tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82582014368417648072024-02-21T01:24:39.739+00:00Learning 2.0 (the 23 things)An LNSS Project - Regional Network for Staff DevelopmentLNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-28453181643147107012010-01-03T10:03:00.084+00:002009-11-30T11:54:18.521+00:00Homepage<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Vdm6G5H9L9G2J8VM7WYAuvovQ-JQ7dxQx2qHgRWPp9W2VIIevYwo9nK6NNnEPEC-HJQWo1Lo1gDaNHPFzOI_ipvAVBUFASod3WPV5OPpMDSSOTnT39w2fj9yDsx7bHYQ4VsSJeUU-7k/s1600-h/1+Gate+mast.JPG"></a><em>Welcome to Learning 2.0 (the 23 things) an online learning discovery programme that encourages library staff to learn new technologies. This programme is for staff of the participating libraries of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">LNSS</span></span></span></span></span> Project - Regional Network for Staff Development, and is being co-ordinated by the staff development team at the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Glucksman</span></span></span></span></span> Library, University of Limerick. </em><br /><em></em><br /><strong>The 23 Things</strong><br /><br />Listed below are the 23 things that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">internet</span></span></span></span></span> and web 2.0. This is a 12 week programme beginning in September 2009. Once you are signed up, discovery exercises will be emailed to you on a weekly basis and you are encouraged to complete all 23 things with the the 12 weeks time frame. You will be asked to write about your experiences of each 'thing' on your blog which you will create in week 2 and everyone who finishes the programme will be awarded a certificate of completion.<br /><br /><br /><em><strong>Week 1 Introduction</strong></em><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Thing 1 Find out about getting <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/learning-20.html">started with the Learning 2.0 (the 23 things) programme.</a></span></span><br /><br />Thing 2 Set up a <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/">Google account</a>.<br /><br /><br /><em><strong>Week 2 Blogging</strong></em><br /><br />Thing 3 <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/creating-blog-in-3-easy-steps.html">Set up your own blog </a>and add your first post. (Dont' forget to email the LNSS Administrator your blog name and blog address)<br /><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><em>Week 3 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">RSS</span></span></span></span></span> & Newsreaders</em></strong><br /><strong><em></em></strong><br />Thing 4 Learn about and set up an <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/week-4-rss-feed.html">RSS Feeds </a></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/week-4-rss-feed.html">and set up your own newsreader account </a>using <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Bloglines</span></span></span></span></span> or google reader to bring your feeds together.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Week 4</strong> <em><strong>Online Photos & Images</strong></em><br /><strong></strong><br />Thing 5 Learn about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/discover-flickr_04.html">Flickr</a> and create an</span> account.</span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><br />Thing 6 Have some <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Flickr</span></span></span></span></span> fun and discover some <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/flickr-mashups-3rd-party-sites.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Flickr</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">mashups</span> & third party sites</a>.<br /><br />Thing 7 Play around with an <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/12/online-image-generators.html">online image generator.</a><br /><br /><strong>Week 5 <em>Tagging, Del.icio.us & Technorati</em></strong><br /><br />Thing 8 Learn about <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/03/tagging-folksonomies-delicious-and.html">tagging and discover delicious </a>(a social bookmarking site) </span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"></span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Thing 9 Explore <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/technorati-and-learn-how-tags.html">Technorati </a>(a search engine for searching blogs) and learn how tags work with blog posts.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/rollyo.html"><br /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><em>Week 6 Your Own Digital Library</em></strong><br /><br />Thing 10 Take a look at <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/library-thing.html">LibraryThing</a> to create a catalogue of your favourite books.</span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><br />Thing 11 Use<a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-books.html"> googleBOOKS </a>to view some digitised books online.<br /><br />Thing 12 Learn about <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/08/ebooks-ebook-readers-and-eaudiobooks.html">ebooks, eBook readers and eAudiobooks </a><br /><br /><strong><em>Week 7 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Wikis</span></span></span></span></span></em></strong><br /><br />Thing 13 Learn about <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/week-7-wikis.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Wikis</span> </a>and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.<br /><br /><br /><strong><em>Week 8</em></strong> <strong><em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Discover YouTube and learn about Podcasts</span></span></span></span></span></em></strong><br /><br />Thing 14 Discover <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/week-9-youtube.html">YouTube</a> and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos. </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><br /><br />Thing 15 Learn about <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/podcasts.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">podcasts</span>.</a></span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><em>Week 9 Social Networking</em></strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Thing 16 Take a look at some <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/12/social-networking-2.html">Social Networking Sites</a>; including Facebook, Beebo and Twitter</span><br /><br />Thing 17 <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/08/week-9-widgets.html">Explore Widgets<br /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><br />Thing 18 Discover <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/01/instant-messaging.html">Instant Messaging and Skype</a></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/01/instant-messaging.html"><br /><strong></strong></a><br /><strong><em>Week 10 </em></strong></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>Organise your Online Environment<br /></strong><br />Thing 19 Learn about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Online Appications & <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/09/personalised-homepages.html">Personalised Hompages</a></span><br /></span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Thing 20 Explore another online application <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-maps.html">GoogleMAPS & Google Earth.</a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>Week 11 - Online Gaming</strong></span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Thing 21 Discover <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2008/12/gaming.html">online gaming </a>and there use in your library.</span><br /><br />Thing 22 Explore any site from the <a href="http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/short">Web 2.0 awards list</a><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><br /><strong>Week 12</strong><br /><br />Thing 23 Summarise your thoughts about this programme.</span><br /><br />Example:<br />Technorati Tag; <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/LNSS" rel="tag">LNSS</a><br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/lnss" rel="tag"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.4em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px" alt=" " src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=lnss" />lnss</a>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-83047153660559330682009-11-03T12:09:00.002+00:002009-07-30T12:31:08.862+01:00Week 3: Rss Feed<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFXrmSbSJm-4GcDRVjDS9qxmjSW4NOOzigEpYilFMv_uuYk19LJrfz3RJo4126yBUpmd6S5sIUG0UM_Yszn4hSlD49jfg_xmBh-pDFVTvK7nPB53-QrCJEqcvCVvFKXtkxTYazGPkp4VY/s1600-h/rss+2.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275506367861163522" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 50px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 50px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFXrmSbSJm-4GcDRVjDS9qxmjSW4NOOzigEpYilFMv_uuYk19LJrfz3RJo4126yBUpmd6S5sIUG0UM_Yszn4hSlD49jfg_xmBh-pDFVTvK7nPB53-QrCJEqcvCVvFKXtkxTYazGPkp4VY/s320/rss+2.JPG" border="0" /></a> In the information world, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">RSS</span> is not only <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">revolutionising</span> the way news, media and content creators share information, but it is also changing the way everyday users are consuming information. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_2Vjry1cHAVhaJU7rqQqM_ZQR2UpH9k-_unKngLR-QWm52YBF4eZL4CZNuxM6s9s2jB1GsdexpNgYgwJIiIBewwuvblRDAPWyRxwwfnn6DNu7zNizRAcacAEoWrdfyF4EAxcB5GjP5B4/s1600-h/rss+2.JPG"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)" target="_blank"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">RSS</span></a> stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to check for new information on those sites. Imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time, without having to search each site for new information. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">RSS</span>.<br /><br />Please look at this YouTube video presentation to explain <a href="http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">RSS</span> Feeds</a><br /><br /><br />This week’s discovery exercises focus on learning about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">RSS</span> news feeds and setting up a <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Bloglines</span></a> account or a <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en&nui=1&service=reader&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Freader%2F">Google news reader account<span style="color:#cc0000;"> </span></a>for yourself to bring your feeds together.<br /><br /><strong>Note/tips:</strong><br />It is up to you to decide which newsreader account to use.<br />If you already have a google account you can use the same <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">login</span> and password for the google newsreader account.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resources:</strong><a href="http://www.cnet.com/av/video/flash/rss_tutorial.html?tag=video" target="_blank"></a><br /><a href="http://preetamrai.com/weblog/archives/2005/04/25/bloglines-how-to-keep-track-of-hundreds-of-blogs-and-some-news-and-some-podcasts-and-some-flickrs-photos-etc-etc/">Using <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Bloglines</span> Tutorial (how to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday)</a> – This online tutorial walks you through how to setup a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Bloglines</span> account and add <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">newsfeeds</span>.