Week 7: Podcasting and Online Hosted Video

I wanted to see what YouTube had to offer. I kept thinking it would have only crazy, popular items and probably nothing of educational use. To my surprise, I found some very interesting materials. There were many categories to explore. I do have an interest in patient safety so I found myself looking to that area. In fact, I have placed two of them on my blog. I believe these materials could be used in the library. On hospital library intranet sites you could put important information in this format. It could be used as an alerting service. Also, I can see how it could be used in giving directions on the use of resources as well as directions as to where the library is located and directions within the library itself. Podcasting could be used in the same way as video casting. I think as librarians that we have to remember that each person learns in a different way such as some are visual learners, some do better listening, etc. If we want to reach all of are users we need to keep this in mind and use all the resources available to do the job.

Another Patient Safety YouTube Download

YouTube download on Patient Safety

Week 6 Online Photo Sharing

I used flickr for the first time this week. I uploaded my picture and 4 pictures from a trip. I also added trip pictures to my blog. I did have difficulty getting the pictures into wordpress where my blog is. I had to go to the help information for wordpress to figure out how to do it. I have enjoyed this week. I will be using photo sharing a lot in the future.

Paris

Paris

London

London

Week 5 Web Office Tools

No I do not think this is the future of all software products. I think it will be a way but not the only way. I doubt companies will want to do this. They will want to secure the documents through their own IS department. It is defintely a handy way to do it if you are not at work. If you travel for business I could see where this would be helpful or if you owned your own small business. Also, if you don’t have the funds to own your own software this woudl be a way to keep up. It may help to equalize our society so all have access.
I did have problems trying to post a googledoc into my blog. I could only link a document to it.

4th Week Social Bookmarking

I no longer see social bookmarking as just a place for your bookmarks. I had used it alittle previous to the class but I wasn’t using the tagging correctly. I now see after doing all the readings and checking out the different library sites that it is possible to incorporate it into the day to day workings of a library. It could be used in all sorts of ways: for easy reference for the librarians, for project information, for alerting systems, for classes, for journal clubs, etc. I will need to keep working with it to get use to the pieces of it.