Things #23

Creative Commons is an interesting way to maintain some control over work but make it part of the public domain.  Someone mentioned that Peggy Sharp gives people who attend her conference the right to copy the notebook to give to others.  She says she does this because she know the conference attendees will anyway.

Attribution is usually required, but a fee is neither assessed nor is it collected.  The 23 Things has a block at the end on the right column that says the program was created by Helene Blowers and is covered with a Creative Commons License.  There are two other credits given.  I think that this will enable a number of people to explore their creative side by building upon the work that has gone before to make an even better, more creative whatever.  This is in keeping with the Library 2.0 ideal of always being in Beta.

 

Things #21

This Thing helped me reinforce the session we had Podcasting for Librarians.  I think the most powerful feature is the ability to have the subscription service.  This enables the podcasts to be fed from the server at a time other than when the subscriber wants to listen/watch it.  The whole file is on the computer and ready to go.  There was an interesting diagram on the TeacherTube--Podcasting versus audio files that show the effects of "Freeing data from destination."  It showed one person who was connected to the net with a dial up modem.  The podcasts could be aggregated at a time that the person was asleep or otherwise not using the computer.  This would save a great deal of time.

I found an interesting podcast when I searched travel and Australia.  I was easily able to add it to my iGoogle aggregator, but was having some trouble putting it on my blog.  I may have been about the time for the scheduled maintenance on the blog.  I'll check it later to see if I can add it.  It was some Australian music that I found interesting.

I think individual podcasts available on the library page that showing how to find a book would be helpful.  I'm going to give it a try.  I did open an account at Odeo's Studio.  I'll see how it goes.

Things #12

For what ever reason I seem to have missed a couple of these. I am now on MySpace! Yipee! It seems to be very easily established. I think. I think that librarians need to know about things that are important to their students. Because this is very important to many of them, it helps to know a little bit about it. I feel that I can at least know some of the words.

I think there are better tools to do things at school that also have less potential for the downside. There are so many horror stories about things that happen to kids that seemed to start on their MySpace. I wonder if this were a school sponsored activity if the district, school, administrator, or the librarian would be found liable.

I also think this would help librarians who have school age children be more alert to the potential dangers and be alert as their children are on line.

Things #6

I found using iGoogle maps and Flickr together was a great deal of fun. The pictures I used were from a tractor club plow and play day. I was able to use the the feature that combined the topographical map that also showed the road. The resolution from the topographical map was good enough that I was able to see the actual field where the event was held. (No, we were not seen. the satellite must have passed overhead and taken the picture before we were there!) :>)

I wonder what the students would draw to illustrate different images from The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle at various locations in the book. Then the images could be scanned, loaded into a computer, then located on a map. The map would need to have her starting trip in England, the places on the voyage , the land journey to her home in America, and the final trip back to sea. I'm sure there are better stories that would lend itself better than this one, but hopefully I have been able to paint and understandable picture of this.

Things #16

The sandbox wiki was very easy to use. I added a post to it several days ago. Then I was greatly pleased to see an alert where Mary Mc had added a post after mine.

We used a wiki when we developed the library evaluation instrument. Today I was assigned the task to write a grant. I plan on teaching teachers at the point of need by using the wiki to track additions, deletions, and other changes. I believe with a little teaching I will have a core of teachers ready to lead team members to become more technologically proficient. This will be an interesting exercise, especially because I plan on being done with the 23 Things! Yeah!

Things #22

This was a very painless experience. I was able to produce the Animoto Short at school, meaning that the filters were not too difficult for this project. I wished I could have included some additional pictures from my Flickr account. However, that part of the process was filtered more, apparently.

The navigation to get the site embedded was confusing to me. The navigation icons do not open until a video is selected. This makes more sense now that I think about it, but it was not intuitive, at least to me.

I showed the Short to the afternoon Library Club because one of the members in the club is in a picture that is part of the short. They seemed to enjoy it. I think this could be used as a publishing activity for a class project.

Things #20

I can see how people could spend a great deal of time browsing YouTube with the seemingly inexhaustible supply of video content!  I entered John Deere 720 into the search box because of my interest in antique John Deere tractors.  (I also tried Antique Tractors and got some hits that allowed me to narrow my search to my favorite, John Deere.)  I found it very interesting that people interested in antique tractors would make a video and post it on the web using some of the newest technology.  The combination of old and new is a wonderful mix.

The process was time consuming, but not difficult.  I finally let the embed load while I went to sleep.  This morning it was on my blog, all three attempts.

One use that jumps out at me is to embed a video of how to conduct a search using the OPAC.  It seems the same students struggle each week to find a book in the allotted time.  I anticipate there would be a great deal of "play" time spent for a few weeks, that would be fine if the embed could help them improve their search strategies.