</a></li><li><a href="http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0QKvsxmHs29U/1">Music library</a> (althought not in english you still get the point)<br /></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;">Discovery exercise<br /></p></span><ol><li>Watch the <a href="http://goanimate.com/">Go Animate</a> demo located on the home page.<br /><br /></li><li>Sign up and create an animation with at least three scenes using word balloons and movements and embed the link to your animation on your Blog.<br /><br /></li><li>Write a Post for week four and comment about <a href="http://animoto.com/">Animoto</a> and <a href="http://goanimate.com/">Go Animate</a>. Tell us how you can use these two web 2.0 tools at your site or on the ACL website? Also tell us what you did.... was it easy.... was it hard... was it fun to do...... when would you use this.... and what types of customers do you think would find this fun etc</li></ol>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-37265439717691120102008-12-08T15:17:00.000-08:002009-01-29T18:21:21.304-08:00#8 (week 4) AnimotoGet those creative juices flowing by creating your own professional video clips online using <a href="http://animoto.com/">Animoto</a>. This could be useful for librarians delivering community outreach presentations to promote library services, marketing events or click and learn classes where customers get to make their own videos - I think this would be great fun for all ages.<br /><br />Animoto is the brain child of producers from ABC, Comedy Central and MTV who definitely know their stuff. Animoto analyses your images and the music you use and pieces everything together to where it all flows perfectly in sync. If you don't like how your video turns out you can click the Remix this Video button and have Animoto automatically change it up for you or tweak it yourself. No two video clips come out the same which makes for hours of fun.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Example</span><br /><br />Here is an <a href="http://animoto.com/play/deaM56FAd1k19yumBjXU0Q?from=share">example</a> of one I did earlier to promote this program. If you want a clip longer than 30 seconds it will cost. But, you can make as many 30 second clips as you want for free.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#cc6600;">Discovery exercise: </span></span><br /><br /><ol><li>Create an account on <a href="http://animoto.com/">Animoto</a>.<br /><br /></li><li>Take a look around and tell us what you found and suggest ways which Animoto could be used at the library<br /><br /></li></ol><p></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;">Optional discovery exercise</span></p><ol><li>Create a 30 second clip or Animoto Short, by uploading at least six pictures. (Note there should be no more than 10 pictures for a 30 second video)<br /><br /></li><li>Choose from one of the songs in Animoto's music library or upload your own music file to go with your clip.<br /><br /></li><li>Embed your new 30 second clip onto your blog. There is a special code just for Blogger that you can use.<br /></li></ol>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-10135267689632371462008-12-08T15:07:00.000-08:002009-01-29T15:39:45.405-08:00#7 (week 3) BookjettyIf you participated in the last web 2.0 program you may remember looking at <a href="http://elgar-acllearn-things.blogspot.com/2007/10/11-week-5-take-look-at-librarything-and.html">LibraryThing</a> which has become so popular that it now charges if you have over 200 books. There are other similar sites that you can use to catalogue your own library, list books you want to own or read or review books. Such sites include <a href="http://www.booktagger.com/">Booktagger</a>, <a href="http://www.shelfari.com/">Shelfari</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a>. Several applications are also available on Facebook, such as iread and Visual Bookshelf.<br /><br />In Thing 7, we are going to focus on Singapore-based <a href="http://www.bookjetty.com/">Bookjetty</a>. People can catalogue their own books and list things they are reading, have read or want. You can review books, tag them, rate them and add a widget to your blog.<br /><br />But here’s the difference: if you want an item, you can be linked to Amazon to purchase it AND you can search library catalogues! There are links to over 300 library catalogues worldwide. The search there gives you the call number, and a quick click on that takes you to the library catalogue where you can see if the item is available and reserve it! How cool is that!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc6600;">Discovery exercise</span><br /><br />1. Set up a free account with <a href="http://www.bookjetty.com/">Bookjetty</a> and take a look around.<br /><br />2. Catalogue a minimum of five books making some of them books wanted, some books read etc and embed a link on your Blog.