<br /><br />An introduction to <a href="http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y">Google reader </a>- A short Youtube video.<br /><br />Adding <a href="http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=pKGz-y_SGL4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">RSS</span> Feeds to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Bloglines</span> </a>- A short YouTube video that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">PLCMC</span> (<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">original</span> project) created showing how to add feeds.<br /><br /><a href="http://web2practice.jiscinvolve.org/rss-2/">JISC </a>- video on RSS Feeds<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Exercise: </strong><br />1.Follow the discovery resources above to learn more about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">RSS</span> and newsreaders.<br /><br />2.Create a free online <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Bloglines</span></a> account or <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en&nui=1&service=reader&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Freader%2F">Google reader Account </a>for yourself and subscribe to some <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">RSS</span> Feeds. Look for the orange <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">RSS</span> logo/button on your chosen sites, or you may even see a handy button saying: "subscribe to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">itunes</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">googlereader</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">bloglines"</span> etc.<br /><br />3.Subscribe to this blog using the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">RSS</span> feed, (look for the organg RSS Feed logo)<br />Also, as part of this project, you are asked to subscribe to other colleagues' blogs - this is any easy way to keep <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">up to date</span> and network with each other, also a good way to get handy hints!<br /><br />Have a look at some websites and blogs you like to see if they have an RSS feature. You could also have a look at a few of the sample websites & blogs listed below. Check for the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">RSS</span> Feeds and subscribe to one or more.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/">http://www.irishtimes.com/</a><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/">http://news.bbc.co.uk/</a><br /><a href="http://www.independent.ie/">http://www.independent.ie/</a><br /><a href="http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/">http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/">http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/</a><br /><a href="http://ullb.blogspot.com/">http://ullb.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/">http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/</a><br /><a href="http://rarebookblog.com/">http://rarebookblog.com/</a><br /><a href="http://tametheweb.com/">http://tametheweb.com/</a><br /><br />And, finally, don't forget to write about your experiences with RSS feeds in your blog!LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-55216451627514123012009-09-29T12:28:00.000+01:002009-09-29T12:30:08.930+01:00Google Maps<strong>Google Maps</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Play with Google around the WorldGoogle Maps allows you to find locations and businesses by typing in the address, or searching by name. It also allows you to view satellite images in great detail. You may be able to see your house, or even your car parked outside! When viewing any map in Google Maps, click on 'Satellite' or 'Hybrid' to view the satellite photo. You can zoom in on any area by gradually rolling your mouse wheel, or using the controls on the left of a map.<br />Google Maps is only one of a whole suite of applications Google now provides.<br />These products include Gmail (web-based email), Google Calendar and Google Talk to name just a few.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resources: </strong><br /><a href="http://www.google.com.au/intl/en_au/help/maps/tour/" target="_blank">Tour of Google Maps</a><br /><br /><strong>Discovery Exercise:</strong><br />1. Try to find the University Campus or, somewhere you lived previously, in <a href="http://maps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Maps</a>.<br />2. Use Google Maps to find directions from one location to another. For this, you'll need to know both the start and finish addresses as street locations.<br />3. Find directions from one location to another by using 'Get directions' mode.<br />4. Finally, create a post in your blog and share your experience!<br /><br />Google Earth Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite images, maps, terrain, 3D buildings...from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your visited places, and share with others.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resources: </strong><a href="http://earth.google.com/tour.html" target="_blank">Google Earth</a> tour.<br /><a href="http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_toc.html" target="_blank">Google Earth user guide</a><br />This short clip shows how you can <a href="http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html" target="_blank">Explore the Sky</a>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-50692575420659749492009-09-17T11:58:00.001+01:002009-09-29T12:26:03.922+01:00Personalised HomepagesYou can, if you wish, have a personalised or customised start page that allows you to bring all sorts of gadgets and web tools onto your homepage. It is your digital dashboard, presenting only the information that interests you. You can read news and blogs, check email, check out the stock market or local weather reports, start web searches, access a variety of services such as Delicious, Flickr, or YouTube, and much, much more, all conveniently from one page. There are various sites that allow you to achieve this, providing you with thousands of gadgets.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resources:</strong><br /><br />Have a look at this YouTube video on "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_SRTd9ZM98" target="_blank">How to set up a Google personalised homepage</a>"<br />Check out these videos also on Youtube, on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIorN9dG4Mk" target="_blank">Netvibes</a> , <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAq4tanY0ao&feature=related" target="_blank">Pageflakes</a> , <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEmKm4M4CHw" target="_blank">MyYahoo</a> (adding an RSS Feed)<br /><br /><strong>Discovery exercises:</strong><br /><br />1. Set up your own personalised homepage in <a href="http://www.google.com/ig" target="_blank">iGoogle</a>, <a href="http://my.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">MyYahoo</a>, <a href="http://www.netvibes.com/" target="_blank">Netvibes</a> or <a href="http://www.pageflakes.com/" target="_blank">Pageflakes</a>.<br />2. Add some gadgets, widgets, flakes or modules. Include (if possible) one of the tools you have discovered so far in the programme, for example, an RSS feed, your email account, your delicious bookmarks, your Flickr photos.<br />3. Blog about the exercise.LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-37509310051255742882009-08-20T11:08:00.001+01:002009-08-20T11:11:30.732+01:00Week 9 - WidgetsWhat is a Widget?<br /><br />In the world of Web 2.0, a widget or Window Gadget refers to a small application; a piece of self-contained code opening a doorway to a much larger application. Widgets are very easy to add to social networking sites and bloggers commonly use them to make their blogs more interesting, relevant and fun for their users.<br />A widget can, for example, organise a blogger's posts by topic, provide stock quotes and news, search boxes for Google, eBay and other popular search-based web sites, as well as provide clocks, counters, games, feeds and more.<br /><br /><strong>Note:</strong> widgets are also referred to as gadgets, depending on the source browser, for example in <a href="http://widgets.yahoo.com/download/" target="_blank">Yahoo the term used is a Widgets</a> , and in <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/" target="_blank">Google its Gadgets</a>Gadgets can be found under layout when editing your blog.For additional widget, there are directories you can go to, such as <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/" target="_blank">Widgetbox</a>, where you can search for a specific type of widget, customize it for your own use, then copy and paste the code to your own pages. Other free Web widget directories include <a href="http://www.yourminis.com/" target="_blank">yourminis</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&cat=all" target="_blank">Google Gadgets for your Web page</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resource:</strong><br />Take a look at this short YouTube video on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OVRlXn9mAs" target="_blank">Adding a Google gadget to your blog</a>.<br />Robin Good's video entitled <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y84cseNdGM&feature=related" target="_blank">What is a Widget</a> gives a quick and simple overview of Widgetbox and Google gadgets.<br /><strong>Tips</strong><br />To add widgets from a directory you will need to copy and past a snippet of code to display the widget which is hosted on the developers server.<br />The following are the steps you need to take:<br />a. Go to the directory for example Widgetbox and select the widget you want to add.<br />b. Click on the selected widget<br />c. Click "Get Widget"<br />d. Copy the embed code given<br />e. Back at your own blog in the page elements page, click "Add a Gadget"<br />f. In the "Add a gadget page" select HTML/Java Script and add the code, also give the gadget a name.<br />G. Press save et voila, your done.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery exercise:</strong><br />1. Add a Google gadget to your blog<br />2. Explore some widget directories such as <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/" target="_blank">Widgetbox</a> or <a href="http://www.yourminis.com/" target="_blank">yourminis</a>, and then add one of these gadgets to your blog.<br />3. Write a post about your experience.<br /><br /><strong>Optional exercise:</strong><br />4. Create your own avatar by experimenting with Voki.<br /><br />What is Voki? Voki enables users to express themselves on the web in their own voice using a talking character. You can customize your Voki to look like you or take on the identity of lots of other types of characters… animals, monsters, anime etc. Your Voki can speak with your own voice which is added via microphone, upload, or phone, or you can type text into the programme and choose a voice to speak your text. Very nifty! Voki lives on your blog, social network profile and will soon be integrated in various instant messaging platforms.<br /><br />You will also be able to download it to most video supported phones.