Evernote

https://www.evernote.com/Home.action?__fp=MBranLnloA43yWPvuidLz-TPR6I9Jhx8&username=precioushm&login=Sign+in&login=true&_sourcePage=elexI8Sx0BLiMUD9T65RG-nFFPir8HPyAW_sgkunOAPkz0eiPSYcfA%3D%3D&targetUrl=#n=52c6d2b1-614a-4bba-b7f6-ce91a47cb7ce

So here goes an online note using Evernote to add to my blog page and get a pat on the back.

As a luddite with no smart phone/ipad or similar I will have to settle for using the good old fashion desktop pc.

So let's see if I can work it out......

Week 7 - cont

So having a look at Delicious now.

Again I can see the benefit of having all your links in onw place but I imagine that it must take some maintenance - already some of the links supplied by the 23 Things City blog are broken and unable to retrieve the intended resources.

However, after having a quick explore I've found the following

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ which seems like a good original resource for locating information for childrens' learning on line.

http://openlibrary.org/
A good resource for accessing free e books.

As discovered on many of the other social networking sites, there is an overiding dominance of American sites.

Week 7 - Sharing

Well it seems that I'm not very good at sharing!!!!

I have no presentations to my name so can't upload one to the Slideshare site. However, it does seem like a good site to encourage people to explore the types/topics of presentations undertaken by others in their field. I found it really straightforward to navigate and explore......unlike MyPBWorks.

I've spent too much of my time today tryign to solve how to add my blog to the 'Workspace - 23Things Blog'. Logging on was fine and identifing the workspace was easy but all I have succeeded in doing is adding my blog as a comment to the bottom of the other posts - maybe some can suggest what I should be doing? Actually by the power of persistance I think I've solved it - press EDIT, obviously

Week 6 - Prezi

Well Prezi seems very impressive and I would imagine would hold the interest of an audience more than a 'boring' Powerpoint presentation. As mentioned elsewhere I think that adding too many 'bells and whistles' might prove to be a negative aspect of Prezi's abilities and we'd need to rein in our enthusiasm. I managed a lovely presentation regarding my daughters christmas presents - those already purchased and any remaining ideas, complete with shiny pictures from the internet.

Reflection week...

So I'm enjoying the opportunity to explore some of the new fangled e-tech that is available online and I can see how it may be useful for all those networking busy full time librarians who are going places. But I'm wondering how much practical application there might be for little old me, who only works here at City twice a month. It has made me realise though that all the lovely skills that I learnt during my Information Science masters should have been more closely remembered, especially all the technological aspects that I secretly loathed. Nowadays so much of the library world revolves around online accessibility that as a non I-phone owning 'traditionalist' (who likes to read books as they were originally conceived),  I wonder if there is any chance of professional advancement without joinging the bandwagon.

Social networking

So with dread and a certain amount of disdain I have opened a twitter account - something I swore I would never be sad enough to do. By reputation alone I assume that twitter is used for and by all those needy people who feel that compulsion to inform all and sundry about what they are doing every millisecond of the day regardless of merit.

However, after looking at Emily's lawbore feed I can see how Twitter may be useful - although for a part-time librarian with no real agenda or specialism I would anticpiate little use - other than current awareness.

Here goes....

Playing with images

So I managed to find a photo of myself to play with using FotoFlexer which hopefully will appear now....
Ta da....