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Created with dumpr.net - fun with your photos

Found a fun website that will make pictures from anything. Above is the Amazing Circles made from a pix of our building. And above that Museum. You can post to blogs from site, email, save to Flickr.

Week 10 - Is this the end??

I enjoyed going thru the different tasks. Even on the sites I was familiar with I learned something.
Having a blog for this project will hopefully remind me to keep it up for other things I learn. I have enjoyed Flickr, but did not know about the online photo editing tools. I can see using them, especially Picnik in the future. The avatars are fun. Being able to write documents, etc. online and share with others could be very helpful, especially if several people were working on a project together, but in different locales. Listening to podcasts are something I want to find time for. There are a number of library related ones out there, but as usual, the problem is finding the time.
I've been looking at Stephen Abram's 43 things. Some of them I have already done, not including iHCPL, some I don't want to do and there are some I want to try.
Some of the 23 things are already being used at the library, Overdrive, Flickr, blogs, YouTube. And for the staff Del.icio.us, some wikis.
I have enjoyed the learning process. I'm not sure what else could be used at HCPL. I think we have made progress in the Library 2.0 area. I try to help patrons and fellow staff members whenever possible with web stuff. I try to let patrons know about our ebooks and NetLibrary. I try to educate and show rather than just do it for them.

Week 9 - YouTube workaround

This is a link to the video that I wanted to show.
It's called "Get a Library Card"

Week 9 - YouTube test

We'll see if this works.
Just trying anything


Well, I've tried three different videos and none of them have worked. I go to YouTube and click on the embedded script and paste to the Edit Html tab and when I post, there is a box with nothing in it and then when I click a couple of time, just a different colored box. Argh!

Week 9 - Downloadable Media

I have used OverDrive audio books and have been able to find books and music that I want to listen to. There is a good selection of titles. I also went into the movies and downloaded a part of a movie. The selection is kind of odd. A lot of older titles and many children's titles. There don't seem to be many newer titles, a couple that I think were on cable at one time.
It's nice to have access to free books. I also have an Audible account and enjoy it as well. There is access to many more titles, but you have to subscribe and pay for the items.
The main problem with LibriVox is the titles are all older since they are in public domain and you don't know how good the readers are going to be. I'm not sure I would use this site/
Wowio seems to be classics and some vanity press. However, the craft section has a couple well known publishers and some very good titles. The nonfiction that I checked seems to have one or two well known publisher with a few titles and more from publishers I have never heard of. I think this might be a good site if you are selective about the titles. I did find a title in the craft section that I downloaded.

Week 9 - Podcasts

I searched the listed directories, plus another for libraries. Podcast Alley and Podcast.net seemed to have the best hits with some duplicates. Podscope and Yahoo! didn't seem to do as well.
Of sites found, SirsiDynix Institute seems to have a good selection that I would like to listen to.
Podscope doesn't seem to hit many searches on target.
Postcast Alley's magic term was 'library'. With that one, I got over 100 hits, many from different libraries.
Some of the ones I am finding seem to only play on a pc or iTunes. I have downloaded a couple of mp3 podcasts in the past and they worked fine on my player.
Podcasts are something I would like to continue with in the future.

Week 9 - YouTube continued

OK, I've gone back to trying to embed a YouTube video on my blog. I have followed the instruction on the iHCPL blog, I went to the source page from iHCPL and copied that code and tried it, I am doing all of these from the Edit Html tab in create posting, I have followed YouTube's help page with these instructions...
Yes, you can autoplay movies! In the "About This Video" section of the video watch page, we give you the source code to embed the video:
(then follows their code for this)

To make it autoplay, just append "&autoplay=1" after the video ID so it looks like this:
(then follows their code for this)

substituting my video address for theirs in both places.
I got it to play once from one of these, but it would not play a second time.
I have tried several different videos. The most I get is a box that shows up when I mouse over it.
I don't know if there is something blocking me or what but I have become VERY FRUSTRATED trying to do this!!!!

Week 9 - YouTube and video sharing

I have a YouTube account. I had been finding some movies that I wanted to keep track of, including the skateboarding dog. I have also done bookcart drills. I don't tend to spend a lot of time on the site, but it is a fun site.
One problem with using it at work is dealing with the CIPA disclaimer notice everytime you try to do anything. I understand why, but it is still annoying.
Doing searches on librarian comes up with some very good videos - some ads for libraries, what librarians do, and some libraries have tours and instructions online.
I tried multiple times to embed a YouTube video, but following instructions and trying everything I could think of, I was unable to get the video to embed. I don't know if I was missing a step or what, but I give up!

Week 8 - Web-based Apps

This is my first time to use Zoho. So far it has dumped me twice and made me start over. I have no idea what I did for it to do this.  I also haven't found where to name docs after they have been saved.

I'm going to try to do several things with it including importing it to my blog. We'll see.

I was on vacation at the Quilt Festival for a week taking classes and shopping. One class I took was a basket weaving class. Here are a couple of pix.

 

                                                              

       

 

I don't like the fact that you don't seem to be able to adjust the size of a pix once you have imported to the document.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was not obvious how to post to the blog, but someone here figured it out. I have also looked at Google docs and might use it instead, though Zoho seems to have more apps. I'm still looking at them.

Week 8 - Social Networking

Well, I'm back from vacation and mostly missed the Horizon meltdown.
Now, I had signed up for Myspace and Facebook accounts sometime ago to see what they were like. And because I have a Yahoo account, I've logged into Yahoo! 360. I just don't really get the point. I know the kids are able to put up wallpapers, and other stuff on their sites. I have not been able to figure out how to do this and it all seems to take a lot of time. Also, it is frustrating to use Myspace at work because you have to keep clicking past the restricted page.
Looking at some of the other social sites:
Xanga lets you look around and seems to make it easy to change themes, look at pix, videos, etc without having to register on the site. The HGTV site looks like fun. Catser is also fun. Ning seems like an OK site. You can search for groups that interest you.
I guess the answer is, if you are young and like keeping in touch with Myspace, or Facebook or whatever site you use, then great, but this is not my thing. I would rather blog.