<br />Have a look at some of the options at <a href="http://www.voki.com/">Voki</a><br />A short YouTube vidoe on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGHaNX3O4g">How to add an avatar to your blog</a> - it's child's play!LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-75049847675438420712009-08-20T10:47:00.002+01:002009-08-20T10:49:30.701+01:00Week 6 - Ebooks, ebook readers and eAudiobooks<a href="http://ul23things.blogspot.com/2008/11/downloadable-eaudiobooks-ebooks_27.html">Ebooks, ebook readers and eAudiobooks</a><br />eBooks and eAudiobooks are digital versions of printed books that are available for downloading from the web. Some titles are freely available, others are subscribed to by the Glucksman library, and many are available for individual purchase from booksellers' websites.One of the advantages of eBooks is that you can search within an individual title or across a collection of titles whereas searching the print version of a title is confined to the index and table of contents.One disadvantage of ebooks has been the nature of the devices used to store and display them, such as PCs and laptops. However, the development of ebook readers, such as the Sony ebook reader and the Kindle, has made downloading and reading ebooks a more user-friendly experience.<br /><br /><a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP0un_881Zs" target="_blank">Have a look at this YouTube video on ebook readers</a><br /><br />eAudiobook are books that are narrated and downloadable from the web as sound files. You can listen to them on a PC or transfer them to an MP3 player, iPod etc.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resources</strong>:EBook sites: <a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://www2.ul.ie/web/WWW/Services/Library/Databases/Fulltext_Electronic_Books" target="_blank">UL Library ebooks</a><a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://www.booksonboard.com/index.html" target="_blank">Booksonboard</a><a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/home.do" target="_blank">Waterstones.com</a><br />eAudiobook sites:<a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://libribox.org/" target="_blank">http://libribox.org/</a><a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://www.booksonboard.com/index.html" target="_blank">Booksonboard</a>i<br />Tunes Store (you need an iPod and iTunes on your PC for this)<br /><br />For this discovery exercise you just need to familiarise yourself with some downloadable ebooks and get an idea of the different titles and formats you can find.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Exercise:</strong><br /><br />1.Explore the <a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://www2.ul.ie/web/WWW/Services/Library/Databases/Fulltext_Electronic_Books" target="_blank">ebook collections at UL Library</a> by looking at a collection of eBooks such as <a href="http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home" target="_blank">Early English Books Online (EBBO) </a>or <a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/">Safari</a>.<br />2. Search <a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="https://login.proxy.lib.ul.ie/login?url=http://www.dawsonera.com/depp/reader/protected/ReaderCatalogue.html" target="_blank">Dawsonera</a> for individual eBooks that the library has purchased, then see if you can download and read one.<br />3. Create a blog post about your findings.Optional:<br />4. Take a look at eBooksellers' websites like <a style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,255)" href="http://www.booksonboard.com/index.html" target="_blank">Booksonboard</a>, which offer eBooks and eAudiobooks for individual purchase.<br />5. Talk to your faculty librarian about buying eBook versions of your reading list titles.LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-22188429868575964962009-08-20T10:39:00.002+01:002009-08-20T10:41:27.762+01:00Google Books<a href="http://ul23things.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-books_11.html">Google BOOKS</a><br /><br />Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". Since 2004, Google has been working with some of the world's largest libraries to digitise their book collections and make them available through <a href="http://books.google.com/" target="_blank">Google BOOKS</a>.<br />Many classics that are out of copyright are available in full text, some can be downloaded as pdfs, while newer titles are available in parts to preview.<br /><br />Discovery Resources:<br /><a href="http://books.google.com/googlebooks/about.html" target="_blank">Google BOOKS</a><a href="http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/" target="_blank">Agreement between Google and US publishers</a><a href="http://readaroundresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-books-where-things-stand.html" target="_blank">Implications of the agreement </a><br /><br />Discovery Exercises:<br />1.Explore <a href="http://books.google.com/" target="_blank">Google BOOKS</a><br />2.Find a title that is available in full, for example a classic novel by Dickens, Austen or Shakespeare. If it is available as a pdf, try downloading it.3. Search for a modern title and see how much of it is available for you to read.4. And finally blog about your thoughts on Google BOOKS and what impact it might have on you and your students.LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-79814938920883019462009-08-17T10:18:00.002+01:002009-08-17T10:21:01.916+01:00List A-Z of particapants - Project 1<a href="http://annabelmc.blogspot.com/">annabelmc.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://wwwbloggermytime.blogspot.com/">bloggermytime.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://bowloporridge.blogspot.com/">bowloporridge.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.bookshuman.blogspot.com/">bookshuman.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://claraglocke.blogspot.com/">claraglocke.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://eyemeone.blogspot.com/">eyemeone.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://fav-spot.blogspot.com/">fav-spot.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://fionnsmum.blogspot.com/">fionnsmum.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.friendly-banter.blogspot.com/">friendly-banter.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.jacquerocard.blogspot.com/">jacquerocard.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.judycar.blogspot.com/">judycar.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://juliesjibberjabber.blogspot.com/">juliesjibberjabber.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://keeraweera.blogspot.com/">keeraweera.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://lizzyofthebard.blogspot.com/">lizzyofthebard.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://magsoc55.blogspot.com/">magsoc55.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://michellebreen.blogspot.com/">michellebreen.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://onimac-mcn.blogspot.com/">onimac-mcn.blogspot.com.</a><br /><a href="http://paris1900s.blogspot.com/">paris1900s.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://podsdesk.blogspot.com/">podsdesk.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://readaroundresearch.blogspot.com/">readaroundresearch.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://sarahksays.blogspot.com/">sarahksays.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://squiggy73.blogspot.com/">squiggy73.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://tarragona1.blogspot.com/">tarragona1.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://the23steps.blogspot.com/">the23steps.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://ullbpoetry.blogspot.com/">ullbpoetry.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://winneralright.blogspot.com/">winneralright.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://23thingstrail.blogspot.com/">23thingstrail.blogspot.com</a>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-25438407861514724682009-08-17T10:02:00.003+01:002009-08-17T10:09:37.766+01:00Web 2.0 Helpful Hints<a href="http://ul23things.blogspot.com/2009/06/web-20-helpful-hints_3856.html">Web 2.0 Helpful Hints</a><br /><br />Here are some helpful hints that may help you to get started or solve a problem as you work through the 23 things:<br /><p>Remember to keep a record of all your user names and passwords! Throughout this programme you will be required to register with various web sites e.g. Google, Blogger, Flickr, facebook etc </p><p>Flash is required to view many of the applications. Chances are this is already installed on your computer, but if it is not, <a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" target="_blank">click here for a free download.</a> </p><p>Adobe Reader is required to read a few of the links. If you do not have it, you can <a href="http://get.adobe.com/reader/" target="_blank">get it free here.</a> </p><p>Always read any instructions the site offers regarding uploading, exporting, labelling, or whatever you are trying to do. </p><p>Not all sites like all browsers equally so switching browsers may solve your problem. Most sites seem to work best with the latest versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer. </p><p>Clicking on the Refresh/Reload button in your browser can make a stubborn tool wake up or, alternatively, try closing the site/browser/program and re-opening it. This often solves the problem. </p><p>Not all links work all the time. Since there are often multiple links on a page to get to where you want to be, try clicking on another link. This often works in Blogger. </p><p>Firewalls and filters can limit access to sites or block actions on sites. Try clicking on a different link to that screen or just click again. You may need to work on a different computer if you can’t do what you want. </p><p>Check your browser settings - make sure pop-up windows are enabled, allow cookies, and make other setting changes to see if that solves the problem. Many sites require plug-ins like Flash to operate. Be sure you have the most up-to-date versions installed on your computer. Do a search on the plug-in name to find the download, then follow the directions to install. </p><p>Most sites like Blogger, Bloglines, Google, Flickr, & YouTube will have a Help or FAQ section. Use these to solve your problem. <a href="http://www.google.com/support/blogger/">Bloggers helpsite</a></p><p>Many Web 2.0 tools are in beta which is not the final version of a product or Web site, but close enough to show in public and work the bugs out. But the bugs may still pop up when you are using a site. </p>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-38418165158269663242009-05-26T13:35:00.007+01:002009-09-17T12:00:50.731+01:00The 24 thing!Welcome to final, final exercise in the LNSS Learning 2.0 programme!<br /><br />Thing 24 is really an invitation to consider how you and your library can keep up to date with web 2.0 tools - both those we have learned about in the LNSS Learning 2.0 programme, as well as other ones which may already exist or become available in future. These web tools are constantly changing, and, as library staff, we need to stay aware of them and evaluate their usefulness in providing services to our library users and support to ourselves.<br /><br />You and your colleagues will have ideas about how you want to go about keeping up-to-date and you might like to incorporate some of these suggestions:<br /><br />Set up a Blog, to share experiences of new Learning 2.0 tools with your Colleagues in your own library and those of the LNSS Consortium<br /><br />Set up a discussion board to share experiences<br /><br />Meet for coffee occasionally to chat informally about your experiences<br /><br />Set up a library Wiki<br /><br />Set up a presence on a social networking site, if you would think it would benefit your library<br /><br />Use <a href="http://explorediscoverplay.blogspot.com/2007/02/adventure-continues.html">Library 2.1</a> (a blog set up after the original Learning 2.0 project)<br /><br />Have a look at the <a href="http://www.webware.com/100/?tag=nl.e404">Webware 100 </a>winners.