10th Thing- Wikis

I knew about wikipedia and had only a vague idea of how they actually work. It was interesting for me to learn how easy the whole process is. The 23 Things wiki really seemed to go all over the place subject-wise. The liked how wikis were used as Subject guides for a library system. As for the banning of using the Wikipedia for student research, I think it depends upon the topic and the maturity of the student.

Ninth Thing- Online Collaboration Tools

Both editing tools looked interesting and useful to use.

8. Sharing creations

This is a test to see if my badge appears. Yeah, it does!

I used Photobucket rather than Picture Trail because I didn't want to create yet another acct. I tried to use Lazybase but it wouldn't work. I was able to view what others have created for public use and liked what I saw. I have an eFolio account already.

I'm not sure how useful these tools would be in the library. Although they were not difficult to use, I don't see how I'd use any of these at work yet.

www.flickr.com

7. Web 2.0 Communication Tools

This lesson covered: email, IMing, Texting, and Web Conferencing. I'm comfortable using email and use it a lot at work and at home. I was aware of IMing but haven't really been interested in using it. I think it has limited functionality for my uses and I see it as a time waste. Texting might be something we could use at the Reference Desk to answer student questions. Twitter seems to be a hybrid between IMing and Texting. Web conferencing is a useful tool. I've been an attendee numerous times. The last Minitex Webinar that I was in was with the MEIR Task Force.

6th Thing- Online image generators

This was a fun activity. I liked seeing the Librarian trading cards from Carleton College. I think it's a creative way to market the library to the campus.

Here's the trading card that I created. I keep forgetting the imported images bump to the top!

Thing 5- More Flickr stuff

My creation
Originally uploaded by labluedogmn

This took me all morning to do and I think I have only a sketchy idea of how I did it.

I tried the Spelling API but wasn't able to get the picture on my blog. I do like the idea of sharing photos.

Although these were fun to play with, I'm not sure how applicable these would be for library uses.

4. Photosharing with Flickr

Here is the photo of something from work that I uploaded into Flickr. The site wasn't hard to use, I just had problems resizing a photo small enough so that I could use it as my buddy icon. Also, I wasn't thrilled about linking Flickr to my blog because it seemed that the registration process was too invasive.

I'm still on the fence as to whether I'd use Flickr for library things or not.