Recommendation - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
16 years ago
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Podcasts
Thing #5
ENJOY!
I always seem to take the more difficult road when doing these tasks. This time I was trying to use items from youtube, didn't work. With help from Lynn, I was able to find the podcast I was looking for right from the original source, ALA focus. There are many applications for this technology, including being used by our president to keep us informed. See the website I have listed on the right from the whitehouse for both the president's blog and various podcasts.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Infinitely Wise Leader
Thing#4
Flickr was difficult to navigate at first, but with a lot of help from our infinitely wise Playtime 2.0 leader (pictured) I was able to upload all my pics and set up a group. Let me know if you would like an invite in my group to view all my pics of our coworkers on the job!
Flickr was difficult to navigate at first, but with a lot of help from our infinitely wise Playtime 2.0 leader (pictured) I was able to upload all my pics and set up a group. Let me know if you would like an invite in my group to view all my pics of our coworkers on the job!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Thing #3
Facebook: I like the way facebook makes it so easy to communicate to a number of people all at once and have them all see the entire picture.
Example of what I mean: Last summer my son wanted to have a volleyball tournament/party in less than 24 hours. He posted the party to his facebook page and it went right out to about 40 people all at once. Because he is in the age group, 19-20 yrs., that use facebook as a part of their everyday lives, he and everyone else, heard back from all the invitees within a few short hours. I think he only had to follow up to 2 people with phone calls. In the end he had a party of some 35 or so kids and was able to shop for all the hot dogs, chips and pop he needed within 24 hours. I found that remarkable!
I think for facebook to be most effective you need to incorporate it in your everyday life as my son and his friends have. For my personal use, I don't have the time to spare and because it is not used on a daily basis by all my friends it doesn't have as much value to me as it does to my son.
I can see value for the library, it would give us a way to communicate to those in our population that do use it daily, mainly the teens and 20 somethings.
I do have concerns about safety and personal information being available for viewing to the general public, I think it is very important to use the privacy settings. I also think it would be a good idea to offer programs here at the library on safety and privacy issues related to these social network sites. Many people are not aware that they can restrict their page from others.
Example of what I mean: Last summer my son wanted to have a volleyball tournament/party in less than 24 hours. He posted the party to his facebook page and it went right out to about 40 people all at once. Because he is in the age group, 19-20 yrs., that use facebook as a part of their everyday lives, he and everyone else, heard back from all the invitees within a few short hours. I think he only had to follow up to 2 people with phone calls. In the end he had a party of some 35 or so kids and was able to shop for all the hot dogs, chips and pop he needed within 24 hours. I found that remarkable!
I think for facebook to be most effective you need to incorporate it in your everyday life as my son and his friends have. For my personal use, I don't have the time to spare and because it is not used on a daily basis by all my friends it doesn't have as much value to me as it does to my son.
I can see value for the library, it would give us a way to communicate to those in our population that do use it daily, mainly the teens and 20 somethings.
I do have concerns about safety and personal information being available for viewing to the general public, I think it is very important to use the privacy settings. I also think it would be a good idea to offer programs here at the library on safety and privacy issues related to these social network sites. Many people are not aware that they can restrict their page from others.
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