<br /><br />Have a look at <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_2_10/ai_n16133338/">43 things that you might want to do this year </a>- Stephen Abram inspired the original Learning 2.0 programme<br /><br />And please let us know how you are getting on and if you find good ways of staying up-to-date! Email me at <a href="mailto:karen.sainsbury@ul.ie">karen.sainsbury@ul.ie</a>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-7899148465733854942009-05-21T15:10:00.025+01:002009-06-02T10:07:36.568+01:00Summarise your thoughts about this programme<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sIvVCzx-e_pd564pkycM7JDOGgYlppwXRVJGJdV8PPdYTNP0N76XNSAdxANeZ-o_BAMCRAw3z2H8RyBgk1hVYC_U4NFfWZC57ARj8pditAHkmKYdNehAd3ga9daDhoOOeKzxxXI_Cig/s1600-h/celebration-fireworks.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340114970648346850" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7sIvVCzx-e_pd564pkycM7JDOGgYlppwXRVJGJdV8PPdYTNP0N76XNSAdxANeZ-o_BAMCRAw3z2H8RyBgk1hVYC_U4NFfWZC57ARj8pditAHkmKYdNehAd3ga9daDhoOOeKzxxXI_Cig/s200/celebration-fireworks.jpg" border="0" /></a> Please have a look at the link below:<br /><a href="http://www.ul.ie/~library/23things.wmv">Closing Learning 2.0</a> - Lindsay Mitchell, UL<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"></span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Well done!!!</span><br /><br />Congratulations on reaching the 23rd thing. It's hard to believe we have reached the end of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">LNSS</span> Learning 2.0 23 things programme and we hope you have enjoyed doing it as much as we have enjoyed putting the programme together. Everyone who has completed the 23 things will be awarded with a certificate of completion.<br /><br />For the last <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">exercise</span> of the programme, we would like you to reflect on your learning journey and do a blog post on your experience.<br /><br />Please find a few questions below to prompt you along the way:<br /><br /><br /><ul><br /><li>What were your favourite discoveries or <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">exercises</span> on this learning journey?</li><br /><br /><br /><li>What were your least favourite?</li><br /><br /><br /><li>Did you enjoy the programme?</li><br /><br /><br /><li>Would you put any of the Web 2.0 tools into practice in your library?<br /></li></ul><div><br /></div><p>and finally......<br /></p><div><br /></div><ul><br /><li>What could we do differently to improve on this programme's format or concept and would you be willing to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">participate</span> in another discovery programme in the future?</li></ul><div>In closing, thank you to all those staff that have taken part in the programme - its success depended on you.<br /><br />For those of you who couldn't participate this time, we are planning to re-run the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">LNSS</span> Learning 2.0 23 things programme later in the year - we'll be advertising details of the second programme in late Summer 2009.<br /><br />We did say this was the last exercise but we'd like to invite you to have a look at <a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/05/24-thing.html">Thing 24!</a></div><div></div><div>The nature of lifelong learning, especially about the web, means that you probably won't want to stop at Thing 23 so there is one more step you can take to keep the momentum going - we'd love to know how you get on with your learning in future.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/2009/05/24-thing.html">Thing 24!</a></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><p></p><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><p></p><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><p></p>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-15877364757786835812009-03-18T12:21:00.019+00:002009-07-30T11:56:25.968+01:00Week 5 Tagging, Folksonomies & DeliciousTagging is an open and informal way of allowing users to describe online content (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">webpages</span>, pictures & posts) by associating keywords.<br /><br />Please watch this short YouTube video to explain <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU&feature=user">Social bookmarking in plain English</a><br /><br /><br />The <a href="http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/2007HorizonReport/37041?time=1205994064">Horizon report (2007)</a> has this to say:"A little group of Web 2.0 technologies—tagging and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">folksonomic</span> tools, social bookmarking sites, and sites that make it easy to contribute ideas and content—is placing the power of media creation and distribution firmly into the hands of the people formerly known as the audience” (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Rosen</span>, 2006).<br /><br />No longer satisfied to be consumers of content, today’s audience create content as well. Producing, commenting, and classifying are just as important as the more passive tasks of searching, reading, watching, and listening."<br /><br />We’ll be looking more closely at Web 2.0 applications that take serious advantage of tagging (we've already looked at few - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Flickr</span></a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a>, <a href="http://www.librarything.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">librarything</span></a> and blogs all use tags). Tagging, remember, allows you to associate keywords with online content - <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">webpages</span>, pictures, posts, etc.<br />It is considered a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">folksonomy</span></a>, aka an unstructured categorisation scheme, unlike the more formal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy">taxonomies </a>that require adherence to strict rulues and vocabularies eg. The Library of Congress.<br /><br />As a library employee you know a thing or two about these – At the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">University</span> of Limerick we use the largest categorisation scheme on the planet, <a href="http://www.loc.gov/cds/lcsh.html">Library of Congress subject headings</a>.<br />Also known as the red books, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">LCSH</span> is the most comprehensive list of subject headings in the world and as such is the only one accepted as the worldwide standard.<br /><br />This week we’ll look at still more innovative applications that take great advantage of tagging – <a href="http://delicious.com/">Delicious </a>and <a href="http://www.technorati.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Technorati</span></a><br /><br />Del.icio.us is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking">social bookmarking</a> site that lets you save bookmarks to a central location (so that you can access your web favourites regardless of the browser or computer you're using) and then describe them all with tags so that you can easily find them again.<br /><br />How is that social? Well, in addition to tagging your bookmarks, you can see how other users have tagged the same links and see related websites are important to them. This is an excellent way to find websites that may be of interest to you. Delicious even offers <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">RSS</span> feeds {link to blog} - you can create a shared bookmark site (say, for your team) and receive news every time a new link is added (say, when one of your colleagues add a new link). It is also being used to assist with <a href="http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001551.html">collaborative online reference</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">exercise</span>:</strong><br /><br />1.Take a look around <a href="http://del.icio.us/">delicious</a> using the account we have created for this project<br /><br /><strong>Note:</strong> In this account you will find lots of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">resources</span> that have been highlighted or used throughout the course of the Learning 2.0 program. Explore the site options and try clicking on a bookmark that has also been bookmarked by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">alot</span> of users. Can you see the comments they added about this bookmark or the tags that they used to categorise this reference?<br /><br />2.How are libraries using Delicious? would your library find it <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">beneficial</span>? Would you find it <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">beneficial</span>? and as usual write a blog post about this.<br /><br /><strong>Optional</strong><br />3.If you are up to the challenge create your own Delicous account, add your own bookmarks and explore the site.LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-14853133619696450842009-03-02T09:48:00.002+00:002009-08-20T10:25:41.101+01:00Week 4 - Spell with Flickr<a href="http://metaatem.net/words/">Spell with Flickr</a>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-30000671875687850412009-01-06T11:29:00.014+00:002009-08-20T13:54:25.750+01:00Week 9 Instant Messaging & Skype<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Wikipedia's</span></span> explanation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging">Instant Messaging</a><br /><br /><strong>Instant Messaging</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />The follwoing description of instant messaging is taken from Phil Bradley's book - <em>Web 2.0 in your Library</em>.<br /><br /><strong>What is Instant Messaging?</strong><br />Instant messaging, or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">IM</span></span>, is a form of real-time, virtually instantaneous communication between two or more people using a textual format. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">IM</span></span> software allows the participants to communicate via a small text-box on the screen and the resource displays the textual communication all parties have made. Most packages will let users indicate if they are online or offline by way of status alert (such as busy, at lunch or away), and these packages can be turned on or off as appropriate. Some resources will also allow people to share a search, participate in a video chat, use audio or send/receive files. An <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">IM</span></span> Conversation may be as short as a couple of lines of text <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">swopped</span></span> back and forth between participants, or connected for several hours without saying anything, each simply keeping their chat windows open so, unlike a telephone call or e-mail, an <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">IM</span></span> discussion can take place over several hours, involving various different formats of data.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">IM</span></span> communication tends to be fairly informal, with a high emphasis on short abbreviations such as IMO (in my opinion), <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">bbiab</span></span> (be back in a bit) or the unpronounceable <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">ROFLMAO</span></span> (rolling on the floor laughing my ass off). Emoticons - Small icons used to demonstrate pleasure, sadness, confusion and so on - are often widely used as well. Communication is less intrusive than a telephone call, and certainly quieter! At the choice of the users, the conversation(s) can be kept and stored or they may be transient in nature.<br /><br /><strong>What software is needed?