I was just doing my morning reading of the LJ website when I spotted this article about Library Thing expanding its reviewing for libraries. Looks interesting.....
Here is the link:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6607897.html?desc=topstory
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Flickr and tech
So, while loading stuff into a flickr set, I realized that there seems to be no way to rearrange the pictures without creating another set, a problem that I have discussed with my practicum supervisor this semester. She can't figure it out either.
Cool website for photo sharing, there is also another called snapfish that is very similar. Hp has a photoshare website, but it is not free.
I still love the Cattycamehome feed that plays on my iGoogle homepage, however, with flowers of the day.
On another note, there is a great service/site that I am using for one of my other courses this semester that enables screen shots, and videos with narration if you want, of procedures on your computer. It is called Jing, (jing.com) and is free. It shadows your work, when you want it to, and can be copied into email, sent to the instructor or copy/pasted into word processing programs as part of a message to illustrate what you are doing without having to describe it in text. As trying to learn new computer procedures can be "lost in translation" while describing what you are doing onscreen, this is a great way to circumvent the confusion. Like pbwiki, the service can be upgraded for a fee, but for class, all we need is the free version and it works great!
A note from the practicum, I got to be the geek the other day, as I was asked to subscribe to a feed using bloglines, and got to show someone how to do it. Admittedly, this is really easy, but it sure is nice to feel empowered by all this really simple tech!
Cool website for photo sharing, there is also another called snapfish that is very similar. Hp has a photoshare website, but it is not free.
I still love the Cattycamehome feed that plays on my iGoogle homepage, however, with flowers of the day.
On another note, there is a great service/site that I am using for one of my other courses this semester that enables screen shots, and videos with narration if you want, of procedures on your computer. It is called Jing, (jing.com) and is free. It shadows your work, when you want it to, and can be copied into email, sent to the instructor or copy/pasted into word processing programs as part of a message to illustrate what you are doing without having to describe it in text. As trying to learn new computer procedures can be "lost in translation" while describing what you are doing onscreen, this is a great way to circumvent the confusion. Like pbwiki, the service can be upgraded for a fee, but for class, all we need is the free version and it works great!
A note from the practicum, I got to be the geek the other day, as I was asked to subscribe to a feed using bloglines, and got to show someone how to do it. Admittedly, this is really easy, but it sure is nice to feel empowered by all this really simple tech!
Friday, October 17, 2008
RSS is really, really simple
Just went to Library Journal and was avidly reading the yearly salary and job outlook info that they have in their new issue. I was intrigued by some of the Neal Wyatt RA stuff and went to subscribe to the feed. It is so easy! I have my RSS feeds on Google Reader, so I can pin the reader into the home page for the iGoogle account I have set up and just go down the list. This is so simple and easy, and now I can read everyone's feeds, along with the feeds from the local newspaper, t.v. station and a few others that I find amusing. I had never played with iGoogle until this fall, just before classes started, so I'm really having fun with it right now. I have the flower of the day and the places you need to see before you die on a slide show, so I always get a quick pick-me-up when I log on. The 600 mile live doppler is cool, too.
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