<br /><br />3. Write a Post for week three on your Blog, tell us about your experience with using <a href="http://www.litlovers.com/">Litlovers</a>, <a href="http://www.authorsontheweb.com/">Authors on the Web</a> and <a href="http://www.bookjetty.com/">Bookjetty</a>. Tell us what you liked..... disliked..... whether you found this tool useful and would recommend these sites to customers.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc6600;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Optional extra</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">discovery exercises</span></span><br /><br /><ol><li>Create a widget located in your profile and install on your blog so that you (and others) have access.<br /></li><li>Find other <a href="http://www.bookjetty.com/libraries_list?country_id=">libraries</a> in New Zealand and also try finding bookshelves of other library colleagues.</li></ol>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-82380034784383301452008-12-07T19:56:00.000-08:002009-01-29T15:37:33.683-08:00#6 (week 3) Authors on the WebReader's advisory tools are great to assist customers in finding a book by their favourite author, title or genre or suggesting a <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/new-and-recommended/newtitles.aspx">new title</a>. Web 2.0 functionalities make it easy for our tech-savvy customers to keep up to date with new releases by setting up <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/aboutthelibraries/services/Computer-classes/rssfeeds.aspx">RSS feeds</a> to their favourite author, checking out the ACL website <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/DigitalLibrary/resourcepages/Books-and-Authors.aspx?RD=~/DigitalLibrary/topicpages/galeeresources.aspx">books and authors</a> database or following the <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/blog/booksinthecity.aspx">Books in the city</a> blog.<br /><br />For thing 6 we are going to take a look at <a href="http://authorsontheweb.com/">AuthorsOnTheWeb.com</a><br /><br />This site is useful for people looking for the next book by their favourite author or someone looking for new authors. It has a “Coming Attractions” feature that lists the new and upcoming books by month, and dates of paperback publication.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Discovery resources</span></strong><br /><br />You can link to the <a href="http://www.authoryellowpages.com/">AuthorYellowPages</a> to get the web address of almost any author you can think of. <a href="http://authorsontheweb.com/">AuthorsOnTheWeb.com </a>and <a href="http://www.authoryellowpages.com/">AuthorYellowPages</a> are put together by <a href="http://www.tbrnetwork.com/">TheBookReportNetwork.com</a>, which also created <a href="http://www.readinggroupguides.com/content/index.asp">ReadingGroupGuides.com</a>, an online community for reading groups, and <a href="http://www.bookreporter.com/">Bookreporter.com</a>, a great place to get to know more about your favourite authors, as well as several other reading-related sites.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Discovery exercise: </span><br /><ol><li>Visit <a href="http://authorsontheweb.com/">Authors of the Web </a>and at least one other site in the discovery resources above and take a look around.<br /><br /></li><li>Embed a link to your favourite site on your Blog and tell us what you found.<br /></li></ol><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Optional discovery exercise</span></p><ol><li>Visit the remaining discovery resources and take a look around.</li></ol>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-23207785243811894972008-12-07T19:48:00.000-08:002009-01-29T15:10:40.437-08:00#5 (Week 3) Litlovers<p>ACL has a number of <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/aboutthelibraries/services/Book-clubs.aspx">bookclubs</a> for adults, <a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/aboutthelibraries/services/Book-clubs.aspx#teens">teens</a> and kids at various locations. One of the hardest parts of coordinating or being involved in a book club is deciding what books to read and finding the resources to back up the choices.<br /><br />For this thing, we take a look at <a href="http://www.litlovers.com/">Litlovers</a> which can help to makes those decisions about what to read a bit easier. <a href="http://www.litlovers.com/">Litlovers</a> is an online community dedicated to books and book clubs. Here’s how they describe theselves:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DhXYZ1mzlWlazO0dNNUDDJ9NSkEFD2Yl6EmhnGgSoy3T_OxwO1rqrY9vMNepz_2L60xBcgvINPhwR0bpRFVgPUfX6Bm_qghK2L4CPGTaA-eExQcfgqh7dHIqHiojUOdFYzxjJDoLynM/s1600-h/Litlovers.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296856112419205186" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 110px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DhXYZ1mzlWlazO0dNNUDDJ9NSkEFD2Yl6EmhnGgSoy3T_OxwO1rqrY9vMNepz_2L60xBcgvINPhwR0bpRFVgPUfX6Bm_qghK2L4CPGTaA-eExQcfgqh7dHIqHiojUOdFYzxjJDoLynM/s200/Litlovers.