</strong><br /><br />There are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">a lot</span></span> of different packages available that allow people <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">IM</span></span>. In fact you may have such a package on your own computer and if you use Windows you will almost certainly have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">MSN</span></span> Messenger available to you.<br /><br /><a href="http://download.live.com/?sku=messenger">Windows live messenger</a><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/talk/">Google talk</a><br /><br /><strong>How might IM be used in a library environment?</strong><br /><br />There are various examples of ways in which IM can be used in a library.<br /><br />Dundalk Institute of Technology library is using Instant Messaging to provide reference support to users - have a look at the link below:<br /><br /><a href="http://ww2.dkit.ie/library/library_news/new_online_help_service">http://ww2.dkit.ie/library/library_news/new_online_help_service</a><br /><br />Also McMaster University use "Just Ask", an IM service - please see link below:<br /><br /><a href="http://library.mcmaster.ca/justask/">http://library.mcmaster.ca/justask/</a><br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Reference query work:</strong><br />An obvious way of using <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">IM</span></span> within a library context is to provide immediate access to library staff, in particular those in reference services. Dozens of libraries around the world are already using <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">IM</span></span> for that purpose and a good listing of them can be found at the<a href="http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page"> Library success best practices wiki</a>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">IM</span></span> works in the same way that any other text-based communication works and in fact you could think of it just as a speedier way of conducting a reference query via e-mail.<br /><br /><strong>Running Searches:</strong><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">IM</span></span> can be used to run searches in specific situations. For example, the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia has an <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">IM</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">interface</span></span>, and if you add <a href="mailto:Encarta@botmetro.net">Encarta@botmetro.net</a> to you list of contacts you can open up a reference session and query the encyclopedia without reference to your browser.<br /><br /><strong>Contacting Colleagues:</strong><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">IM</span></span> can be a very effective alternative to e-mail, if for no other reason then it is instant. For example, when setting up a meeting, rather then write an e-mail, send it, wait for it to arrive in the colleague's inbox, then wait for them to read it and finally respond to you, it may actually be more effective to simply <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">IM</span></span> the same person and say "how is 3pm for you?"<br /><br /><strong>Discovery <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Exercise</span></span>:</strong><br />1. For this <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">exercise</span></span> we just want you to think of one way <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">IM</span></span> would work for your library or Institute or how would <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">IM</span> work for you. What benefits would it bring to your job?<br />2. And of course write a blog about you thoughts!<br /><br /><div><div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLuP-FEsXjIv26KrlD25biybu1gCdJv4IiP3fWPqlMtHbpn2UejL7pe4eJhJYw34R9zkzsOykdWkUVkwyhMjPVdfaZx5pbCkT6a-ksODpP_iEVN4VxRCmA4ym7Wz5ib17FUyevVdHr9FM/s1600-h/skype_logo.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372024224286604498" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 105px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 47px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLuP-FEsXjIv26KrlD25biybu1gCdJv4IiP3fWPqlMtHbpn2UejL7pe4eJhJYw34R9zkzsOykdWkUVkwyhMjPVdfaZx5pbCkT6a-ksODpP_iEVN4VxRCmA4ym7Wz5ib17FUyevVdHr9FM/s200/skype_logo.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>Play around with Skype </div><div></div><div><a href="http://www.skype.com/intl/en/" target="_blank">Skype</a> is a software application that allows you to communicate by way of the internet to another Skype user, anywhere in the world, for free. Your computer works as your phone. </div><div>Skype setup and configuration are easy and it is generally a very user-friendly application. <strong>Discovery Resources:</strong> </div><div><a href="http://www.skype.com/intl/en/help/guides/" target="_blank">How Skype Works </a></div><div>The main advantage of Skype is free phone calls to other Skype users and here's how the process works: </div><div>1. Download the software. </div><div>2. Install the software. It automatically configures itself for your computer and network. </div><div>3. Register as a Skype user. (Finding a unique name will be the tough part.) </div><div>4. Get a headset for your computer. Using external speakers and a microphone is possible but not practical. </div><div>5. Locate another Skype user - you can search for this. </div><div>6. Click on a Skype contact name. You can do this from a variety of places within the client application.</div></div>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-41173470980673661542008-12-18T13:52:00.035+00:002009-08-20T10:26:00.212+01:00Week 9 - Social Networking<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsHftHTgtCiuzSUU5xz9-w5clPA6wBb7jyKR11zr6ltou-Cs5jmu1z3f_AuMsd5x3PpyR_dxRrL8g5AU7O1seJseL8wGYp-7PSyrGh9tvUJ7p6IXYExORXYdci4em15WS_-F6W7knxLk/s1600-h/Social+Networking.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330129544133188274" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 132px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGsHftHTgtCiuzSUU5xz9-w5clPA6wBb7jyKR11zr6ltou-Cs5jmu1z3f_AuMsd5x3PpyR_dxRrL8g5AU7O1seJseL8wGYp-7PSyrGh9tvUJ7p6IXYExORXYdci4em15WS_-F6W7knxLk/s200/Social+Networking.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong>Social Networking</strong><br />Firstly have a look at this <a href="http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc">online video presentation </a>on Social Networking.<br />(a YouTube video created by Common Craft)<br /><br /><strong>What is social networking?</strong><br />Social networking is a broad term referring to the entire Web 2.0 phenomenon, but what we will be focusing on this week are usually referred to as social networking sites.<br /><br /><br />Many of you will already be using or aware of sites, such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://myspace.com/">Myspace</a> and <a href="http://bebo.com/" target="_blank">Bebo</a>.</span></span></span></span><br /><br />Basically these sites involve you setting up an online account (yes, another <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">login</span></span></span></span> & password) and then building a profile to reflect your interests. You can then add friends and contacts who can see your profile and vice <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">versa</span></span></span></span>. The next step is to add various applications and join various groups if you are interested in doing so. You can add photos, write comments, send emails, etc.<br /><br />Each site has its advantages and disadvantages - if you are not using any at the moment, it’s worth taking a look at a couple to see what you think.<br /><br />Some major players are currently <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">f<span style="color:#ffff00;">acebook</span></a>, <a href="http://myspace.com/">m<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">yspace</span></span></span></span></a> and <a href="http://bebo.com/">b<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">ebo</span></span></span></span>.</a> Others out there include: <a href="http://www.ning.com/" target="_blank"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Ning</span></span></span></span></a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/" target="_blank"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">LinkedIn</span></span></span></span></a>, <a href="http://elgg.org/" target="_blank"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Elgg</span></span></span></span></a> and there are also some Irish social networking sites called <a href="http://www.nimble.ie/">nimble</a> & <a href="http://www.igopeople.com/">igopeople</a>.<br /><br /><br />For a comparison of m<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">yspace</span></span></span></span>, b<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">ebo</span></span></span></span> and f<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">acebook</span></span></span></span>, see below:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sfnblog.com/financials/2009/01/myspacefacebook_battle_remains_in_us.php">SFN blog.com</a><br /><br /><strong>How libraries/universities are using social networking sites:</strong><br /><br />There are loads of examples of libraries and higher education institutions using social networking sites in various ways. UCD library and NUI Galway are two examples of libraries using facebook (you will need to set up an account to access them). You might also like to check out the following links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-British-Library/8579062138">The British Library on facebook</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Social_Networking_Software" target="_blank">Social networking software on the Library Success wiki</a><br /><br /><a href="http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/revisiting-uk-university-pages-on-facebook/" target="_blank">Revisiting UK University pages on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Facebook</span></span></span></span></a> for more local examples.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Rescoures:</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/edition-13/social-network-sites-public-private-or-what/" target="_self">Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?</a><br /><br /><strong>Discovery Exercise:</strong><br /><br />1. Take some time exploring m<a class="external" tabindex="0" href="http://www.myspace.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">ySpace</span></span></span></span></a>, f<a class="external" tabindex="0" href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">acebook</span></span></span></span></a> & b<a href="http://www.bebo.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">ebo</span></span></span></span></a>.<br /><br />(Optional)<br />2.If you are interested, create a profile for yourself, add at least 3 friends, do a search for an old colleague, college or school friend or <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">family</span> member that lives abroad.<br /><strong>Note:</strong> exercise 2 is optional - not everyone will be interested in joining a social networking site<br /><br />3. What did you learn or do that surprised you? Did you <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">identify</span> ways that you might be able to implement features or components of this tool in your library/work?<br /><br />4. And finally write a blog post about your experience. How would your library use social networking as a tool? What are the advantages of having a social networking account? Would you be interested in getting together with colleagues and setting up a social networking account for your library?LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-19910032657207062132008-12-17T13:36:00.015+00:002009-11-30T11:52:48.444+00:00Week 11 GamingWeek 11, two more weeks inculding this week to go and we are finished the 23 things! nearly there!