Friday, 4 April 2008
Using videos and libraries: the possibilities
Entertainment, motivational, inspirational and instructional uses for videos can easily be discovered surfing Google video . For our small Branch Library video could be useful for:
- advertising events like Library week
- Local history
- storytime
- author and writer talks - the possibilities seem endless.
Week 6: Videos online
Like most of my learning about new web technologies it has been accidental or as a result of a younger generation joining in social networking and sharing their lives with each other and infrequently with me. Recently I have been fortunate to learn through being engaged in university study and professional training. This is the way to go. Stunned and amazed was the reaction when YouTube was first demonstrated to me. Reluctant learners were fanatically engrossed in organising and producing videos for sheer entertainment value. Another dimension was revealed when I had to access Google videos for training modules. Now I am thinking that motivational clips like Daniel Vettori @ Your Library might be useful to help promote our libraries.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Week 5: wikis
The investigation of another type of software application to help with the management of information has been done. It was discovered that many wikis had already been visited and looked like websites. Wikis work much faster to compose, edit and link with more information. It was interesting that one very informative resource used frequently when searching for technological definitions of terms was wikipedia. It was first discovered when I was trying to work out the difference between lossy and lossless compression and as indicated by my pen name , I enjoyed the discovery !
Types of Library applications that might work well with wikis could include:
Types of Library applications that might work well with wikis could include:
- internal procedure manuals
- computer technical and troubleshooting
- online book clubs
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