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />"An online community dedicated to books and book clubs—because both enrich our lives. We've got great resources to enhance your book club experience. Whether you're selecting books, or thinking & talking about them, LitLovers is the place to come. What can you do on LitLovers? What can't you do! Find a book. Find a review. Find a discussion guide. Take a course. Whip up a recipe (to match your book, of course)! There's so much to do—and so much fun—you won't want to leave"<br /><br />The site is divided into four main areas: </p><ul><li><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/litclub.htm">LitClub</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/course/">LitCourse </a></li><li><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/blog/">LitBlog </a></li><li><a href="http://www.litlovers.com/litmisc.htm">LitFun </a></li></ul><p>and there is also a site for <a href="http://www.litlovers.com/litkids.htm">LitKids</a>, where you can find ideas for starting bookclubs for school kids and toddlers. This could be a great idea for those of you building relationships with schools in your area.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Discovery exercise</span></p><ol><li>Explore the <a href="http://www.litlovers.com/">Litlovers</a> site.<br /></li><br /><li>Think of a book that would be a good one to discuss in a book club. Check out the <a href="http://www.litlovers.com/">Litlovers</a> site for resources about the title and tell us what you found.<br /></li></ol><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Optional discovery exercise</span></p><ol><li>Check out <a href="http://www.litlovers.com/course/catalogue.htm">LitCourses</a> and complete at least one that appeals to you. What course did you do, and do you think customers will find this of benefit?<br /></li></ol>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-37577752128720337572008-12-07T19:08:00.000-08:002009-02-04T13:25:40.463-08:00#3 (week 1) Register your blog with the administratorWe hope you are enjoying the adventure so far and having fun. If you get stuck you can always ask a colleague who participated in our last program or someone that is finding this easy to do.<br /><br />Once your manager has approved your registration, the next step is to register your blog with the administrator s0 team so we can verify and track your progress. We will comment on your blogs within 48 hours and update the tracking log every day at 1pm so you can watch your progress.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Discovery resources</span><br /><br />Take a look at some of these discovery resources to see how other librarians are using blogs to communicate to staff and customers. Can you think of useful ways to use blogs in your role?<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="http://library20.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=515108%3ATopic%3A7973">Internal communication</a></li><li><a href="http://www.webjunction.org/social-software/articles/content/430713">Blogs for libraries</a></li><li>Why and How to<a href="http://www.infotoday.com/mls/nov03/fichter.shtml"> use blogs </a>to promote your library services</li><li>What's all the <a href="http://eyetoeye.ingenta.com/library/issue22/insight-blogs.htm">fuss about blogs</a>?</li></ul><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Discovery exercise: </span><br /><br /><br /><ol><li>Find the URL address on your blog located in the same place as the example below. Copy the address by clicking once on the URL address with the right hand button of the mouse.<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_yepa6u0K1Tw/SQ9nqEbYoeI/AAAAAAAAAJU/KmMJK-YzKrg/s1600-h/URL.jpg"></a> The URL is the unique address that specifies the location of a file on the Internet. URL is an abbreviation of "Uniform Resource Locator"<br /><br /></li><li>Send an email to <a href="mailto:aclweb2.1@gmail.com">aclweb2.1@gmail.com</a> and make sure to include your<br />* real name (this is kept confidential)<br />* location<br />* blogger name<br />* and paste the URL blog address<br /></li><li>Don't forget you need to create a Post on your Blog. For those participating in this programme for the first time, you will have done this as part of thing 2. If you are resurrecting your blog, tell us in approximately 50 words, if you are still using your blog, what it took to find it....did old memories come flooding back etc. As with the last program you will be asked to do this each week and the ACL learning admin team will check your blog when new posts appear and post comments on your progress.