<br />This week is all about Online gaming, which has become very popular in recent years, have a look at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_game"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Wikipedia's</span> explanation </a>in regards to online gaming<br /><br /><strong>(Note)</strong><br />There are lots of links on this page, it is up to you to pick and choose, you do not have to look at each link.<br /><br /><strong>About Games, Gamers and Virtual Environments</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Definitions:</strong><br /><br /><strong>ARCADE GAMES<br /></strong>These are typically games which demand a certain level of speed and hand-eye coordination, such as Mario Bros., <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Frogger</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Pac</span>-Man to name but a few. These types of games typically need you to pay close attention in each level or you may lose ‘lives’ and eventually lose the game. Some puzzle games, such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Zuma</span> (see Pop Cap Games below), can also fall under the arcade category because they also require hand-eye coordination combined with speed and strategy / problem-solving skills.<br /><br /><strong>BOARD GAMES</strong><br />Many of our favourite board games have been put into digital format of one kind or another such as Monopoly, chess, checkers, backgammon and many others can usually be found and available to play with others around the world.<br /><br /><strong>CARD & DICE GAMES</strong><br />Ever played Solitaire, Crazy 8s or Go Fish? How about Poker, Rummy or Yahtzee? These are card or dice games, so card & dice games online are just representations of these favourites.<br /><br /><strong>PUZZLES, BRAIN-TEASERS & LOGIC GAMES<br /></strong>Crosswords, sudoku, word find, jig-saw puzzles, trivia games, memory games, etc. all fall under this category. It also includes some arcade games (again, such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Zuma</span> from Pop Cap or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Tetris</span>). Essentially, any game which makes you stop and truly think about your next move (even board games such as chess) falls into this category. Anything which tests your brain and really gets you thinking is a puzzle, brain-teaser or logic-game. You can test and compare your time/high-score with other players (if the web version still exists).<br /><br /><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">MMORPGs</span></strong><br />This stands for Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Game. These are typically graphical adventure games in which many players can <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">logon</span> at once and either play at the same time or even play with each other or against each other. They integrate arcade style gaming with table-top role-playing puzzles and games of logic and much more. Most revolve around a series of ‘quests’ which your character must accomplish to continue onto the next level, whether the ‘next level’ represents a new area on the game or simply new abilities and statistics for your character.<br />Some of them are set up like the older arcade style games, such as the Legend of Zelda and Mario Bros. with a miniaturized ‘imp’ or ‘avatar’ running around a relatively 2-D, cartoon-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">ish</span> realm, slaying monsters, finishing quests, etc (e.g. Maple Story). And others are more 3-D and very realistic in their graphics, running in a third-person or first-person perspective and even closely resemble cinematic productions (in truth, some of their ‘teasers’ look like movie trailers).<br />An example of this would be World of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Warcraft</span>.<br /><br /><strong>MUSH (text-based environments)<br /></strong>A short-form for “Multi-User Shared Hallucination”. Simply put, a MUSH is an online, multi-user, text-based environment. Some are games, some are social and technical support environments and still others are research areas.<br />Imagine a series of chat rooms strung together which you can ‘move’ through and each ‘room’ has a description on it, telling you what kind of environment it represents (e.g. a cave, a living room, a forest, etc.). Now, for the gaming environments, toss in a game theme like Dungeons & Dragons or Vampire: the Masquerade, or even <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">tv</span> themes such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Firefly and movies such as the X-Men and you have a text-based <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">roleplaying</span> environment based on those themes.<br />The non-gaming environments are slightly different and some do have ‘themes’ that are more for background colour than anything else. Some are used for research purposes (MIT’s MOO, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">LambdaMOO</span>, etc.) and some are purely social. Some MU* game hosting services have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">MUSHes</span> set up to provide on-hand, real-time support to game owners who are experiencing technical difficulties as well as to provide a social environment for the game owners to meet in and ‘network’.<br /><br /><strong>Social Environments</strong><br />These are graphical or text-based environments online where the primary function of visitors is to socialize. These are kind of akin to sites such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Facebook</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">MySpace</span>, but are even more interactive because they are set in “real time”, like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">MUSHes</span> or instant messengers. Instead of leaving messages for people (although this is often an option as well), you can stand around and chat with people while they are logged in.<br />The most popular of these types of environments is <a href="http://secondlife.com/">Second Life</a>.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Discovery <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Exercise</span>:</strong><br /><br />1.Try out a few games/virtual worlds & blog about your experience. (Several game sites are listed below.)<br />2Think about why gaming and virtual worlds are of interest to libraries, can you see what benefit they would bring to your library?<br />3.And as usual post your thoughts to your blog!<br /><br /><br /><strong>Discovery <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Resources</span>:</strong><br /><a href="http://www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/newsletter/43/8.pdf">Gaming in the Library</a><br />(a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Sconul</span> publication)<br /><br /><strong>Some online games:</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://zone.msn.com/en/root/default.htm">http://zone.msn.com/en/root/default.htm</a><br />Recommendations: Diner Dash, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Mahjong</span> Tiles<br /><br />Pop Cap Games: <a href="http://www.popcap.com/">http://www.popcap.com/</a><br />Recommendations: Bejeweled, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Zuma</span><br /><br />Yahoo! Games: <a href="http://games.yahoo.com/games/front">http://games.yahoo.com/games/front</a><br />Features: old-style arcade games such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Pac</span>-Man and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Frogger</span><br /><br />Web Sudoku (new link!): <a href="http://www.websudoku.com/">http://www.websudoku.com/</a><br />Play this new favourite online!<br /><br />MUSH, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">MUX</span>, MUD (text-based) Game Sites:<br /><br />List of Clients<br />MUSH Game List Sites:<br />(<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">MMORPG</span>) <a href="http://mmorpg.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">MMORPG</span>.com:</a> <a href="http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm?gameId=0&bhcp=1">http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm?gameId=0&<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">bhcp</span>=1</a><br />(MUSH / <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">MUX</span> / MUD) Online Gaming Resource: <a href="http://www.ogrmux.com/">http://www.ogrmux.com/</a><br />(MUSH / <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">MUX</span> / MUD) The Mud Connector: <a href="http://www.mudconnect.com/">http://www.mudconnect.com/</a><br />(MUSH / <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">MUX</span> / MUD) Top MUD Sites: <a href="http://www.topmudsites.com/">http://www.topmudsites.com/</a><br /><br /><strong>Free <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">MMORPG</span> Sites:</strong><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">FLYFF</span> (Fly For Fun): <a href="http://flyff.gpotato.com/">http://flyff.gpotato.com/</a><br />Maple Story: <a href="http://www.nexon.net/">http://www.nexon.net/</a>(Attention: Only works with Internet Explorer!)<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Runescape</span>: <a href="http://www.runescape.com/">http://www.runescape.com/</a><br /><br /><strong>Pay-for-Play <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">MMORPG</span> Sites:</strong><br />Note (all of these sites require you to pay a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">montly</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">subsription</span>)<br />They are great fun, but just be aware of the monetary investment that these games require.<br />Anarchy Online: <a href="http://www.anarchy-online.com/">http://www.anarchy-online.com/</a><br />Theme: Science Fiction<br />Battleground Europe - WWII Online: <a href="http://www.wwiionline.com/scripts/wwiionline/be_info.jsp">http://www.wwiionline.com/scripts/wwiionline/be_info.jsp</a><br />Theme: Historical<br />City of Heroes: <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/">http://www.cityofheroes.com/</a><br />Theme: Superheroes<br />Dungeons & Dragons Online: <a href="http://www.ddo.com/">http://www.ddo.com/</a><br />Theme: Fantasy<br />World of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Warcraft</span>: <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml">http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/index.xml</a><br />Theme: Fantasy<br /><br /><strong>Virtual Environments (non-game):</strong><br />Second Life: <a href="http://secondlife.com/">http://secondlife.com/</a><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">IMVU</span>: <a href="http://www.imvu.com/">http://www.imvu.com/</a>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-39437253038708266842008-12-11T15:01:00.015+00:002009-08-20T10:26:47.989+01:00Week 9 Twitter<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2cEYZiMmc_fXlU20t5Uv2VGNSxuCmKS7QD6ymLVmcYzppbtiMa3bj1bdJMwcpvkuNrle5F9UMAW0fM856gfaKT5vmmMwxDzrjf2WbZxbXVhn8CQKxk4rF65BmLCh4vFAK7zfReRANuM/s1600-h/twitter.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330130718551859426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 47px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2cEYZiMmc_fXlU20t5Uv2VGNSxuCmKS7QD6ymLVmcYzppbtiMa3bj1bdJMwcpvkuNrle5F9UMAW0fM856gfaKT5vmmMwxDzrjf2WbZxbXVhn8CQKxk4rF65BmLCh4vFAK7zfReRANuM/s200/twitter.png" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Most of you will have heard of Twitter by now. It has become very popular in Ireland and all over the world in the last few years and if you tune into your local radio station on the way to work you don't have to listen long until some one mentions Twitter.