Second Life & wrap up

Wow I had never actually heard of Second Life and was blown away by it's concept and popularity. Kinda makes me sad though - why do so many people in the world feel they need a 'second life' or 'alter ego'. Are we that unhappy with what we currently have?
Anyway, enough of my deep and meaningful musings....

I'm not sure about using a social networking site for the library, maybe setting up a Facebook page could tap into that traditionally difficult teen market a little more but I think there are many other Web 2.0 features I would implement before going down this road.

Well, I've finished the course and really enjoyed it. I've got heaps of plans to get underway to start using some of these things I now know about, but in the immediate future at the very least I'll be able to offer much more help to any clients using the Library PCs for their Web 2.0 stuff!
The course was really well organised and I'd recommend it to any person of any position working in any library.

Go swannies!

Yep, I'm a die hard Swans fans, my whole family is & have always been & will always be. It's almost the weekend so here's a fitting tribute.....

This video captures the mood of the 2005 Premiership win.
I WAS THERE!!!
3 Rows from the front!!!
Without a doubt absolutely one of the best days of my life!!!


And here's the best Club Song ever!

Monster Mashups!

OK I've checked out all the mashups links & am stunned by how much available free software there is to get creative. This is definitely something I'd love my talented library assistant colleagues to get into more - I'm really over using Publisher for our fliers/handouts/pamphlets and I'm sure the girls are too. They could have some real fun with this stuff!!

Podcasts

I'm thinking podcasts would be useful for library tours, staff induction, but this also makes these activities really impersonal. I love the thought of recording the stories that are read at storytime each week & putting on our kids webpage as a podcast but think the girls would shoot me at dawn if I suggested it! What about recording oral local history stories & putting them up on our website. I reckon these would generate heaps of interest.

Slammin!

I think 'Slam the boards' is a brilliant concept for librarians to raise their profile as experts again. With more & more young students using the net for research as their first port of call, they seemed to forget that there is something called a 'book' which is full of the answers they need - and they need our help to locate it! I think answer boards are a great way to get librarians back in the spotlight again as experts in our field, but this time in an online environment.

Did that even make sense?? Sorry, had a late one last night & it wasn't even bubs fault!! I need a caffeine hit if I'm going to keep going with this today.....
I'm a tiny bit competitive & a couple of fellow staff completed this course yesterday so I'm out to prove I can get it done too!

Week 7

Del.icio.us account up and running, with a link on this blog. I've only added a couple of bookmarks, have to build on that another time.
I'm really keen to set up a "Help Desk" Delicious page for our library, accessible from our staff intranet page. It won't be as detailed as Sutherland Libraries (woooo that was really cool!).

Videos - too many to view!

How cute is this! For this gorgeous baby, dad going "ding" like a microwave is just the funniest thing ever!

After much ' serious' research on YouTube & Google video I chose this one for my blog. I searched for ages to get my all-time favourite scene from Sesame Street with the Cookie Monster in the Library "No cookies, just books!" but couldn't find a decent version to embed.

I had fun with this week's activities, but at the same time watched plenty of stupid videos that makes me wonder why people waste their time loading the videos up. Maybe I just don't see the funny side.....