#19 - week 8

i will finish this! why am i so determined? i know plenty of other people who have fallen by the wayside, and i'm crazy busy. ah well...on i go.

later the same day...

i am here at rosegarden where the lovely and talented christy aguirre is once again allowing me to spend some of my hours here working on learning 2.0 (thanks, christy!!). so, i created an account on library thing: http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=aelurophile. i added all of the books from james marsden's young adult series "tomorrow when the war began." many people don't know that there are not three, but seven books in this series. in addition, marsden has begun an "ellie" series, which deal with the protagonist after the war is over. i haven't read it - it's australian and wasn't available here until recently.

there wasn't too much discussion on these books - i don't think they are all that well known stateside, but they are AWESOME.

#18 - week 8

i wrote a post in zoho writer and attempted to publish it to my blog. initially i did not follow directions, but then i checked the directions and learned that i had been doing everything correctly. but when prompted to log in to my blog via zoho, i get the error message the either my id or password isn't recognized. since i'm logged into blogger right now, there must some technical difficulty that, well, is not my fault. :(

here's what i would have posted had it worked:
i am writing my post on zoho writer. hopfully i'll be able to export it to my blog...if you can see it, i have accepted and met the challenge.

the advent of wordprocessing online, etc. is huge! i think about all the the research only computers we have at king with no word capability...with a tool like this, who needs word capability? it's just like meebo.com. which is chatting across the interweb and needs no downloaded software to run.

#17 - week 7

i did my duty and added my blog to the wiki. i also posted my favorite young adult books in the favorite book section. time is tick tick ticking...

#16 - week 7

i looked at several of the wikis, but i must say my favorite is the book lovers wiki. what an awesome tool/site/wiki!. to think that the average bear can contribute to something like this, or that this was such a collaborative exercise...wow.

i've worked on special projects for sjsu's slis classes using wiki technology. it is amazing how easy it is to collaborate using this technology. i'm struck by, as far as libraries, how useful this could be for answering difficult reference questions. as it is, several people usually use forms to answer one question - it gets passed around until a sufficient answer is found. i think using a wiki for this process would allow more flexibility than passing around a sheet of paper.

#15 - week 6

i read a few of the perspectives and i am particularly struck by the emphasis on partnering and collaboration. this is an extremely important idea for libraries moving forward.

as the world, and libraries, move into the digital age, change is very fast in coming. it has been my experience that many are resistant to change, especially as the idea of being a librarian as a cloistered profession fades away. the new model involves a lot more patron interaction. this can particularly be seen in the san jose way. for those who worry about all of this change, i must point out that, as far as libraries are concerned, this is nothing new. libraries have always been on the forefront of embracing the latest technology. remember the microfiche & film controversies? the beginning of opacs? the current technological landscape may be changing faster then in the past, but it is, in essence, the same. embrace the new, i say. and who knows, maybe someone will unplug the internet someday and we'll go back to card catalogs. :)

#14 - (week six)

the blog directory search on technorati came up with the most relevant results for learning 2.0. the tag search seemed to come up with the most blogs in different languages.

it's funny to see how quickly trends/fads of the internet spread - like that certain youtube video, or the dreaded forwarded email. with these tools, it's like a hyper-speed virus. it's also very voyeuristic, the public aspect of it. but i guess humans are pretty much naturally nosy, so it is definitely fulfilling a need, i suppose.

#13 - (week 6)

#13 - del.icio.us is an awesome tool. i plan to organize (using del.icio.us) my raggedy mass of "favorites", which has pretty much been languishing on my computer for years, when i get home. thanks to the generosity of christy aguirre (thanks, christy!) i am working on this at rosegarden, where i spend 5 hours of my internship a week. looking at how other people have tagged and what they've tagged is fascinating.

i can definitely see the utility of social bookmarking for libraries. websites of interest to patrons, staff, etc, could be easily organized and made exportable. that's cool.