<br /><br />So what is Twitter?<br /><br />Look at this short video presentation to explain what Twitter is:<br /><a href="http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o">Twitter - in plain english</a><br />(a youtube video created by Common Craft)<br /><br /><br />Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.<br />Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default).<br />Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">SMS</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">RSS</span>, email or through an application such as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Twitterrific</span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Facebook</span>.<br /><br />Examples of twitter users include Barack Obama, The Library of Congress, Stephen Fry.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Task:</strong><br />1. Explore <a href="http://twitter.com/">twitter</a> and set-up an account (this is an optional task). Do a search to see if a friend or a library you know has a twitter account.<br />2. Write a blog post about your experience. Do you think twitter could be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">relevant</span> to your library? How would it help your customers?<br />3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of setting up a twitter account for your library? </div><div></div>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-33194186282876757312008-12-11T14:39:00.007+00:002009-05-18T10:45:32.878+01:00Google MapsJust for fun, play with Google around the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">World.</span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error"></span><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a> </span>allows you to find locations and businesses by typing in the address, or even by doing a search on the name. It also allows you to view satellite imagery at a fairly high level of detail. You may be able to see your house, or even your car parked outside! When viewing any map in Google Maps, click on 'Satellite' or 'Hybrid' to view the satellite photo. You can zoom in to any area by gradually rolling your mouse wheel, or using the controls on the left of a map.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resources:</strong><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/options/">List of Google products</a><br /><a href="http://www.google.com.au/intl/en_au/help/maps/tour/">Tour of Google Maps</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Wikipedia</span> entry on Google</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Wikipedia</span> entry 'Criticism of Google'</a><br /><br /><strong>Discovery Task</strong><br />1. Try finding your library campus or somewhere you lived previously on <a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a>.<br />2. Use Google Maps to find directions from one location to another. For example, from Mary I to the University of Limerick campus to LIT.<br />For this, you'll need to know both the start and finish address as a street location.<br />Try finding directions from one location to another by going to 'Get directions' mode.<br />3.Finally create a post in your blog and share your experience!LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-31803989499055259042008-12-11T14:27:00.009+00:002009-03-19T12:48:33.028+00:00Google BooksFind online books using Google BOOKS<br /><a href="http://books.google.com/">Google BOOKS</a> is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Google's</span> collection of digitised books, it includes a large number of books related to Old English literature and language.<br />You can search for books by author or by title.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resources:</strong><br />Explore <a href="http://books.google.com/googlebooks/about.html">Google BOOKS</a><br />Investigate what <a href="http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43740">libraries </a>are doing with Google Books<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Task:</strong><br />1.Find a range of digitised books in <a href="http://books.google.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Google BOOKS</span><br /></a>2.Create your own library by adding your choice of books<br />3.And finally create a post a blog about how this may be useful to your libraryLNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-30311129099363673252008-12-03T09:56:00.013+00:002009-07-30T11:51:11.249+01:00Online Image Generators<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEszmNhy1X0lT8QGiDGxIlWqdZKN3BCHQWyezs8o__ZvK1b44WelK911oJHMmbP9VNiSHw8EU2x9QVHYP9NCiKYqmW3kno-kxjNrj5sfpmsPskTqI4Uakjrm8_lBjbwYQiKtTTetgMtPw/s1600-h/Image+Learning+2.0+Letter+James.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275915231677485778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 310px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEszmNhy1X0lT8QGiDGxIlWqdZKN3BCHQWyezs8o__ZvK1b44WelK911oJHMmbP9VNiSHw8EU2x9QVHYP9NCiKYqmW3kno-kxjNrj5sfpmsPskTqI4Uakjrm8_lBjbwYQiKtTTetgMtPw/s320/Image+Learning+2.0+Letter+James.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><p>Now just have a bit of fun!</p><p>Have a look at <a href="http://www.imagegenerator.org/">http://www.imagegenerator.org/</a></p><p>Play around with the site and create an image to add to your blog, the image above was created using <a href="http://www.letterjames.com/start.php?mod=image-personalization">LetterJames.</a></p>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-53838789945971758222008-12-02T09:50:00.021+00:002009-07-16T12:46:02.368+01:00Week 11 Ofice 2.0What is Office 2.0?<br /><br />Office 2.0 is the availability and use of online productivity web-based applications (think word processing and spreadsheets). These applications provide users with the ability to create and share documents over the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">internet</span></span> without the need for installed desktop applications.<br /><br />Some experts speculate that this emerging trend may mean the death of Microsoft Office and other software-based productivity tools, while others think web-based applications have their place, but not in the office. But no matter what side of the office suite platform you side with, on this both sides seem to agree; web-based applications have their place.<br /><br />One large benefit to web-based applications is that they eliminate the need to worry about different software versions or file types as you email documents or move from PC to PC.<br /><br />Another advantage is that they easily accommodate collaboration by allowing multiple users to edit the same file and provide users with the ability to easily save and convert documents as multiple file types (including HTML and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">pdf</span></span>). And, you can even use many of these tools, such as <a class="external" href="http://www.zohowriter.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Zoho</span></span> Writer</a> and <a href="http://docs.google.com/" target="_self">Google Docs</a> to author and publish posts to your blog. It’s this type of integration with other web 2.0 tools that also makes web-based applications so appealing.<br /><br />For this discovery exercise, participants are asked to take a look at a web-based word processing tool called <a class="external" href="http://docs.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google Docs</a> or <a href="http://www.zohowriter.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Zoho</span> Writer</a>, create a simple document and then document your discoveries in your blog. If you are up to the challenge you might even export your document as a HTML file or publish it through <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Zoho</span> to your blog.<br /><br />Read through the Google Docs <a class="external" href="http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">tour</a> or watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA">Google Docs in Plain English.</a><br /><br />With <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Zoho</span></span>, Google Docs and other web-based applications, the possibilities are endless.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Resources:</strong><br /><br />A short list of <a class="external" href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgj6trfj_3fbz9xnd6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">web-based productivity applications</a> – (authored by Helen Blowers in Google Docs)<br /><br />A <a class="external" href="http://o20db.com/db/setup/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">longer list of web-based applications</a> - (authored by Helen Blowers in Google Docs)<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Exercise:</strong><br /><br />1. Create a free account for yourself in <a class="external" href="http://docs.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google Docs</a> or <a href="http://www.zohowriter.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Zoho</span> Writer</a>.<br /><br />2. Explore the site and create a test document or two, email it to a friend. Try out <a href="http://www.zohowriter.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Zoho</span> Writer’s</a> features and create a blog post about your discoveries.<br /><br /><strong>Optional:</strong> If you're up for the challenge, try using <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Zoho</span>’s "publish" options to post to your blog.* Note: Here’s a <a href="http://writer.zoho.com/public/karensainsbury/Untitled">Document</a> (viewable as a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">webpage</span>) I created in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Zoho</span> about some of the features I found beneficial.<br /><br />3. Try out <a class="external" href="http://docs.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google Doc's</a> or <a href="http://www.zohowriter.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Zoho</span> Writer</a> features and create a blog post about your discoveries, including comments about how this could be useful to you in your life or useful to your library.LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-53295284862522583922008-11-27T15:08:00.023+00:002009-08-20T10:50:12.619+01:00Week 8 Downloadable eAudioBooks & ebooks<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Downloadable eAudiobooks</span><br /><br />For this discovery exercise you just need to familiarise yourself a bit with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">downloadable</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">eAudiobooks</span></span> , get an idea of the different titles you can find. Check to see if your own library subscribes to any <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">eAudiobooks</span></span>.<br /><br />Netlibrary is probably one of the best examples that you can subsribe to eAudiobooks.<br /><br />Have a look around the different titles available on <a href="http://library.netlibrary.com/AbouteAudiobooks.aspx"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Netlibrary</span></span></a>.<br /><br />(you will not be able to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">login</span> to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Netlibrary</span> as our Library here at UL do not subscribe to it, however it is useful just to have a look around and see what it has to offer)<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Discovery Exercise:</strong><br />1.Check out your own library and find out what service is available to download <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">eAudiobooks</span></span></span>.