Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue.....

Gimme my chocolate frog!!!!!

I made it....eventually.....

What a useful learning experience this has been. All jokes and fooling around aside.

a) I've found a use for Saturday evenings, and a way to get the computer for myself each week/fortnight..."I've got Learning 2.0 stuff that HAS to be finished "for work""

b) I've been taught about programs/software/media/websites etc that I may have heard about but didn't really know much/anything about

c) I've thought hard about my profession - where it is going, where I am going, how we (CCLC) can be going - and how this technology can be integrated into the working day and how it can benefit our patrons

d) I've had fun....... (and frustrations, and joy, and lots of thoughts going through my head)

e) I've forgotten a lot of the things I learned at the start and want to go back to refresh those ideas

f) I'm hoping to learn more about other emergent technologies so that I can be more of a mover and shaker

g) I've created some terrible blog headlines, and mis-used a number of beautiful and famous songs

h) I've learned who reads my blog posts and who doesn't (well at least who does anyway)

i) I've integrated bloglines, blogs, twitter, facebook, YouTube, del.icio.us, wikis, podcasts into my daily life. The online generators I know I will use sporadically. And I'm going to ignore librarything and rollyo (I think). Flickr - jury's out.

j) I've created a list of 10 things I learned and now I can go to bed happy.... I really AM going to dream about that chocolate frog.....YIPPEE!!!!

Are you hearing me????

So, nearly there!

Had a quick look at the Audiobooks section. A lot of the links don't work on CCLC 2.0 site, but if you click on one of them (I forget which one) you can get to the others.

I had a look and most of the titles on the free sites are the ones that are out of copyright and are "classics" - not really my cup of tea.

I had a quick glance a the Overdrive demo site and I can see that the titles there are more recent, and it looks like it can be integrated into the library catalogue quite seamlessly (the screen dump even looked like Unicorn!!) although there is a cost per title. This would still be a useful alternative to processing and shelving items. The "small cost" per item would surely outweigh our current costs per item, to process, send and shelve...particularly given the amount of recent stock that gets deleted for book sales..... I feel this could be a worthwhile part of the collectionand I am pretty sure it is something that the collection team are evaluating for the future....

Peas in a pod

I've tried to have a look at the podcasting sites mentioned on the 2.0 site.

podcast.net and podcasts.yahoo.com both don't seem to want to go to websites (both are 404s). podcastalley.com is totally American. The sites that are there when you search for the word "Melbourne" are either about Melbourne in the USA or are really old or don't have a lot of material on them. Most only seem to go to 2006 and I think there must be a lot more available than that.


I am hoping to do further research on this one, but my PC is running slow while I download my video to YouTube - argh!!! frustrating......

Incidentally when you type in podcasts in google.com.au the first site after Wikipedia to come up is Radio National, I think this is awesome, then Triple J, then a couple of other Aussie sites - yippee! I've also just subscribed to Roocast a feed on Aussie music, presented from South Melbourne. I've added that feed to Bloglines, and they make it very easy to add to your iTunes as well.

I think this is something I may try to investigate further WHEN I HAVE MORE TIME!!! (hahaha)

Had a quick look at Audacity - the open source software for recording and editting sounds - this looks like a good program for converting old cassettes etc as well as recording new stuff. Again, something I;d like to investigate further...one day.....

U-turn

Well, here we are on another exciting Saturday evening at my house. I've been looking at YouTube. Actually I've found my husband spending more time on YouTube than me...
Anyway, I'm going to try and embed a video on to my blog. This is for all the Midnight Oil fans out there!
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=LBORTHao3eo#
Will it work?
Well at least you can click on the link. I had hoped to embed the YouTube box on my site but I can't get the embed URL to work and the Help screens are not helpful :(
Give me another couple of hours and I might've loaded one of my own videos to YouTube anad then I will add it to my blog..... meanwhile I'll have a look at podcasting


Here it is, Blogger for some reason had a hernia about embedding the source code, but here is the URL:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw_mieNxVbM

Enjoy?!?

Web 2.0 - and the winners are...

So I thought I'd have a look at an honorable mention that intigued me. It's called www.onesentence.org. Similar in scope to Twitter (I think) and basically people can submit their sentence, summarising their life (or part of it). My sentence was "A house is just a building, but a home is a house with memories". You have to wait to see if it has been approved by the website owner, and he allows a part of his site for "Unapproved entires" where anyone can then approve/disapprove sentences - some of the sentences there are crap... You then get an email when your sentence is approved (I'm just waiting for my approval now - I hope).

Now I've just looked at Twitter and added it to my blog and facebook site.

Now I'm going to look at the multi award winning site called "my bed" - goodnight, another exciting Saturday night at home.

Google docs

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pW6LlJoqweXxjww55RBljBw&hl=en_GB#

Let's see how this works.....
Scary..........it works!!!

Zoho......hmmmm

Thought I'd got the hang of this. Managed to create a user name, create a document, and theoretically add it to my blog. Now it's somewhere in cyberspace, and I can't find it on my blog anywhere. Let's see if it just somehow magically turns up...or maybe I'll ask someone....

The potential for this kind of service is staggering, and if I can figure out how to really use it, I think it will be awesome.

POST SCRIPT - FOUND IT IN MY DRAFTS (NOT SURE HOW I FOUND MY DRAFTS BUT THAT'S A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME) ANYWAY - SEE PREVIOUS POST, 'COS THAT'S WHAT THIS REFERS TO. I DARE YOU TO CLICK ON THE LINK. Click the second part of the link and it should work.....

The previous post was actually created in Zoho Writer and added to my blog, all by myself - yippee! and it even looks seamless... It's just remembering the User IDs and passwords for all these sites that I can't remember.

I also just tried gOffice... see the link. I tried saving as PDF. It created a PDF but I can't get it attached to my blog. (The text from it is below, but the font has changed to Arial and it is obviously just text and not a PDF. I think I was expecting miracles. At least it does let you creat a PDF without having to have Adobe Writer.

"Greetings earthlings. This gOffice seems OK but it doesn't let you change font and I don't like Times New Roman. It also doesn't auto-correct typos.
Interesting concept. I want to see how it looks as a PDF document."