Focus Point

Week 8 Mashups

focuspoint1 — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:19:42 +0000

1. I looked at FrekFly. It is a sight I would find very helpful when traveling as it appears to help with all the possible questions that could come up. I also took a look at Twitter Answers. I put many different questions to it and found that the answers were on target. The last one I looked at was Daily Mashup which has poplular photos, links, and news. I added it to my google reader.
2. librarain.net was giving tips about “simple steps to make your computer and computer users safe and happy.”
fred Stutzman was warning that if you had google toolbar on public computers there could be a privacy leak. The Annoyed Librarian was doing a whole essay on the importance of annonymous communication.
3. It took me a few days but I was able to figure out how to do a rollyo on patient safety. I have placed it on my bog in the blog roll section. It is called Patient Safety.

This class has been great. I have enjoyed the hands on parts the most. Thank you.

Week 7: Podcasting and Online Hosted Video

focuspoint1 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:02:16 +0000

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

focuspoint1 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:21:18 +0000

YouTube download on Patient Safety

focuspoint1 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:44:35 +0000

Week 6 Online Photo Sharing

focuspoint1 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:31:37 +0000

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

focuspoint1 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:58:07 +0000

Paris

London

focuspoint1 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:55:28 +0000

London

Week 5 Web Office Tools

focuspoint1 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:48:56 +0000

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

focuspoint1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:45:15 +0000

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.

3rd Week Social Bookmarking

focuspoint1 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:33:41 +0000

1. I think if there was soemthing similar to social networking that appeared to be a little more put together that it could be valuable to MLA and its members. It scould be a way for members to keep learning, to get involved in working on projects, to meet each other, etc. “
2. I am not sure at this point. I can see that are younger patrons will be using it often and it may be a way of reaching them. I am not sure at this time that they would use our page if we were there or just ignore it.
3. Yes I can see were there are definite privacy issues when using them. I was concerned about going into Facebook as my three children who are in there twenties all have pages adn I didn’t want ti interfer in thier personal lives. It can be too much information that is available to you.
4. I liked getting to know what this sites were and a little about how they work. I had heard about them but never actually gone to the sites. I did find them confusing though. You have to look around the site to figure out what to do they are not as striagth forward as blogs, wikis, etc.