<br />2.Take a look around and locate a few titles of interest.<br />3.Create a blog post about your findings. Did you located a title that you might want to try out and download, share this information with your colleagues!<br /><br /><strong>Optional:</strong><br />4.Try downloading a title from an <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">eAudiobook</span></span> site.<br /><br /><strong>Note: </strong>You don't have to have a MP3 player to listen to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">audiobooks</span></span>, you can also listen to it form your computer (good idea to get a set of headphones)<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Discovery <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Resources</span></span>:</strong><br />eAudiobook sites:<br /><a href="http://libribox.org/">http://libribox.org/</a><br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic"><br />ebooks</span><br /><br />Check out your own library to see what ebook titles are available, please see list below of various <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">ebooks</span></span> sites UL Library has:<br /><br />All Subjects<br /><br />Business / Economics /Statistics<br /><a href="http://new.sourceoecd.org/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">SourceOECD</span></span> </a><br /><br />Computer Science<br /><a href="http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/">Safari Books Online </a><br /><br />Humanities<br /><a href="http://www.humanitiesebook.org/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">ACLS</span></span> Humanities E-Book</a> <a href="http://wwwlib.umi.com/eebo">Early English Books online (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">EEBO</span></span>)</a><br /><a href="http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/353lime">Eighteenth Century Collections Online (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">ECCO</span></span>)</a><a href="http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk/">Literature Online (LION)</a><br /><a href="http://pld.chadwyck.co.uk/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Patrologia</span></span> Latina</a><br /><a href="http://www.wwp.brown.edu/">Women Writers Online </a><br /><br />Law<br /><a href="http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/353lime">Making of Modern Law</a><br /><br />Reference Books<br /><a href="http://www.search.eb.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Encyclopaedia</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Britannican</span></span> Academic Edition</a> <a href="http://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Encyclopédie</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">ou</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Dictionnaire</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Raisonné</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">des</span></span> Sciences, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">des</span></span> Arts <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">et</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">des</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Métiers</span></span></a> (The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">ARTFL</span></span> Project) <a href="http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780470091357/home/">Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics</a> <a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/109716564/HOME">Encyclopedia of Genetics, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Genomics</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Proteomics</span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Bioinformatics</span></span></a> <a href="http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780471440260/home/">Encyclopedia Of Polymer Science and Technology</a> <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/m4x733/">Encyclopedia of language and education</a> <a href="http://www.oxfordartonline.com/">Grove Art Online</a> <a href="http://www.grovemusic.com/">Grove Music Online</a><a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/104554768/HOME">Handbook of Psychology</a> <a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/104554789/HOME">Kirk-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Othmer</span></span> Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology</a> <a href="http://www.oxfordartonline.com/">Oxford Art Online</a><a href="http://www.oxforddnb.com/subscribed">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online</a> <a href="http://dictionary.oed.com/">Oxford English Dictionary Online</a> <a href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/">Oxford Reference Online</a> <a href="http://www.rep.routledge.com/"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Routledge</span></span> Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a> <a href="http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/ueic/index.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Ullmann's</span></span> Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry </a>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-37204615249234506822008-11-20T15:35:00.020+00:002009-08-20T10:56:37.962+01:00Week 8 Podcasts<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2niSt9ozgjR327CgcOGksxTJXoTUeLaDfkSrJgWnrGUt9qCc0OAho5KPCARprBp2s6ED6hV_B7whMmJgrFhAguT37qLJf2x-AhY1K5I4byQFQIgalItZH8rfBUHpUMIB5Mo4jaLn9a0/s1600-h/ipod.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290743458887299634" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 188px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2niSt9ozgjR327CgcOGksxTJXoTUeLaDfkSrJgWnrGUt9qCc0OAho5KPCARprBp2s6ED6hV_B7whMmJgrFhAguT37qLJf2x-AhY1K5I4byQFQIgalItZH8rfBUHpUMIB5Mo4jaLn9a0/s200/ipod.jpg" border="0" /></a> In 2005, "podcast" was named the "<a href="http://www.oup.com/us/brochure/NOAD_podcast/?view=usa">word of the year</a>" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last few years, it's easy to see why.<br />Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries (like the podcasts that have been created for this Learning 2.0 program) to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them.<br />Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker. <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/">iTunes</a>, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options.<br /><br /><strong>Discovery Rescources:</strong><br />Have a look at the Blog created by <a href="http://www.podcastingireland.ie/explore-podcasting.html">Podcasting Ireland</a> to explain Podcasting.<br /><br />Please watch this short <a href="http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=y-MSL42NV3c">video presentation </a>to explain about Podcasting.<br />(a Youtube video presentation by Common Craft)<br /><br />Some Podcasting Directories<br /><a href="http://www.podcastingireland.ie/">http://www.podcastingireland.ie/</a><br /><a href="http://www.podcastdirectory.com/">http://www.podcastdirectory.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.learnoutloud.com/podcast-directory">www.learnoutloud.com/podcast-directory</a><br /><br /><strong>Optional Advanced Resources:</strong> (for those who want to learn how to create a podcast of their own)<br /><a href="http://forevergeek.com/geek_articles/beginners_guide_to_podcasts_and_podcasting_plus_how_to_create_a_basic_podcast_of_your_own.php">Beginner's guide to Podcasts & Creating Podcasts </a><br /><a href="http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/00-podcast-tutorial-four-ps.htm">How to podcast tutorial</a><br /><br /><strong>Discovery Exercise:</strong><br />1.Take a look at<a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/"> itunes </a>or one or two of the podcast directories listed above and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts, like book review podcasts or library news.<br />Have a listen to the <a href="http://www2.ul.ie/web/WWW/Services/Library/Learn%20More.../Library%20Audio%20Tour">podcast tour</a> of our own library here at the University of Limerick.<br />2.Do a search for your favourite radio station, find a podcast that interests you.<br />for example: <a href="http://www.rte.ie/radio/podcast/">http://www.rte.ie/radio/podcast/</a><br />3.Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/">Bloglines</a> account<br />4.Finally, create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here?<br /><br /><strong>Optional:</strong> If you're very ambitious, why not try down loading <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> and create a podcast of your own and then add it to your blog.<br />Note:<br />Click on download Audacity 1.3.6 (Beta)<br /><a href="http://lame.sourceforge.net/">Lame MP3 Encoder</a> will allow you to convert your recording into an MP3 file.LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-89581384365810692472008-11-20T14:13:00.002+00:002008-11-20T14:21:32.508+00:00Rollyo#12 Roll your own search engine<br />Listen to this podcast [1:32]--><a style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; FONT-SIZE: 9px; COLOR: #6a99fe; LETTER-SPACING: -1px; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://odeo.com/audio/1750730/view">powered by ODEO</a>Do you have a group of websites that are your favorites? Or a set of online resources that are similar that you frequently use to answer homework or reference questions? Well <a href="http://www.rollyo.com/" target="_blank">Rollyo</a> may be the tool for you. Rollyo allows you to create your own search tool for the just the websites you know and trust. Take a look at some of these search rolls that have already been created:<br /><a href="http://rollyo.com/onfire4jc/public_domain_ebooks/" target="_blank">Public Domain e-Books Search</a><br /><a href="http://rollyo.com/byblos/rare_book_library_search/" target="_blank">Rare Book Library Search</a><br /><br /><a href="http://rollyo.com/kizuki-sama/quick_quotes_search/" target="_blank">Quick Quotes</a><br />Explore other rolls <a href="http://rollyo.com/explore.html" target="_blank">here.</a>Here’s a searchroll I created to search ten of <a href="http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=Search...&sid=54436&x=14&y=5&togo-v=1">PLCMC’s family of websites</a>:Try a search for broad terms like "homework” or “history” to see results listed from multiple sites.Discovery Exercise:<br />Explore <a href="http://www.rollyo.com/">Rollyo</a> and create an account for yourself.<br />Create a <a href="http://www.rollyo.com/createroll.html">search roll</a> for any subject you like.<br />Create a post in your blog about your experience and link to your search roll. Can you see a potential use for tools like this?OPTIONAL: Add your searchroll to your blog using the "<a href="http://www.rollyo.com/searchbox.html">Create a Searchbox</a>" tool.<br />Select Search Engine...PLCMC Web Family SearchSearch The Web<br />Powered by <a style="COLOR: #c00" href="http://www.rollyo.com/">Rollyo</a>Rollyo - You just never know when this little tool might come in handy.LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8258201436841764807.post-87067207195223173792008-11-20T13:22:00.001+00:002009-08-20T10:24:59.599+01:00Week 4 - Map of my travels<img alt="Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&chs=440x220&chco=ffffff,3399ff,3399ff&chf=bg,s,eaf7fe&chtm=world&chld=AXAGARAUBSBHBEBMBRCACFCLDKFRDEGRINIEJMKEKWMYMXMZNLNGNOPEPTRWSASCZAESSZCHTHUGAEGBUSUYVEZMZW&chd=s:000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" /><br /><a style="FONT-SIZE: 75%" href="http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/map.php">http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/map.php</a>LNSS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09848793320667845009noreply@blogger.com0