<br /></li></ol><p>That's it for week one. <:) </p>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4436291592620718092.post-14463164866094482132008-12-07T18:54:00.000-08:002009-01-29T14:03:07.869-08:00#2 (week 1) Setting up a Blog & add your first postBlog is short for weblog. It is an online journal for news, reviews and events or can be a personal diary. A blog can be whatever you want it to be and there are no real rules. The blog author writes commentary or news on a particular subject for readers to view. Blogs can also include links to other websites, pictures or videos. Readers are often attracted to blogs because they enjoy the style and content of a particular author and readers can interact by adding comments to postings.<br /><br />The newest information in a blog appears at the top of the page with older information below. When the page gets too long the blog will archive older posts usually on the right hand side. A post is a single entry on a blog.<br /><br />For thing #2 you will be setting up a <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=mail&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2Fe-11-111c7f5f440316784cf3d43f85b692c7-b01cf11a54d9927ba762dde4f0ac1a41452ff719&type=2">Gmail </a>account and creating your very own personal <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blog</a>. Each week you will be asked to write at least a 50 word post on your blog of to begin recording your thoughts, discoveries and exercises. If you participated in our last program, feel free to reuse the original blog you set up.<br /><br />Throughout the program you will be asked to set up a number of accounts. We recommend that you remain anonymous and use the same username and passwords throughout the program so you don't forget them.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Discovery resources</span><br />ACL has some Blogs on their website which we use to interact with online customer and talk about topical issues, promote some of our services and encourage our customers to participate by commenting. Check out some of the Blogs.<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/blog/booksinthecity.aspx">Books in the City</a> - for people who can't live without reading: news, opinions and special features from the world of books. </li><li><a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/blog/kintalkfamilyhistoryblog.aspx">Kintalk</a> for famliy history and genealogy - Kintalk is a family history and genealogy blog to let you know what's happening here at Auckland City Libraries and beyond. We will introduce new resources and revisit a selection of the old</li><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blog%20by%20the%20Special%20Collections%20department%20at%20Auckland%20City%20Libraries%20to%20keep%20you%20up%20to%20date%20with%20our%20collection%20and%20make%20our%20rare%20books%20and%20manuscripts%20accessible%20to%20the%20public">Rare thoughts</a> - blog by the Special Collections department at Auckland City Libraries to keep you up to date with our collection and make our rare books and manuscripts accessible to the public</li><li><a href="http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/blog/scooperonlibraries.aspx">Scooper</a> on libraries - A New Zealand blog on current and future trends in public libraries and how they are being impacted by the internet and technology. </li></ul><p><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Discovery Exercise: </span><br /><br /></p><ol><li>Create a <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=1k96igf4806cy&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&hl=en">Gmail</a> account. <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?service=mail&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2Fe-11-111c7f5f440316784cf3d43f85b692c7-b01cf11a54d9927ba762dde4f0ac1a41452ff719&type=2">Gmail</a> is a free webmail service that combines traditional email with Google's search techology. Complete the form and choose a fictitious login and password. Ensure you check the availability of your login name. Note your login name becomes your username.<br /><br /></li><li>Create a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a> account, and once again we encourage you to create an anonymous usename. Save the URL address in your favourites.<br /><br /></li><li>Play around with your blog, select a template and add a test post or two (different colours on your template).<br /><br /></li><li>Create a Post on your Blog. In approximately 50 words, reflect on what you did.....how you could use this in your role....what worked for you...and what didn't....what surprised you....and what amazed you etc. You will be asked to do this each week and the ACL learning admin team will check your blog when new posts appear and post comments on your progress.</li></ol><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Optional discovery exercise</span></p><ol><li>Upload some images on your Blog, or play around with the title.</li></ol>ACL web 2.1http://www.blogger.com/profile/01739827370055921867noreply@blogger.com0